NRA busted giving Trump 9,259 times the legal limit

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The (Repug) Federal Election Commission (FEC) was sued in federal court on Tuesday

for allegedly failing to enforce campaign finance laws against the National Rifle Association

Giffords, the nonprofit organization founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) after she survived an assassination attempt,

sued the FEC for allegedly allowing the NRA to violate campaign finance law — including to help Donald Trump.

(https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/nra-busted-giving-trump-9259-times-legal-limit-bombshell-campaign-finance-lawsuit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/nra-busted-giving-trump-9259-times-legal-limit-bombshell-campaign-finance-lawsuit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[Winehole23]

sure, why not?

[Spurtacular]

:cry

Just wondering if you clutched your pearls when Obama broke campaign financing laws?

[Winehole23]

Just wondering if you clutched your pearls when Obama broke campaign financing laws?You're the one teasing the pearl clutchers now.

how does reversal (https://www.etymonline.com/word/peripeteia) feel?

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Secrecy, Self-Dealing, and Greed at the NRA

The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis is of its own making.

“We’re facing an attack that’s unprecedented not just in the history of the NRA but in the entire history of our country,” he wrote. “The Second Amendment cannot survive without the NRA, and the NRA cannot survive without your help right now.”

LaPierre is right that the NRA is troubled;

in recent years, it has run annual deficits of as much as $40 million.

It is not unusual for nonprofits to ask prospective donors to help forestall disaster.

What is unusual is the extent to which such warnings have become the central activity of the NRA.

Loesch and Noir are not technically employed by the NRA. Instead, they are paid by Ackerman McQueen, a public-relations firm based in Oklahoma.

In at least one year, Loesch earned close to $1 million, according to a source who has seen her contract.

For more than three decades, Ackerman has shaped the NRA’s public identity, helping to build it from a niche activist organization into a ubiquitous presence in American popular culture.

The NRA and Ackerman McQueen have become so intertwined that it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Top officials and staff move freely between the two organizations;

Oliver North, the former Iran-Contra operative, who now serves as the NRA’s president, is paid roughly $1 million a year through Ackerman, according to two NRA sources.

But this relationship, which in many ways has built the contemporary NRA, seems also to be largely responsible for the NRA’s dire financial state.

According to interviews and to documents that I obtained — federal tax forms, charity records, contracts, corporate filings, and internal communications —

a small group of NRA executives, contractors, and vendors

has extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from the nonprofit’s budget,

through gratuitous payments, sweetheart deals, and opaque financial arrangements.

https://www.thetrace.org/features/nra-financial-misconduct-ackerman-mcqueen/ (https://www.thetrace.org/features/nra-financial-misconduct-ackerman-mcqueen/)

:lol corrupt to the core, gonna lose its non-profit status

[Spurtacular]

a small group of NRA executives, contractors, and vendors

has extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from the nonprofit’s budget,

through gratuitous payments, sweetheart deals, and opaque financial arrangements.


Clinton Foundation gonna lose it's non-profit status while we're at it?

[Pavlov]

Clinton Foundation gonna lose it's non-profit status while we're at it?No.

You're present tho.

lol

[Spurtacular]

Desperate pscycopav

[Pavlov]

Desperate pscycopavI answered your question.

Something you can never do.

lol derp

[Spurtacular]

:lmao Feather in your cap for sperm shielding :lmao

[Pavlov]

:lmao Feather in your cap for sperm shielding :lmaoOK, do you think the Clinton Foundation should lose its nonprofit status?

If yes, give your legal explanation why.

You will never do this.

You'll shit yourself.

lol derp

[Spurtacular]

OK, do you think the Clinton Foundation should lose its nonprofit status?

If yes, give your legal explanation why.

You will never do this.

You'll shit yourself.

lol derp

You don't belong in this forum if you think it's a real charity.

[Pavlov]

You don't belong in this forum if you think it's a real charity.derp shits himself

lol derp

[Isitjustme?]

Just wondering if you clutched your pearls when Obama broke campaign financing laws?

classic whataboutism smh

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Hilarious, not a single response about the lawless, embezzled-into-BIG-debt NRA :lol

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NRA in crisis: how the gun group became ensnared in the Russia inquiry

The Russia ties of NRA bigwigs are political and legal headaches that won’t go away

board member David Keene hosted a private dinner that drew three Russian lifetime NRA (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/nra) members:

a since-convicted Kremlin influence agent,
her handler and mentor, and
a previously unreported Russian who chairs a defense industry foundation

the Russia (https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia) ties of Keene and other NRA bigwigs are political and legal headaches that won’t go away –

not with the FBI and congressional panels pursuing lengthy probes into the Kremlin’s alleged scheme to influence the pro-gun giant’s top brass, other conservative groups and US politicians.

the NRA and some top board members have also become ensnared in Russia-related investigations,

delivering an unexpected blow as the NRA’s links to Russia come under increasingly close examination.

spent years cozying up to the NRA and some of its leaders.

Their goal was to

“establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over US politics”,

are looking harder at what NRA leaders knew about Butina and Torshin’s real goals, and

a controversial trip they hosted in late 2015 in Moscow for several NRA honchos.

