With great pleasure I am happy to announce the first of the Trumpacracy is stepping down from Congress and entering a plea deal today down in Manhattan.
Rep. Chris Collins is no longer a blight on the Republic!
www.washingtonpost.com/...
NEW YORK — Rep. Chris Collins is resigning from Congress and expected to plead guilty to insider-trading charges on Tuesday, following allegations last year that the Republican from New York schemed with his son to avoid significant losses on a biotechnology investment.
Collins, President Trump’s first congressional supporter, allegedly tipped off his son to confidential information about an Australian biotechnology company, Innate Immunotherapeutics, that he learned as a member of its board. Collins and several others used the information to avoid more than $700,000 in losses, according to prosecutors.
He is scheduled to change his plea Tuesday afternoon in a Manhattan federal court.
Here are some greatest hits to play citizen Collins out the doors of power:
I am solidly, 100 percent behind Donald Trump.
We're going to run against Nancy Pelosi in 2018. We'll remind people in 2018 - what's the rhetorical question - 'Do you really want Nancy Pelosi back as speaker of the House?'
It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.
When they write my epitaph, it's going to say, 'Innate Immunotherapeutics, saving millions of lives.' It's not going to be 'member of Congress.'
Sure buddy. Whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night.