Wall Street Journal opinion writer Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. has cavalierly dismissed the explosive congressional insider trading scandal uncovered this week by Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer and 60 Minutes.
Jenkins calls the fact that members of Congress are abusing their political power and knowledge to make millions trading on Wall Street a “non-scandal”–and then concedes the point:
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