Republican Senator Richard Burr is being investigated for possibly engaging in
insider trading. Now, the story of Richard Burr is one that we've told quite a few times. And just to
refresh everybody's memory, February, 2020, before the Coronavirus pandemic made its way to American
shores, there was that closed door meeting with a bunch of lawmakers where they talked about what
they knew was about to happen. And then of course, immediately after the meeting, a lot of them got
on the phone to their stockbrokers and said, hey, oh my God, this thing's happening. Let's,
uh, let's sell this, let's buy this. Many of them actually got popped for this. Richard
Burr was one of them who it is believed, okay, I can't say they definitely did it, he's been
accused of doing the same thing. But according to SEC filings that were revealed this week,
that's not the only phone call that Richard Burr made after that meeting.
He also made a 50 second phone call to his brother-in-law, a man by the name of Gerald Fauth,
50 seconds. That's it. Talked to his brother-in-law and then records show that
immediately after that phone call was made, Mr. Gerald Fauth called his stockbroker too.
Yeah. Kind of busted their Burr because we already know that you called your broker. We know that you
dumped stocks. But then you wanted to, hey, I guess you wanted to be a good brother-in-law,
right? Call him up and say, listen, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and then the guy immediately
calls his broker. You're going to tell us that that's just totally a coincidence that you
didn't let him know the insider information that you had from that meeting? Bull crap.
I think this could be the end of Republican Senator Richard Burr. But more importantly,
I hope this is the end of Senator Richard Burr. And I hope that if we can prove he did these
things that he is being accused of, again, he has not, you know, been indicted for any
of this. There are no charges against him and of course he has not been convicted.
But if it turns out that he did these things, that it is alleged that he did, that it says he did in
these SEC filings, then he should be arrested. He should be tried and he should go to jail.
And the reason this is so important is because nobody ever gets held accountable.
How many stories have we had in the last two years of Republican lawmakers, Democratic lawmakers,
dumping stocks after closed door meetings and of course, a lot of that happened
after the COVID meetings they had in early 2020. And again, it was both Republicans and
Democrats who were doing this. None of them got in trouble. Even an FBI investigation
into Kelly Loeffler, they walked away saying like, no, no, everything's totally cool. Totally cool.
Even though she also called her husband, who is what president of the stock exchange.
And he dumped a bunch of stocks and purchased a bunch of different. Like, no,
there has to be punishment. Somebody has to go to jail. Not just to send a shot across the
bow to these other lawmakers about using their insider knowledge to gain financially from it,
but also to maybe light a fire under their asses to pass legislation that bars them from owning
stocks in the first place. I know a lot of people say they shouldn't be allowed to trade stocks.
That's not good enough. They shouldn't be allowed to own stocks. Perhaps in a retirement account
that they're not allowed to touch or really even look at except to see the balance every quarter,
beyond that, no. And I know that'll never happen because they would have to impose that rule upon
themselves, which they will not do. So the next best thing we could get is having one of
their own go to jail for doing the thing that far too many other lawmakers are also doing.