NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre
claimed he feared for
his life following some of the more
high profile mass shootings like
the deadly Sandy Hook shooting and
the Parkland School shooting.
And that was why he had no choice
but to hide out in his friends
luxury yacht.
Now you might be wondering why is
he even answering questions
about this?
Well, the NRA is being investigated
over its usage of funds.
They had claimed bankruptcy and
Lapierre had to submit a deposition
and here's what we know.
This is what he had to say.
They simply let me use it meaning
the yacht as a security retreat
because they knew the threat that I
was under.
And I was basically
under Presidential threat without
Presidential Security in terms of
the number of threats.
I was getting that's really weird.
It's weird that he was fearful for
his life and needed to escape in
a yacht in the Bahamas.
Because I thought that all we
needed to do was be armed to
the teeth and
we could handle any type of threat.
I mean, all of those schoolchildren
certainly don't have fancy luxury
yachts to evacuate to if they're
worried about a mass shooter.
But Wayne Lapierre, he's special.
He's like the kind of person who
would need Presidential Security
but doesn't get it.
I have more on this.
Ryan feel free to jump in.
>> Yeah, I mean,
the the scandal is quite amazing
like the way that the leadership of
the NRA was bilking its its members
was just extraordinary.
Just criminal allegedly criminal
justice, they were living
extraordinarily lavish lifestyles
that were well beyond their
salaries just by using the dues
that NRA members were sending it,
and other money that they collect
through various other means.
And we'll see if this yacht
ends up becoming part of that.
The flimsy excuse suggests that it
probably is, that this was member
no money that would allegedly have
been spent on a luxury yacht.
And he's going to
then use the absolute tragedies,
the dead bodies of all the children
to come up with an excuse to say
that in fact he was the one who is
at risk and so we had to flee
on this on this luxury,heah.
And of course your point is,
irrefutable that wait,
I thought the only thing that could
stand up them as a good guy with
a gun punch,
just get a good guy with a gun.
I mean,
we have the guy on on record saying
it to massive applause let's watch
>> Reproves that time after time,
they've been wrong and the NRA has
been right all along, and there's
no greater proof than this one.
The only thing, the only way,
the best way, the surest way to
stop a bad guy With a gun,
is a good guy with a gun,
is a good woman with a gun.
[APPLAUSE] >> Good guys carrying
guns can and do make a difference.
The surest way to stop a bad guy
with a gun is a good guy with a guy
[APPLAUSE] the media elites and
political aides,
they have mocked me.
They've scorned me they've tried to
demonize me for saying that.
Poor guy, by the way, like, snapped
up here for being super woke,
inclusive including women in that
equation good for
you Wayne Lapierre, you clown.
Absolute clown.
It's amazing in the deposition.
He also said, I have that yacht.
And it this was the one place that
I hope could feel safe where I
remember getting there and going,
thank God I'm safe.
Nobody can get me here and
that's how it happened.
That's why I used it again.
Maybe he needs to start some sort
of lobbying group for
luxury yachts to keep people safe,
rather than doling out disgusting
pro gun propaganda that only leads
to increased gun sales every single
time.
We have a mass shooting in this
country, but it's just It
goes beyond the yachts, private jet
flights to California, as many as
30 in a pretty short time period.
And you know, the the prosecutor,
New York prosecutors are the ones
who are looking into the spending
that took place and
I'm glad that they're doing it.
The suit mentioned that law
pier used his 108 foot yacht, which
is equipped with four state rooms,
a 16 foot jet boat and
two jet skis, as well as that law
up here flew on private jet on
a private jet to Los Angeles at
least 20 times from 2013 to 2017.
So this is the reason why they will
continue on with their lies, with
their pro gun talking points, their
anti gun control messaging, because
it's made a lot of money for them.
Right? They convince people to pay
dues to the NRA and well how
does that money get used to protect
Wayne Lapierre by helping him live
in insanely lavish lifestyle.
>> Yeah, it's a yacht gets taken
over you need the jet skis so
that you can, you can escape and if
this first jet skis doesn't start,
you need the second jet skis and
if that one doesn't work,
you need that jet boat that's like
tied to the yacht.
So all of it utterly reasonable.
Man profits over people's lives
it's amazing how many various
contexts like we can provide
to show us that system.
>> It can't get over like using
other people's deaths and
the anger and
rage that came from their deaths to
make the excuse for your lavish
lifestyle is like that's like next
level Super Bowl level cynicism.