I will be curious to see how this story unfolds. Hopefully, this will help show how in bed the NRA, as well as the current administration, are with Putin and his crew.
Here's a link to the complaint against here on the Department of Justice's website: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1080766/download
Worth reading.
I read about her last year. Her whole schtick seemed to be sexualized and violent. She also seemed to be well funded. So now Scott Walker is associated. Also she has been involved with the California Republican Congressman Rohrabacher.
Rohrabacher is the one House Majority Leader and California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy joked in closed door meeting with Paul Ryan and other Republicans during July 2016, obtained and published by the Washington Post
"There are two people I think Putin pays: Trump and Rohrabacher." When people laughed, McCarthy said, "No really!" Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) cut off the conversation and swore those present to secrecy, saying that we keep it all "in the family."
It all makes me think of someone's vision of Trump coming down the White House steps as blackness spreads from him. And of course, that she is a Russian spy, as charged.
Here's an article that appeared in Mother Jones in March 2018 about Butina. It linked John Bolton, Dana Rohrabachauer, Paul Ericson and others related to Trump/GOP/NRA to Butina.
While I wouldn't call Mother Jones an unbiased source of information, if you read the indictment against her (link above) and then the March article, it is clear that they ticked off a number of important pieces in that article.
Jeanne, I hope it is OK that I keep sharing all these articles. Please let me know if it isn't.
Apparently there was a real gem buried in a supporting document -
'Within the email, U.S. Person 1 stated, “Unrelated to specific presidential campaigns, I’ve been involved in securing a VERY private line of communication between the Kremlin and key POLITICAL PARTY 1 leaders through, of all conduits, the [GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION].” '
Translation; GOP leadership has a direct line to the Kremlin using the National Rifle Association.
And, U.S. Person 1 is apparently Paul Erickson. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/us/politics/trump-russia-indictment.html. Wonder who U.S. Person 2 is.
Rohrabacher is a horror.We're working hard to swing his district left this Fall.
And, U.S. Person 1 is apparently Paul Erickson. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/us/politics/trump-russia-indictment.html. Wonder who U.S. Person 2 is.
Considering it is someone who could be swayed by being told that a high ranking Kremlin official is "very much impressed by you" I have my suspicions. ?
So the interesting question now is how many of the Republican congressmen have been bought by the Russians...