Maria Butina Declared Trump Victory on Facebook Before He Actually Won

[fleur-de-lisa]

https://hillreporter.com/maria-butina-declared-trump-victory-on-facebook-before-he-actually-won-4082

It was just earlier this week that a woman by the name of Maria Butina was arrested and accused of being a Russian spy. Her links to the Trump campaign, several campaign officials and the NRA appear to be quite significant. While allegations are certainly not any determinant of guilt, the indictment brought by a federal grand jury appears to be very solid.

If you dig through the Facebook profile of this alleged Russian spy, you will find a lot of interesting posts about gun rights in Russia, President Trump and Russian politics. The most interesting post, however, is one that she made on the night of November 8, 2016 at 11:45PM ET, the evening of the U.S. Presidential Election.

It translates to say: “Well that’s it. America gets a Republican Donald Trump for the next presidential term. Supporter of gun rights and restoration of relations with Russia. Congratulations to all!”

She then went on to say, “100%. Even if he loses everything else. He got the necessary number of votes.”

There certainly isn’t anything wrong with congratulating a presidential candidate on his victory, even if you are a Russian spy, but the timing of the post is at least a bit odd. The post was made well before anyone was able to say with even a near certainty that Trump would win the election. Although Trump’s odds of winning were certainly increasing, Hillary still had hope at this point in time.

Someone even replied to Butina’s post about 17 minutes later at 12:02AM ET, with an image showing that Trump was still 16 electoral votes away from clinching the Presidency, saying, “Maybe you have special math, but to win you need more than 270 electors. This hour is 254 to 209 and left 75 electors.”

While Butina’s post came at 11:45PM ET, it’s worth noting that it wasn’t until approximately 1:35AM ET that Trump really began to look like the winner. This was after he had clinched Pennsylvania and held 264 electoral votes. He simply needed to win Wisconsin, Michigan, or Arizona to clinch the Presidency. At 2:30AM he captured Wisconsin’s 10 votes, clinching the US Presidency.

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Achilleaze]

2. republican prostitutes from russia get special inside info

that republican hide from the American people.

That sucks, too.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. How appropriate - she jumped the gun.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R for exposure.

[katmondoo]

6. I was getting suspicious about 9:00 PM The poll numbers for Hillary were not looking good

I started to think the unthinkable, Trump could win.

[onlyadream]

32. By 7pm I felt sick. By 9pm I stopped paying attention.

I don’t think her posting this means anything.

[Midnight Writer]

34. Yes, I stepped out to walk the dog around nine and when I got back I knew we were screwed.

[DFW]

7. Mitch McConnell knew that 8 months before the election

There was no other reason to hold up Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination for a year.

[badhair77]

13. Good point.

[SweetieD]

8. I still believe it will be revealed that Russia actually tampered with voting machines

In certain states, especially Wisconsin and Michigan.

[mythology]

12. Wisconsin counties that hand recounted showed no significant difference compared

To either the original totals or machine recounted counties.

[AlexSFCA]

29. it was remarkably accurate

so don’t know what to make of it.

[malaise]

31. Russia and ReTHUGs n/t

[fierywoman]

9. Could this ultimately be the smoking gun?

[Drunken Irishman]

10. Eh. It was pretty clear by that point Trump was going to win.

I made a post on Wonkette at 9:11pm (which is 11:11pm ET) about how Trump was going to win. This means little. The point about Trump not looking like the winner until 1:35 am ET is factually wrong - it was pretty clear he was going to be the winner around 10:00-10:30 ET - if not sooner.

[lapfog_1]

16. I had a pit in my stomach when he won Florida

knew it was going to be a bad night.

BTW... that pit in my stomach hasn't gone away.

[Drunken Irishman]

19. Same.

But it came just before he won Florida. Hillary took a slim lead for a minute and he regained it. By the time he did, Hillary was already behind in Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, I believe. That was even before Florida was called. At that point, I knew.

[NewJeffCT]

23. agreed - I was already feeling sick by that time

when FL went to Trump and Ohio was long gone...

[mountain grammy]

28. Yes, by that time I had lost all track of time.

and DU was down for the count.

[magicarpet]

11. Hey Russia paid big bucks for special access...

.... Citizens United say big money talks with a louder voice, poorer people can take a political hike and get lost.

Government by the people and for the people is bull shit. He who has the fattest bank account owns the government.

https://goo.gl/images/Jo79oU

[arthritisR_US]

14. But of course we know that the voting machine tallies

were not affected by the Russians intrusions

[Scurrilous]

15. K&R

[GeorgeGist]

17. Depressed, I went to bed at 10:30pm ET assuming Trump would win.

[Renew Deal]

18. It looks suspicious, but I think that most people knew where it was going by that time.

[B2G]

20. 11:45 ET? Really?

