As Bill Barr and the Department of Justice close in on Senator Richard Burr’s shady $1.72 million stock sale, it would be nice for the media to admit they were wrong about Barr.
The media and the Dems accuse Barr of politicizing the DOJ much as Eric Holder did but going after a GOP Senator as Barr is doing should remove all doubts about who Barr serves – the constitution and the American people.
“Senator Burr contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step aside as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation,” McConnell said in a statement.
“We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow,” he added.
From The Washington Post:
Sen. Richard Burr stepping down as chairman of Intelligence Committee amid an investigation of his stock sales before coronavirus outbreak
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement Thursday: “Senator Burr contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step aside as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation. We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow.”]
The FBI executed a warrant and seized the cellphone of Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) late Wednesday, escalating the investigation of whether any laws were broken when the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee sold a significant share of his stocks before the coronavirus outbreak crashed financial markets.
Burr turned over the phone to law enforcement officials after agents served a warrant at his Washington area home, and investigators have obtained a search warrant to examine data in the senator’s cloud storage for his iPhone, according to a person familiar with the case. The warrants were first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Caitlin Carroll, a spokeswoman for Burr, declined to comment to The Washington Post. An FBI spokeswoman said the agency declined to comment, “in keeping with our standard practice of neither confirming nor denying the existence of our investigations.”
