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According to the minority report, they have emails which prove that “the effort to establish a back-channel between Russia and the Trump campaign reached key officials including Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., campaign manager Paul Manafort, deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, and then-foreign policy adviser Jeff Sessions.”

But Republicans refused to look at any of this evidence and completely ignored it in their majority report.

The NRA has been accused of channeling Russian money to the Trump campaign before, and now that there is concrete evidence proving this, the Republicans are refusing to investigate it. And the numbers are staggering.

The NRA spent an estimated $35 million on the 2016 presidential election, including $21 million to support Trump’s campaign and another $14 million to attack Hillary Clinton.

It appears that the NRA got most of this money directly from Russia, which of course is illegal.

Luckily, the FBI is investigating the NRA’s finances, with a specific focus on the Russians who funneled money through the NRA. Also, the FEC is investigating Russian entities that gave illegal donations to the NRA that were directed to the Trump campaign.

The NRA initially denied that it received foreign contributions. However under mounting evidence, they were forced to admit that it had accepted money from at least 23 Russian sources.

The Democratic minority report says that “Republican committee members refused to investigate whether Russian-linked intermediaries used the NRA to illegally funnel money to the Trump Campaign.”

If Republicans think that ignoring the problem is going to make it go away they are wrong. Their majority report was intended to absolve the Trump campaign of any wrongdoing allowing the president to once again tweet “NO COLLUSION” but it backfired.

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/29/russia-used-nra-to-give-big-money-to-help-trump-win.html