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Donald Trump can't ignore the Mueller investigation now that a Russian is behind bars
"A Series Of Suspicious Money Transfers Followed The Trump Tower Meeting"
"Butina's boyfriend, Republican activist Paul Erickson, was in contact with the Trump campaign."
By international reporter Michael Vincent
Posted about 5 hours ago
Photo: Maria Butina reportedly asked Donald
Trump a question about Russian sanctions.
(Reuters: Kevin Lamarque)
Related Story: Alleged Russian agent accused of trying to infiltrate NRA to plead guilty
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/alleged-russian-agent-to-plead-guilty-to-us-prosecution/10604420
Related Story: Impeachment or prison time on the cards for Trump, leading Democrats say
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/top-house-dems-raise-prospect-of-impeachment-or-jail-for-trump/10603368
Related Story: The 36-year-old man tipped to be Trump's new chief of staff will instead leave the White House
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/donald-trumps-expected-cos-nick-ayers-to-leave-white-house/10599252
For the first time a Russian is behind bars for having attempted to influence the US 2016 presidential campaign.
No longer accused. Guilty.
Does it implicate US President Donald Trump? Not directly, not yet. Not that we know of.
In the evidence brief provided by the FBI, Maria Butina was attempting to influence the Republican Party and other conservatives ..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/alleged-russian-agent-to-plead-guilty-to-us-prosecution/10604420 .
Not included in that brief is a direct encounter with Mr Trump.
The Washington Post reported that barely a month after Mr Trump declared his candidacy for the presidency, Ms Butina asked the candidate a question during a public forum about Russian sanctions and his plans towards Russia.
It was seemingly innocuous. Mr Trump issued his standard attack on President Barack Obama and added "I know Putin — I'll tell you what — we get along with Putin".
She also reportedly had a brief encounter with Don Junior, Mr Trump's son.
Photo: Prosecutors accused Butina of trying to infiltrate the powerful NRA gun lobby. (Facebook)
But there is another more critical link to Mr Trump and his immediate family.
Butina's boyfriend, Republican activist Paul Erickson, was in contact with the Trump campaign.
He hasn't been charged yet, though he has reportedly received a "target letter" from investigators saying they may file conspiracy charges against him.
Mr Trump's argument that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's work is a "witch hunt" remains just an attempted smear.
Yes, Russians have been charged before — 13 Russians and three companies have been indicted with conspiracy to tamper with the 2016 election.
A further 12 Russian intelligence officers have been indicted for hacking Democratic Party targets.
But today on US soil a Russian is prepared to plead guilty to being an illegal foreign agent, to working in the US at the direction of an unnamed "Russian official".
Photo: Maria Butina is expected to plead guilty
to being a foreign agent after reaching a deal with
prosecutors. (AP: Jon Elswick.)
Title 18 of the US Code sections 371 and 951 make it clear from their titles:
371 Conspiracy
951 Agents of Foreign Governments
The FBI literally has her communications in which she states "I am ready for further orders".
What this plea deal between Butina and the US Attorney's office does show is that the Mueller investigation is inching ever closer to the question of collusion.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/donald-trump-cant-ignore-mueller-a-russian-is-behind-bars/10605708
See also:
This is a decent read. Some of our local "useful idiots" should recognize a few of it's elements.
Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men
[...]
In the United States too, the alt-right and Kremlin ideologues share a common cause. While many of these ties are the result
of mutual admiration more than active recruitment, the recent charges against the gun-rights advocate Maria Butina
for serving as a Russian agent prove the Kremlin is also actively seeking to cultivate groups on the American right.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143314494
New outcry over Trump's revocation of Brennan security clearance
[...]
