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Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
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Date: April 27, 2018 07:36PM
NRA spent more donating to a presidential campaign during 2016 than 2012 and 2008 combined.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nra-documents-russian-banker/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nra-documents-russian-banker/index.html
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
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You'll never learn
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Date: April 27, 2018 07:38PM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> NRA spent more donating to a presidential campaign
> during 2016 than 2012 and 2008 combined.
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nra-docume
> nts-russian-banker/index.html
CNN????? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> NRA spent more donating to a presidential campaign
> during 2016 than 2012 and 2008 combined.
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nra-docume
> nts-russian-banker/index.html
CNN????? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
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Date: April 27, 2018 07:43PM
You'll never learn Wrote:
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> Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> > NRA spent more donating to a presidential
> campaign
> > during 2016 than 2012 and 2008 combined.
> >
> >
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nra-docume
>
> > nts-russian-banker/index.html
>
> CNN?????
> LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nra-gathering-documents-on-russian-member-sanctioned-by-trump-administration
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/russian-campaign-to-infiltrate-nra-elect-trump-w518587
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/11/nra-russia-money-guns-516804
http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-team-questions-russian-oligarchs-donations-trump-campaign-inauguration-2018-4
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> Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > NRA spent more donating to a presidential
> campaign
> > during 2016 than 2012 and 2008 combined.
> >
> >
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nra-docume
>
> > nts-russian-banker/index.html
>
> CNN?????
> LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nra-gathering-documents-on-russian-member-sanctioned-by-trump-administration
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/russian-campaign-to-infiltrate-nra-elect-trump-w518587
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/11/nra-russia-money-guns-516804
http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-team-questions-russian-oligarchs-donations-trump-campaign-inauguration-2018-4
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
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President Trump's FTW!
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Date: April 27, 2018 08:33PM
You got him now......
Yawn
Lol!
Crazy fucking libtards.
Yawn
Lol!
Crazy fucking libtards.
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
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Asked and Answered
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Date: April 27, 2018 08:38PM
Old news. Libtards are just upset that they didn't get the answer that they wanted to hear...
"The NRA said in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., unveiled on Wednesday, that the sum it received from those people was just over $2,500 and most of that was "routine payments" for membership dues or magazine subscriptions.
About $525 of that figure was from "two individuals who made contributions to the NRA."
Wyden has been querying the NRA about its Russia connections following press reports that suggest the FBI is investigating whether Russians might have tried to use the NRA or other political organizations as part of their attack on the 2016 election.
One high-profile Russian NRA supporter, state bank official Alexander Torshin, has cultivated a years-long relationship with the organization — but he was placed under sanction by the United States with other Russians last week.
The NRA acknowledged that Torshin, a Kremlin-linked politician, is a life member of the NRA, and has been since 2012. "He has paid membership dues, but has not made any contributions," NRA general counsel John Frazer wrote to Wyden."
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/601534305/nra-in-new-document-acknowledges-more-than-20-russian-linked-contributors
"The NRA said in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., unveiled on Wednesday, that the sum it received from those people was just over $2,500 and most of that was "routine payments" for membership dues or magazine subscriptions.
About $525 of that figure was from "two individuals who made contributions to the NRA."
Wyden has been querying the NRA about its Russia connections following press reports that suggest the FBI is investigating whether Russians might have tried to use the NRA or other political organizations as part of their attack on the 2016 election.
One high-profile Russian NRA supporter, state bank official Alexander Torshin, has cultivated a years-long relationship with the organization — but he was placed under sanction by the United States with other Russians last week.
The NRA acknowledged that Torshin, a Kremlin-linked politician, is a life member of the NRA, and has been since 2012. "He has paid membership dues, but has not made any contributions," NRA general counsel John Frazer wrote to Wyden."
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/601534305/nra-in-new-document-acknowledges-more-than-20-russian-linked-contributors
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
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More Fusion GPS Bullshit
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Date: April 27, 2018 08:42PM
Washington in 2016 saw one of most audacious dirty tricks in political history: the Donald Trump -Russia collusion claim. Now it’s happening again—same partisans, same media; new conspiracy, new victims, including the National Rifle Association.
Remember how the Trump-Russia trick played? Hillary Clinton’s campaign hired opposition-research firm Fusion GPS to compile a dossier of salacious Trump allegations. The Fusion team delivered it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, then, when briefing reporters, cited the bureau’s interest to establish the document’s credibility. To this day the accusations in the dossier have not been corroborated.
To pull this off, Clinton partisans needed government officials willing to entertain wild claims and media willing to propagate them. Both still exist in abundance, as we now witness a new conspiracy theory elevated into news.
