Wayne LaPierre Finally Takes the Fall. Will the NRA Survive Without Him?
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Host Brian Stelter talks with Will Van Sant, a staff writer for The Trace, a nonpartisan newsroom covering guns, about whether the National Rifle Association can recover after the NRA corruption trial and the resignation of CEO Wayne LaPierre over lavish spending. They discuss the damning evidence against LaPierre, who he is as a calculating grifter and stoker of culture wars, and if the NRA and LaPierre's downfall ultimately even matters at this point when it comes to gun control measures.
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| 0:43.0 | Can the NRA ever |
| 0:47.0 | can the NRA ever recover from the revelations that have come out at this fraud trial? |
| 0:55.0 | That's the million dollar question at this trial, the New York Attorney General, |
| 1:01.0 | has produced ample evidence of widespread looting by |
| 1:06.0 | top leaders including Wayne Lapeer. That's Will Van Sant, a staff writer for The Trace, the |
| 1:13.6 | pioneer non-profit nonpartisan newsroom covering guns in America. |
| 1:18.3 | And I'm Brian Stelter. |
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| 1:24.0 | Today, we're going inside this blockbuster fraud case |
| 1:27.4 | against the NRA. |
| 1:29.7 | Wayne La Pierre, the group's leader since 1991 is accused of siphoning off millions to spend on everything |
| 1:35.8 | from private jets to expensive suits. |
| 1:39.1 | So what will this mean for the National Rifle Association and for gun right advocacy in the |
| 1:45.2 | United States. Will you have been covering this case very closely for the |
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