What A Coincidence: GOP Senator Dumped Up To $1.5m In Stock While Downplaying Pandemic

Senate Intelligence Committee chair and Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.) sold off a load of stock recently.

According to Gizmodo, Sen.

Burr sold off between $562,029 and $1.56 million in stock.

Burr's move came just a few weeks before telling wealthy constituents in private that the global spread of the coronavirus would be “akin to the 1918 pandemic.'

It was also while he was in a position to receive briefings from intelligence agencies on the matter.

On Feb.

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