Posted on 11/22/2017 1:15:37 PM PST by servo1969
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.
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.
Kind of like all these Dindus scribbling racist crap on stuff to get whitey in trouble.
I’m an Endowing Member and I’m even worse. I own a VEPR II with a huge “made in Russia” stamp on it. Not only that, but hundreds or rounds of RUssian ammo for it. You’ve got me. I’m a Russian agent. Send the FBI and take me away.
So the ruskies are colluding with the NRA to do what, support the second amendment?? Sounds good to me.
This is just away for the government to infiltrate the NRA. The Russians are not in the DRA. But we should do everything we can to make sure the democrats don’t get in.
Grover Norquist?
Because a foreign invading force wants a well armed domestic militia...
IOW, the fake dossier is still being used to push Hitlery's agenda. Time for prison, lying ************. Thanks servo1969.
That’s right. Plus, anyone who got an inside job at NRA to influence policy would be fired the first time he pushed gun control.
Bwahahahaha
Man these guys are full of stories
If this were true, it would mean the NRA is half Russians and half undercover FBI agents.
Where is Grover Norquist?
5.56mm
yeah, right... 
*Just a few basic and likely opportunistic highlight’s about the DNC and Fusion GPS -
- The DNC has been a majority progressive (socialist) organization for decades.
- The DNC recently had well over a hundred members in congress who were ( and are now) simultaneously signatured members of the Democratic Socialist Party of America.
- The Socialist in the DNC have long been sympathetic or outright vocal supporters of socialist governments and revolutionary’s around the world for a generation, including efforts to neutralize US foreign policy of HALTING the spread of communism.
- Soviet, Chinese, UN, and now Global Government proponents and military leaders have long identified armed citizens of the US as an overwhelming hurdle in the event of war, or to sovereign global government.
- The socialist DNC has long sought to redefine certain critical US Constitutional Amendments, especially the elimination of “religious influence” from society, and to “disarm” American society.
- It has now been learned, the DNC, literally owned by HRC during the latest presidential election cycle, paid for foreign help from Russia to defeat Trump. HRC’s work with Ukraine now appears to be both desperate, as well as a MISDIRECT.
- Fusion GPS, ultimately an instrument of the left wing socialist DNC, (by way of Steale), financially contracted out to the Kremlin, put together a grossly false “Dossier”, (which was utilized by anti Trump/anti conservative cross agency ideolog’s, with insider help/McCain and company), was likely designed to trigger “Unmasking”, “Wiretapping”, multiple redundant congressional investigations, and the appointment of a “Special Counsel”, to investigate the entire Trump team and executive branch, to kill any conservative agenda, and to destroy Trump
- As the anti-American socialist/left wing DNC/RINO operatives which comprise Fusion GPS fall under scrutiny, it is hard for me to NOT be highly skeptical as to their motives, when attempting to deflect criticism away from Fusion GPS, and toward the same NRA they have long sought to destroy!
These guys redefine left wing opportunist!
The last thing that I got from them was a free Lithium-Ion battery pack with a solar charger and USB port to top off your cell phone when you are out in the woods. But I do have some of the knives and of course a bunch of hats.
AND I’ll bet the Demons and RINO’s swallowed every word from the mouths of Fusion GPS -
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