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Russian spy Marina Butina will plead guilty, & cooperate w/ prosecutors! We’re going to find out who got the 💵 & from where.

👉BF & GOP operative Paul Erickson is going to prison
👉NRA is collapsing from loss of Russian funds
👉Certain GOP Congressmen are likely scared stiff.
Maria Butina, accused of running a secret campaign to influence powerful American conservatives for Russia, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy as a foreign agent. Ms. Butina must cooperate with federal, state and local authorities.

nytimes.com/2018/12/10/us/…
In a related story, Butina’s Russian handler, Alexander Torshin, is retiring from his position as deputy governor of Russia’s central bank.

Your career is over when this big an op comes crashing down around you.

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GOP Accomplishments of 2018:
💢3 Gov shut downs over bullshit.
💢A combined tax heist and trade war that has wrecked the US economy.
💢Allowing the violence against women’s act to expire.
💢A Stock Market unraveling we haven’t seen since the last GOP Pres crashed it.
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💢Worst Dow Jones Dec since 1931.
💢a steep rise in hate crimes.
💢10,000 legal, asylum seeking children separated from families and imprisoned.
💢Loss of health insurance for 3 million Americans by gutting ind mandate.
💢Abdication of duty of Congressional oversight.
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💢Selling out America to the oil industry as we careen toward economic & human climate disaster.
💢Suppressing new energy economy employing hundreds of thousands to prop up the 19th century coal industry employing 40K.
💢Historic undermining of democracy and rule of law.
3)
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The Trump admin cut the advertising budget for the ACA by 90%.

FOIA obtained emails show this was knowingly designed to harm enrollment, and they repeatedly lied about that fact.

Dem House oversight puts an end to the sabotage. Remember what they did when they had the power.
On a call w/ reporters, in response to whether HHS had studied the efficacy of advertising, an official said, “We haven’t done a specific study related to the public awareness of the program.”

It was a lie. They had, & knew it would harm enrollment.

huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ve…
The day open enrollment began, the Trump administrator of ACA benefits wrote a tweet designed to scare Americans away from enrolling.

Now that Dems have won House oversight, she’s promoting enrollment. Oversight stops the sabotage.

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Marathon Petroleum, largest US oil refiner, is running a secret campaign to push the Trump’s proposal to lower vehicle emissions standards.

We have so much oil, you see, we don’t need to conserve!

Climate scientists give us 10 years to cut carbon or suffer untold misery. 🤷‍♂️
Man made climate change is warming the arctic at a pace that is “unlike any other period on record.” It’s warming TWICE AS FAST the rest of the planet’s average temp, according to NOAA.

The hour is very late.
Our doom approaches,
and we’re regressing.

cnn.com/2018/12/11/wor…
A doomsday cult alliance of the Koch Bros and the oil industry worked behind the scenes to increase their wealth at the cost of the next generation’s lives.

They know climate change is real, they just won’t survive to suffer it’s greatest misery.

nytimes.com/2018/12/13/cli…
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THREAD: Here’s a nugget about televangelist Pat Robertson that didn’t make it into our into our deep dive about alleged Russian spy Maria Butina, NRA leader David Keene, Jack Abramoff & GOP operative Paul Erickson crp.org/nramb
FARA records that revealed David Keene, Jack Abramoff & Paul Erickson lobbying together had a note about “Pat Robertson freelancing,” claiming “we have no knowledge of “what he may do next.”

So why was a televangelist advocating for a dictator accused of human rights violations?
Well, Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing planes were transporting diamond-mining equipment for the African Development Corporation, a Robertson-owned venture initiated with the cooperation of Mobutu Sese Seko—the Congolese dictator who paid for lobbying to seek entry into the US
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🔥WHOA🔥

Paul Erickson, the “boyfriend” of accused #Russian🇷🇺spy Maria Butina, recommended KT McFarland (Flynn’s “brain”) to serve as Deputy NSA.🤨

In Dec’16, MacFarland wrote that #Russia🇷🇺had “just thrown the USA election to him (@realDonaldTrump)”‼️

cc @ScottMStedman
Just *one day* after Obama imposed #sanctions on #Russia🇷🇺for hacking Democratic groups & state voting systems, McFarland ADMITTED IN WRITING that #Russia had THROWN THE ELECTION TO TRUMP‼️

#Treason
#TrumpRussia

*Mere hours* after Obama imposed #sanctions, McFarland wrote that Misha Flynn would be speaking to then #Russian🇷🇺ambassador Kislyak.🙄

#Collusion
#TrumpRussia

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Prosecutors say that the person reported to be GOP operative Paul Erickson, with whom Butina reportedly told the Senate Intel Committee she had a romantic relationship, was used. "...she appears to treat that relationship as simply a necessary aspect of her activities."
"The FBI has uncovered evidence during the course of executing several search warrants that, during the course of her deployment to the United States, Butina was in contact with officials believed to be Russian intelligence operatives."
"For example, on at least one occasion, Butina offered an individual other than U.S. Person 1 sex in exchange for a position within a special interest organization."
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🔥In the charging documents for accused #Russian🇷🇺agent Maria Butina, the unnamed “US Person 1” — who established a “VERY private line of communication btwn the Kremlin & key [@GOP] leaders through, of all conduits, the #NRA” — appears to be #GOP consultant Paul Erickson. 1/
💣BOOM💣

Note that #DOJ says that “US Person 1” arranged the secret backchannel btwn the Kremlin and **key @GOP leaders** (not just Team Trump).🔥

How many people in the #GOP freaked out when they read that Butina got busted⁉️ 2/

#RICO
#ComplicitGOP

Mueller is investigating the alleged flow of ILLEGAL foreign (#Russian🇷🇺) money for @GOP campaigns via the #NRA.

Don’t think for a moment that at least some #Republicans didn’t know where the #NRA’s sudden influx of cash came from.🙄 3/

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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.
#Maddow
‘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.
#Maddow
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💣BOOM💣

FBI probing the NRA for using *illegal* #Russian🇷🇺money to help Trump win‼️

The NRA reported it spent a *record $55 million* on 2016 elections, including $30 million for Trump – TRIPLE what it spent for Mitt Romney in 2012.🤨 1/

amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wo…
Even WORSE:

👉🏼Most of the $55 million was spent by an arm of the NRA that is *not required to disclose its donors*
👉🏼Two people w/close connections to the NRA said its total election spending actually was *$70 million*

2/
The gap btwn the $55 million (reported) and $70 million (actual) may be b/c independent groups are *not required to report how much they spend on Internet ads or field operations*, including get-out-the-vote efforts‼️🤬 3/
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