This meme brings up a great point: Remember about a year ago when four US Senators got caught dumping stocks? It happened in January of 2020, right after they received a classified briefing on a strange new virus that had popped up in Wuhan. Ring a bell?
That was Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA). Investigators took no time in claiming that Dianne Feinstein had broken no laws, despite selling hotel stocks and other things that were likely to take a financial hit due to a pandemic.
It took a little while longer, but eventually the system cleared the other three of any wrongdoing. Martha Stewart certainly didn’t get the same treatment – and yet what she did was far less obvious. A lot of people thought that Stewart got a raw deal.
But make no mistake about it: If Martha Stewart had been a sitting United States Senator during the ImClone stock scandal, there’s pretty much a zero percent chance that she would have served a five-month prison sentence.
And if any normal person had done what those Senators did, they’d be sitting in a cell next to the Trump supporters who walked into the Capitol building on January 6th.
