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When your lawyer has a check you wrote paying back bribery, blown up on the floor of the house and you don't immediately go to jail for simple fraud. Our potus.

If I allege the same of you, you don't "immediately go to jail", you go to court first.

Maybe you think the house is a kind of court? They don't meet that standard, or even try to; check out the Kavanaugh "trial".

>For example, just weeks ago highly placed senators were discovered to have conducted insider trading on the back of security briefings on the coronavirus pandemic

What did they know that wasn't already in the public eye? Banks were making their projects just like everyone else and nobody KNEW what was going to happen. Insider trading has a real legal definition, there was nothing in that briefing that could constitute insider trading because there was no information revealed there, just speculation that was already captured by public sources.

> Senators will have the opportunity to hear directly from senior government health officials regarding what we know about the virus so far, and how our country is prepared to respond as the situation develops.

So, non-public information regarding what the government response might be, including perhaps advising states to issue shelter-in-place orders that would tank the economy?

> there was nothing in that briefing that could constitute insider trading because there was no information revealed there

You have a transcript?

Weren't the accusations also that they profitted off it while downplaying the emergency to the general public?

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