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The NRA really badly wants this story to go away. Instead, we've kept adding to it. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
We found video of an NRA leader who went to Moscow and offered to collaborate with a group set up by alleged Russian spies. You can watch it here. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Watch this NRA leader praise an accused Russian spy and international criminal: “It’s a great honor for me to be here today, partly because over the last three years I've hosted Alexander Torshin at the National Rifle Association annual meetings.” motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Who else helped the NRA's efforts to collaborate with the group in Moscow? Future Trump national security adviser John Bolton motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Reminder: The Russian woman now accused by the FBI in a political conspiracy against the United States worked to cultivate Donald Trump at least as far back as 2015—we dug up video evidence of that too. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
We still don't yet really know how all these pieces fit together, but one thing is certain: There is a very big pile of very curious connections between the NRA, Russia, and Trump motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Was accused Russian agent Maria Butina's "Right to Bear Arms" just a ruse? CNN reports the group "fizzled out" once Butina got close with NRA leaders and began cultivating Republican politicians inside the United States cnn.com/2018/07/20/pol…
More NRA-Russia connections have been emerging into view: Accused Russian agent Maria Butina and her boss Alexander Torshin met with Treasury and Fed officials in April 2015, on a trip arranged by a group whose board includes NRA leader David Keene reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Maria Butina seems to have traveled everywhere as she used the @NRA to cultivate Republican leaders: In May 2016, she spoke at a fundraiser involving Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin—where she was introduced as the head of the "Russian NRA" courier-journal.com/story/news/201…
Evidence gathered by the FBI from NRA member Paul Erickson, Butina’s partner, includes a file with “Notes on Maria’s Russian Patriots-in-Waiting organization” and “How to respond to FSB offer of employment?” — a reference to the Russian intelligence agency rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/acc…
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