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Alleged corruption within the National Rife Associationhasnt exactly been a secret.

But thescope ofthe organizations problemsgotnew attentionafter New Yorks Attorney General, LetitiaJames, filed a lawsuit to dissolve the organizationin August 2020.

One of the people the Attorney General namedis Joshua Powell,former NRA senior strategist and CEO WayneLaPierreschief of staff.

Powell was fired from the organization in January. Since then, he published a book:Inside the NRA: A Tell-All Account of Corruption, Greed, and Paranoia within the Most Powerful Political Group in America.In it, he made some big claims abouthow the organization was run.

He spoke to NPRs Brian Mann about his work there.

The term pour gasoline on the fire is from Waynes lips to Gods ears and was used regularly. If youre pandering to the fringe of the gun movement and you beat it into their head that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are going to jump out of a black helicopter and take their guns and jackbooted thugs are just around the corner, its very easy to raise money off of fear.

What does he make of the groups influence? And what else did he see while he was there?We ask him about that and more.

We reached out to the National Rife Association about this show.

Lets get this straight a self-confessed wrongdoer who was terminated for cause is now glorifying himself, hawking books, and blaming everyone else? The facts are that Mr. Powell was fired for cause after his financial abuse was discovered by the accounting staff at the NRA, says Andrew Arulanandam, managing director, NRA Public Affairs. This is a fictional account of the NRA, period.Arulanandam continued, Mr. Powells words speak for themselves. As recently as last year, he was a full-throated supporter of Mr. LaPierre, the NRA, and its Second Amendment advocacy. Today, he has been outed as someone who abused the NRA for years directing contracts to family members, using NRA money to fly his family to Palm Beach, and other abuses.Arulanandam added, Here are the important points: the NRA is in great financial shape, enjoying record support, and moving on from the cloud of this individual and a handful of other fiduciaries who took advantage of the trust placed in them.

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