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pnwmom

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Thu Jan 18, 2018, 01:54 PM Jan 2018

Michael Flynn and Jill Stein were in Russia in December 2015 -- the same month [View all]

that the NRA people were in Russia. The Flynn/Stein/Putin Russia Today dinner was on December 10.

Sheriff Clarke, who was in Russia for NRA events, tweeted from Russia on December 10 & 11.

I wonder if the RT dinner (attended by Michael Flynn) and the NRA events (attended by Sheriff Clarke) in Russia were connected.


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article195231139.html

Torshin’s involvement with the NRA may have begun in 2013 when he attended the group’s convention in Houston. Keene, the ex-NRA leader and an avid hunter, was instrumental in building a relationship with the Russian, according to multiple conservative sources.

Keene also helped lead a high-level NRA delegation to Moscow in December 2015 for a week of lavish meals and meetings with Russian business and political leaders. The week’s festivities included a visit to a Russian gun company and a meeting with a senior Kremlin official and wealthy Russians, according to a member of the delegation, Arnold Goldschlager, a California doctor who has been active in NRA programs to raise large donations.

Others on the trip included Joe Gregory, who runs the NRA’s Ring of Freedom program for elite donors who chip in checks of $1 million and upwards, Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke and Pete Brownell, a chief executive of a gun company and longtime NRA board member.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696

It was a (red) star-studded affair, the December 2015 dinner celebrating the 10th birthday of Russian TV network RT. At a luxe Moscow hotel, President Vladimir Putin and a host of Russian luminaries toasted a state-backed news channel that U.S. intelligence calls a Kremlin mouthpiece.

And next to Putin at the head table, in the seat of honor, was an American. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who would later become Donald Trump's national security adviser, was already advising Trump's presidential campaign when he was paid $45,000 to speak at the gala.


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