Holy crap, da Commies are in the NRA now? Sure. Your credibility is now divided by zero. Uh, I’m going to need that stapler before you go...



Fusion GPS Founder Told Congress That Russians Had Infiltrated The NRA


The co-founder of the opposition research firm behind the Trump dossier testified to Congress earlier this month that he believed Russian operatives have infiltrated the National Rifle Association.

Glenn Simpson, a founding partner of Fusion GPS, casually suggested in an interview with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the gun rights group had been breached, a source familiar with the matter told The Daily Caller.

Fox News first reported about Simpson’s testimony on Tuesday night.

TheDC’s source said that Simpson suggested the NRA-Russia connection in response to a line of questions from committee Democrats who asked whether any conservative groups have been infiltrated by Kremlin agents.

No evidence has been made public supporting Simpson’s allegations, and it was not clear from Simpson’s testimony what links he believes there are between the NRA and Russian agents.

The dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC, makes no mention of the NRA or any other conservative groups. The document, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, alleges that the Trump campaign cooperated with the Russian government in order to help Trump win the election.

News articles attempting to link Russians to the NRA have appeared with increased frequency over the past year. The articles have keyed in on Aleksander Torshin and Maria Butina, two Russian nationals who have developed a close relationship to the pro-Second Amendment group.

The pair are lifetime members of the NRA and frequently attend the group’s events. In 2011, Butina founded a Russian gun rights group called The Right to Bear Arms. Some NRA officials have visited Russia to attend that group’s functions.

It is not clear if Simpson was referring to Torshin, the deputy chairman of Russia’s central bank, and Butina during his House committee interview.

Torshin and Butina entered the news again last week after the Senate Judiciary Committee cited an email sent to the Trump campaign offering a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner meeting” with Donald Trump.

The email, sent from a Christian values advocate named Rick Clay to Rick Dearborn, a Trump campaign official, suggested that Torshin sought face time with Trump on the sidelines of the NRA annual meeting held in Louisvillve in May 2016.

The email made its way to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, who shot down the idea.

Despite that, the email was reported in the press as an attempt either by the Trump campaign to collude with Russia or as an effort by Torshin to gain access to the Trump orbit.

Torshin’s initial contact in the U.S., a man named Johnny Yenason, said that he — and not Torshin — suggested a meeting with Trump. (RELATED: Central Figure In ‘Backdoor Overture’ Request Denies That Russian Official Sought Meeting With Trump)

Yenason told TheDC in exclusive interviews this week that he met Torshin and Butina at a National Prayer Breakfast function in Moscow in March 2016. He contacted the pair two months later in hopes that they would attend a veterans group fundraiser that he was putting together on the sidelines of the NRA convention.

Yenason, who provided emails to back up his claim, then got in touch with Clay with the idea of asking the Trump campaign whether the Republican would be interested in attending the event and meeting Torshin.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/11...infiltrated-the-nra/

Well, almost half of Congress has been infiltrated by the commies. That's fact.

That's right comrades, you've sold your soul to Mother Russia for your choice of a pocket knife or a range bag

Yea, sounds more like the NRA is trying to infiltrate Russia.

Does this mean the Russkies are now suffering the onslaught of NRA emails, junk mail and phone calls?

Bless their hearts.

Russians like guns too

So *that's* why AKs are so popular.

(eye roll)

You do know that Mikhail Kalashnikov became a NRA life member when he was in his 80s. Look it up! I think that bit of info is quite cool.

These liberals are just too funny with their Russians infiltrating the NRA narrative. It's yet another ploy to demonize gun owners and firearms in general. They haven't succeeded in convincing the Great Unwashed that Trump is a Russian agent, so according to their twisted logic, the NRA is the KGB reconstituted. Fact is, the Russians have always directed propaganda at the West, but to little effect.

When I was a kid, my brother and I inherited our Grandad's Zenith console radio. It was manufactured in the 1930s and was a shutter dial shortwave set with 12 tubes and a massive (for the time) twelve inch speaker. It glowed in the dark, and we spent quite a few evenings listening to Radio Moscow broadcast their English language versions of Soviet propaganda and laughing at it all the while. Radio Havana was also a hoot, even though we couldn't understand much Spanish. Fidel Castro was on all the time hollering about "imperialismo Yanquis." Nowadays the democrats are all worried that the Russkies are going to use the internet and social media to turn American voters against them. Their concern for us is truly touching.

The democrats are not "worried" about anything except losing. The Democrats are not worried about Russia's influence, except that Russia is more capitalist now than anyplace. After all, the DNC has been the popular front for CPUSA since the '60s. Nobody even has a plausible theory why the Russians would want to "infiltrate" the NRA, or why anyone should care. They just want to associate the NRA with a boogeyman.

So this tidbit from the Fusion testimony leaks out but nothing about their or Clintons collusion with russia does? Uh-huh...

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Originally posted by 12131:
Well, almost half of Congress has been infiltrated by the commies. That's fact.

^^^ THIS!

RMD

Many of the Newly Independent States had long-established "rifle culture" dating to pre-Bolshevik days. Why wouldn't they be all-in for the NRA?

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
Uh, I’m going to need that stapler before you go...

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Originally posted by 12131:
Well, almost half of Congress has been infiltrated by the are commies. That's fact.

FIFY.

So who has been promoting all this “diversity?”

Congress and the rest of the government has been infiltrated by Russians, Irish, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, atheists, gays, blacks, fat cats, Jews, Asians, Muslims, even women these days.

Even the term “Democrat” is merely a polite word for Communist.

Being a patron life member I hear I get a mail in ballot for the next Russian election.