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Dan Crenshaw
This guy. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Dan_Crenshaw%2C_official_portrait%2C_116th_Congress_2.jpg/330px-Dan_Crenshaw%2C_official_portrait%2C_116th_Congress_2.jpg[/img]
Congressman (R-TX, 2nd District). On the list of “rising stars” in the GOP. Trumpy, lies repeatedly with great ease and fluidity, war vet….
Anyway. Hope he’s in for some time in the tumbler
[h1]Crenshaw Did Not Disclose Stock Transactions[/h1]
[link=https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-rep-dan-crenshaw-decided-the-covid-19-pandemic-was-the-perfect-time-to-buy-and-not-disclose-stocks?ref=author]Daily Beast[/link]:Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) did not buy or sell any stocks in his first 13 months as a congressman. That changed in March 2020, when he made half a dozen buys as the largest economic relief package in history was written and debated.
Five of those purchases came in the three days between March 25 and 27, as the Senate and House voted on the CARES Act and former President Trump signed it into law. Crenshaw, who supported the bill, did not initially disclose the transactions, in violation of the STOCK Act.While its unclear why Crenshaw did not initially disclose the transactions, they came as an increasing number of high-profile lawmakers were getting snared in an insider-trading scandal. Except for the Amazon purchase, all of Crenshaws transactions came a week after ProPublica [link=https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-7-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness]reported[/link] that Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) had sold up to $1.72 million on the heels of private coronavirus briefings. On March 20, The Daily Beast [link=https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly-loeffler-dumped-millions-in-stock-after-coronavirus-briefing]reported[/link] that Loeffler and her husband had sold off seven figures worth of stock following her first confidential briefings on the pandemic. Scrutiny soon fell on trades executed by Sens. David Perdue (R-GA), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and John Hoeven (R-ND), spurring investigations by the Justice Department, the Senate Ethics Committee and the Securities and Exchange Commission. None of the lawmakers faced criminal charges. Perdue and Loeffler lost their re-election bids to Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in runoff elections this January.[/QUOTE]
unrelated, this piece in [i]The Bulwark[/i], part Crensaw bio, part book review, is a pretty good summation:
[link=https://thebulwark.com/the-stories-dan-crenshaw-tells-himself/]https://thebulwark.com/th…renshaw-tells-himself/[/link]
[h1]The Stories Dan Crenshaw Tells Himself[/h1] [b]The pathos of Trumps most effective defender.[/b]
He has ingratiated himself by putting on a masterclass in anti-anti Trumpism, using his considerable debate skills to spar with the worst excesses of the left and savage what he argues is media bias against Trump. At key inflection points, such as the Charlottesville white supremacist rally, Crenshaw has risen to defend Trump and suggest that anyone who thinks that the leader of the free worlds words and behavior matter is lacking nuance and seriousness.
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How this devotion to calm positivity squares with almost daily rants about how mean Jim Acosta is and ALL CAPS tweets about protesters liberating themselves from their duly elected government is . . . interesting. And whenever hes asked about this incongruity, Crenshaw pivots to say that questions about Trump are unfair attacks by an outrage-driven media that should be asking him about more important things.
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Crenshaw isnt your average elected Republican. Hes made calls for good faith arguments that home in on the truth rather than outrage culture central to his brand. He repeatedly gallivants about on a high horse lecturing everyone else about fairness in argumentation and acting with honor in the public square. And then hops out of the saddle the minute anyone asks him about Trumps affront to these virtues.
The frustrating thing for Crenshaws opponents is that hes really good at it.[/QUOTE]
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