Representatives Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch, top Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in a letter on Monday to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, questioned the security clearance of John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser.
p - Cummings and Lynch asked Kelly to turn over documents related to whether Bolton, in security clearance forms or “other White House vetting materials,” reported that in 2013 he participated by video in a roundtable discussion on gun rights organized by Maria Butina.
p - Butina was arrested in July and accused of acting as a Russian agent while developing ties with U.S. citizens and infiltrating political groups.
p - The Washington Post has reported that Bolton recorded the video promoting an expansion of gun rights in Russia used by Right to Bear Arms, a group Butina formed.
p - The White House National Security Council had no immediate comment on the letter. White House aides also declined to comment.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143044428
The NRA Says It’s in Deep Financial Trouble, May Be ‘Unable to Exist
A new legal filing by the powerful gun group against the state of New York paints a grim picture
August 3, 2018 11:10AM ET by Tim Dickinson
The National Rifle Association warns that it is in grave financial jeopardy, according to a recent court filing obtained by Rolling Stone, and that it could soon “be unable to exist… or pursue its advocacy mission.” (Read the NRA’s legal complaint at the bottom of this story.)
p - The reason, according to the NRA filing, is not its deep entanglement with alleged Russian agents like Maria Butina.
"Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/inside-the-decade-long-russian-campaign-to-infiltrate-the-nra-and-help-elect-trump-630054/
p - Instead, the gun group has been suing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s financial regulators since May, claiming the NRA has been subject to a state-led “blacklisting campaign” that has inflicted “tens of millions of dollars in damages.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142672869
Alleged Russian agent's infiltration of GOP circles anything but subtle
By Sara Murray, CNN Updated 7:59 PM ET, Thu August 2, 2018
The alleged covert Russian agent liked to communicate via Twitter messages and WhatsApp. Her overly flirtatious approach left men wondering what she was truly after. She tended to brag about her ties to Russian intelligence when she was intoxicated, according to people familiar with the situation.
p - "She's like a Scud missile. There's no precision," said CIA veteran Robert Baer, a CNN intelligence and security analyst.
p - Butina has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent in the US. Her lawyer, Robert Driscoll, told CNN Wednesday that she wouldn't take a deal from prosecutors if it meant admitting she was a spy.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142659689
fuagf,...this is an all-inclusive time line connecting Butina the various individuals and illegal activity,....
[...]
Update, July 16, 2018: Russian gun activist Maria Butina has been charged in an alleged political conspiracy against the United States.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142332515
"A Series Of Suspicious Money Transfers Followed The Trump Tower Meeting"
"Butina's boyfriend, Republican activist Paul Erickson, was in contact with the Trump campaign."
By international reporter Michael Vincent
Posted about 5 hours ago
Photo: Maria Butina reportedly asked Donald
Trump a question about Russian sanctions.
(Reuters: Kevin Lamarque)
Related Story: Alleged Russian agent accused of trying to infiltrate NRA to plead guilty
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/alleged-russian-agent-to-plead-guilty-to-us-prosecution/10604420
Related Story: Impeachment or prison time on the cards for Trump, leading Democrats say
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/top-house-dems-raise-prospect-of-impeachment-or-jail-for-trump/10603368
Related Story: The 36-year-old man tipped to be Trump's new chief of staff will instead leave the White House
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/donald-trumps-expected-cos-nick-ayers-to-leave-white-house/10599252
For the first time a Russian is behind bars for having attempted to influence the US 2016 presidential campaign.
No longer accused. Guilty.
Does it implicate US President Donald Trump? Not directly, not yet. Not that we know of.
In the evidence brief provided by the FBI, Maria Butina was attempting to influence the Republican Party and other conservatives ..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/alleged-russian-agent-to-plead-guilty-to-us-prosecution/10604420 .
Not included in that brief is a direct encounter with Mr Trump.
The Washington Post reported that barely a month after Mr Trump declared his candidacy for the presidency, Ms Butina asked the candidate a question during a public forum about Russian sanctions and his plans towards Russia.
It was seemingly innocuous. Mr Trump issued his standard attack on President Barack Obama and added "I know Putin — I'll tell you what — we get along with Putin".
She also reportedly had a brief encounter with Don Junior, Mr Trump's son.
Photo: Prosecutors accused Butina of trying to infiltrate the powerful NRA gun lobby. (Facebook)
But there is another more critical link to Mr Trump and his immediate family.
Butina's boyfriend, Republican activist Paul Erickson, was in contact with the Trump campaign.
