More fallout from Trump disaster us press conference
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That’s her man lol
There were two things crossed out.
yep and now that they are covering for him and saying that he meant to say "wouldn't" instead of "would" or what ever the fuck....time to move on to the next fuck up
nothing will happen..again
Because people are stupid and Trump knows they are as dumb as he is.
in the context of his statement changing the word changes nothing.
his statements endorsed Putin and Russian not just one sentence
exactly. as did his interview with Sean Hannity. Bastard screaming about a witch hunt
Check out @JohnnySilverclo’s Tweet:
I don’t know if this has been posted .... we have at least 3 threads going but check this out.
These are 45’s notes from today’s presser..
Zoom in and read the part that he crossed out.
Dude..... @easy_b Do you care to chime in on this...
Holy fuckin duck
Check out @R_Claw’s Tweet:
Man what's going on right now in Politics is the best fucking Political Thriller that I've ever seen...
Real life Red Sparrow!!!!
Accused Russian agent Mariia Butina tried to trade sex for influence, say prosecutors
Previously, the FBI had said Butina was trying to establish relationships with a "gun rights organization," which NBC News has reported is the NRA.
WASHINGTON — The gunslinging Russian woman accused of cozying up to American officials to infiltrate the U.S. political system — at the behest of her Kremlin-linked mentor and with the help of her American boyfriend — allegedly tried to trade sex for influence.
The "Red Sparrow" scenario was unveiled Wednesday in a government memorandum that laid out the reasons why prosecutors believe Mariia Butina, 29, should remain jailed until trial.
During a detention hearing in federal court on Wednesday afternoon, Butina pleaded not guilty to being an unregistered foreign agent and was again ordered held without bail.
Butina's attorney said his client, who came to the U.S. in 2016 on a graduate student visa, could be trusted to stay on American soil. But prosecutors argued she was too great a flight risk, with no roots in the U.S. and strong links to Russian intelligence.
In court papers, prosecutors said her only tie to the U.S. is a "personal relationship" with an unidentified man whose description matches that of Republican operative Paul Erickson, according to the Washington Post.
Although Butina lived with the man, the relationship was "duplicitous," prosecutors said, suggesting that she had no real interest in him and was using him to further her goals.
"Butina appears to treat it [the relationship] as simply a necessary aspect of her activities," the prosecutors' memo said.
"For example, on at least one occasion, Butina offered an individual other than U.S. Person 1 sex in exchange for a position within a special interest organization. Further, in papers seized by the FBI, Butina complained about living with U.S. Person 1 and expressed disdain for continuing to cohabitate with U.S. Person 1."
Court papers show that the American politico tried to help Butina make inroads in Washington, suggesting names of people she should meet. The FBI said in an affidavit that Butina also sought to establish relationships with a "gun rights organization." The organization was not named but a senior U.S. official confirmed it was the National Rifle Association, which did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Prosecutors said she was the protege of a Russian politician and banker, identified by sources as Aleksandr Torshin, who considered her a covert agent and compared her with a fellow redhead, the flame-haired Russian spy Anna Chapman.
They cited a March 2017 message from Torshin to Butina after news stories about her activities in Washington that focused on her background as a gun rights activist and included photos of her posing with weapons.
Good morning! How are you faring there in the rays of the new fame?" he wrote. "Are your admirers asking for your autographs yet? You have upstaged Anna Chapman. She poses with toy pistols, while you are being published with real ones. There are a hell of a lot of rumors circulating here about me too! Very funny!"
The government's memo also said that Butina maintained contact information for "individuals identified as employees of the Russian FSB," which is the successor to the KGB, and recently had dinner with a Russian diplomat suspected of being a Russian intelligence officer.
In the days before her arrest, she appeared to be making plans to leave Washington and possibly the country, making a trip to U-Haul with her American companion and wiring $3,500 to an account in Washington, they said.
Butina's lawyer, Robert Driscoll, said her relationships with Russian officials were innocuous and stemmed from her notoriety in Russia as a pro-gun figure.
"My client is famous in Russia," he said.
He said Butina, an A student at American University, has been cooperating with the government for months, appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee and allowing FBI agents to search her apartment in April.
A spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry questioned the timing of her arrest, which came shortly after President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It seems that somebody just got out a calculator and a watch to figure out when this decision about the arrest of Mariia Butina should be taken, in order to do everything possible to derail the outcome of the summit that was held with the Russia and American presidents," the spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.
