7 Key Takeaways from Senator Wyden’s NRA-Russia Report

In February 2018, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, launched an investigation into the financial relationship between the NRA and the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin. “I am specifically troubled by the possibility that Russian-backed shell companies or intermediaries may have circumvented laws designed to prohibit foreign meddling in our elections,” Wyden wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and NRA treasurer Wilson Phillips, Jr. “The national security as well as legal implications…make it…