One Nation senator boasts about spending NRA political donations
New footage shows Pauline Hanson lieutenant boasting about how he’ll spend NRA donations.
New footage of a One Nation meeting in America reveals the party’s plan to funnel donations from the National Rifle Association to a third party in a bid to go undetected.
Part two of the Al Jazeera expose How to Sell A Massacre documentary shows One Nation Queensland Senate candidate Steve Dickson bragging about how he would use the donation to hire “one of those drug dealing mansions on the beach” and shoot “the shit out of everything in the water” with “machine guns and everything”.
It also shows a conversation with Mr Dickson and an American woman sharing “gun porn” on each other’s phones.
It comes a day after One Nation leader Pauline Hanson fronted the media to deny any involvement in attempts to gain a $20m donation from the NRA, defending the conversations Mr Dickson and her chief of staff James Ashby had with the organisation in September last year.
Mr Ashby is seen in the new footage suggesting ways to resell Australia’s gun laws by targeting the pitch at women and “vulnerable people”.
“Part of it will be let’s start at women’s shooting range programs, self-defence programs, whatever those things might be. Start re-empowering women or vulnerable people,” he said in the documentary aired last night.
Ms Hanson was also caught on camera appearing to suggest the Port Arthur Massacre, which killed 35 people, was a government conspiracy theory.
“It would take a massacre in Tasmania to change gun laws in Australia,” she said in the footage.
“Those shots, they were precision shots. They didn’t muck around. I read a book on it. Port Arthur. A lot of questions there.”
Senator Hanson today defended her comments on the massacre “conspiracy”, conceding she read about it in a “light blue book” that was sent to her before she entered parliament but could not recall its name.
“If I really thought it was a conspiracy theory … I had two and a half years on the floor of parliament to have spoken up and said that,” Senator Hanson said in a defensive interview on the Today Show.
.@PaulineHansonOz categorically denies she and One Nation want to water down Australia’s gun laws. @Deborah_Knight #9Today pic.twitter.com/xkS6bBkchF
— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) March 28, 2019
“I’m in a position now if I wanted to, I could have watered down gun laws. I don’t. I have one of the strongest gun law policies in the country that is acknowledged by a lot of gun organisations,’ Senator Hanson said.
She said in the interview with Today host Deborah Knight she would not accept any responsibility for the fall out from the explosive Al Jazeera documentary.
ZMs Hanson suggested that the documentary may have been set up by the Liberal party.
“Who is to say that this was not set up so that we would get a Prime Minister, a Liberal party, saying we are going to wipe out One Nation all together,” she told Today.
Her Today Show interview comes a week after Ms Hanson boycotted her regular spot on Seven’s Sunrise when host David Koch said the Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto “reads like One Nation immigration and Muslim policy”. Ms Hanson also declined to answer any questions from the media after her press conference yesterday.
She claimed the Al Jazeera footage by journalist Rodger Muller had been badly cut and taken out of context, telling Andrew Bolt on Sky last night that she was too tired to recall what she had actually said on the night.
WATCH: One Nation’s @PaulineHansonOz says she does not support ‘any conspiracy theory’ about the Port Arthur massacre. #theboltreport @SkyNewsAust
— The Bolt Report (@theboltreport) March 28, 2019
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“Andrew to tell you the honest truth it was late, it was the end of the night. I can’t tell you honestly what I said that I didn’t agree with, even watching it today I thought I don’t even remember that conversation,” Senator Hanson told Andrew Bolt.
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