L: "It's titled MISFIRE: Inside the Downfall of the NRA..."
M: "A, Tim Mak is a fantastic guest. B, I have not read that book yet but I am going to..."
@Lawrence@maddow Other praise for MISFIRE: Inside the Downfall of the NRA
"Misfire is a searching expose of the corruption and crookedness that pushed the NRA itself into ruin. The nonstop revelations are told with gripping detail and intimate insider knowledge.”
@Lawrence@maddow@davidfrum "Misfire is among the most important works documenting this era in American history, a story of ideology and unbelievable scandal, corruption, and rot...
The definitive account of the NRA—deeply and meticulously reported, colorfully and precisely written.”
@Lawrence@maddow@davidfrum@Olivianuzzi “Tim Mak has written the defining story of America's most powerful lobbying organization. It is investigative journalism at its best. His reporting is tenacious, careful and incisive. Read this book.”
Unbiased but unforgiving, this book is one of the most enjoyable reads... the confluence of political lobbying, financial mismanagement, and organizational corruption.
From MISFIRE: The first look at the NRA's 'first lady':
Susan LaPierre thought because the NRA had spent $30mil+ on supporting Trump, that he owed her. She insisted she would be ambassador to Slovenia. Here's what happened:
"When Susan wanted something, she pestered Wayne constantly. She knew his character, once describing her own husband’s management style as 'no management style at all.' ... She luxuriated in that power, that status as Wayne’s wife... "
Susan preferred to use a makeup artist whose clients included Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift... meaning flights + luxury hotel suites for her stylists.
It's publication day for my book, 'MISFIRE: Inside the Downfall of the NRA'!
It's based on 120+ interviews and 1000s of pages of secret depositions, internal emails & private documents: tracing the behind the scenes story of the org
.@mikeallen included MISFIRE in @Axios AM this morning, describing it as a "hot read" with "deep reporting on the NRA"
The book goes into Wayne LaPierre's wedding to the reaction at NRA HQ after Sandy Hook, into the infighting and corruption that led to Oliver North's ejection..
@mikeallen@axios And a shoutout from @Politico@playbookdc this morning as well, which says that 'MISFIRE: Inside the Downfall of the NRA' is a book that "spills the secrets of the nation's powerful gun lobby."
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