Discussion: Reports: Butina Met With US Gov't Officials, Received Russian Billionaire's Funding

From Butina’s Linked in profile

Maria Butina
Master’s degree at American University

Washington D.C. Metro AreaNonprofit Organization Management
Current
American University - Kogod School of Business, All-Russian Public Organization “The Right to Bear Arms” (“Право на оружие”)
Previous
Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association, American University School of International Service, Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Education
American University

Summary

The chief focus of Butina’s master’s degree in International Service is a concentration in cyber policy, the “internet of things”, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.

Her American University summer internship was with the Asian Pacific Top Level Domain Association on the topic of internet governance. Maria was a featured panelist at the group’s international conference in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2017.

She has lectured in a dozen countries around the world and been in and out of active conflict regions. She studied global energy markets and other international trade issues. Maria was a small business owner (a chain of furniture stores) when she was still an undergraduate in Siberia, Russia.

Butina founded a gun rights organization in Russia that grew to over 10,000 members. She has spent five years on national television, radio and in print as a spokeswoman for the organization.

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For the simple innocent college stusent her lawyer said Butina was supposed to be , this girl sure did get around.

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Nikolaev’s son Andrey, the Post noted, was a volunteer on the Trump campaign.

That is some awesome understatement.

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It’s really good this is being rolled out slowly, because holeeeeee crap, it gives one time to breathe between the news crashing into one’s brain.

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Heh. It comes full (short) circle and the Russian interference is now a “hoax” again. The only constant is lies and his wettier pants.

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I knew all of this was Obama’s fault.

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Anyone else remember when O’Keefe did his gotcha video of Canadians trying to buy Hillary merchandise?

Little did we know what shit storm was brewing in the Trump camp.

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Ugh I can’t even with this much lying, and proven lying, and more bullshit lying.

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Ruh roh, Don boy. You were told about Russian interference.

That last wheel just lost another lug nut.

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Yep. (1) He/his campaign was told… multiple times, like in summer 2016 and during the transition. (2) He was warned not to hire Flynn. To (1), he keeps lying, and to (2) he responded by hiring Flynn.

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And Nikolaev, according to two unnamed people “aware of his presence,” was spotted at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day in January of last year.

So…did any actual Americans show up at Trump’s inauguration? Asking for a comrade.

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You saw the Russians called Pompeo in to protest her being held?

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Yes, I did.

It’s nice the way they look out for the welfare of a struggling grad student-

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A spokesperson for Nikolaev said that, contrary to prosecutors’ assertions, his ties to the Russian government “cannot be characterized as deep.”

This just made me laugh.

No, just no. You’re supposed to say “No collusion, no collusion “. Let’s try this again now…

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Are you naive enough to think that all she did was translate? That’s all she was there for. It was convenient that she spoke English and could translate. But translator was not her primary biz in that meeting.

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Yes, I did recruit her. Yes, I did sleep with her. Yes I did pay for her move to America. Yes, I did set her up with a false identity and introduced her to most of Washington. Yes, she did report back to me at regular intervals for several years-but no, we really weren’t close.

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There was another “translator” at Trump Tower on that fateful day.

Oh, brother.

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to be fair, Boris and Natasha stuck out like sore thumbs too.

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And the very real possibility of doing hard time with some not so nice people

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