In December of 2020, amid as Donald Trump pushed conspiracies that the 2020 election had been fraudulently stolen from him, Josh Hawley became the first Republican senator to declare that they would object to the certification of the Electoral College vote. On the morning of January 6, 2021, Hawley (R-Mo.) pumped his fist as a mob of protesters marched on the Capitol, and within hours would have Hawley running out of the building in search of safety. Hawley has been one of the fiercest and most prominent defenders of the MAGA movement, and on Wednesday the president rewarded him by calling him a “second-tier Senator” who has become a “pawn” of the Democrats.

The dispute centers around a piece of legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading or owning individual sto

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