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Criminal complaint unsealed today in DC charges Russian national Mariia Butina [linked to Trump & the NRA] with conspiracy to act as an agent of Russia in the US: "worked at the direction of a high-level Russian official [Torshin]."
@Kris_Sacrebleu #Maddow bit.ly/2JtLbQS
The Russian official [Torshin] & Butina conspired to develop relationships with US persons & politicians and to infiltrate organizations having influence in US politics [the NRA], to advance the Russian Federation's interest in the US government.
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‘US Person 1’ is an American political operative [GOP operative Paul Erickson, closely linked to the NRA] with whom Butina established contact with in 2013. He gave Butina entrée to persons having influence in Amercan politics, including members of the NRA.
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Recall Erickson's May 2016 'Kremlin Connection' email to Trump campaign official Rick Dearborn: “Putin is deadly serious about building a good relationship with Trump...extends invitation for Trump to visit him in the Kremlin before the election."
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The FBI’s investigation revealed that Mariia Butina & the Russian official [Torshin] developed relationships with American politicians to establish backchannels which the Kremlin could use to penetrate the US national decision making apparatus to advance Russia’s agenda.
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ICYMI: Mariia Butina bragged that she helped connect the Trump campaign with the Kremlin and that the Russian official [Torshin], who requested that Trump meet with him during the May 2016 NRA convention, met with Donald Trump Jr. in 2016.
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ICYMI: The Russian official in Buttina's indictment [Torshin, a Russian crime syndicate 'godfather' who exchanged emails w/Kushner] was on Trump's guest list for the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast until a WH national security staffer flagged him.
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The Russian official in Buttina's criminal complaint [Torshin, deputy governor of the Russian central bank who's linked both to Russia’s security services and organized crime], came to US & observed voting in 2012 presidential election.
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Russian gun rights advocate Maria Butina [linked to the NRA], who was arrested Sunday, asked Trump about US-Russia relations at his Jul 2015 town hall meeting.

“I know Putin," Trump responded, in the first of his many pro-Putin campaign statements
#Maddow wapo.st/2mlyIWz?tid=ss…
US Person 2 in Maria Butina's indictment, who emailed with her re a “Russian backdoor overture & dinner invite,” might be conservative Christian activist Rick Clay, host of the dinner, who emailed Trump official Dearborn re a Trump-Torshin meeting.
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Predictably, Putin's favorite congressman, @RepRohrabacher, attended the Feb 1 Russian 'friendship & dialogue dinner' [at Bistro Bis] listed in Maria Butina's indictment. Also in attendance: another GOP Congressmen & a close friend of Steve Bannon.
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^^ THREAD: More info on the indictment of NRA-linked Russian gun activist Maria Butina [linked to the Trump campaign].
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Watch: At a Jul 15, 2015 town hall in Las Vegas, Trump calls on now-indicted Maria Butina, who asks him about US-Russia relations.

“I know Putin. I’ll tell you what: we get along," Trump says, in the first of his many pro-Putin campaign comments.
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US Person 2 is likely Rockefeller scion & conservative activist George O'Neill, who hosted above mentioned Feb 2017 dinner attended by, among others, Maria Butina, Torshin, Erickson & Putin's favorite congressman, Rohrabacher.
Amazing catch by @cjcmichel.
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THREAD: In light of the Trump admin lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's companies, recall that Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, conspired with Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings then meets with Kilimnik re the same on Aug 2.

AUG 11, 2016 email from Manafort's CPA: "Paul has indicated $2.4M in fees earned, but not yet received. Expected to be deposited Nov 2016 [post election?]."
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JUL 29, 2016 email from Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik to Manafort [days after Trump accepts GOP nomination]: "I met today with [Deripaska]. I have important messages from him to you. He asked me to go & brief you on our conversation."
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JUN 15, 2016
McCARTHY: There’s two people, I think, Putin pays – Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God.

RYAN: This is an off the record [laughter] NO LEAKS...alright?! This is how we know we’re a real family.

SCALISE: That’s how you know that we’re tight.
-Never forget-
JUN 15, 2016, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, @SteveScalise, and other GOP: "There’s...there’s two people, I think, Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God."

@Evan_McMullin was there and confirmed it was not a joke.
wapo.st/2pY7eFF
Per @Evan_McMullin: One senior GOP leader [that's you, @GOPLeader!] dolefully informed his peers that he thought Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll and had been compromised by Russian intelligence. Other GOP leaders were surprised but did not dispute him.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
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In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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Russian National Charged in Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Federation Within the United States
justice.gov/opa/pr/russian…
DOJ Charges Russian National Maria Butina With Acting As Foreign Agent
huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-char…
The Justice Department just charged a Russian national with trying to infiltrate the NRA
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This affidavit unsealed today against Russian national Mariia Butina is incredible. This Twitter DM she sent to a Russian official discusses how one political party, apparently the GOP, is "for us" while the other, Democrats, is "against" us.

"Our move here is very important."
Right after Trump won, Butina told the Russian official: "I'm going to sleep. It's 3 am here. I am ready for further orders."

Russian official replied: "Think about in which areas of life we could go towards bringing us closer. ISIS ... we need to look at the American agenda."
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A month before the election Butina discussed with the Russian official she should volunteer to serve as a U.S. election observer.

The Russian official said "the risk of provocation is too high..."

Butina: "Only incognito! Right now everything has to be quiet and careful."
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A criminal complaint was *unsealed today* in the District of Columbia charging a Russian national with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General. justice.gov/opa/pr/russian…
Maria Butina, 29, a Russian citizen residing in DC, was arrested on July 15, 2018, in Washington, D.C., and made her initial appearance this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
She was ordered held pending a hearing set for July 18, 2018.
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Russian National Mariia Butina arrested by DoJ for "infiltrating organizations having influence in American politics, for the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian Federation."
Here is a pic of her with Gov Scott Walker. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Butina is the protege of Alexander Torshin, a Putin ally. All it took for them to win access high level GOP politicians was to present themselves as pro-gun advocates anxious to help the NRA nytimes.com/2017/12/03/us/…
At a time when Gov Walker was seen as a frontrunner for the GOP nomination, Butina was attending Walker events motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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