Republican Senator Burr was secretly recorded 3 weeks ago warning donors COVID19 was going to be dire. His public statements and releases to the public and his constituents did not reflect the actual reality of the spreading pandemic.

Burr was speaking at a private function with the N.C. Republican ‘Tarheel Circle’. One attendee was so alarmed by what Burr was saying, they started recording Burr’s message & got it to NPR. What this proves is that Republicans in Congress knew things were serious but refused to say so publicly.

The NPR recording has a sound clip of Burr and also a contemporaneous clip of what Trump was saying at the time.

Soundclip at NPR is fairly short.