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180 side benefit of Trump treason investigation: NRA getting fucked

100% chance they lied about dark money donations in their fe...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
Who cares man?
exhilarant legend house
  07/02/18
This is interesting as fuck--Russian ops to influence the NR...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
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180 sound barrier piazza
  07/02/18
I mean we should all be able to get behind the idea that Rus...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
I used to hate the NRA. Then I saw a Russian Facebook ad an...
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  07/02/18
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180 sound barrier piazza
  07/02/18
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  07/02/18
Lol
mint filthpig
  07/02/18
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chestnut goyim
  07/02/18
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  07/08/18
Replace Russia with Israel.
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180 sound barrier piazza
  07/02/18
(actual traitor)
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
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Wine racy haunted graveyard
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Alcoholic tanning salon
  07/02/18
(Mueller's next target)
Orchid affirmative action
  07/02/18
What's fascinating is a series of illegal border bunnies get...
Overrated dragon
  07/02/18
Sort of lacks the cloak and dagger elements of this shit he...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
Yeah, human trafficking is pretty cut and dry.
Overrated dragon
  07/02/18
This is another transparent attack on the 2nd amendment by t...
spruce free-loading chapel
  07/02/18
DOZENS of facebook ads you say?
Excitant flesh bawdyhouse factory reset button
  07/02/18
Aren't impressions the relevant metric, i.e., how widely tho...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
no. they are facebook ads, they are completely irrelevant to...
Filthy Contagious Library
  07/02/18
You’re talking to a drunk nig nog, he probably thinks Facebo...
Stimulating Public Bath Telephone
  07/02/18
The dozens of click-farm ads mentioned in the article are un...
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crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
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  07/02/18
Lol you guys are insane
Alcoholic tanning salon
  07/02/18
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crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
he's speaking directly to the other voices in his head, let ...
violet startled garrison
  07/02/18
If Russia donates to the EFF or other orgs I support then I'...
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  07/02/18
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180 sound barrier piazza
  07/02/18
Who said anything about withdrawing support? The story is ab...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
Saying the side benefit is that it brings down the NRA stron...
Alcoholic tanning salon
  07/02/18
I do hate the NRA, but you don't have to hate the NRA to thi...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
I frankly don't care. The NRA is good. Money for the NRA i...
Alcoholic tanning salon
  07/02/18
You are a Russian so this is understandable. Non-traitor Ame...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/02/18
Shitlibs must hang. HTH.
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  07/03/18
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180 sound barrier piazza
  07/08/18
I qualified the word Americans with non-treasonous
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/08/18
another fake news McClathy link
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  07/02/18
They haven’t been wrong yet
Beta diverse point old irish cottage
  07/02/18
lol
bistre charismatic parlor hominid
  07/02/18
nice try, Shlomo
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It is illegal for foreign funds to be spent to influence U.S...
Ebony Swashbuckling Senate
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Alcoholic tanning salon
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Wine racy haunted graveyard
  07/02/18
How much did Saudi Arabia donate?
Brindle Liquid Oxygen
  07/02/18
the IRS targeting the NRA will definitely energize the democ...
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  07/02/18
Tea party cucks already have IRS conspiracies. This is like ...
Beta diverse point old irish cottage
  07/02/18
Not sure why GOP voters would be energized by the NRA gettin...
crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
  07/03/18
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I was responding to this guy saying that GOP voters would be...
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crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot
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The NRA detailed its alleged financial difficulties in a rec...
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do you understand what this means? it's not that the NRA is ...
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Date: July 2nd, 2018 9:58 AM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

100% chance they lied about dark money donations in their federal tax returns. And that is the least problematic issue they are facing.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article214075459.html

On the returns, the group was required to identify its so-called “dark money” donors -- companies and wealthy individuals who financed $21 million of the group’s publicly disclosed pro-Trump spending, as well as its multimillion-dollar efforts to heighten voter turnout. The NRA’s nonprofit status allows it to shield those donors’ names from the public, but not the IRS.

A central question for Mueller’s office is whether any of the confidential donors’ names hold clues that could enable investigators to trace a donation camouflaged to hide its Russian origins – such as a shell company that might be the end point in a chain of offshore transactions.

It is illegal for foreign funds to be spent to influence U.S. elections.

