How the Russians used the NRA to buy Trump

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Senate Probe Finds NRA Knowingly Served Russian Agent’s Scheme



Senate Finance Committee’s Democratic staff reveals that

the NRA knew about Butina’s links to Vladimir Putin’s regime and welcomed her anyway,

offering her access to the conservative movement.

The same, they found, was true of Butina’s then-boss, former Russian government official Alexander Torshin

— a “lifetime member” of the NRA who was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury in April 2018.

According to their investigation,

“the NRA, its officers, board members, and donors engaged in a years-long effort to facilitate the U.S.-based activities of Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin.”

They also found that some NRA officials who traveled to Moscow for a December 2015 meeting with Butina’s group used the trip for their own business interests, a possible breach of the NRA’s tax-exempt purpose.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/senate-probe-finds-nra-knowingly-served-russian-agents-scheme/?cn-reloaded=1

I used to think Repugs' infatuation for white, Macho Man Pootin was

to spite black, leg-crossing Obama, (iow, better a white enemy than a black American)

but apparently the Repugs were simply, totally compromised by Pootin and his mafiya.

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Paul Erickson pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering today.

in dumbass.

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late update, Paul erickson was sentenced last summer:

A Sioux Falls man who used his connections in the conservative movement to help his Russian girlfriend gain political access was sentenced Monday to serve seven years in federal prison.

https://www.argusleader.com/story/ne...ng/5383306002/