Starting in February 2017, media outlets began issuing stories about a Russian central banker named Alexander Torshin and a Russian gun-rights activist named Maria Butina. Most broadly claimed the duo had been cozying up to U.S. conservatives; they specifically noted that they had an interest in the NRA. What was weird was that so many journalists were simultaneously doing this story—among them Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News, the self-described “old friend” of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, who was also among the first to write about the dossier—at Mr. Simpson’s pitch.
This January, the House Intelligence Committee released its transcript of Mr. Simpson’s November testimony, in which he regaled incredulous committee Republicans with a wild new tale—of how the Russians had “infiltrated the NRA.” Fusion GPS had “spent a lot of time investigating” a “Mafia leader named Alexander Torshin” and a “suspicious” and “big Trump fan,” Maria Butina. Mr. Simpson provided zero detail to back up this claim—no names, dates, money transfers or specific actions.
But never mind. The day Mr. Simpson’s conspiracy-laden transcript was due to go public, McClatchy ran this headline: “FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump.” The story cited only two unnamed “sources familiar with the matter.” The article admitted it “could not be learned” whether the FBI had any evidence involving the NRA, but it nonetheless went on at length about the group. A flurry of articles from other news organizations followed, while Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden fired off letters demanding the NRA account for itself. House Democrats jumped in, with Rep. Adam Schiff positing “an effort by Russia to create a back channel or assist the Trump campaign through the NRA.” Another flurry of articles. All still based on nothing but Mr. Simpson’s infiltration claim.
In a response to Mr. Wyden, the NRA flatly denied the accusation. It explained how it scrupulously monitors its donations and noted that all its political decisions are made by U.S. citizens. It also reported it had had no contact with the FBI. House Intelligence Committee Democrats nonetheless last week issued a document demanding they get to continue investigating the “NRA’s relationship” with Mr. Torshin and Ms. Butina as well as . . . Washington lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who hasn’t done legal work for the NRA in a decade.
A few days later, the same two McClatchy reporters were out with this: “NRA lawyer expressed concerns about group’s Russia ties, investigators told.” It again cited two anonymous sources claiming Congress was investigating Ms. Mitchell’s worries that the NRA had been “channeling Russia funds into the 2016 elections to help Donald Trump.” Ms. Mitchell tells me she told McClatchy before publication that this was false, that she has spoken to no one about the NRA’s actions in 2016, and that she believes the entire NRA-Russia story line is preposterous. She asked the reporters to explain to whom she supposedly said this, when and in what context. They couldn’t, but ran the story anyway. Ms. Mitchell calls it “the quintessential definition of fake news.”
Ms. Mitchell notes that other news outlets backed off the story after she denied it, with one reporter agreeing in email that he did not want to “be associated with some left-wing conspiracy.” A McClatchy investigative editor emailed me that since the “central assertion” of the story was that “congressional investigators are looking at information” that Ms. Mitchell said something, it didn’t matter if she had denied it. The editor noted that McClatchy had published her denial, and corrected its headline to reflect that she is not a current NRA lawyer. Fusion GPS did not respond to a request for comment.
No one has provided a scintilla of evidence to support the claim the NRA was “infiltrated”—and it is appalling that it or Ms. Mitchell must defend against baseless claims. But these days all it takes to turn the most outlandish accusation into “news” is the whispers of a couple of Democratic lawmakers or an anonymous reference to the FBI. Let’s see what’s next.
Remember how the Trump-Russia trick played? Hillary Clinton’s campaign hired opposition-research firm Fusion GPS to compile a dossier of salacious Trump allegations. The Fusion team delivered it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, then, when briefing reporters, cited the bureau’s interest to establish the document’s credibility. To this day the accusations in the dossier have not been corroborated.
To pull this off, Clinton partisans needed government officials willing to entertain wild claims and media willing to propagate them. Both still exist in abundance, as we now witness a new conspiracy theory elevated into news.
Starting in February 2017, media outlets began issuing stories about a Russian central banker named Alexander Torshin and a Russian gun-rights activist named Maria Butina. Most broadly claimed the duo had been cozying up to U.S. conservatives; they specifically noted that they had an interest in the NRA. What was weird was that so many journalists were simultaneously doing this story—among them Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News, the self-described “old friend” of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, who was also among the first to write about the dossier—at Mr. Simpson’s pitch.
This January, the House Intelligence Committee released its transcript of Mr. Simpson’s November testimony, in which he regaled incredulous committee Republicans with a wild new tale—of how the Russians had “infiltrated the NRA.” Fusion GPS had “spent a lot of time investigating” a “Mafia leader named Alexander Torshin” and a “suspicious” and “big Trump fan,” Maria Butina. Mr. Simpson provided zero detail to back up this claim—no names, dates, money transfers or specific actions.
