Gunning for the NRA
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For these years of fraud and misconduct, we are seeking an order to dissolve the NRA in |
| 0:11.7 | its entirety. |
| 0:12.7 | It's clear that the NRA has been failing to carry out its stated mission for many, many |
| 0:17.2 | years. |
| 0:18.2 | And instead, as operated as a breeding ground for greed, abuse, and brazen illegality. |
| 0:29.7 | This New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday announcing a groundbreaking |
| 0:34.3 | lawsuit against what has arguably been the most powerful lobbying organization in America, |
| 0:40.2 | the National Rifle Association. |
| 0:42.6 | The lawsuit accuses the group's top officials, starting with executive vice president Wayne |
| 0:46.9 | Loppierre, of essentially using the NRA as a personal piggy bank, diverting millions |
| 0:52.7 | of dollars in member dues to pay for lavish, all expense paid trips to the Bahamas, a |
| 0:58.4 | safari in Africa, use of 107 foot yacht in the Caribbean, golfies, gifts, and much else. |
| 1:05.4 | The suit by James, a Democrat, has enormous political implications, given the huge sums |
| 1:10.6 | the NRA has spent in recent years to boost the campaigns of Donald Trump and Republican |
| 1:15.9 | members of Congress. |
| 1:17.6 | We'll discuss the NRA lawsuit with Yahoo News' Hunter Walker and with Frank Smythe, author |
| 1:23.1 | of a new, unauthorized history of the gun rights organization. |
| 1:27.3 | And we'll talk to our old Newsweek colleague John Alter about the comparisons between |
| 1:31.6 | this year's presidential race and that in 1932, when FDR swamped Herbert Hoover during |
| 1:38.3 | the height of the Great Depression, all on this episode of Skull Dugger. |
| 1:44.1 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of S. Crook, well, I'm |
| 1:53.4 | not a crook. |
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