~"May" - NRA member & conservative
activist Paul Erickson emails Trump
campaign adviser Rick Dearborn
asking for Dearborn's & Jeff Sessions'
(then-Senator/Trump campaign advisor
& future US AG under Trump) advice
about establishing a backchannel b/t
Russia & the Trump campaign via
Aleksandr Torshin (who is later accused
of working w/ later-convicted Russian
spy Maria Butina) (may 1, 2016 – 23h 59min, may 31, 2016 y)
Description:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-nra-campaign.html
OUTLET{The New York Times}
TITLE{Operative Offered Trump Campaign ‘Kremlin Connection’ Using N.R.A. Ties}
ARCHIVED{https://archive.ph/qgJeJ}
DATE{12/03/2017}
AUTHOR{Nicholas Fandos}
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44885633
OUTLET{British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)}
TITLE{Maria Butina: Russian gun activist at heart of US Kremlin row}
ARCHIVED{https://archive.ph/56ekv}
DATE{10/25/2019}
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/16/timeline-the-odd-overlap-of-maria-butina-the-gun-rights-movement-and-the-2016-election/
OUTLET{The Washington Post}
TITLE{Timeline: The odd overlap of Maria Butina, the gun-rights movement and the 2016 election}
NOTE{Timeline}
ARCHIVED{https://archive.ph/vJN0p}
DATE{07/16/2018 23:06:00 UTC}
AUTHOR{Philip Bump}
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