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In reply to the discussion: FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump [View all]Bradical79
(4,490 posts)30. Don't forget the guy with NRA and Kremlin ties approaching Trump campaign
WASHINGTON A conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the National Rifle Association and Russia told a Trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back-channel meeting between Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, according to an email sent to the Trump campaign.
A May 2016 email to the campaign adviser, Rick Dearborn, bore the subject line Kremlin Connection. In it, the N.R.A. member said he wanted the advice of Mr. Dearborn and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, then a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump and Mr. Dearborns longtime boss, about how to proceed in connecting the two leaders.
Russia, he wrote, was quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the U.S. and would attempt to use the N.R.A.s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., to make first contact. The email, which was among a trove of campaign-related documents turned over to investigators on Capitol Hill, was described in detail to The New York Times.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-nra-campaign.amp.html
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