He hasn't been charged yet, though he has reportedly received a "target letter" from investigators saying they may file conspiracy charges against him.
Mr Trump's argument that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's work is a "witch hunt" remains just an attempted smear.
Yes, Russians have been charged before — 13 Russians and three companies have been indicted with conspiracy to tamper with the 2016 election.
A further 12 Russian intelligence officers have been indicted for hacking Democratic Party targets.
But today on US soil a Russian is prepared to plead guilty to being an illegal foreign agent, to working in the US at the direction of an unnamed "Russian official".
Photo: Maria Butina is expected to plead guilty
to being a foreign agent after reaching a deal with
prosecutors. (AP: Jon Elswick.)
Title 18 of the US Code sections 371 and 951 make it clear from their titles:
371 Conspiracy
951 Agents of Foreign Governments
The FBI literally has her communications in which she states "I am ready for further orders".
What this plea deal between Butina and the US Attorney's office does show is that the Mueller investigation is inching ever closer to the question of collusion.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/donald-trump-cant-ignore-mueller-a-russian-is-behind-bars/10605708
See also:
This is a decent read. Some of our local "useful idiots" should recognize a few of it's elements.
Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men
[...]
In the United States too, the alt-right and Kremlin ideologues share a common cause. While many of these ties are the result
of mutual admiration more than active recruitment, the recent charges against the gun-rights advocate Maria Butina
for serving as a Russian agent prove the Kremlin is also actively seeking to cultivate groups on the American right.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143314494
New outcry over Trump's revocation of Brennan security clearance
[...]
Representatives Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch, top Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in a letter on Monday to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, questioned the security clearance of John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser.
p - Cummings and Lynch asked Kelly to turn over documents related to whether Bolton, in security clearance forms or “other White House vetting materials,” reported that in 2013 he participated by video in a roundtable discussion on gun rights organized by Maria Butina.
p - Butina was arrested in July and accused of acting as a Russian agent while developing ties with U.S. citizens and infiltrating political groups.
p - The Washington Post has reported that Bolton recorded the video promoting an expansion of gun rights in Russia used by Right to Bear Arms, a group Butina formed.
p - The White House National Security Council had no immediate comment on the letter. White House aides also declined to comment.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143044428
The NRA Says It’s in Deep Financial Trouble, May Be ‘Unable to Exist
A new legal filing by the powerful gun group against the state of New York paints a grim picture
August 3, 2018 11:10AM ET by Tim Dickinson
The National Rifle Association warns that it is in grave financial jeopardy, according to a recent court filing obtained by Rolling Stone, and that it could soon “be unable to exist… or pursue its advocacy mission.” (Read the NRA’s legal complaint at the bottom of this story.)
p - The reason, according to the NRA filing, is not its deep entanglement with alleged Russian agents like Maria Butina.
"Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/inside-the-decade-long-russian-campaign-to-infiltrate-the-nra-and-help-elect-trump-630054/
p - Instead, the gun group has been suing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s financial regulators since May, claiming the NRA has been subject to a state-led “blacklisting campaign” that has inflicted “tens of millions of dollars in damages.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142672869
Alleged Russian agent's infiltration of GOP circles anything but subtle
By Sara Murray, CNN Updated 7:59 PM ET, Thu August 2, 2018
The alleged covert Russian agent liked to communicate via Twitter messages and WhatsApp. Her overly flirtatious approach left men wondering what she was truly after. She tended to brag about her ties to Russian intelligence when she was intoxicated, according to people familiar with the situation.
p - "She's like a Scud missile. There's no precision," said CIA veteran Robert Baer, a CNN intelligence and security analyst.
p - Butina has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent in the US. Her lawyer, Robert Driscoll, told CNN Wednesday that she wouldn't take a deal from prosecutors if it meant admitting she was a spy.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142659689
fuagf,...this is an all-inclusive time line connecting Butina the various individuals and illegal activity,....
[...]
Update, July 16, 2018: Russian gun activist Maria Butina has been charged in an alleged political conspiracy against the United States.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142332515
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