| Trump Meets With NRA Head LaPierre to Plan Impeachment Defense Strategy |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=51729"><span class="small">Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Monday, 30 September 2019 08:23 |
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Excerpt: "President Trump met in the White House on Friday with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and discussed prospective gun legislation and whether the N.R.A. could provide support for the president as he faces impeachment and a more difficult re-election campaign, according to two people familiar with the meeting."
Trump Meets With NRA Head LaPierre to Plan Impeachment Defense Strategy30 September 19
During the meeting, Mr. LaPierre asked that the White House “stop the games” over gun control legislation, people familiar with the meeting said. It was not clear whether Mr. Trump asked Mr. LaPierre for his support, or what that support would look like. In a statement Friday evening, an N.R.A. spokesman confirmed the meeting took place but insisted The Times’s account of the meeting was “inaccurate.” He pushed back on the account of some officials that any offer of support for the president was in exchange for opposition to gun laws. |
resident Trump met in the White House on Friday with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and discussed prospective gun legislation and whether the N.R.A. could provide support for the president as he faces impeachment and a more difficult re-election campaign, according to two people familiar with the meeting.