she had played a key role in organizing that nra trip to moscow in 2015 and so her boyfriend, ericsson sends this e-mail to a member of the delegation, just before that trip departs. reporter bet eer betsie has quo new priestiece the beast publ today. he said the former nra president leading the delegation to moscow was angling on the trip to get a private interview with russian president vladimir putin. he said that the russian official organizing the trip, maria butina s handler and russian government dangled the possibility of such an interview and that therefore the nra delegation really needed to impress their russian hosts. quote, high stakes all around. ericsson also appears to spell out in this e-mail the trip to moscow was much more than a gun rights networking event. he wrote this to a member of the nra delegation who is about to head to moscow. wrote, as we discussed over lunch in iowa, russia believes
government using the gun rights movement as a pretext. she had played a key role in organizing that nra trip to moscow in 2015. so her boyfriend, erickson, sends this e-mail to a member of the delegation just before that trip departs. reporter betsy woodruff at the daily beast has quotes from his mia e-mail in a new piece that the beast just published today. the former nra president who was leading the delegation to moscow was angling on the trip to get a private interview with russian president vladimir putin. he said that the russian official organizing the trip had, quote, dangled the possibility of such an interview and therefore the nra delegation really needed to impress their russian hosts. quote, high stakes all around. erickson also appears to spell out in this e-mail that the trip to moscow was much more than a gun rights networking event. he wrote this to a member of the nra delegation who was about to