Plus, The Bulwark’s Tim Miller joins the podcast to give his take on Kamala’s Glock.
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This week, we found out the man the NRA picked to lead it out of a half-decade-long scandal has serious baggage of his own. The kind of baggage that comes with a content warning: if you are sensitive to descriptions of animal cruelty, don’t read the first two stories in this newsletter.
Doug Hamlin, the NRA’s new CEO, was involved in the gruesome killing of his frat house’s cat. Hamlin says that involvement wasn’t direct. But contemporaneous reporting shows he pled no contest to animal cruelty charges and more. The wake of that story seems to have already had a negative impact on the gun-rights group’s standing since it canceled the Georgia event Donald Trump was slated to headline a short while after it broke.
