Rachel Maddow Unloads Both Barrels Exposing Josh Hawley And The NRA’s Illegal Scheme

Rachel Maddow highlighted the Giffords suit that accused the NRA of making $35 cardinal successful amerciable contributions to Republicans similar Josh Hawley and Trump.

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Rachel Maddow highlights the Giffords suit exposing the NRA's $35 cardinal successful amerciable run contributions to Senators similar Josh Hawley and erstwhile President Trump. pic.twitter.com/M8AnbNyRkS

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Maddow said of the lawsuit:

A justice ordered the FEC to act. The FEC did not act. When the FEC did not act, the judge said, okay, you tin sue them privately, truthful present they have. This marque caller suit names the NRA but besides specifically Josh Hawley’s run arsenic good arsenic the campaign of different Republican they allege coordinated illegally with the NRA, a congressman named Matt Rosendale who lost his legislature contention successful Montana to Jon Tester, the Democratic senator. 

Also named are the legislature campaigns of Thom Tillis, Arkansas’s Tom cotton, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, and former Colorado Republican Senator Cory Gardner. The NRA has engaged successful an ongoing strategy to evade campaign finance contributions by coordinating advertizing with at least 7 candidates for federal office. 

Through this scheme, 2 NRA affiliates made up to $35 million successful illegal, excessive, and unreported run contributions crossed the 2014, 2016, and 2018 elections, including up to $25 cardinal to the Trump run successful 2016. $25 cardinal successful amerciable donations to the Trump run successful 2016? Plus, each those Republican senators? This feels similar a large woody connected a few antithetic levels. For one, it’s a large woody these groups whitethorn person recovered a mode to actually possibly enforce campaign finance instrumentality which has been the wild westbound for years present because the national bureau that’s supposed to constabulary this worldly is functionally dead

. But besides $35 cardinal is simply a batch of money. That’s a batch of allegedly illegal wealth washing astir in Republican campaigns. That’s capable wealth to potentially person had a major effect connected the result of multiple elections.

The contributions were intelligibly illegal, and Republicans and the NRA thought that they would ne'er beryllium caught. Claire McCaskill mislaid the Senate contention to Josh Hawley, and portion Hawley mightiness person won without the amerciable NRA money,  we volition ne'er cognize for definite however overmuch the amerciable donations helped.

Republicans thought that they had it each figured retired and could interruption the instrumentality with impunity, but the Giffords suit mightiness person cracked the code.