NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals
Source: NPR
The National Rifle Association acted as a "foreign asset" for Russia in the period leading up to the 2016 election, according to a new investigation unveiled Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon.
Drawing on contemporaneous emails and private interviews, an 18-month probe by the Senate Finance Committee's Democratic staff found that the NRA underwrote political access for Russian nationals Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin more than previously known even though the two had declared their ties to the Kremlin.
The report, available here, also describes how closely the gun rights group was involved with organizing a 2015 visit by some of its leaders to Moscow.
Then-NRA vice president Pete Brownell, who would later become NRA president, was enticed to visit Russia with the promise of personal business opportunities and the NRA covered a portion of the trip's costs.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Raven123
(4,830 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)About what spies and traitors deserve (when it's the NRA)?
wiggs
(7,812 posts)2016 election? Did they really have that much money on their own?
Botany
(70,501 posts).... took NRA/Russian money too.
Hello Mitch McConnell & Rob Portman.
DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)To say nothing of the fortune that his wife's Chinese oligarchs funneled to Mitch...........
underpants
(182,788 posts)gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)Rethugs have gladly taken NRA money.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)http://www.newsweek.com/trump-jr-should-be-concerned-over-putin-allys-wiretapped-calls-spanish-945753
Jose Grinda
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)They were flaunting it.
NPR has a link to the report here - https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6432520-The-NRA-Russia-How-a-Tax-Exempt-Organization
Botany
(70,501 posts)Link to tweet
In 2016 he was very busy in Luzerne County PA which went red for the 1st time
since 1988 but in 2018 it went back blue
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)And it was good enough for the idiots to buy some new ones here in Philly to replace our antiquated but less hackable machines. I want my 1940s-style lever machines back!
Botany
(70,501 posts)...electronic ones the vote recorded has stopped matching the polls in many cases.
llmart
(15,536 posts)This is an important story. The NRA needs to be disbanded.
dchill
(38,481 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)that t was so much easier and cheaper to buy Republicans than to buy a hot war
certainot
(9,090 posts)manafort was campaign cochair and limbaiugh wouldn't support mccain (an impending disaster going into the convention) until minutes after mccain picked palin. russian oil and gas was courting palin then.
then there was climategate, tea party, debt default, benghazi, and EVERTHING else since up to trump and ukraine
getagrip_already
(14,742 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)And I don't mean unwitting. They knew full well what they were doing was a betrayal.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)and yet, he displayed a sign in his grocery store: BETTER DEAD THAN RED
I imagine his head would be exploding if he knew how badly NRA lost its way.
rwsanders
(2,598 posts)riversedge
(70,204 posts)Putin has funneled money to Trump businesses and the NRA. Senator: Russians Used Greed to Capture NRA https://thedailybeast.com/russians-used-greed-to-capture-nra-senator-ron-wyden-alleges-in-new-report?source=twitter&via=desktop via @thedailybeast
Link to tweet
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safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)the same gun laws that Russia has.
JHB
(37,159 posts)All part of the ongoing Sovietization of the Republican party.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)It is easy to miss these important stories.