Why is America standing for this banana republic corruption? These cosseted elitists would have us believe that they just guessed right and were incredibly lucky. Obviously they exploited the inside information to which they were privy and benefited immensely from doing so.Everyone who made money on COVID ought to be barred from public office forever. That will never happen, however, because the people who oversee the government’s law enforcement apparatus are even more corrupt than these stock traders. The rot has gone very deep. Washington needs a thorough housecleaning. “As COVID Hit, Lawmakers Traded Stocks ‘With Exquisite Timing’: WSJ,” by Lee Barney, Newsmax , October 19, 2022: At least 400 officials at 50 leading government agencies, including the Pentagon and the Treasury, bought and sold stocks of major U.S. companies that were the most impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, The Wall Street Journal reports . The timing was “exquisite,” particularly with respect to to...