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struggle4progress

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Sat Feb 17, 2018, 03:54 AM Feb 2018

NRA Should Disclose Russian Ties [View all]

By The Editors
February 7, 2018, 8:00 AM EST

The National Rifle Association has long offered its expertise in politics and public relations to gun groups in Australia, Brazil, Canada and elsewhere. The question now is whether during the 2016 presidential campaign the NRA embraced a very different sort of international mission: serving as a conduit to Donald Trump’s campaign for Russian interests.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly investigating whether the NRA helped funnel money from Russians into the election, which would violate U.S. election law prohibiting the use of foreign money. In recent years the NRA has developed relationships with several well-connected Russians, including Alexander Torshin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin who is deputy governor of the Russian central bank ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-07/the-nra-should-disclose-any-russian-ties

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