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🛑BREAKING🛑

Maria Butina, who helped #Russia🇷🇺 penetrate the #NRA, has been ARRESTED and charged with being a #Russian agent.

#Busted
#TrumpRussia
#MuellerTime
Here is the application for the criminal complaint against #Russian🇷🇺 agent, Maria Butina.

h/t @ScottMStedman

cc @SpicyFiles @lauferlaw
justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
ICYMI: here are details on the #NRA's nefarious activities with the #Russians🇷🇺.

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I’ve run for Congress and worked on several of my husband’s campaigns. INTERNAL poll data are closely guarded.

Yet Trump’s highly experienced campaign chair (Manafort) willfully gave this VERY sensitive info to a #Russian🇷🇺spy (Kilimnik) with #GRU👉🏼hacked the #DNC.

@thespybrief
If the #Russians🇷🇺 stole @HillaryClinton’s voter file AND had @realDonaldTrump’s internal polling data, they would know which voters to target with specific messages.
Add in the stolen #Facebook and other data, plus Trump’s voter file, and #Russia🇷🇺and others (PsyGroup, Cambridge Analytica, etc) literally would have EVERYTHING needed to microtarget voters very specifically and highly effectively.🤨

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💣BOOM💣

The Feds have emails exchanged btwn #Russian🇷🇺lawyer/spy Natalya Veselnitskaya & the #Russian🇷🇺Prosecutor General’s (“Crown Prosecutor”) office.😎

Rob Goldstone offered HRC dirt from the SAME #Russian🇷🇺Prosecutor via Veselnitskaya.

@thespybrief
documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
This SAME #Russian🇷🇺lawyer was charged today with #ObstructionOfJustice by US prosecutors in its #MoneyLaundering case against #Prevezon

Veselnitskaya also helped recruit a Swiss DOUBLE AGENT overseeing Swiss #MoneyLaundering cases of #Russian🇷🇺mobsters.

Just *days* after Trump fired @PreetBharara (led SDNY who was prosecuting #Prevezon), Trump’s DOJ abruptly settled their ROCK-SOLID $230 million #MoneyLaundering case and gave #Prevezon a sweetheart ~$6 million settlement.🙄

#TrumpRussia

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In emails to “former” #Russian🇷🇺spy Konstantin Kilimnik, Paul Manafort offered Oleg Deripaska “private briefings” on Trump’s campaign to “get whole.” Manafort’s Moscow contact “our friend V” now revealed as ANOTHER “former” #Russian🇷🇺spy Victor Boyarkin.🙄
mag.time.com/Eq15rGo
“Former” #Russian🇷🇺spy Boyarkin says his acquaintance with Manafort goes back to 2006, when Deripaska asked them to help Montenegro achieve independence in the Balkans.🤨

cc @thespybrief

During the 2016 campaign, Boyarkin says it fell to him to collect the $19 million debt that Manafort owed Deripaska. “I came down on him hard.”🤔

Manafort was broke, so instead of money, he offered “private briefings” to Deripaska via Boyarkin to “get whole.”🙄

#TrumpRussia
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#BREAKING Maria Butina pleads guilty—the first Russian national convicted of trying to influence US policy during the 2016 election. She infiltrated top American political circles using guns (NRA), religion and Republicans. washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
Maria #Butina pleads guilty to engaging in conspiracy against US - CNNPolitics cnn.com/2018/12/13/pol…
"Butina sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over US politics." She infiltrated the NRA & religious groups to bolster Russian interests. She said in court today she acted "under direction of" a Russian official (Torshin).
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#BREAKING: Maria Butina PLEADS GUILTY to acting as an agent of the Kremlin — agreeing to cooperate w/ Federal Prosecutors.

The "Russian gun-rights activist" is the first Russian national convicted for conspiring to influence U.S. Policy.

She infiltrated the NRA and GOP in 2016.
#RELATED: Russia, Dark Money, the NRA, and the 2016 election.

Thankfully, the Senate just overturned the Trump administration rule change that would've allowed orgs like the NRA to keep donors secret...

...a rule changed the same day Butina was charged.
#RELATED: The wife of a former NRA president offered Maria Butina 1 million dollars to secure tons of Russian jet fuel for an American middleman. The scheme would've violated sanctions.

Clearly, those around the NRA knew Butina wasn't just an "activist."
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🔥BREAKING 🔥Maria Butina’s boyfriend, Erickson claimed he set up a #TrumpRussia ⁦@NRA⁩ “conduit” as campaign funds flowed‼️ 💰💰 salon.com/2018/12/12/mar…
💥💰💥The conduit for the money was an arm of the @NRA that’s not required to disclose its donors... sounds like Citizens United and EVERYONE involved with it was part of the conspiracy, doesn’t it⁉️
💥💰💥Congress should impeach the Supreme Court justices who voted for Citizens United. We must investigate, and if the proponents are involved in the #TrumpRussia conspiracy. the-american-interest.com/2018/01/26/cit…
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NEW: Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina pleaded not guilty to the charges today, and a federal magistrate judge ordered her held without bond pending trial, finding there were no release conditions that would ensure her return to court. More soon. Earlier: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Butina did not speak at the hearing. Just before the hearing her lawyers had asked that she be allowed to appear in court in civilian clothes, but she was wearing an orange prison uniform (she was not shackled though)
Maria Butina's lawyer Robert Driscoll gave a statement to reporters after the hearing, saying they disagreed with judge's decision to detain her: "She is not an agent of the Russian government ... She is innocent of the charges brought against her"
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#BREAKING

Maria Butina charged with “Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of a Foreign Government”

Charges include exploiting “personal connections with U.S. persons having influence in American politics”

1/3
 justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
Maria Butina has OPENLY bragged about being involved in communications between the Trump team and Russia.

@timkmak wrote up this piece on her last year:

2/3
 thedailybeast.com/the-kremlin-an…
Maria Butina and her mentor, Alexander Torshin, served as nodal points of connection among the @NRA, the Kremlin, and the Trump administration.

@markfollman and Denise Clifton wrote this #MUSTREAD piece and brought ALL the receipts earlier this year:

3/3
 motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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PLEASE RETWEET THESE QUESTIONS FROM MUELLER TO TRUMP

@realDonaldTrump-Robert Mueller wants to ask you these 48 questions:

1. What did you know about phone calls that Mr. Flynn made with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, in late December 2016?

#TrumpRussia #MuellerTime
2. What was your reaction to news reports on Jan. 12, 2017, and Feb. 8-9, 2017?
3. What did you know about Sally Yates’s meetings about Mr. Flynn?
4. How was the decision made to fire Mr. Flynn on Feb. 13, 2017?

#TrumpRussia #MuellerTime
5. After the resignations, what efforts were made to reach out to Mr. Flynn about seeking immunity or possible pardon?
6. What was your opinion of Mr. Comey during the transition?

#TrumpRussia #MuellerTime
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