Indictment of Maria Butina unsealed - accused of infiltrating NRA and others

[Rogue]

6 minutes ago, TennesseeTuxedo said:

I'm dumb

And getting dumber by the day.

[MadMax]

But Hillary!!!

[thor]

37 minutes ago, TennesseeTuxedo said:

The Russians sure weren’t enemies when Hillary Clinton was receiving millions of illegal dollars from the Russians.

Or Ukrainians...

[Mythos27]

Mueller's report is going to obliterate Trump. 

[rns90]

1 hour ago, Mythos27 said:

Mueller's report is going to obliterate Trump. 

And some key high ranking Republicans I bet.

[titanruss]

3 hours ago, Mythos27 said:

Mueller's report is going to obliterate Trump. 

im guessing its close to 100,00 pages by now. the bigger problem is sifting through all the evidence and providing it clearly and in an understandable way. 

 

i'm sure he's making efforts to do so but the fools just keep giving him more and more info. 

[Legaltitan]

Quote

 

The Bolton video was distributed by a gun rights group co-founded by Russian citizen Alexander Torshin, according to National Public Radio, which unearthed the video. Torshin is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the deputy governor of the Bank of Russia. 

Torshin, who also served in the Russian government, is the focus of an investigation by the FBI to determine if he illegally funneled Russian funds to Trump’s campaign through the NRA, McClatchy has reported. It’s illegal to use foreign funds to influence federal elections.

The U.S. Federal Election Commission launched a similar probe to determine if the NRA was acting as a conduit for illegal Trump campaign funds, Politico reported.

Torshin, who served as the deputy speaker of Russia’s Parliament for more than a decade and was on Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee, reached out to members of the Trump campaign through the NRA, according to McClatchy. He also hosted dinners for NRA executives during their trip to Moscow in 2015.

The NRA spent a record amount on 2016 elections, including $21 million to back Trump and $14 million to attack his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Torshin helped create the NRA’s Russian equivalent, The Right to Bear Arms, which sponsored the Bolton video. The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged the Russian government to change its constitution to allow gun rights similar to those in America.

A source close to Bolton told NPR that he was originally asked to record the video by then-NRA President David Keene. At the time, Bolton was a member of the NRA’s international affairs subcommittee, according to NPR.

On the video, Bolton praises a “new era of freedom” in Russia on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of its constitution. 

 

It seems Bolton was paid in November 2013 to travel to Moscow and make a propaganda video for the Russian gun rights organization that Butina fronted for Torshin.

 

My oh my

[Legaltitan]

Oh, and what do we have in this video? Oh nothing much, just a video of Trump pretending to pick our red-headed spy, Butina, "randomly" from a crowd in July '15, and pretending not to know her, as uses her Kremlin-planted question to publicly lay out (with him knowing Putin is watching) his Russia policy "on sanctions." Hm, that seems a bit strange.

 

 

[MadMax]

Spin it, retards!

 

This is becoming too easy.

[Legaltitan]

Oh hai and who might this be?

 

Why, it's our red-headed spy, again! Boy she really seems to get around town!

 

This is her in the Oval Office with Trump. This picture, by the way, was taken the day after Comey was fired and Trump and Lavrov and the Russian ambassador were yucking it up and backslapping. 

 

 

[Legaltitan]

Just as a refresher, this Oval Office meeting is the one where Trump told the Russians the pressure was off since he fired Comey.  Where only Russian press was allowed to attend.

[OzTitan]

This is not looking good for Trump.

 

"And how was it Trump happened to call on her? ... It was odd, Bannon thought, that Trump had a fully developed answer"

 

God damn. I'm honestly trying to stay skeptical on full blown collusion but stuff like this is really hard to explain in other terms. Is this not technically colluding with a now known Russian agent? colluding on a question answer piece, not necessarily on targeting an election opponent, but colluding by definition nonetheless.

[IsntLifeFunny]

6 minutes ago, Legaltitan said:

Just as a refresher, this Oval Office meeting is the one where Trump told the Russians the pressure was off since he fired Comey.  Where only Russian press was allowed to attend.

Wasn’t this the same one where he gave up intelligence about Israeli missions inside Syria?

[Legaltitan]

5 minutes ago, IsntLifeFunny said:

Wasn’t this the same one where he gave up intelligence about Israeli missions inside Syria?

Yes, that happened too.

[freakingeek]

12 hours ago, OILERMAN said:

Schiff tweeted that Dems on the Intel Committee wanted to interview Butina but GOP Benedict Arnold's refused to bring her in.

Those MFs are on the hot seat now. They should be charged with obstruction too.