As he should have for a while now. He became toxic and an example of believing the myth created around you. He Tony Montana himself.

That being said, he was not the hidden Anti-Gun evil fuck many on our side ended up saying he was. Greedy bastard? agree, but he stood alone facing hate and ridicule many a times when the rest of the leaders of other pro-gun groups never had the balls to do so.

I know YouTube used to have the video of this confrontation, but I can’t find it. About the only thing is an article from WaPo about LaPierre taking CNN head on and calling them a liars for this infamous video trying to prevent the AWB to sunset.

LAPIERRE: Kyra, let me say this to start: I’m glad you ran the story because apparently the only difference between The New York Times and CNN is that when a reporter for The New York Times fakes a story, he’s fired, and at CNN he’s not.
Your bureau chief, John Zarrella, deliberately faked the story yesterday and intending to show that the performance characteristics of banned firearms on the list are somehow different from the performance characteristics of firearms not on the banned list. He was — he was implying that these were machine guns or fully automatic guns. That’s not true.
PHILLIPS: Mr. LaPierre, I have to stop you there. No one fakes stories at CNN, and John Zarrella definitely did not fake a story at CNN. You’re very off base. I’m going to let you say your opinion, and let’s have a conversation, but don’t accuse our reporter of faking any stories, sir.

CNN responds to NRA attack – The Washington Post

Can the NRA be saved? No idea and what remains of the leadership cannot be trusted until the one question is explained with full details:

Who leaked the internal NRA financial documents to Michael Bloomberg and The Trace?

It seems after this many years, nobody wants to answer that. Hell, even Epstein’s Lists are out, but we can’t figure out who went fully to the enemy side.

So, with LaPierre gone only half the job of cleaning the NRA is done.