The Department of Justice has closed the insider trading investigations into three of the four US Senators who dumped stocks in January after attending a classified briefing on a strange new illness that had originated in China.
This has turned out to be another tale of America’s two-track justice system. If you had done what these Senators did, the FBI would spend years destroying your life – even if it ultimately turned out that you were innocent. But when Washington insiders do it, the story earns a yawn from the FBI followed by a whitewash.
This story started to gain some traction back in March when Tucker Carlson reported on the stock trades that Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) suddenly made back in January. Burr was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and had just held a classified meeting that most of the Senate was invited to. That meeting was just before Trump shut down incoming travel from China. The Senators were warned about a dangerous new Chinese bug, which the experts were claiming early on would kill a catastrophic 11 million Americans.
The same day as that hearing, or possibly the day after, Richard Burr dumped almost $2 million worth of hotel stocks. He then proceeded to run around the country telling the American people that the strange little virus from China posed no risk to the American people or the economy. That was a repugnant and shallowly transparent act.
Tucker Carlson agreed and called it treason – Burr had betrayed his own country. He preserved his own personal wealth and didn’t warn the rest of the country about what was coming.
Immediately after Burr was caught, media outlets did some digging and discovered that Senators Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), James Inhofe (R-OK) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) had also sold stocks immediately after the Jan. 24 coronavirus meeting. And just like that, all media coverage of the scandal disappeared when it was discovered that Feinstein had sold more stocks than the three Republican Senators combined.
Feinstein’s husband had abruptly sold $6 million in biotech stocks, the day after the meeting. The stock market tanked a few days later.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler badly bungled her response to the scandal and made herself look worse. She’s married to the head of the New York Stock Exchange, which added fuel to the fire. Out of the four Senators ensnared in this, James Inhofe comes out looking the best. He has a pretty good alibi, too – he didn’t attend the coronavirus meeting.
The Department of Justice notified the attorneys of Senators Loeffler, Inhofe and Feinstein this week to let them know that the “matter is closed” and they won’t be investigated any further for insider trading. Isn’t that convenient?
Meanwhile, the FBI has seized Richard Burr’s cell phone and continues to investigate his stock trades, which amount to less than a third of Dianne Feinstein’s stock trades on the same day. So, the question becomes: Why is Richard Burr not off the hook like everyone else?
The answer is simple: Because it’s an opportunity for the FBI under Director Christopher Wray to make President Trump look bad.
The optics for this are terrible. While Rep. Adam “Ed Buck Who?!” Schiff (D-CA) is the leading Russian collusion conspiracy theorist in the House, Richard Burr is the head tinfoil-hat-wearing, Russian-spy-sniffing kook in the US Senate. Long after House Republicans concluded that Russian collusion was a fairytale cooked up by the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House, “Republican” Richard Burr was continuing the Senate Russian collusion investigation of Donald Trump.
Richard Burr is the worst of the Never Trumper RINOs in the US Senate. He hates Donald Trump personally. Let’s be clear about this: The Mueller witch hunt wrapped up more than a year ago now, but the Senate Intelligence Committee is still investigating Trump-Russia conspiracy theories because Richard Burr despises President Trump.
FBI Director Wray knows this, and he knows that if he keeps an investigation of Burr open, the media will jump in and claim that the Burr investigation is political. “See! They must be going after Richard Burr because Trump is using Attorney General Bill Barr as his own secret police enforcer!”
Notice that none of this has anything to do with justice. It’s all a big theater play to make the public believe something else besides what is obviously going on.
Richard Burr may ultimately be proven guilty of insider trading. And the Deep State is perfectly happy to sacrifice him if it allows them to make Trump look bad. That’s why Burr is being treated differently than Feinstein and Loeffler.
