Preet Bharara and former White House ethics chief just teamed up to destroy a major NRA lie

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Lots of their tweets are included in link. Well worth retweeting them if you want to




Preet Bharara and former White House ethics chief just teamed up to destroy a major NRA lie

http://washingtonpress.com/2018/02/26/preet-bharara-former-white-house-ethics-chief-just-teamed-destroy-major-nra-lie/

By Lucia Brawley
Published on February 26, 2018

Two men of high moral character who left their government positions as a result of Donald Trump’s corruption — fired New York U.S. attorney, Preet Bharara, and resigned White House ethics chief, Walter Shaub — teamed up today on Twitter to demolish the lie espoused by National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch that the organization that funds and controls the Republican Party is “not a lobbying group.”

Loesch tried to argue that the NRA exclusively supports members and that only the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the lobbying “arm” of the organization.

The two erudite former officials pulled out all the receipts in combatting Loesch’s lies designed stop the hemorrhaging financial support of major brands that have cut ties with the gun lobby under pressure from activism arising in the wake of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre that killed 14 teens and three teachers in Parkland, Florida less than two weeks ago.

Bharara quoted Shaub’s Twitter thread enumerating all the documented evidence that proves that not just the ILA, but the NRA, is listed as a “lobbying group,” and furthermore, that NRA Executive Vice President Wayne La Pierre is registered as a lobbyist.

Furthermore, Shaub pointed out, ILA expenditures accounted for a mere fraction of overall NRA lobbying spending in 2017. The former ethics official who left the White House after decrying its total breakdown of ethical norms, demanded to know which “arm” of the NRA spent the other 94% of last year’s lobbying money and for what....................

Link to tweet

[dem4decades]

1. Smart people easily destroy the liars.

But the dopes that back the NRA don't care.

[Scarsdale]

2. Donations to gop

vultures are so large. Many of them McCain, Rubio, and others have taken MILLIONS of $$$. How can they be expected to go against their owners?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. LaPierre lobbied tRump when they partied at the WH on the 5th anniversary of Sandy Hook. . . nt

[OhNo-Really]

4. In 2016, NRA spent over $50,000,000 To elect Trump et all. Opensecrets article

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/11/the-nra-placed-big-bets-on-the-2016-election-and-won-almost-all-of-them/