"Everything was done to coincide with this."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-...-butina-tried-trade-sex-influence-say-n892426
Real life Red Sparrow!!!!
Accused Russian agent Mariia Butina tried to trade sex for influence, say prosecutors
Previously, the FBI had said Butina was trying to establish relationships with a "gun rights organization," which NBC News has reported is the NRA.
WASHINGTON — The gunslinging Russian woman accused of cozying up to American officials to infiltrate the U.S. political system — at the behest of her Kremlin-linked mentor and with the help of her American boyfriend — allegedly tried to trade sex for influence.
The "Red Sparrow" scenario was unveiled Wednesday in a government memorandum that laid out the reasons why prosecutors believe Mariia Butina, 29, should remain jailed until trial.
During a detention hearing in federal court on Wednesday afternoon, Butina pleaded not guilty to being an unregistered foreign agent and was again ordered held without bail.
Butina's attorney said his client, who came to the U.S. in 2016 on a graduate student visa, could be trusted to stay on American soil. But prosecutors argued she was too great a flight risk, with no roots in the U.S. and strong links to Russian intelligence.
In court papers, prosecutors said her only tie to the U.S. is a "personal relationship" with an unidentified man whose description matches that of Republican operative Paul Erickson, according to the Washington Post.
Although Butina lived with the man, the relationship was "duplicitous," prosecutors said, suggesting that she had no real interest in him and was using him to further her goals.
"Butina appears to treat it [the relationship] as simply a necessary aspect of her activities," the prosecutors' memo said.
"For example, on at least one occasion, Butina offered an individual other than U.S. Person 1 sex in exchange for a position within a special interest organization. Further, in papers seized by the FBI, Butina complained about living with U.S. Person 1 and expressed disdain for continuing to cohabitate with U.S. Person 1."
Court papers show that the American politico tried to help Butina make inroads in Washington, suggesting names of people she should meet. The FBI said in an affidavit that Butina also sought to establish relationships with a "gun rights organization." The organization was not named but a senior U.S. official confirmed it was the National Rifle Association, which did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Prosecutors said she was the protege of a Russian politician and banker, identified by sources as Aleksandr Torshin, who considered her a covert agent and compared her with a fellow redhead, the flame-haired Russian spy Anna Chapman.
They cited a March 2017 message from Torshin to Butina after news stories about her activities in Washington that focused on her background as a gun rights activist and included photos of her posing with weapons.
Good morning! How are you faring there in the rays of the new fame?" he wrote. "Are your admirers asking for your autographs yet? You have upstaged Anna Chapman. She poses with toy pistols, while you are being published with real ones. There are a hell of a lot of rumors circulating here about me too! Very funny!"
The government's memo also said that Butina maintained contact information for "individuals identified as employees of the Russian FSB," which is the successor to the KGB, and recently had dinner with a Russian diplomat suspected of being a Russian intelligence officer.
In the days before her arrest, she appeared to be making plans to leave Washington and possibly the country, making a trip to U-Haul with her American companion and wiring $3,500 to an account in Washington, they said.
Butina's lawyer, Robert Driscoll, said her relationships with Russian officials were innocuous and stemmed from her notoriety in Russia as a pro-gun figure.
"My client is famous in Russia," he said.
He said Butina, an A student at American University, has been cooperating with the government for months, appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee and allowing FBI agents to search her apartment in April.
A spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry questioned the timing of her arrest, which came shortly after President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It seems that somebody just got out a calculator and a watch to figure out when this decision about the arrest of Mariia Butina should be taken, in order to do everything possible to derail the outcome of the summit that was held with the Russia and American presidents," the spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.
"Everything was done to coincide with this."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-...-butina-tried-trade-sex-influence-say-n892426
Tried!!!!! I think she was Successful a few timesMan what's going on right now in Politics is the best fucking Political Thriller that I've ever seen...
Real life Red Sparrow!!!!
Accused Russian agent Mariia Butina tried to trade sex for influence, say prosecutors
Previously, the FBI had said Butina was trying to establish relationships with a "gun rights organization," which NBC News has reported is the NRA.
