Aaron Rodgers and David Bakhtiari, former Packers teammates, are once again combining forces — to question the ethics of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s stock trades.
The saga began on Wednesday when Bakhtiari, the 31-year-old left tackle for the Packers, saw a Twitter thread from the Unusual Whales account that claimed Feinstein’s curiously-timed trades have helped propel her net worth to be in excess of $200 million.
“How are we as a nation just ‘cool’ with actions like this?” Bakhtiari asked. “It’s cheating in broad daylight.”
Rodgers, 39, the new quarterback for the Jets, supported the underlying message from his former blindside protector, but wondered what took him so long to “wake up” to the alleged graft.
“Finally Dave, this gif is you,” Rodgers tweeted, with an accompanying clip of Ryan Reynolds waking up in bed in the 2021 film “Free Guy.”
Among the trades that Feinstein, 89, or her late husband, Richard Blum, were said to have made by Unusual Whales were a sale of Allogene Therapeutics shortly before the pandemic crushed the stock market in 2020, and a $1 million purchase of Amyris Biotechnologies in 2009, “weeks” before the company received a lucrative government contract.
The trades were listed on Feinstein’s financial disclosures, and the Senator was questioned by the FBI about the sales made by her husband, she revealed in 2020.
“Senator Feinstein was asked some basic questions by law enforcement about her husband’s stock transactions, as I think all offices in the initial story were,” a Feinstein spokesperson told The Post in May 2020.
“She was happy to voluntarily answer those questions to set the record straight and provided additional documents to show she had no involvement in her husband’s transactions. There have been no follow-up actions on this issue.”
Bakhtiari has been feisty on social media of late, blasting late-night host Jimmy Kimmel in March for taking potshots at Rodgers.
“All this UFO talk has the tin foil hatters going wild, including wack-Packer Aaron Rodgers who offered this hot take on ‘The Pat McAfee Show,’” Kimmel said on his program, introducing a clip of Rodgers wondering, in a tone in which he may or may not have been joking, if UFOs in the news might be a conspiracy to distract from the looming release of the Jeffrey Epstein client list.
“It might be time to revisit that concussion protocol, Aaron,” Kimmel joked.
Bakhtiari saw the clip and fired at Kimmel: “Tell me you’re on the Jeffrey Epstein client list, without telling me you’re on the Jeffrey Epstein client list…”
