Top officials at the NRA knew Russians were using their ties to the gun rights group to try to bolster their status with lawmakers or the winner of the 2016 presidential election, a new report from Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee shows.
In 2015, Russian national Maria Butina, who last year pleaded guilty to conspiracy as an unregistered foreign agent, tapped her political operative boyfriend Paul Erickson to help her convince a top NRA official to come to Moscow, according to the committee report made public Friday.
Much of the report focuses on a December 2015 trip to Moscow arranged by Butina and former NRA president and board member David Keene.The trip's attendees included top NRA officials, such as Keene, Brownell and Joe Gregory, who runs a high-dollar NRA fundraising program. Ryan Repp, a spokesman for Brownell, said he was a"last-minute addition" to the trip."He went to support the NRA as the incoming President, and would not have gone if it was not an NRA trip.
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