FBI looking at potential transfers from Russian banker to NRA - NY Daily News

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

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Jesus this day is like christmas.......

[Skittles]

1. so the NRA is a traitorous terrorist organization

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. NRA is a terrorist org, we knew that, but also working for Putin? News even to me and

I always am the most pessimistic person in any room.

[dalton99a]

3. "Russians had infiltrated the NRA"

Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the company behind the infamous Trump dossier, told the House Intelligence Committee in sworn testimony that Russians had infiltrated the NRA, according to a transcript released Thursday.

[sunonmars]

5. no surprise there.......

[Gothmog]

4. The fact that Russia financed the NRA explains a great deal

[Laxman]

6. When I Was A Kid....

I loved turning over rocks to see what was underneath. Worms, salamanders, ants, spiders, centipedes, beetles.....

Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the company behind the infamous Trump dossier, told the House Intelligence Committee in sworn testimony that Russians had infiltrated the NRA, according to a transcript released Thursday.

Ho boy, that was nothing compared to this.

[Quixote1818]

7. Wow! It takes balls for the FBI to take on the NRA in this climate

but if they can show the Russia is paying them off and can prove it the more power to them.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. From Russia to the NRA to political candidates?

Is this a money trail that is buying Republicans?

[unc70]

9. News is from last month

While the tweet is new, the article is from last month and was discussed on DU at the time. Still, probably good to give this a bit more exposure.

[Lulu KC]

12. Thank you!

It was all familiar but I thought it had gone one step further LAST Thursday. D'oh!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

16. Don't forget Maria Butina, Torshin, NRA and South Dakota Young Republicans...

... this started back in 2015, as per the article.

[link:http://dakotafreepress.com/2017/03/27/maria-butina-connects-russians-nra-trump-sibby-and-mathew-wollman/|

And that Kalashnikov factory that just got operational in Florida. I am sure it has nothing to do with Rick Snott's policy on warnings of possible shooters.

[OhNo-Really]

20. 2013 it began if I read article correctly

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

22. I was going by the, "Camp Meeting", date...

... just to play it safe. But yes, 2013 at Southeast Area Vo Tech at Sioux Falls, SD. I can only shake my head at that, allowing a known political operative into a public school to spread propaganda. It just shows the Erickson has no morals.

I recall being in 6th or 7th grade in Lennox, South Dakota, just south of Sioux Falls, and the hissy fit made by parents concerning my social studies teacher having McGovern posters in his home room. He told them the Republicans were welcome to send him posters, too. He went on to be one of the greatest girls basketball coaches in state history.

[link:http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/trump-putin-and-erickson-russia-probe-just-another-chapter-in/article_e9ed9038-3411-5112-86fa-f64bb0fa6549.html#tracking-source=home-top-story|

[Cha]

10. We've been waiting a long time for this. n/t

[HootieMcBoob]

11. Yes!!!!!

[Corgigal]

13. Yeah, keep blaming the FBI

dumb asses. Investigational power is a thing.

[Kablooie]

14. Boy I hope so.

They really need to be taken down.
But I don't get my hopes up.
The evil has won too many times before.

[magicarpet]

15. Don Jr dines with Russian Oligarch during NRA confab...

(snip)

Spanish investigators alleged in an almost 500-page internal report that Torshin, who was then a senator, capitalized on his government role to assist mobsters laundering funds through Spanish properties and banks, Bloomberg reported. A summary obtained by McClatchy of the still-secret report links Torshin to Russian money laundering and describes him as a godfather in a major Russian criminal organization called Taganskaya.

What is remarkable is that Torshin also had direct contact, according to reports, with Donald Trump Jr. The Center for American Progress’s Moscow Project found:

Donald Trump Jr. met over dinner with Russian central banker Alexander Torshin, a former Russian Senator and a close Putin ally, at the NRA convention in 2016. Around the same time, Torshin reportedly attempted to arrange a meeting between Putin and Trump. Jared Kushner was later criticized for failing to disclose this attempt.

(end snip - more at link)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/01/19/russians-under-every-rock/

[kentuck]

17. I hope they find something.

...that can be prosecuted.

[edhopper]

19. my thought too

if it's not illegal, their gun happy members won't bat an eye and the GOP will keep doing their bidding.

They still follow Traitor Trump who has acted against the US.

[spanone]

18. NOBODY thought trump was going to win....and he didn't.

[panader0]

21. Article in the Rolling Stone:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-trump-russia-nra-connection-heres-what-you-need-to-know-w515615