John Oliver underscored the weakened state of the NRA and the increased demand for meaningful gun control after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton on LastWeekTonight
The comedian opened the episode by summarizing how Trump managed to brag about his rally crowd sizes and make fun of a political rival while visiting victims at an El Paso hospital. “I was here three months ago, we made a speech, and we had a stage — what was the name of the arena?” the president said in a phone-filmed clip. “That was some crowd, and we had twice the number outside. And then you had this crazy Beto [O’Rourke]. Beto had like 400 people in a parking lot.
Last year, federal investigators examined whether a Russian agent used the NRA to infiltrate Republican politics. Then the New York State Attorney General looked into their tax-exempt status because the NRA has racked up some suspicious expenditures, despite technically being a non-profit. For instance, chief executive Wayne LaPierre allegedly spent member dues on personal expenses like
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