Prepared for war: Wayne LaPierre says NRA has ‘President Trump’s back’

Published February 24, 2017 9:08pm ET



Wayne LaPierre is prepared for war. The executive vice president of the NRA has identified his enemy and pledged allegiance to the president for the next four years.

“The media said we were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic by backing Trump,” LaPierre said onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside Washington, D.C. “But we’re still standing, we’re still here, and we’ve got President Trump’s back.”

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