When you talk to people who know NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre best, you get the picture of an awkward egghead type -- one whose real dream is to own an ice cream shop, not head the NRA
"[Wayne] has a reputation for never being able to say no, especially to the wrong people, NRA insiders said. He disdains... controversy—internal intrigue most of all—but by being unable to grow a spine... he ends up causing a substantial portion of the drama inside the NRA."
While reporting out the book, I did 120+ interviews and obtained 1000s of pages of secret depositions, internal emails and NRA documents.
Here's the first excerpt of MISFIRE, which VF titled: "THE WEIRDNESS OF WAYNE LAPIERRE, THE NRA’S RELUCTANT LEADER"
The SEC revealed that there is an ongoing insider trading investigation into Burr's trade, even as federal prosecutors decided ultimately not to charge him:
I started noticing this trend of TikTokers obsessively following Nancy Pelosi's stock trading disclosures -- and fell into this crazy world where retail investors are mimicking Congressional stock trades:
This isn't a one-off or a fad: people really are buying stocks based on what they see in House/Senate stock disclosures, per research done by a prof at Augusta University.
He found stocks prices got a bump after purchases were disclosed by Congress
NEW: With dozens of alleged Proud Boys members charged for Jan 6 actions and news that he had been a federal informant National Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio tells me he'll be stepping down from that role in September.
Enrique Tarrio confirmed that he did run a t-shirt business that sold 'Black Lives Matter' merchandise, claiming this not as a sign of financial desperation but a sly prank in which Proud Boys earned beer money through BLM t-shirts
NEW: A federal judge has dismissed the NRA's bankruptcy case, finding that the NRA was just using the bankruptcy as a vehicle to avoid the New York AG's attempt to dissolve it for alleged corruption
The federal judge said the NRA did not file the bankruptcy case in good faith, and "agrees with the NYAG that the NRA is using this bankruptcy case to address a regulatory enforcement problem, not a financial one."
The end result in this effort to avoid the New York AG?
-NRA spent millions of dollars on a bankruptcy trial (they've spent $72 MILLION in less than three years in legal fees)
-Their embarrassing dirty laundry is aired for the public
One thing you notice from the video is how panicked and incompetent Wayne LaPierre seems with a firearm despite some 40 years with the NRA.
After several attempts at killing an apparently wounded elephant at near-point blank range, Wayne LaPierre continually misses the target his guide is directing him towards.