MehâŚwhen are the charges against the NRA for laundering Russian political donations coming?
And the NRA? Has that been handed off to another investigation?
ETA: sniffit just proved to me the uselessness of my trying to edit and punctuate.
Step up your game, son! Let the jibba jabba flow through you! This is the intertubes, not grammar prison!
January 21, 2021.
Uh TPM? Could you find a stupider-looking photo of her? Sheâs only about midpoint on the public enemies list.
The fact that she consented to being deported back to the Rodina means that she was either entirely useless or that her bosses considered her âcooperationâ extremely useful for some reason.
Sheâs laid the groundwork for the takedown of the NRA, which will throw the gun-nuts into absolute chaos.
Putin loves chaos.
Da.
Butina admitted to working with an American political operative under the direction of a former Russian senator â now the deputy governor of Russiaâs central bank â to forge connections with officials at the National Rifle Association, conservative leaders and candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, including Donald TrumpâŚ
Butinaâs initiative came during what the U.S. intelligence community has said was a concerted Russian government effort to help elect Trump, including by hacking and distributing emails stolen from DemocratsâŚ
Butina was prosecuted by the U.S. attorneyâs office in Washington.
Oh, and BTW:
Under her plea deal, Butina agreed to cooperate âcompletely and forthrightlyâ with American law enforcement.
The NRAâŚTrumpâŚMcConnell and his treasonous caposâŚ
Half the GOP is in this up to their traitorous necks.
In the end, they cannot escape it.
Thatâs a viable theory. But unless she was sent here specifically to do that, rather than that being an opportunistic exploitation of a mission gone bad, Iâd still be pretty damn leery of returning to the Great Land of Inexplicable Defenestrations if I was her.
Oh, no disagreement. Definitely a risky business with a country where lots of people have âaccidentsâ, particularly those who have done something surrounding TrumpâŚBut sheâs also going back with lots more info to give them⌠all the questions that she was asked, for example, which could give them good intel clues on other sources or spies we have.
I think sheâll get a heroâs welcome and a nice midlevel job in the beaurocracy.
She consented? You mean she had a choice�
Oh Brâer Wolf doncha throw me in that briar patchâŚ
Unless we elect a Democrat who wants to âheal the nation.â Thatâs my concern.
And how did we heal Germany? Nuremburg TrialsâŚ
I worry that Butina could be deported before a fulsome investigation of the NRAâs dark money practices is undertaken let alone completed.
Unless youâve been appointed the roving editor in charge of amending posts, donât do it.
I worry (not really) that Butina will drink the tea at the welcome home party.
Naw, he was just bitching that he wasnât first-to-post on the thread, b/c sniffit beat him.