But never mind. The day Mr. Simpson’s conspiracy-laden transcript was due to go public, McClatchy ran this headline: “FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump.” The story cited only two unnamed “sources familiar with the matter.” The article admitted it “could not be learned” whether the FBI had any evidence involving the NRA, but it nonetheless went on at length about the group. A flurry of articles from other news organizations followed, while Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden fired off letters demanding the NRA account for itself. House Democrats jumped in, with Rep. Adam Schiff positing “an effort by Russia to create a back channel or assist the Trump campaign through the NRA.” Another flurry of articles. All still based on nothing but Mr. Simpson’s infiltration claim.
In a response to Mr. Wyden, the NRA flatly denied the accusation. It explained how it scrupulously monitors its donations and noted that all its political decisions are made by U.S. citizens. It also reported it had had no contact with the FBI. House Intelligence Committee Democrats nonetheless last week issued a document demanding they get to continue investigating the “NRA’s relationship” with Mr. Torshin and Ms. Butina as well as . . . Washington lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who hasn’t done legal work for the NRA in a decade.
A few days later, the same two McClatchy reporters were out with this: “NRA lawyer expressed concerns about group’s Russia ties, investigators told.” It again cited two anonymous sources claiming Congress was investigating Ms. Mitchell’s worries that the NRA had been “channeling Russia funds into the 2016 elections to help Donald Trump.” Ms. Mitchell tells me she told McClatchy before publication that this was false, that she has spoken to no one about the NRA’s actions in 2016, and that she believes the entire NRA-Russia story line is preposterous. She asked the reporters to explain to whom she supposedly said this, when and in what context. They couldn’t, but ran the story anyway. Ms. Mitchell calls it “the quintessential definition of fake news.”
Ms. Mitchell notes that other news outlets backed off the story after she denied it, with one reporter agreeing in email that he did not want to “be associated with some left-wing conspiracy.” A McClatchy investigative editor emailed me that since the “central assertion” of the story was that “congressional investigators are looking at information” that Ms. Mitchell said something, it didn’t matter if she had denied it. The editor noted that McClatchy had published her denial, and corrected its headline to reflect that she is not a current NRA lawyer. Fusion GPS did not respond to a request for comment.
No one has provided a scintilla of evidence to support the claim the NRA was “infiltrated”—and it is appalling that it or Ms. Mitchell must defend against baseless claims. But these days all it takes to turn the most outlandish accusation into “news” is the whispers of a couple of Democratic lawmakers or an anonymous reference to the FBI. Let’s see what’s next.
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
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here ya goes
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Date: April 27, 2018 09:12PM
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Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
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finally a real burger?
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Date: April 27, 2018 09:46PM
They just hate the NRA. So if you tell them people paid membership dues to the NRA they think that's a crime. Sounds stupid but it works on low-info haters like gerry.
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
Posted by:
Rolling What
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Date: April 27, 2018 11:15PM
Rolling in manure Rolling in the sewage treatment waste plants out fall
Nothing but liberal obstruction to stir shit making up for nothing , they have got nothing other then a 8 year horror of a track record under Obama. Democrats have turned left with nothing
Nothing but liberal obstruction to stir shit making up for nothing , they have got nothing other then a 8 year horror of a track record under Obama. Democrats have turned left with nothing
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
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You Did It!
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Date: April 27, 2018 11:43PM
This is it!
Your combination of genius and reporting flair has brought out the facts that are bringing Trump down as we speak!!
It's already over! Hillary will be sworn in tomorrow morning!!!
Be at the Capitol Steps for the Inauguration at 9am sharp to receive your Presidential Medal Of Freedom in front of the adoring nation!!!!!!!!!
They'll all be chanting "Gerry!" "Gerry!" "Gerry!"
Your combination of genius and reporting flair has brought out the facts that are bringing Trump down as we speak!!
It's already over! Hillary will be sworn in tomorrow morning!!!
Be at the Capitol Steps for the Inauguration at 9am sharp to receive your Presidential Medal Of Freedom in front of the adoring nation!!!!!!!!!
They'll all be chanting "Gerry!" "Gerry!" "Gerry!"
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
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Date: April 28, 2018 12:09AM
If I knew Trump would be this great I would have voted for him myself. I get to torture rightards daily. How great is that?
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
Posted by:
nttml
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Date: April 28, 2018 12:46AM
No one believes gerrymanderer2 democrat
No one believes CNN FAKE NEWS
Re: Russian banker with links to Kremlin used NRA to fund Trump Campaign.
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so meta
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Date: April 29, 2018 03:05AM
Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> NRA spent more donating to a presidential campaign
> during 2016 than 2012 and 2008 combined.
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nra-docume
> nts-russian-banker/index.html
that is so meta
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> NRA spent more donating to a presidential campaign
> during 2016 than 2012 and 2008 combined.
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nra-docume
> nts-russian-banker/index.html
that is so meta