

That’s some quality conspiracy thinking!
But there are too many people who could have been early adopters and have any number of random motives for this to be “likely.”
Heck, I was watching Bitcoin when it was like $0.002 a coin and someone spent 10,000 (presumably home-CPU-mined) BTC to buy a pizza. There were a ton of people there at the beginning, the barrier to purchasing a ton was very low, and unlike me, a lot of them certainly had $20,000 to spare and believed in it enough to buy.
Ah! “No-brainer” makes a lot of sense to me. That should really be the GOP’s tagline.
But the bottom line is that Mike Lee and all the other Republicans aren’t responding because this will be out of the news cycle in 3 days so they’ll never have to answer for it if they can just avoid making further headlines.