okfine
Diamond Member
The NRA will one day a figment of Trump's imagination. Without multi-millions for the 2020 campaign, Donald will consider the NRA as a has been. Funny how that works. Trump may get mad at them and issue an assault weapons ban.
"The pandemic threatens to weaken the NRA’s influence ahead of the 2020 election after it forced the group to scrap fundraisers and membership events despite facing severe financial difficulties. The NRA has lost about $100 million as it wages a series of legal battles which have bled the group dry and exposed allegations about financial mismanagement by the group’s top executives."
"The financial difficulties have drawn criticism from other gun rights groups.
Save the Second, a group of NRA members pushing for reforms at the organization, disputed LaPierre’s claim that it was the health crisis that led to the financial troubles."
“Mr. LaPierre, if your organization was squeaky clean and ethically ran, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place,” the group said in an email to supporters, according to the AP."
"Trump has also complained that the group is “going bankrupt,” according to The New York Times, and called for it to “get its act together quickly.”
“Donald Trump talks about the Second Amendment, but he doesn’t so much talk about the NRA anymore,” Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told Salon last week. “Some of the NRA’s own board members have distanced themselves from the NRA and major donors have begun to distance themselves from the NRA, so it’s really not surprising that Donald Trump would as well if he sees them as possibly an albatross around his neck.”
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"The pandemic threatens to weaken the NRA’s influence ahead of the 2020 election after it forced the group to scrap fundraisers and membership events despite facing severe financial difficulties. The NRA has lost about $100 million as it wages a series of legal battles which have bled the group dry and exposed allegations about financial mismanagement by the group’s top executives."
"The financial difficulties have drawn criticism from other gun rights groups.
Save the Second, a group of NRA members pushing for reforms at the organization, disputed LaPierre’s claim that it was the health crisis that led to the financial troubles."
“Mr. LaPierre, if your organization was squeaky clean and ethically ran, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place,” the group said in an email to supporters, according to the AP."
"Trump has also complained that the group is “going bankrupt,” according to The New York Times, and called for it to “get its act together quickly.”
“Donald Trump talks about the Second Amendment, but he doesn’t so much talk about the NRA anymore,” Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told Salon last week. “Some of the NRA’s own board members have distanced themselves from the NRA and major donors have begun to distance themselves from the NRA, so it’s really not surprising that Donald Trump would as well if he sees them as possibly an albatross around his neck.”
Cuts at powerful pro-Trump political group threaten its influence in 2020 -- after it spent more than $30 million to elect the president
The National Rifle Association (NRA) laid off dozens of workers and slashed staff pay after the coronavirus pandemic forced the gun advocacy group to cancel its annual convention and a slew of fundraising events, according to a leaked internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.The pandemic...
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