Ambassador McFaul has been getting lit up by Russian bot activity in the past few hours.
Russian propaganda outlets are pushing a story that Putin’s offer to have Russia “assist” Mueller included us agreeing to send over Bill Browder and Ambassador McFaul.
McFaul is up late responding on twitter:
The White House needs to immediately clarify that this wasn’t a deal Trump made.
Diplomatic immunity is paramount to maintaining relations with other countries. Trump can’t possibly be dumb enough to offer up a former US Ambassador to an adversary based on farcicle allegations.
LOL. Putin “incredible” offer to help Mueller comes with a string attached.
from the article
“Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya made the same claims at Trump Tower in New York on June 9, 2016, when she met with Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and other top campaign officials including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, now a senior White House adviser. The encounter, a key element of accusations that Russia helped to elect Trump as U.S. president, ended in failure after Veselnitskaya said she had no documents proving the money from the tax evasion had gone to Hillary Clinton’s campaign”
The Russian list includes Browder, the Ziff brothers and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, as well as an ex-MI6 agent, Christopher Steele, who compiled an explosive dossier alleging connections between Russia and the Trump campaign and warning that the Kremlin had compromising information on the president. U.S. law enforcement agents, lawmakers and officials are also mentioned.
Steele bought phony dirt from Russians for Hillary, and all Russians work for Putin. Anyone pushing the dossier is working for Putin… Steele is a British, so just working with him is foreign interference in our election which you are approving.