Posted on 01/23/2019 6:22:11 AM PST by Red Badger
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has expressed interest in the Trump campaign's relationship with the National Rifle Association during the 2016 campaign. "When I was interviewed by the special counsel's office, I was asked about the Trump campaign and our dealings with the NRA," Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, told CNN. The special counsel's team was curious to learn more about how Donald Trump and his operatives first formed a relationship with the NRA and how Trump wound up speaking at the group's annual meeting in 2015, just months before announcing his presidential bid, Nunberg said. Nunberg's interview with Mueller's team in February 2018 offers the first indication that the special counsel has been probing the Trump campaign's ties to the powerful gun-rights group. As recently as about a month ago, Mueller's investigators were still raising questions about the relationship between the campaign and the gun group, CNN has learned.
A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment. The NRA did not respond to a request for comment. President Trump was not asked about his connection with the NRA in the written questions Mueller posed to him, according to a source familiar with the questions. The NRA had already come under scrutiny from lawmakers for its massive spending in support of Trump in 2016 and its ties to Russian nationals. Maria Butina, a Russian national, pleaded guilty in DC federal court in December to engaging in a conspiracy against the US. As part of her plea, she acknowledged that she attempted to infiltrate GOP political circles and influence US relations with Russia, in part by building ties with prominent members of the NRA.
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What???
Is it a crime to have dealings with the NRA?
I can see his reasoning. After all AK-47s are Russian
So we now punish people for speaking to the NRA, UGH
What does this have to do with RUSSIA?!
Yea? Well I’d like to know about the DNC’s connection to the N.E.A. and the Unions for like that past fifty years. Can I get that right away?
Let’s start with the Democrat Party’s ties to the Communist Party of America.
This is utter horseshit and it’s long past time for President Trump to end this farce, once and for all. If I were the NRA, I’d be tempted to sue the FBI for deprivation of rights under the color of authority.
At what point does it become doable to fire this guy?
Only for Republicans....................
Let’s see:
So a Russian attempts to infiltrate the NRA. (Pleads guilty)
The NRA supports a Republican, in this case, Donald Trump (private citizen) and gives him a forum to speeches.
Therefore, it must be true that the Russian tried to infiltrate Trump (and colluded?)
Do I have this right?
Idiots.
Never, politically...................
/s
This is rinse, repeat. If memory serves, this angle went out to the media a year ago. They fell on their asseth and noweth they are scrambling over old subjects to run up the flagpole.
And the SKS!
The NRA had already come under scrutiny from lawmakers for its massive spending in support of Trump in 2016 and its ties to Russian nationals.
Mighty thin gruel there, Mueller.
Bobby Mueller’s Russki collusion thingy didn’t work out for sh*t so now he’s looking for NRA “collusion”. It’s time to lock Mueller up and have him start paying for his crimes against the American people. JMO.
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