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NEW: Torshin's "tantalizing offer" to Butina's boyfriend Erickson, setting up NRA trip to Moscow: to meet Putin. Erickson said the trip could have “enormous diplomatic consequences.” (Nov 2015—just months before Russia's election attack went full throttle) thedailybeast.com/nra-heavyweigh…
>> NRA Backchannel to Russia: Butina's boyfriend Erickson emailed NRA pres Keene saying NRA trip to Moscow could help ease relations between Russia & the US "by creating a way for the Kremlin to connect with a future Republican president." PM Rogozin & even Lavrov met w/ them.
How many backchannels to Russia did Trump have/need?? Kushner, Jr/Agalarovs, Manafort, Prince, Cohen/Sater, Flynn, Stone, NRA… 🤯Republicans wanted a backchannel to our adversary, who invaded its neighbor, shot down civilian airliner MH17, annexed a chunk of Europe‼️#Maddow
#NRA tries to distance itself from 2015 Moscow trip, after trip organizer Maria #Butina admitted to conspiring to infiltrate the NRA as an agent for Russia. The trip is the subject of 5 inquiries into NRA ties to #Russia—2 Senate, House, FEC, Mueller probe nytimes.com/2019/01/28/us/…
ICYMI NRA now says their officials' 2015 Moscow trip wasn't official. Butina, Torshin & Russia's officials sure thought it was. They made a banner to shout it to the world. AND, being a Russian influence operation, of course they misspelled "comrads" (it's COMRADES, comrades) 😂
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Paula Chertok🗽
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🚨🤯"Bloggers from Moscow"?! That's what Trump called Russia's indicted military intelligence GRU and troll army of information warriors!! How much you wanna bet he got this propaganda from one of his conversations with PUTIN?! cbsnews.com/amp/news/trans… #TrumpRussia #RussianAsset
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Trump propagandist Kayleigh McEnany talking over others on @MSNBC: “He’s not racist. That’s ridiculous. I’m not going to let you tell lies about the President. He condemned racism. I have the dates.” >>Dear Media, Don’t give a platform to people who get paid to spout propaganda<<
@MSNBC @jonathanalter @kayleighmcenany Video of Trump propagandist Kayleigh McEnany this morning on @MSNBC trying to make Democrats turn on each other. "Condemn her! Condemn her!" she bellowed like a wild bull. She also claimed Trump wasn't racist b/c he read off a teleprompter (badly, I might add). thx @DonaldJWorm👇
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Paula Chertok🗽
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It’s shocking but not surprising to see racist conduct, esp 35yrs ago. We’re a racist society. We all internalize it. At least #Northam’s sorry & owned it. Let’s not lose focus on the unapologetic racists in the White House/GOP pushing racist policies causing POC harm every day.
I don’t want to make excuses for Northam’s appalling & offensive racist conduct. I do want to acknowledge those who recognize their racism & fight against it are not the same as those who don’t give a damn and embrace it. The 1st are allies in the bigger struggle against the 2nd.
FWIW My view is also informed by a “kompromat” perspective. The big picture in America today is that Russia & others hostile provoke us to turn on one another, try to divide us, with a compromising pic. We’re all vulnerable in some way. We can’t let kompromat be the new norm.
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Maria Butina and Russian Central Bank Governor Alexander Torshin facilitated a NRA delegation to Moscow.

NRA officials believed they were meeting with Kremlin power players who could connect them to Putin./1

thedailybeast.com/nra-heavyweigh…
The organizer of the trip, Republican Paul Erickson, believed he was securing an interview with Putin and believed the trip could have “enormous diplomatic consequences.” The email, sent in Nov 2015 came just months before the Kremlin’s election meddling went into full gear./2
So let’s be clear. A powerful American company with a huge lobbying apparatus is apparently conspiring with an adversarial foreign government to influence our elections. I hope they kept some money back for the criminal defense fund. /3
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