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Raphael Warnock: “When you received the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in…”

On the recordDecember 31, 2020
When you received the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments. And then weeks later, when there came an opportunity to give ordinary Georgians an extra $600 of relief, you said you saw no need and called it counterproductive.
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Raphael Warnock
Democratic · Georgia
Source
msnbc.com

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Raphael Warnock questions the ethics of a senator who sold stocks before the pandemic and refused to support relief for Georgians.

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