And that is evidence of how corrupt she is .
They still think she is guilty of Whitewater!
And that is evidence of how corrupt she is .
They still think she is guilty of Whitewater!
This story marries the russian collusion narrative to the gun grabbing desires of leftists. It’s like a smorgasbord of stupidity for the weak minded.
Don’t you love how Party uses derogatory slang for gay people? Must be anouther one of those Differences
They criticized her after she lost to Trump.
I hope America is watching the 2019 GOP and those that empower this crap.
SottoVoce: zantax: Munimula1:Why do u think Maria Butina is in jail? She pleaded guilty, BTW.
And? Did she plead guilty to funneling money through the NRA? I must have missed it.
Seriously?
Butina admitted to working with an American political operative under the direction of a former Russian senator — now the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank — to forge connections with officials at the National Rifle Association, conservative leaders and candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, including Donald Trump, whose rise to the White House she presciently predicted to her Russian contact.
“Guilty,” Butina said with a light accent in entering her plea with U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan on Thursday in federal court in Washington.
She literally pled guilty to Illegally forging connection with the NRA, but we are just to assume that nothing else happened in terms of money?
The naïveté is staggering.
And in the year those connections were forged the NRA spent double what it had spent on any previous election with no increase in membership that would have generated more dues.
I had no idea increased membership was the only way to increase funding. Is there a per-head fee they charge for political purposes or is it a matter of donations that can decrease or increase based on the motivation of their membership to donate? I think we know which one.
She literally pled guilty to Illegally forging connection with the NRA, but we are just to assume that nothing else happened in terms of money?
The naïveté is staggering.
It’s not naïveté, they understand exactly what’s happened. They just don’t care, because . . . HELLER!!!
H_Arendt: SottoVoce: zantax: Munimula1:Why do u think Maria Butina is in jail? She pleaded guilty, BTW.
And? Did she plead guilty to funneling money through the NRA? I must have missed it.
Seriously?
Butina admitted to working with an American political operative under the direction of a former Russian senator — now the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank — to forge connections with officials at the National Rifle Association, conservative leaders and candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, including Donald Trump, whose rise to the White House she presciently predicted to her Russian contact.
“Guilty,” Butina said with a light accent in entering her plea with U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan on Thursday in federal court in Washington.
She literally pled guilty to Illegally forging connection with the NRA, but we are just to assume that nothing else happened in terms of money?
The naïveté is staggering.
And in the year those connections were forged the NRA spent double what it had spent on any previous election with no increase in membership that would have generated more dues.
I had no idea increased membership was the only way to increase funding. Is there a per-head fee they charge for political purposes or is it a matter of donations that can decrease or increase based on the motivation of their membership to donate? I think we know which one.
No. We don’t. You don’t. If the NRA wants to open their books or an investigation occurs, then we’ll know.
This was under the area of review given to Mueller, who has completed a two year investigation. Most likely, the Dems just want to keep rehashing the investigation for the 2020 election.
There is some vague talk about “additional information”, but no specifics are given in the article. You don’t reopen something that has been thoroughly investigated just because some journalist has a new guess.
Democrat politicians do.
We don’t investigate people in this country for the hell of it or because you happen to suspect they are up to no good with no evidence.
H_Arendt: SottoVoce: zantax: Munimula1:Why do u think Maria Butina is in jail? She pleaded guilty, BTW.
And? Did she plead guilty to funneling money through the NRA? I must have missed it.
Seriously?
Butina admitted to working with an American political operative under the direction of a former Russian senator — now the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank — to forge connections with officials at the National Rifle Association, conservative leaders and candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, including Donald Trump, whose rise to the White House she presciently predicted to her Russian contact.
“Guilty,” Butina said with a light accent in entering her plea with U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan on Thursday in federal court in Washington.
She literally pled guilty to Illegally forging connection with the NRA, but we are just to assume that nothing else happened in terms of money?
The naïveté is staggering.
And in the year those connections were forged the NRA spent double what it had spent on any previous election with no increase in membership that would have generated more dues.
I had no idea increased membership was the only way to increase funding. Is there a per-head fee they charge for political purposes or is it a matter of donations that can decrease or increase based on the motivation of their membership to donate? I think we know which one.
You may be right. But to quote Deep Throat, “follow the money.” Plenty of reason to investigate and clear anyone who is innocent.
Didn’t Mueller and the already FBI look into this? It was reported they did. Hasn’t it already been investigated? What did they find?
Didn’t Mueller and the already FBI look into this? It was reported they did. Hasn’t it already been investigated? What did they find?
Where was this reported? It was not covered in Mueller’s Report.
We don’t investigate people in this country for the hell of it or because you happen to suspect they are up to no good with no evidence.
Unless one’s last name rhymes with Quinton.
Phew…because we have evidence here…
Really dodged that dodge
We don’t investigate people in this country for the hell of it or because you happen to suspect they are up to no good with no evidence.
This isn’t the “hell of it.” This is a Russian spy who pled guilty while acknowledging her interactions with the NRA. That’s the opposite of the “hell of it.”
“The FBI began to monitor Butina in August 2016, after she had moved to the United States on an F-1 student visa. Rather than confront her immediately, the FBI chose to track her movements and gather information on whom she was meeting, and what her end goals were to be.[55]”
She was under investigation by the FBI at least as far back as August 2016.
You can find articles about her purported connections to the NRA at least as far back as the summer of 2018.
Russian interference in our elections was part of what Mueller was supposed to look at.
Now that the FBI has completed their investigation Dems want the FEC of all groups to reopen the investigation?
And on the pretense that her pleading guilty in April 2019 brought something new to light. Heck, she plead guilty because the FBI knows all about what she did.
No. This is just a rehashing of old news getting it ready for the 2020 election.
zantax:Didn’t Mueller and the already FBI look into this? It was reported they did. Hasn’t it already been investigated? What did they find?
Where was this reported? It was not covered in Mueller’s Report.
All over the place.
Mueller reportedly investigating whether Russia funneled money through the NRA to elect Trump
McClatchy report says Robert Mueller’s investigation examining whether Kremlin funneled 2016 election funds through the gun group.
H_Arendt: zantax:Didn’t Mueller and the already FBI look into this? It was reported they did. Hasn’t it already been investigated? What did they find?
Where was this reported? It was not covered in Mueller’s Report.
All over the place.
Mueller reportedly investigating whether Russia funneled money through the NRA to elect Trump
McClatchy report says Robert Mueller’s investigation examining whether Kremlin funneled 2016 election funds through the gun group.
“Reportedly”. Let’s see something definitive before making conclusions.