Prosecutors’ requests to federal magistrates or judges for access to tax information are usually made “entirely in the background, with no notice to the subject of the investigation,” said David Axelrod, a Columbus, Ohio lawyer who previously prosecuted cases for the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

The main focus of Mueller’s inquiry, as McClatchy reported in January, has been whether Alexander Torshin, deputy governor of Russia’s central bank and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, arranged for Russian money to flow through the gun rights group to aid Trump, people familiar with the inquiry say.

Steve Hall, a former chief of the CIA’s Russia operations, suspects that NRA board members and current and former officers may have been duped over several years into playing a role in a Kremlin-directed intelligence operation that eventually offered the potential for both a communication line to Trump's team and a way to put money behind his campaign.

He said he suspects that current and former NRA leaders failed to recognize that the Kremlin saw their group as a tool for its “dangerous propaganda machine. … That’s the most innocent explanation: The NRA got snookered.”

Still, said Hall, who retired from the agency in 2015, the NRA-Russian connection bears close examination by Mueller.

“It’s just so insidious, and it sort of ticks all the boxes: connections to the current administration, major backer of then-candidate Trump, the Russians wanting to get in and manipulate our own political system.”

Torshin has drawn scrutiny in part because Spanish prosecutors accused him of money-laundering and also because he cultivated relationships with the NRA that nearly earned him a meeting with Trump.

He befriended then-NRA President David Keene beginning in 2011, became a lifetime member of the group and attended a string of NRA national conventions in the ensuing years. That led to Moscow visits by Keene and other NRA heavyweights in 2013 and 2015 to meet with a Russian gun rights group that Torshin was instrumental in forming and later with a deputy prime minister.

The Spanish prosecutors, who have cooperated with the FBI for years, say Torshin has a dark side. They have accused him of laundering money for the Russian mob, an allegation Torshin has denied.

Last month during a visit to Washington, chief Spanish prosecutor Jose Grinda spent several hours meeting with FBI officials, according to two people familiar with his itinerary. Both sources spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Grinda also met with journalists at the Hudson Institute, where he revealed that a few months ago he provided the FBI with 33 audio recordings of Torshin, including one in which a since-convicted Russian money launderer called him “godfather,” according to Yahoo News.

On April 6, the Treasury Department included Torshin on a list of Russians sanctioned in response to the Kremlin-ordered invasion of Eastern Ukraine, Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 elections and other aggressive actions. In light of all of the revelations about Torshin, the NRA reevaluated its relationship with him. His NRA membership is now “frozen,” spokesman Arulanandam said.

Hall, who worked earlier as the CIA’s Moscow station chief, believes that Torshin’s involvement with the NRA was no accident. Nor were meetings between NRA representatives and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and even Sergei Rudov, manager of a far-right Russian religious foundation, he said.

It looks like the Kremlin was pulling the strings at every turn, in a country where that happens “to a degree that cannot even be dreamed of here,” Hall said. “Everybody knows the consequences of not doing what the Kremlin wants you to do.”

John Aquilino, a former NRA spokesman, also is baffled by the NRA’s outreach to Torshin and Moscow.

"The NRA has fallen into a public relations trap, and the Russians knew damn well what they were doing," Aquilino said in a phone interview. “The NRA was naive and got hoodwinked."

"The NRA and the gun control issue is a perfect example of an issue that would fire up the populace and sow discord,” Aquilino said. He pointed to the fact that a Russian troll farm bought dozens of Facebook ads on gun rights as part of a 2016 social media blitz aimed at dividing Americans and helping Trump.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349340)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:00 AM
Author: exhilarant legend house

Who cares man?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349348)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:05 AM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

This is interesting as fuck--Russian ops to influence the NRA, Spanish prosecutors, etc.--you should care even if you don't hate Trump or the NRA or Russia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349363)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 8:56 PM
Author: 180 sound barrier piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353403)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 8:58 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

I mean we should all be able to get behind the idea that Russian infiltration of American lobbying groups is a bad thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353421)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 9:21 PM
Author: Ebony Swashbuckling Senate

I used to hate the NRA. Then I saw a Russian Facebook ad and now I’m a lifetime member.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353559)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 9:23 PM
Author: 180 sound barrier piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353570)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:39 PM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354002)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: nubile coiffed institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354040)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: mint filthpig

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354058)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 11:08 PM
Author: chestnut goyim



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354186)



