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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Senator Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina, said on Monday he was furious that senators were given no advance notice whatsoever to buy stock in the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
After Pfizers stock price surged, following news of its promising coronavirus vaccine, a visibly irate Burr held an impromptu press conference to express his outrage at having been totally blindsided.
When I ran for the United States Senate, I did so with the clear understanding that, if elected, I would receive stock tips of the highest possible value, the senator said. I feel like, today, that trust has been profoundly betrayed.
Burr said there was absolutely no excuse for advance news of Pfizers vaccine trials being withheld from him.
I know the excuses that Im going to hear, Burr said. Yes, weve been distracted by the election. Yes, weve been distracted by the economic crisis. But, heavens to Betsy, this is my portfolio were talking about.
Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/richard-burr-furious-that-senators-were-not-given-advance-notice-to-buy-pfizer-stock
dweller
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TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,789 posts)TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Although the Onion kept having to rewrite articles for a bit, because no matter how far fetched something might be... it seems tRump actually WENT there from time to time.
UTUSN
(70,649 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,619 posts)Insider trading is his favorite rigged game.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)Love it.
Probably true.
MasonDreams
(756 posts)We are humans, not cannibalistic reptiles like the Repukes. Feeding covid19 by playing "keep away" with PPE, grotesquely lying to the public, and ratfucking the CDC add up to crimes against humanity.
The insider trading just isn't funny while tens of millions are out of work, almost evicted, and soon to be very hungry. Serious crimes in serious times.
Rhiannon12866
(204,789 posts)Not "new" leadership, since we've had none at all during this horrible and frightening pandemic, but leadership period.