# Richard Burr Former U.S. Senator from North Carolina (2005–2023), and Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (2015–2020). Burr's intelligence-committee tenure produced the **bipartisan [[Senate Intelligence Committee]] Russia report** (Volumes 1–5, 2017–2020) — at five volumes and ~1,400 pages, the most comprehensive U.S. government accounting of the 2016 Russian interference campaign and Trump-campaign contacts with Russian intelligence. Volume 5 (released August 2020) contained findings about the [[Trump Tower Meeting June 2016]] and Trump-campaign-Russia contacts that exceeded the [[Mueller Investigation]]'s caution in scope and explicitness. ## The second impeachment One of seven Republican senators to vote guilty at the [[Trump Second Impeachment]] trial. Burr's statement: "The evidence is compelling that President Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection against a coequal branch of government and that the charge rises to the level of high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Therefore, I have voted to convict." The North Carolina Republican Party censured him within 48 hours. Burr had announced his retirement in 2016 and confirmed in 2019 he would not seek a fourth term, removing future-electoral exposure from the calculus. ## Stock-trading investigation Burr was investigated by the FBI and SEC in 2020 for stock trades made in February 2020 — the period when, as Senate Intel Chair, he was receiving classified briefings on the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. He stepped down as Intel Chair during the investigation. The DOJ closed its investigation without charges in January 2021. The SEC settled a civil case with Burr in 2024. ## KB significance Burr is unusual among the seven 2nd-impeachment guilty voters for his prior institutional leadership of the Russia investigation. His Senate Intel report findings, the Mueller findings, and the Trump conduct of January 6 form three distinct evidentiary records — each authored by Republicans or institutional figures, each declined to produce political-accountability outcomes, all tracked across [[Trump Impeachments Timeline]]. ## Related - [[Trump Second Impeachment]] - [[Trump Impeachments Timeline]] - [[Mueller Investigation]] - [[Russia]]