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former9thward

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14. Your post is inaccurate in every sentence.

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:45 AM

Mar 2020

The stock market does not work the way you think it works. Billions of shares of stocks are traded everyday. Tens or hundreds of millions of a single stock may be trade in one day. When you buy stock you have no idea who it once belonged to. And no one else does either. When you buy stock you buy for your own reasons. Why someone else sold it is not one of the reasons.

Senators hold their stock holdings in trusts they do not control. They don't personally buy or sell stocks. Insider trading applies when you get information from a company insider -- not from other sources. Whatever happened here was not criminal.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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Can a Grand Jury be convened to consider indictment the four Senators who dumped stock? [View all] Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 OP

Criminal investigations and Senate investigations are totally separate. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1

1) Thanks. 2) I posted in the wrong effing forum. Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 #2

Barr and Mitch will not touch this. Civil suit is an option. McCamy Taylor Mar 2020 #3

Your post is inaccurate in every sentence. former9thward Mar 2020 #14

The worst part is if they did, 45 will pardon tham relayerbob Mar 2020 #4

Nice try but Feinstein did not such thing...so knock it off...that would three GOP Senators... Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #5

The timing is suspect. I'll grant Burr and Loeffler have more damning evidence Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 #7

That's a bs argument. The timing can always be suspect Hav Mar 2020 #15

+1 nsd Mar 2020 #16

The market was declining...her husband sold stock and I say this post smears Dianne Feinstein... Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #17

More importantly Aquaria Mar 2020 #12

Each case is unique whatever happened there is no discussion of conspiracy. tirebiter Mar 2020 #6

Keeping this in the news while people die would not be good for them. nt Hortensis Mar 2020 #8

The irony is that we want elected officials to put their holdings in a blind trust question everything Mar 2020 #9

Again, its the timing Algernon Moncrieff Mar 2020 #10

It does no such thing Aquaria Mar 2020 #13

What Burr Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #18

Well I don't consider this post to have anything to do with facts or even 'truth' Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #19

It just seems to me that Sanders attacks the party on a regular basis...and so do some of his Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #20

The power to call a grand jury would come from a US Attorney Aquaria Mar 2020 #11