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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTop Trump Ally Met With Putins Deputy in Moscow
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Before the NRA poured more than $30 million into Trumps election, it met with a notorious Kremlin hardliner, allegedly to discuss a rifle competition.
03.07.17 6:00 PM ET
In March 2014, the U.S. government sanctioned Dmitry Rogozina hardline deputy to Vladimir Putin, the head of Russias defense industry and longtime opponent of American powerin retaliation for the invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
Eighteen months later, the National Rifle Association, Donald Trumps most powerful outside ally during the 2016 election, sent a delegation to Moscow that met with him.
The meeting, which hasnt been previously reported in the American press, is one strand in a web of connections between the Russian government and Team Trump: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn both denied speaking with the Russian ambassador, which turned out to be untrue; former campaign manager Paul Manafort supported pro-Russian interests in Ukraine; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson won an Order of Friendship from Putin; and then, of course, theres the hacking campaign that U.S. intelligence agencies say Russian launched to tilt the election in Trumps favor.
Meeting with Rogozin, a target of U.S. sanctions, is not itself illegalas long as the two sides did no business togetherexplained Boris Zilberman, an expert on Russian sanctions at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. But, he noted, it is frowned upon and raises questions those targeted for sanctions have been engaged in conduct which is in direct opposition to U.S. national security interests.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/07/top-trump-ally-met-with-putin-s-deputy-in-moscow.html?via=desktop&source=twitter
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Top Trump Ally Met With Putins Deputy in Moscow (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2017
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applegrove
(118,715 posts)1. Curious and curiouser.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)2. Wow.
The NRA...and Russia. Such patriots, the gun-humpers.
Trump, if your dumpster fire of a precedency only ends with one win, I hope it is the one where you burn down the influence of the NRA.
This one could use a lot more attention.
triron
(22,007 posts)4. More shit landed
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)5. Trump HIMSELF met with the Russian ambassador