“The public record is clear that the NRA bent over backwards to help a Russian agent insinuate herself into conservative political circles,”

“The public has a right to know who at the NRA knew Torshin and Butina’s agenda, and why they were so eager to help these Russian agents.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/01/nra-russia-investigations-gun-lobby (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/01/nra-russia-investigations-gun-lobby)

fake hyper-patriot NRA consorting with, compromised by Russia that is at war with USA. :lol

[RandomGuy]

The (Repug) Federal Election Commission (FEC) was sued in federal court on Tuesday

for allegedly failing to enforce campaign finance laws against the National Rifle Association

Giffords, the nonprofit organization founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) after she survived an assassination attempt,

sued the FEC for allegedly allowing the NRA to violate campaign finance law — including to help Donald Trump.

(https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/nra-busted-giving-trump-9259-times-legal-limit-bombshell-campaign-finance-lawsuit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/nra-busted-giving-trump-9259-times-legal-limit-bombshell-campaign-finance-lawsuit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

How else is the Russian government going to launder money to his campaign?

[RandomGuy]

Clinton Foundation gonna lose it's non-profit status while we're at it?

Nice try at changing the subject.

It's almost as if you don't want to talk about the crimes involving Trump's run for the president. :lmao

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How else is the Russian government going to launder money to his campaign?

yep, the NRA money to Trash was "allegedly" laundered for the Russians.

[Spurtacular]

Nice try at changing the subject.

It's almost as if you don't want to talk about the crimes involving Trump's run for the president. :lmao

It's absolutely that your morals are a matter of convenience.

[Pavlov]

It's absolutely that your morals are a matter of convenience.
So where's your condemnation of the NRA's actions?

[Winehole23]

Oliver North is out

1122144959526768647

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and Feds have not yet finished their investigation of NRA's Russian money laundering

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BUSTED: National Rifle Association caught spending $275,000 at Beverly Hills boutique — on suits for Wayne LaPierre

“We realized during these discussions that we need to address your wardrobe you required us to provide, specifically, purchases at the Zegna store in Beverly Hills, CA.”

Ermenegildo Zegna, the luxury Italian clothing boutique, is located on Rodeo Drive.

“Due to the substantial nature of the total ($274,695.03), we should address these items immediately,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/busted-national-rifle-association-caught-spending-275000-at-beverly-hills-boutique-on-suits-for-wayne-lapierre/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/busted-national-rifle-association-caught-spending-275000-at-beverly-hills-boutique-on-suits-for-wayne-lapierre/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

[Winehole23]

only the finest will do for the public face of the 2nd Amendment

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NRA’s ‘mindboggling’ legal expenses are costing the cash-strapped organization $97,000 a day: leaked memos

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/nras-mindboggling-legal-expenses-are-costing-the-cash-strapped-organization-97000-a-day-leaked-memos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/nras-mindboggling-legal-expenses-are-costing-the-cash-strapped-organization-97000-a-day-leaked-memos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

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NRA money flowed to board members amid allegedly lavish spending by top officials and vendors

A former pro football player who serves on the National Rifle Association board was paid $400,000 by the group in recent years for public outreach and firearms training.

Another board member, a writer in New Mexico, collected more than $28,000 for articles in NRA publications.

Yet another board member sold ammunition from his private company to the NRA for an undisclosed sum.

The NRA, which has been rocked by allegations of exorbitant spending by top executives, also

directed money in recent years that went to board members —

the very people tasked with overseeing the organization’s finances.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nra-money-flowed-to-board-members-amid-allegedly-lavish-spending-by-top-officials-and-
vendors/2019/06/09/3eafe160-8186-11e9-9a67-a687ca99fb3d_story.html?utm_term=.fc60ba31069d (https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nra-money-flowed-to-board-members-amid-allegedly-lavish-spending-by-top-officials-and-vendors/2019/06/09/3eafe160-8186-11e9-9a67-a687ca99fb3d_story.html?utm_term=.fc60ba31069d)

Totally corrupt internally, and also laundering Russian money into Trash :lol

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NRA meltdown has Trump campaign sweating

Republicans worry that the NRA and two other groups that have long formed the core of their electoral infrastructure will be effectively on the sidelines.
The National Rifle Association aired an avalanche of TV ads and pushed its 5 million-plus members to the polls for Donald Trump in 2016, propelling him in the Rust Belt states that delivered him the presidency.

Now, the gun rights group is in total meltdown — and senior Republicans and Trump 2020 officials are alarmed.

the NRA has seen everything from

a failed coup attempt to the

departure of its longtime political architect to

embarrassing tales of self-dealing by top leaders.

The turmoil is fueling fears that the organization will be profoundly diminished heading into the election, leaving the Republican Party with a gaping hole in its political machinery.

With the Chamber of Commerce and Koch political network withdrawing from their once-dominant roles in electing conservatives, ????

Republicans worry that three organizations that have long formed the core of their electoral infrastructure will be effectively on the sidelines.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/03/nra-guns-trump-campaign-1395970