No wonder Donald Trump’s allies have been trying to force GOP Senator Richard Burr to resign

| 4:24 pm EDT April 21, 2020
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Weeks ago, several Republican Senators were caught in the act of selling off their personal stock holdings after being privately briefed that the coronavirus crisis was likely to be serious enough to tank the U.S. economy. Since that time, various Donald Trump allies have repeatedly singled out Republican Senator Richard Burr, calling on him to resign, while ignoring the other GOP Senators who were caught up in it.

This raised questions about why Team Trump wanted Richard Burr out of the way so badly. Burr is the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and while he’s obviously financially corrupt, he’s never been particularly loyal to Trump. It felt like Trump was trying to force Burr out so he could install one of his own lackeys as Chairman – but why bother?

Today we got our apparent answer, when the Senate Intelligence Committee released a bipartisan report confirming in detail that the Trump-Russia 2016 election rigging plot was indeed very real. This report itself may not get a lot of media attention right now, considering everything else that’s going on. But it could play a key role in the pending court ruling about whether to publicly release the full unredacted Mueller report, which in turn could have a major impact on the 2020 election.

In light of this, it’s easy to see why Donald Trump and his allies would have been motivated to try to force Richard Burr to resign. If he’d been replaced as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman before this report was released, the new Trump-loyal Chairman could have scuttled it entirely. But as is so often the case these days, Trump’s scheming didn’t work out the way he was hoping.