{"id":12658,"date":"2018-01-18T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/fbi-probing-russian-bankers-role-in-nra-support-for-trump\/"},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:27:00","slug":"fbi-probing-russian-bankers-role-in-nra-support-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/articles\/fbi-probing-russian-bankers-role-in-nra-support-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Probing Russian Banker&#8217;s Role in NRA Support for Trump"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12658","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Did a Russian banker with ties to Vladimir Putin supply cash that the National Rifle Association used to promote the election of President Trump?","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[137,143,169,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p><p>Did a Russian banker with ties to Vladimir Putin supply ammunition &ndash; i.e. cash &ndash; that the National Rifle Association used to help shoot down the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton and promote the election of President Trump?<\/p><p>McClatchy Newspapers Washington bureau <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article195231139.html\">reports this morning<\/a> <\/strong>that the FBI is investigating whether at least part of the $55 million the NRA spent on the 2016 election was funneled to the gun lobby by Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of Russia&rsquo;s central bank and a lifetime NRA member.<\/p><p>The NRA&rsquo;s investment in the 2016 election, including $30 million spent in support of Trump, was triple what it put into Mitt Romney&rsquo;s campaign in 2012.<\/p><p>Federal law bars foreign nationals from spending money to influence U.S. elections.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Torshin is among a phalanx of Putin proxies to draw the close attention of U.S. investigators, who also have tracked the activities of several Russian billionaires and pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarchs that have come in contact with Trump or his surrogates,&rdquo; McClatchy reported.<\/p><p>The New York Times has reported earlier that Torshin helped set up a Moscow gun rights group called Right to Bear Arms and attempted &ndash; unsuccessfully &ndash; to broker a meeting between Putin and Trump during the campaign. 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