Confessed Russian agent Maria Butina claimed more than five years ago that her gun rights group had entered into a “signed cooperation agreement” with the National Rifle Association, according to a contemporaneous account of a talk Butina gave to an Israeli organization.

Butina, who pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday for her role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to covertly influence American politics, founded the Right to Bear Arms in Moscow in 2010 with support from high-ranking Russian official Alexander Torshin. Prosecutors detailed how Butina used her profile as a gun rights advocate to build a relationship with NRA officials and other influential political figures in the run-up to the 2016 election.

In October 2013, Butina traveled to Israel to meet with members of a relatively obscure gun rights group called the Association for the Promotion of Weapons Culture. In a Facebook post after her presentation, the APWC wrote in Hebrew that Butina told them the Right to Bear Arms had “signed cooperation agreements with neighboring countries and with the American NRA,” adding, “We are probably next in line ”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/five-foreign-nationals-indicted-murder-hire-money-laundering-and-immigration-charges

RALEIGH – Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned a superseding indictment charging five foreign nationals with various federal crimes stemming from a bribery and kickback scheme, including money laundering, immigration fraud, and a subsequent murder for hire plot.

After all, those super-patriotic, god-fearing champions of the free market are immune from criticism because they are so righteous and virtuous, so exceptionally American. Any attack on them can easily be dismissed as Liberal subversion and the MSM. This crowd will sell their country out in a heartbeat to get a tax cut, remove regulations on business, and fully privatize the health care system.

Its not just Trump. He is the foolish, evil, possibly sick little man who eventually gets elected into any democracy. It could just as easily have been a Democrat. The real problem is that his message has been so appealing to the Conservative movement that it has been willing, even eager, to enable him because it has been so good for their agenda. That’s all they care about, even those on the Right who recognized long ago that Trump was a pompous fraud and a grotesque bully still went along with him because they stood to gain financially. Its all about greed, and greed makes you vulnerable to blackmail.

They sold out their country for 30 pieces of silver.