Well this is getting weird now. Wayne LaPierre of the NRA told the board of directors that he was extorted by NRA prez Ollie North to resign.
And the WAPO got the goods:
https://twitter.com/MarkMaremont/status/1121896229682778112Are the Iranians somehow involved in this?!?!?
From NBC News:
Oliver North, the president of the National Rifle Association, has asked its longtime spiritual leader and chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, to step down amid challenges surrounding the organization’s fundraising and nonprofit status, the New York Times reported Friday.
The report came just hours after President Donald Trump addressed the gun owners’ rights group at its annual meeting in Indianapolis. The organization’s 2016 election spending, including $36 million to help Trump, has prompted regulators in its charter base of New York state to threaten to investigate its nonprofit status.
North, installed as NRA president almost one year ago, asked LaPierre to resign on Wednesday, according to the report.
LaPierre responded with a letter, quoted by the Times, addressed to the NRA’s board. It alleges North has threatened to leak damaging information about LaPierre unless he resigns.
“Yesterday evening, I was forced to confront one of those defining choices — styled, in the parlance of extortionists — as an offer I couldn’t refuse,” the letter reads, according to the Times. “I refused it.”
WOW. Apparently it has to do with $200k worth of WARDROBE bills that North is accusing LaPierre of being unable to account for. Well, that sounds messy.
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