Steven Rinella
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And stayed on a super yacht owned by a contractor who has done a hundred million dollars in contract work for the NRA, build some airfare to the NRA and goes to the Bahamas and does a lengthy vacation, which it's a, it's a vacation that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars in total when pressed on it.
LaPierre said it was a safety, a security vacation that after the Sandy Hook shooting, things were so hot.
I had to get somewhere to protect my safety.
And I knew I could protect my safety if I went into the Bahamas and stayed on this super yacht.
But then it's like, but how is it that you were also at a family member's wedding while you were there?
Mm-hmm.
That was pre-planned.
So for that reason, some of this caused like a lot of internal upheaval and internal strife within the NRA.
And some people, even though Leticia James is in no way trying to help the NRA, she's not like, oh, I feel bad.
This is really terrible that they're misusing their funds.
She's going like, I want to kill the NRA.
How could I kill them?
Well, I'll kill them over this, pretending like I'm trying to help.
Members and protect member money, but it brings up all this embarrassing stuff.
It's caused a ton of trouble for the NRA.
Um, and then within this fight, there's this other fight.
They use the main PR firm so that, so here's the NRA is a nonprofit organization, but much of their work is done by a PR firm, which is a for-profit organization.
So what you have in nonprofit land is you wind up going like, okay,
We'll take tons of money and hand it to our PR firm.
I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars and hand it to the PR firm.