A report from the Democratic side of the Senate Committee on Finance is memorializing what's largely been known about the National
o New evidence that the 2015 delegation to Moscow was an official NRA trip meant to demonstrate Alexander Torshin’s American connections to the Kremlin, contrary to NRA statements that it was an unofficial trip organized by individuals merely interested in fostering gun rights in Russia.
o New evidence that NRA insiders exchanged access to the American political system for the promise of lucrative personal business opportunities.
o New evidence that the NRA may have violated tax laws that prohibit the use of any organization resources for personal benefit.
o New evidence that NRA insiders may have violated U.S. sanctions by meeting with sanctioned Russian government officials and state-linked weapons manufacturers in pursuit of personal business opportunities. In 2018, Senator Wyden asked Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to investigate whether some of the Russian weapons manufacturers the NRA delegation met with have evaded U.S. sanctions by abusing domestic shell companies. He is calling for Treasury to provide a response to his original request.At the very least, the violation of tax laws should mean that their tax- exempt status should be revoked, which isn't happening while the current crop of gun- humper enablers is in power. That these rotted- out defenders of the right to massacre innocent people with war weapons were more than willing to trade access to their lickspittle Republican gofers in exchange for "business opportunities" only adds more urgency to the need to expunge all of these creatures from our political swamp.
BONUS: Joan McCarter has a good read on the long relationship between Moscow/ Massacre Mitch McConnell and the NRA.
BONUS II: Oh, looky here! The corrupt circle remains unbroken.
(Photo: Moscow/ Massacre Mitch McConnell, another Russian asset)
