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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.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-ally-met-with-putins-deputy-in-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.
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https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals
Farmer-Rick
(10,202 posts)Through the NRA was a dead giveaway.
Christian Evangelical leaders have also played patty cake with little man Putin.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)bluestarone
(17,018 posts)The NRA! MONEY trail!