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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Mar-2018 23:42:16 UTC Nate Cull

   https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/trump-russia-nra-connection-maria-butina-alexander-torshin-guns/

   << For more than a year, reports have trickled out about deepening ties among prominent members of the National Rifle Association, conservative Republicans, a budding gun-rights movement in Russia—and their convergence in the Trump campaign.>>

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Mar-2018 23:44:52 UTC Nate Cull

     <<<<2011: Torshin, then a Russian senator, is introduced to NRA President David Keene through G. Kline Preston IV, a lawyer from Nashville, Tennessee, who had been doing business in Russia for years. Preston later tells the Washington Post, “The value system of Southern Christians and the value system of Russians are very much in line.”>>

     yeah, that's the money quote right there, I think

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 31-Mar-2018 01:51:20 UTC Hallå Kitteh
     @natecull Jeebus.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 31-Mar-2018 01:52:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh
     how can people not see the Russia connection when talking about BEAR ARMS