WASHINGTON — The gunslinging Russian woman accused of cozying up to American officials to infiltrate the U.S. political system — at the behest of her Kremlin-linked mentor and with the help of her American boyfriend — allegedly tried to trade sex for influence.
The "Red Sparrow" scenario was unveiled Wednesday in a government memorandum that laid out the reasons why prosecutors believe Mariia Butina, 29, should remain jailed until trial.
During a detention hearing in federal court on Wednesday afternoon, Butina pleaded not guilty to being an unregistered foreign agent and was again ordered held without bail.
Butina's attorney said his client, who came to the U.S. in 2016 on a graduate student visa, could be trusted to stay on American soil. But prosecutors argued she was too great a flight risk, with no roots in the U.S. and strong links to Russian intelligence.
In court papers, prosecutors said her only tie to the U.S. is a "personal relationship" with an unidentified man whose description matches that of Republican operative Paul Erickson, according to the Washington Post.
Although Butina lived with the man, the relationship was "duplicitous," prosecutors said, suggesting that she had no real interest in him and was using him to further her goals.
"Butina appears to treat it [the relationship] as simply a necessary aspect of her activities," the prosecutors' memo said.
"For example, on at least one occasion, Butina offered an individual other than U.S. Person 1 sex in exchange for a position within a special interest organization. Further, in papers seized by the FBI, Butina complained about living with U.S. Person 1 and expressed disdain for continuing to cohabitate with U.S. Person 1."
Court papers show that the American politico tried to help Butina make inroads in Washington, suggesting names of people she should meet. The FBI said in an affidavit that Butina also sought to establish relationships with a "gun rights organization." The organization was not named but a senior U.S. official confirmed it was the National Rifle Association, which did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Prosecutors said she was the protege of a Russian politician and banker, identified by sources as Aleksandr Torshin, who considered her a covert agent and compared her with a fellow redhead, the flame-haired Russian spy Anna Chapman.
They cited a March 2017 message from Torshin to Butina after news stories about her activities in Washington that focused on her background as a gun rights activist and included photos of her posing with weapons.
Good morning! How are you faring there in the rays of the new fame?" he wrote. "Are your admirers asking for your autographs yet? You have upstaged Anna Chapman. She poses with toy pistols, while you are being published with real ones. There are a hell of a lot of rumors circulating here about me too! Very funny!"
The government's memo also said that Butina maintained contact information for "individuals identified as employees of the Russian FSB," which is the successor to the KGB, and recently had dinner with a Russian diplomat suspected of being a Russian intelligence officer.
In the days before her arrest, she appeared to be making plans to leave Washington and possibly the country, making a trip to U-Haul with her American companion and wiring $3,500 to an account in Washington, they said.
Butina's lawyer, Robert Driscoll, said her relationships with Russian officials were innocuous and stemmed from her notoriety in Russia as a pro-gun figure.
"My client is famous in Russia," he said.
He said Butina, an A student at American University, has been cooperating with the government for months, appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee and allowing FBI agents to search her apartment in April.
A spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry questioned the timing of her arrest, which came shortly after President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It seems that somebody just got out a calculator and a watch to figure out when this decision about the arrest of Mariia Butina should be taken, in order to do everything possible to derail the outcome of the summit that was held with the Russia and American presidents," the spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.
"Everything was done to coincide with this."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-...-butina-tried-trade-sex-influence-say-n892426
Man what's going on right now in Politics is the best fucking Political Thriller that I've ever seen...
Real life Red Sparrow!!!!
Accused Russian agent Mariia Butina tried to trade sex for influence, say prosecutors
Previously, the FBI had said Butina was trying to establish relationships with a "gun rights organization," which NBC News has reported is the NRA.
WASHINGTON — The gunslinging Russian woman accused of cozying up to American officials to infiltrate the U.S. political system — at the behest of her Kremlin-linked mentor and with the help of her American boyfriend — allegedly tried to trade sex for influence.
The "Red Sparrow" scenario was unveiled Wednesday in a government memorandum that laid out the reasons why prosecutors believe Mariia Butina, 29, should remain jailed until trial.
During a detention hearing in federal court on Wednesday afternoon, Butina pleaded not guilty to being an unregistered foreign agent and was again ordered held without bail.
Butina's attorney said his client, who came to the U.S. in 2016 on a graduate student visa, could be trusted to stay on American soil. But prosecutors argued she was too great a flight risk, with no roots in the U.S. and strong links to Russian intelligence.
