If the Mueller probe also takes down that bloodthirsty traitor, Wayne LaPierre, what a bonus.
The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy.
Josh Marshall:
Going back more than a year there have been a number of as yet uncorroborated claims that Russia funneled a vast sum of money into the NRA to support get out the vote activities to elect Donald Trump.
These efforts, in the nature of things, would also help down-ballot Republicans in key states. The massive NRA effort is no secret. Indeed, it’s pretty clear that the NRA played a very important part in securing Trump’s razor-thin victory. If the money is legitimate there is nothing legally wrong with that. One source of misplaced Democratic confidence going into the 2016 election was that Trump simply had no ground game, no complex organizational infrastructure to deliver supporters to the polls. That was true. But the NRA was mounting a very well-funded ground game operating essentially on Trump’s behalf.
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