Just prefacing something with the words, “To be fair,” doesn’t actually make it fair.
Feinstein’s husband did make a single large stock transaction around that time, but there’s no reason to believe that that’s related. Her husband is Richard Blum, founder of Blum Capital Partners, and he makes large transactions like that all the time. Furthermore, Feinstein wasn’t publicly stating that coronavirus was nothing to worry about.
Contrast that with Burr, Inhofe, and Loeffler who all sold a wide range of stocks while in public stating that Trump had things under control and that Democrats were blowing things out of proportion for political gain.
Unless you’re of Asian decent and residing in Minnesota. Spoke to a friend who went to buy ammo and the price had more than doubled for him. Just for him.
There were rumors Burr was going to retire rather than run for re-election, because he wasn’t totally in lock-step with Trump. Given how NC was a cesspit of GOP corruption before Trump anyway, I think he was already planning a stock dump before leaving office. He just did it a lot sooner than he planned.
Unrelated, but corporate whore Nikki Haley decides that she cannot in good conscience remain on Boeing’s board.
It’s just good to know that she was able to offer such great corporate guidance and governance as Boeing knowingly launched an aircraft with fatal design flaws, and with so many other flaws that it has remained grounded for a year.
And it’s also good to know that her conscience empowered her to oppose corporate stock buybacks in an attempt to artificially jack up the stock - with borrowed money, no less. Oh wait -
So you think it’s just coincidence that the guy she’s fucking knew when to sell stocks, God you’re cute, isn’t that the same excuse that Loeffler is making, that it was her husband or something. It’s not a partisan thing they’re all crooked, and I hope they all go down, and go down hard.
I also take this as a sign that Haley has political ambitions and envisions the possibility of having to explain corporate bailouts on her record. She probably won’t mind that bailout now that she’s off the board. I doubt she dumps her stock.
What is the Republican platform offering to anybody with a functioning brain?
The only rational reason to be a Republican is to take advantage of the opportunities to take care of yourself. Richard Burr is one of the smart Republicans. The dumb Republicans are all of the suckers who vote for people like Burr despite not getting a piece of the action.