In court papers, prosecutors said her only tie to the U.S. is a "personal relationship" with an unidentified man whose description matches that of Republican operative Paul Erickson, according to the Washington Post.
Although Butina lived with the man, the relationship was "duplicitous," prosecutors said, suggesting that she had no real interest in him and was using him to further her goals.
"Butina appears to treat it [the relationship] as simply a necessary aspect of her activities," the prosecutors' memo said.
"For example, on at least one occasion, Butina offered an individual other than U.S. Person 1 sex in exchange for a position within a special interest organization. Further, in papers seized by the FBI, Butina complained about living with U.S. Person 1 and expressed disdain for continuing to cohabitate with U.S. Person 1."
Court papers show that the American politico tried to help Butina make inroads in Washington, suggesting names of people she should meet. The FBI said in an affidavit that Butina also sought to establish relationships with a "gun rights organization." The organization was not named but a senior U.S. official confirmed it was the National Rifle Association, which did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Prosecutors said she was the protege of a Russian politician and banker, identified by sources as Aleksandr Torshin, who considered her a covert agent and compared her with a fellow redhead, the flame-haired Russian spy Anna Chapman.
They cited a March 2017 message from Torshin to Butina after news stories about her activities in Washington that focused on her background as a gun rights activist and included photos of her posing with weapons.
Good morning! How are you faring there in the rays of the new fame?" he wrote. "Are your admirers asking for your autographs yet? You have upstaged Anna Chapman. She poses with toy pistols, while you are being published with real ones. There are a hell of a lot of rumors circulating here about me too! Very funny!"
The government's memo also said that Butina maintained contact information for "individuals identified as employees of the Russian FSB," which is the successor to the KGB, and recently had dinner with a Russian diplomat suspected of being a Russian intelligence officer.
In the days before her arrest, she appeared to be making plans to leave Washington and possibly the country, making a trip to U-Haul with her American companion and wiring $3,500 to an account in Washington, they said.
Butina's lawyer, Robert Driscoll, said her relationships with Russian officials were innocuous and stemmed from her notoriety in Russia as a pro-gun figure.
"My client is famous in Russia," he said.
He said Butina, an A student at American University, has been cooperating with the government for months, appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee and allowing FBI agents to search her apartment in April.
A spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry questioned the timing of her arrest, which came shortly after President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It seems that somebody just got out a calculator and a watch to figure out when this decision about the arrest of Mariia Butina should be taken, in order to do everything possible to derail the outcome of the summit that was held with the Russia and American presidents," the spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.
"Everything was done to coincide with this."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-...-butina-tried-trade-sex-influence-say-n892426
Should i feel guilty for enjoying FX The Americans tv show now?
And here is Paul Erickson...
Meet The Operative Who Was Alleged Conduit Between Mariia Butina And GOP
By Allegra Kirkland | July 17, 2018 5:50 pm
indictment brought Tuesday added another title to that long, unorthodox list: the alleged conduit between what investigators call an “illegal agent of the Russian Federation” and top Republican officials in Washington, D.C.
Erickson is not identified by name in the indictment against Mariia Butina, the Russian national arrested for allegedly conducting “a Russian influence operation” against the United States. But his background and political activities align closely with those of the individual listed in an FBI agent’s detailed affidavit as “U.S. Person 1.”
That person is described as a “United States citizen and an American political operative.” Between 2013 and 2017, according to both court documents and reporting on Erickson, he allegedly helped broker contacts between U.S. conservatives involved with the National Rifle Association, Butina and Russian politician Alexander Torshin.
As Erickson put it in one May 2016 email to a Trump campaign adviser first reported by the New York Times: “Happenstance and the [sometimes] international reach of the NRA placed me in a position a couple of years ago to slowly begin cultivating a back-channel to President Putin’s Kremlin.”
The email offering to broker such a meeting between the likely GOP nominee and Putin had the subject line “Kremlin Connection.”
Erickson has not been charged with any crimes or spoken publicly about Butina’s arrest. He did not immediately respond to TPM’s Tuesday Facebook message seeking comment.
But the affidavit, which has the most information on Erickson’s activities, is a reminder that he is the alleged nexus of Butina’s web of GOP connections—and of just how much the FBI apparently knows about their communications.