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Date: July 8th, 2018 12:43 PM
Author: translucent kink-friendly location organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36385048)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:42 PM
Author: Big mauve theatre

Replace Russia with Israel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354023)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: nubile coiffed institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354041)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Beta diverse point old irish cottage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354062)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 11:03 PM
Author: motley aquamarine cuckoldry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354164)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 9:24 AM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36355884)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 9:24 PM
Author: 180 sound barrier piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353575)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:05 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

(actual traitor)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353830)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:35 PM
Author: Wine racy haunted graveyard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353974)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:39 PM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354003)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:41 PM
Author: Orchid affirmative action

(Mueller's next target)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354013)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 8:58 PM
Author: Overrated dragon

What's fascinating is a series of illegal border bunnies getting brought on stage at the DNC to tell me to vote for Hillary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353414)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

Sort of lacks the cloak and dagger elements of this shit here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353511)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:29 PM
Author: Overrated dragon

Yeah, human trafficking is pretty cut and dry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353942)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:01 AM
Author: spruce free-loading chapel

This is another transparent attack on the 2nd amendment by trying to link it to MUH RUSSIA, it will fail like all the other attacks on it have

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349352)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:02 AM
Author: Excitant flesh bawdyhouse factory reset button

DOZENS of facebook ads you say?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349354)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:07 AM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

Aren't impressions the relevant metric, i.e., how widely those dozens of ads get distributed, rather than the number of ads they cut?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349373)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:09 AM
Author: Filthy Contagious Library

no. they are facebook ads, they are completely irrelevant to everything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349379)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:14 AM
Author: Stimulating Public Bath Telephone

You’re talking to a drunk nig nog, he probably thinks Facebook ads can steal your soul like cameras can

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349401)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:17 AM
Author: Blathering disrespectful address

The dozens of click-farm ads mentioned in the article are unrelated to the NRA-Russia financing. They mention it in the last sentence because the author argues it shows a russian interest in using the 2nd amendment debate to sow discord. Tens of millions of dollars flowing into NRA coffers from Russia would be a much bigger deal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349415)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 12:02 PM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349962)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:38 AM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349489)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 12:01 PM
Author: Opaque lay kitty

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36349951)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 12:56 PM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon

Lol you guys are insane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36350241)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 8:53 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353383)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:08 PM
Author: violet startled garrison

he's speaking directly to the other voices in his head, let him be

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353837)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:40 PM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon

If Russia donates to the EFF or other orgs I support then I'm not going to withdraw my support in response. You're mentally ill.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354010)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:46 PM
Author: 180 sound barrier piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354052)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

Who said anything about withdrawing support? The story is about Mueller obtaining the tax records of a 501(c)(4) to determine if it received tens of millions of dollars from a Russian parliamentarian / money laundering criminal named Alexander Torshin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354099)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 11:02 PM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon

Saying the side benefit is that it brings down the NRA strongly implies that you hate the NRA. And no one freakin' cares about this stupid witchhunt anymore. Even Democrats only cared to the extent that it fucked Trump, which is won't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354155)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 11:11 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

I do hate the NRA, but you don't have to hate the NRA to think that tax fraud is a bad thing and that Russian parliamentarians / money laundering criminals shouldn't be funneling tens of millions of dollars to an American 501(c)3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354204)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 11:12 PM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon

I frankly don't care. The NRA is good. Money for the NRA is good. I don't care if it is Russia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, China or North Korea providing it. Feel free to replace NRA with animal rescue orgs, the EFF and other orgs I support too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354215)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

You are a Russian so this is understandable. Non-traitor Americans don't want money laundering Russian gangsters to secretly pour tens of millions of dollars into US political associations

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354262)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 9:24 AM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon

Shitlibs must hang. HTH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36355890)



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Date: July 8th, 2018 12:46 PM
Author: 180 sound barrier piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36385056)



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Date: July 8th, 2018 12:47 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

I qualified the word Americans with non-treasonous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36385059)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 8:56 PM
Author: Disgusting Mildly Autistic Nibblets Personal Credit Line

another fake news McClathy link

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353398)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 8:58 PM
Author: Beta diverse point old irish cottage

They haven’t been wrong yet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353426)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 9:21 PM
Author: bistre charismatic parlor hominid

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353555)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:46 PM
Author: Disgusting Mildly Autistic Nibblets Personal Credit Line

nice try, Shlomo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354050)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: medicated irradiated set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36454478)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 9:20 PM
Author: Ebony Swashbuckling Senate

