guillaume: NRA Admits to More Than 20 Russia Linked Contributors As Gun Lobby Facade Crumbles
National Rifle Association revised its previous statement about receiving one Russian donation to correct that number to more than 20 Russia linked contributions.
In a letter to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the NRA said most of these payments were “routine” for membership or magazine subscriptions and the sum was just over $2,500. The NRA said the contributions came from 23 people associated with Russian addresses.
If true & the bulk of it, that's hardly gonna get the nra fined or labeled anti-american. Just over $100 per person as a donation or subscription payment won't draw much interest.
But MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had a good segment on this a couple days back (I saw it too):
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow outlined how the Kremlin-linked “Right to Bear Arms” group has no interest in helping Russians secure firearms — and that their interests are way more nefarious.
“What’s funny,” Maddow noted, “is that they don’t actually support gun rights in Russia.” Neither, she noted, does Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“So why did they create this group that purports to promote that?” she mused.
Unsurprisingly, one of the group’s founding members {Maybe Torshin}— who now has been added to the list of Russian oligarchs sanctioned by President Donald rump — has close connections to the National Rifle Association. He not only attends their annual conference, but also has NRA celebrities to attend events in Russia as well, Maddow noted.
“Among the U.S. officials who personally promoted this group is John Bolton,” referencing the president’s infamous new national security adviser.
“To be clear: Vladimir Putin and his political party do not believe the Russian people should have the right to bear arms,” she said. Instead, they appear to be trying to sell the illusion that they’re pro-Russian gun rights — for “effect on an American audience.”
“They were trying to cultivate ties between the American political right and Putin’s government,” she said, citing new reporting that the FBI is now investigating the “Right to Bear Arms” and Torshin used their relationship with the NRA to “funnel foreign cash” to the US — and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-outlines-startling-connection-russian-american-pro-gun-rights-groups/
The NRA will disavow any knowledge of any relationship to funnel foreign/russian cash to donald trump.
Regrettably, the nra will not self destruct in five seconds after disavowing this (ala mission impossible tapes)
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