Customer Scott has put together a pretty neat story.  Well, that’s not correct. It’s not neat, it’s frightening, but it’s neat how he put it together.

Last week, my hero Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, tweeted this:

GOP single issue advocacy group?  Hummmm.

So Scott started looking around for more information.  He kinda figured they had to be talking about the NRA.  That caused him to dig this out.  It reads like a spy novel.

The TL/DR version:  Spain has been investigating members of a Russian Mafia family that leads straight back to Donald Trump.  Okay, maybe not straight, but that’s what makes it interesting.

Alexander Torsion is one of the lead characters.

The formidable and powerful Taganskaya organization of which Torshin is allegedly part is recognized by the US and the EU information and intelligence services (including Europol and the FBI), according to the dossier about Torshin from the Spanish Civil Guard. Its activities include the appropriation of companies using violent or fraudulent methods, bank scams, extortion and the carrying out of contract killings.

He’s also a lifetime member of the NRA – yes, the American NRA – and is trying to form an NRA group in Russia.  And then …

During that visit to Washington, Torshin did have dinner with two Republican congressmen. The date was February 1 in a French restaurant, according to an article published in Time magazine earlier in March, and at which Maria Butina and a close friend of Trump White House strategist Stephen Bannon were also present.

Yeah, unnamed congressmen.  Hell, we don’t need no damn names.  We have names.

“From my cold, asset-forfeiture seized offshore bank account!”

Drain that damn swamp, baby, drain it.

Thanks to Scott for his work on this.