It is illegal for foreign funds to be spent to influence U.S. elections unless they support democrats.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353552)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:40 PM
Author: Alcoholic tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354012)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:29 PM
Author: Wine racy haunted graveyard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353944)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 10:34 PM
Author: Brindle Liquid Oxygen

How much did Saudi Arabia donate?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36353968)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 11:12 PM
Author: rusted rough-skinned bbw

the IRS targeting the NRA will definitely energize the democrats

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354214)



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Date: July 2nd, 2018 11:23 PM
Author: Beta diverse point old irish cottage

Tea party cucks already have IRS conspiracies. This is like gas lighting them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354279)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 12:03 AM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

Not sure why GOP voters would be energized by the NRA getting tens of millions in dark money donations from the Kremlin via a money-laundering gangster who can't ever leave Russia because half-a-dozen countries want to arrest him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36354500)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 9:29 AM
Author: Beta diverse point old irish cottage

Lol if you think GOP voters care about “dark money” flowing into the fucking NRA. You really dont understand the political landscape in this country at all

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36355919)



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Date: July 8th, 2018 12:43 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

I was responding to this guy saying that GOP voters would be energized by it. Why would they be energized by the NRAs treasonous collaboration with Russian mobsters?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36385046)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 2:55 AM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36355269)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 9:12 AM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36355816)



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Date: July 8th, 2018 12:41 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

One of the extraordinary findings in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s preliminary report released last Wednesday concerns the National Rifle Association. The report states:

“The Committee has obtained a number of documents that suggest the Kremlin used the National Rifle Association as a means of accessing and assisting Mr. Trump and his campaign. Two individuals involved in this effort appear to be Russian nationals Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina. Mr. Torshin is a Putin ally and the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, and Ms. Butina served as his assistant. She also founded Right to Bear Arms, the Russian equivalent of the NRA, and started a business with former Trump supporter and adviser Paul Erickson. Both Mr. Torshin and Ms. Butina have longstanding ties to ex-NRA president, David Keene, and in 2013, hosted him in Russia for a pro-gun conference.

“During the campaign, Mr. Torshin, Ms. Butina, and their intermediaries repeatedly offered the campaign back channels to Russia and relayed requests from President Putin to meet with Mr. Trump. The Kremlin may also have used the NRA to secretly fund Mr. Trump’s campaign. The extent of Russia’s use of the NRA as an avenue for connecting with and potentially supporting the Trump campaign needs examination. Requests for documents and staff interviews have been sent to Ms. Butina, Mr. Erickson, and Mr. Keene, but they have refused to cooperate.”

Russia’s alleged use of the NRA as a kind of front group raises serious questions, according to Russia experts.

“We’ve focused a lot on the Russian outreach on social media, but we’ve missed the entirety of Russian influence efforts,” says former FBI special agent Clinton Watts.

“Active Measures seek to engage on three levels, state-to-state, state-to-people (social media) and state-to-party. The NRA outreach represents their ground game where they seek to engage sympathetic parties and organizations in the target audience by aligning along common interests.” He reminds us, “During [the] Cold War, this was via communist parties and socialist groups, now with Russian Active Measures it’s through groups like the NRA or religious connections.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36385042)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 2:07 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot



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Date: July 18th, 2018 5:17 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot



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Date: July 18th, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: yellow knife



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Date: August 4th, 2018 12:20 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot

The NRA detailed its alleged financial difficulties in a recent lawsuit filed against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and state officials, with the group warning of financial hardship after a New York regulatory decision pressured financial institutions to cut ties with the NRA.

The gun-rights group claims in the lawsuit that the state engaged in a “political and discriminatory campaign” against the NRA that resulted in the loss of businesses relationships “necessary to the survival of the NRA as a charitable organization.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36552169)



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Date: August 5th, 2018 12:33 PM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot



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Date: August 7th, 2018 8:40 AM
Author: cracking range giraffe

do you understand what this means? it's not that the NRA is running out of money, it's that the state govt of new york is trying to make it illegal for NRA to have a bank account. should be a great precedent for abortion clinics in red states if it's successful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4015904&forum_id=2#36568333)



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Date: August 7th, 2018 8:33 AM
Author: crystalline boyish philosopher-king spot



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