Trump “Individual-1″ and the media, it’s not over by a long shot. Mueller has been following the money and it’s about to get real. Trump’s former deputy campaign manager and Inauguration Committee deputy chairman Rick Gates is helping Mueller.🔥
“The NRA spent more than $30 million to back Trump's candidacy"
"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.
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.
On March 5, 2018, Sam Nunberg told Jake Tapper that Trump knew about the Trump Tower Russia meeting a week before. “He talked about it a week before“.
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.
Maria Butina, Alexander Torshin and NRA
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.
She also admitted she was working at the direction of a prominent former Russian central banker, Alexander Torshin, who was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department last year for his role in the Russian government. Torshin is also a lifetime member of the NRA.
“Donald Trump Jr. is an avid outdoorsman who helped his father build closer ties to the NRA.”
Trump spoke at the NRA's annual meeting in Tennessee in 2015, along with a number of other GOP presidential hopefuls. By May 2016, the NRA was all in for Trump, officially endorsing his candidacy at the group's annual meeting in Kentucky.
"To get the endorsement, believe me, is a fantastic honor. I will not let you down.", Trump told the NRA crowd in 2016.
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