Balloon Juice | Thursday Morning Open Thread: Moving Forward
LaPierre made the admission in a deposition connected to the NRA’s bankruptcy case in Dallas. “They simply let me use it 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,” LaPierre said. “And all of us were struggling with how to deal with that type situation with a private citizen with the amount of threat that we were having. And this was the one place that I hope could feel safe, where I remember getting there going, ‘Thank God I’m safe...