mo4ch:>Senator Burr enabled Russiagaters for years; now they’re accusing him of insider trading & coronavirus lies | Mo4ch News

By Nebojsa Malic, senior writer at RT Richard Burr, chair of the US Senate intelligence committee, has been accused of deceiving the public about the coronavirus outbreak and seeking to profit from it by dumping stocks that are crashing due to the pandemic.Burr (R-North Carolina) found himself under attack from two directions on Thursday. Early in the day, National Public Radio ran a story based on “secret recordings” from a speech he gave in North Carolina in late February, where he gave oddly specific warnings about Covid-19 to an elite group of donors, while keeping the rest of the American public in the dark.The North Carolina Republican struck back later in the day, accusing NPR on Twitter of “journalistic malpractice” for “knowingly and irresponsibly” misrepresenting the speech, and calling the article a “tabloid-style hit piece.”By then, however, he was taking flanking fire from a different position. Open Secrets, a “nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit” research group trackin…