She was the only one who knew at that point.

[oberliner]

41. Ed Krassenstein embarrasses himself with articles like this

[aikoaiko]

21. Meh. At a 11:45pm a lot of people were saying Trump had it because NC and FL was called.

Not that it was clinched, but people like to act it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. Did this author watch the same election night coverage that I did?

[DangerousRhythm]

24. I feel like that night is a big blur for me right now, but

I feel like that night is a big blur for me right now, but I'm pretty sure that by about 9 or 9:30 PM my time, Central, I was already feeling nauseous and faint from what seemed to be an unstoppable reality. I actually had to turn the TV off and walk away from it because I think my blood pressure was going through the roof and I was feeling woozy, like something in the universe had gone drastically wrong. Honestly, it was a feeling of impending doom and I needed to get away from the TV and just sit in silence in my bed to cry because if I would have watched anymore results coming in I definitely would have passed out. The fact that this woman posted at nearly midnight seems like it was a foregone conclusion at that point. I'm sure they have other stuff on her, but this doesn't seem to be anything big. It's nothing most of us didn't know already by that time, unfortunately. 😞

[WinstonSmith4740]

25. Sounds to me like she knew about states yet to come in.

I think we all suspected and were getting sickened by the thought way before the official announcement was made. However, she is speaking with absolute certainty that he already the necessary states (Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania?) in the bag, and he could lose everything else and it wouldn't matter.

[The Hitman]

26. ehhhh

I remember the NYT needle was way over 90% by midnight. Sure, there might have been something nefarious going on, but making this claim at 11:45 isn't horribly suspicious.

[Ed Krassenstein]

27. My opinion

I wrote this article for Hill Reporter. While I do believe that it is a little odd that she declared the victory well before it was confirmed, I personally would say that I believe that she either misunderstood TV commentators or messed up her math. Sure it's possible she knew something we didn't know (I'm sure there was plenty of things she knew that the public didn't about Russian meddling), but I doubt that she knew with certainty that Trump would win prior to the counting of votes.

[calimary]

30. Welcome to DU, Ed Krasenstein!

Glad you're here! Thanks for the clarification. It's not hard to default to automatic-suspicion mode as long as there's anything with the word "trump" involved.

[H2O Man]

35. Very nice to meet you.

I appreciate your response about the article you authored.

I particularly like when men speak openly about how fatherhood changes their lives -- something that you have spoken about.

Keep up the good work, and thank you.

[krawhitham]

33. SO WHAT, everyone knew by 11:45pm ET that Trump was going to win

You knew by 9:30 it was going bad, very bad

[ffr]

37. Yup! I remember the same thing. Clinton had to run the tables on a bunch of other states

after losing PA. I was sooooo depressed. We won Nevada despite the odds, because we ran up the score in early voting. We won our county too, but it didn't matter because we lost FL, MI, & PA.

SUCKS!

[The Liberal Lion]

36. He lost

I'm not sure why we even waste time looking for evidence that something foul happened 11/08/16. We all know, and there should no longer be any doubt on the subject, namely that trump neither won the popular vote nor did he (legally) win the electoral vote. We don't need to question ourselves anymore, we need not think we are being dramatic by entertaining the thought anymore. And for damn sure we need not worry about convincing those who still support that un-American, orange abomination. What is needed now is action. Bob Mueller IS NOT going to save America. The GOP IS NOT going to save America. The midterm elections ARE NOT going to save America. Those who still care about America have little choice left as to what can be done to end this nightmare. We don't need guns to bring this regime down, we don't need illegal methods or means to do so either. What is needed now more than ever is courage, the willingness to sacrifice and the willingness to get it done. They can only keep you under their thumb only for as long as your are willing to be kept.

[Marengo]

40. What kind of action?

[The Liberal Lion]

42. Actions that work.

The type of action I speak of are the only actions that will work at this point IMHO, namely bringing the economy to a grinding halt. From nationwide strikes and refusals to work, to stopping using credit, slowing consumption of non-essential items, to making one's home off grid and self sufficient. Nothing illegal, nothing violent, but things that stop the economy from functioning.

[Thrill]

38. They hacked the voting machines

and that's the real coverup by the Republicans

[oberliner]

39. No, she didn't

This article is idiotic.

On ABC News at 11:35PM there were showing people crying at the HRC HQ and cheering at the Trump HQ. The NY Times "odds of winning" percentage had Trump at >95 percent. It was over.