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Home Front: Politix
Kelly Loeffler: Criticizing My Coronavirus Stock Trades Is Just a Russian ‘Socialist Attack'
2020-04-18
[Daily Beast] "This is a political attack that is designed to distract from the issue at hand and to use this outbreak to play politics," she insisted.
She's flailing. Her polls must be horrendous
Embattled Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) waved off the firestorm of controversy over stock trades she made following Senate coronavirus briefings, telling Fox News on Friday that the criticism she’s received is nothing more than a "socialist attack."

Weeks after The Daily Beast reported that the Loeffler and her husband, New York Stock Exchange chief executive Jeff Sprecher, dumped up to $3.1 million in stock following a late January closed-door coronavirus briefing, Loeffler announced last week that the couple was liquidating their stock holdings amid accusations of insider trading. She has maintained that third-party advisers conducted the trades and she was not involved.

Noting that Loeffler had appeared on their program last month to deny any wrongdoing, America’s Newsroom co-anchor Sandra Smith asked Loeffler whether she and her husband had gone through with liquidating those stocks.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  IIRC, Congress exempted themselves from "insider trading" prohibitions. I think the standing rule is "don't piss in the punchbowl", i.e., don't get in the news for doing it.
Posted by: Percy Pelosi6609   2020-04-18 19:34  

#7  Sen. Burr needs to be brought down. And ideally AG Barr will make him tell what he knows about cloakroom shenanigans.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-18 17:18  

#6  You're right, we aren't hearing about Feinstein. And we should be. Her actions are inexcusable. But that doesn't make this okay from Republicans either. I'm more than willing to forgive harsh language and unforgiving politics from Republicans because Democrats do it too. But not outright corruption.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick   2020-04-18 16:27  

#5  ... start switching dollars to gold if possible and silver if not possible. The US dollar is showing signs of weakening also.
Posted by: Dr. Wheat Faartz007   2020-04-18 11:34  

#4  Brazilian Real is crashing hard as president Bolsonario is in a cat fight with everyone for trying to reopen the economy to stop the currency's hard crash. The left WANTS that kind of decapitating crash.
Posted by: Dr. Wheat Faartz007   2020-04-18 11:25  

#3  Don't hear much about Feinstein doing the same thing, do we now?
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-18 07:55  

#2  I normally despise democrat witch hunts, but let's see how the GA gov's finances are entangled with la Loeffler et al's.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-18 07:28  

#1  I don't follow Georgia political media but it seems nobody is asking the governor if he's had any second thoughts about Kel since he named her.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-18 04:16  

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