Ilhan Omar backs Tucker Carlson call for senator resignation over alleged insider trading

Published March 20, 2020 3:41pm ET



Allegations that Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr sold six- and seven-figure sums of stock ahead of the coronavirus outbreak is making for strange political bedfellows.

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, an outspoken left-wing lawmaker, said Thursday she agreed with Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s call for the resignation of Burr, a North Carolina Republican who faces questions about whether he used information gained from classified briefings to sell stock ahead of the coronavirus spread in the United States, which has included a stock market crash in the past two weeks.

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