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Horrible human remains horrible:
New details have emerged about an elephant hunt that Wayne LaPierre and his wife took part in that was funded by the embattled NRA he leads.
Newly revealed emails show the couple arranged to have an elephant they killed on a 2013 hunt shipped from Botswana and have its body butchered and turned into trophies, and they tried to keep the shipment and related taxidermy work secret despite the involvement of multiple individuals and companies in various countries, according to records obtained by The Trace and published in partnership with The New Yorker.
“Taxidermy work orders containing the LaPierres’ names called for the elephants’ four front feet to be turned into ‘stools,’ an ‘umbrella stand,’ and a ‘trash can,'” wrote The Trace’s Mike Spies, who obtained the records. “At their request, tusks were mounted, skulls were preserved, and the hyena became a rug.”
The couple felt secrecy was necessary, according to the emails, after hunting show host Tony Makris sparked public furor after killing an elephant on his NRA-sponsored “Under Wild Skies,” which also filmed the LaPierre’s hunt for an episode that never aired.
A trash can. Quite the metaphor for the entire Republican Party.