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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNRA acted as a foreign agent before 2016 election
And they gave trump 30 million dollars, more than any other group.
https://fortune.com/2019/08/21/how-much-did-nra-contribute-trump-campaign/
The trip was coordinated with Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, who are both Russian. Butina is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence after she tried to infiltrate US conservative groups and the NRA to promote Russian political interests around the 2016 election.
While in Russia the NRA met with a host of senior level Kremlin officials, Wyden said. Those officials included Russias foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, who oversaw defense and munitions industries.
After the trip to Russia, the NRA allowed Butina to bring a delegation from Russia to its influential annual meeting. Wyden said the NRA also provided access to other conservative political organizations, including the National Prayer Breakfast and the Council for National Policy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/27/nra-russia-foreign-asset-senate-report-investigation
Walleye
(31,239 posts)I think not
EleanorR
(2,403 posts)Chaos, division, mass shootings, anything that weakens the US benefits putin.
Walleye
(31,239 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Bankruptcy may not protect them.
EleanorR
(2,403 posts)It was encouraging they weren't allowed to simply move to Texas to escape legal culpability.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)mitch96
(13,957 posts)of gun violence. Hopefully the NRA money will not go to "the other guy".. It probably won't happen but I can dream can't I?
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EleanorR
(2,403 posts)https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/gun-industry-immunity/
SYFROYH
(34,186 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)@SenJohnKennedy (LA)
@SenShelby (AL)
@SteveDaines (MT)
@SenJohnHoeven (ND)
@SenJohnThune (SD)
@JerryMoran (KS)
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Red Paul: The Senator from Kentucky is Now Working for Vladimir Putin
Greg Olear
https://medium.com/@gregolear/red-paul-the-senator-from-kentucky-is-now-working-for-vladimir-putin-5ecad382f623
Jan 1, 2019
The dissemination of Putinist propaganda is bad enough. But let us not forget that Rand Paul has served as a Trump/Russia intermediary, on one occasion flying to Moscow to deliver a handwritten letter from the president to Putin
triron
(22,043 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)of, by, and for white, male, landowners only.
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