As Erickson’s name popped up in news reports over the past two years, acquaintances said they weren’t particularly surprised to find him caught up in the Russia quagmire. Erickson has for decades positioned himself as a shadowy “’secret master of the political universe’” who feeds off of access to D.C.’s most powerful, as conservative commentator Ralph Benko put it.
Erickson’s ventures have varied between the legitimate and the bizarre, according to a stellar February profile of the Vermillion native in South Dakota’s Rapid City Journal.
Erickson, who graduated from Yale and University of Virginia Law School, first linked up with now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff during their time in the College Republicans. He spent the 1980s and 1990s alternating between working on GOP political campaigns, including Buchanan’s unsuccessful attempt to primary George H.W. Bush, and teaming up with Abramoff on ventures like 1989’s anti-communist action movie “Red Scorpion.”
One bizarre stint was serving as a media adviser for John Wayne Bobbitt, the Virginia man whose wife, Lorena, chopped his penis off with a carving knife. Per contemporaneous news reports, Erickson booked Bobbitt on an international “Love Hurts” tour to help him raise funds. The tour involved media hits on outlets like “The Howard Stern Show” and selling autographed steak knives.
Another curious interlude involved accepting a $30,000 contract with Abramoff in 1994 to try to convince the U.S. government to allow Mobutu Sese Seko, the brutal and corrupt dictator of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to enter the country.
This unusual resume and willingness to go to bat for controversial foreign figures may have made Erickson a great fit to connect Butina to Americans willing to hear a new tune about U.S.-Russia relations.
According to the affidavit, the duo first crossed paths in Moscow in 2013, and subsequently worked together “for the purpose of advancing the agenda of the Russian Federation.”
A March 2015 email from Butina to Erickson included in the charging document lays out her goal: “to build konstruktivnyh [sic] relations” between the U.S. and Russia, through the “[central place and influence” that the NRA plays in the Republican Party. She requested a budget of $125,000 to attend conservative conferences to make these connections, per the charging document.
Erickson allegedly replied with an email titled “Potential American Contacts” that included a list of media, political, and corporate contacts who could help Butina achieve these ends, according to the affidavit. In a subsequent email, subject line “Your Plan Forward,” he said Butina had already laid the “groundwork” needed to get meetings with people who could actually influence American attitudes about Russia going forward.
In March and September 2016, according to the charging document, Erickson allegedly emailed with Butina about which American individuals should attend the “friendship and dialogue dinners” on behalf of Russia that Butina hosted in Washington, D.C. and New York.
The affidavit also cites an October 2016 email in which Erickson himself seems surprised by his role in brokering these back-channel negotiations, allegedly telling an acquaintance he was working on “securing a VERY private line of communication between the Kremlin and key POLITICAL PARTY 1 leaders through, of all conduits, the [GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION].”
Whether Erickson has been interviewed by federal or congressional investigators is not yet known. An attorney for Butina has denied that she is a Russian agent and said she has offered cooperation to the FBI in addition to voluntarily sitting for an interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In February, the Rapid City Journal asked Erickson about the Trump-Russia investigation and his 2016 “Kremlin Connection” email to the Trump campaign. All he said in response was: “Not all reports from the East are accurate.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/paul-erickson-center-nexus-between-butina-russia-gop
This chick was a real life Dottie Underwood from Agent Carter!!!
Real life shit!
Right in front of us, just like the Americans tv-show, they turned a sitting US President into one of their assests.
Everyone knows it including the people who can do something about it.
But for whatever reason despite the far-reaching consquences aren't lifitng a finger.
That's insane!
Brah, I will never doubt Russian KGB-like strategy and tactics ever again. Those dudes are for real!!
Well damn...
They're already backpedalling on that, trying to say that he was saying, "No," to answering a question.
I mean, damn. Can anything actually be his fault? At this point, I kinda want to see him shot someone in the middle of the street, just to see what would happen.
MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This that ol' Red Sparrow shit.
This chick was a real life Dottie Underwood from Agent Carter!!!
You made me just realize this shit head ain't been president for 2 years yet.
Well, if I am not mistaken all gifts that come to the President from foreign heads of state goes to the National Archives that will later go into the Presidental library. That’s what’s normally suppose to happen, but we all know that there is nothing normal about this Presidency.