A lot of people know about a lot of things before the "public" knows. That doesn't make it "insider trading". It is a very specific legal term that deals with

A lot of people know about a lot of things before the "public" knows. That doesn't make it "insider trading". It is a very specific legal term that deals with the internal information of public corporations - eg: their quarterly sales revenues. It doesn't make sense out of that context. Also, there were TONS of people talking about the outbreak in China when those Congresspeople sold shares. I sold at the same time. The information was out there - it's just that the Western MSM wasn't covering it.