wilwheaton:

“The affidavit explains how, between March 2015 (when she expected the GOP would “likely obtain control over the U.S. government after the 2016 elections”) and 2017, Butina worked with Aleksandr Torshin and two US persons to cultivate Republicans and lay the groundwork for warmer relations between Republicans and Russia. She focused on the NRA, she explained, because “the NRA [is] the largest sponsor of the elections in the US congress.””

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How Russian Spies Cultivated the NRA and National Prayer Breakfast to Seek Republican Assets

Everyone knows that the NRA owns the GOP, so this attack vector was obvious.