Alleged Russian Spy, Butina, Convinced John Bolton to Make Video For Her Russian Gun Rights Group

[brooklynite]

Source: Hill Reporter

While Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin overshadowed most of the other news taking place for the day, the unsealing of charges by the DOJ against 29-year-old Maria Butina, certainly shouldn’t go unnoticed. In what may be one of the more explosive stories related to the Trump/Russia investigation thus far, Butina was charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent in violation of Title 18, Section 371 of the United States Code. The criminal complaint and subsequent affidavit allege that she helped set up a back channel between what appears to be the GOP and the Kremlin, via the NRA.

One of the more interesting tidbits to be found in the affidavit supporting Butina’s charges, are allegations that Butina, along with the Kremlin and NRA-connected Russian politician, Alexander Torshin, convinced John Bolton to go on Russian TV to promote Butina’s gun rights group, ‘ The Right to Bear Arms’.

In 2013, Bolton, who is now Trump’s National Security Advisor with a top security clearance, worked with Butina, who is now alleged to be a Russian spy, to create a video promoting the right to bear arms in Russia. The video, which can be seen below, shows Bolton addressing and expressing his wishes for the Russian people:

Read more: https://hillreporter.com/alleged-russian-spy-butina-convinced-john-bolton-to-make-video-for-her-russian-gun-rights-group-3834

[jpak]

1. WTF

No words

[DemoTex]

2. Butina's gun rights group based in Potemkin Village?

[turbinetree]

3. So this enabling POS is compromised............basically.........

[Phoenix61]

4. Nothing can make an old man act like a

complete ass quite like a beautiful, young woman.

[Ponietz]

6. He was already a degenerate as a young man

[lagomorph777]

15. Bolton is perfectly capable of acting like a complete ass all on his own.

And now he's in deep shit.

[flibbitygiblets]

5. But the Russia Thing is fake news!?

[shanny]

7. Nothing would make me happier than to see that asshole

go down with the rest.

Seriously, what is it with all of these perennial bad actors being resurrected over and over? They shouldn't be allowed out in public, let alone in positions of power.

[Scurrilous]

8. K&R

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Hmmmm, so Russia has no gun control laws there?

Somehow, I doubt it.

[UpInArms]

11. Absolutely incredible

These goons need to get out of our White House and be thrown under the prison

[metalbot]

12. Small nitpick

And I know that it isn't your headline, but I'm not sure that it's really alleged that she's a Russian spy, unless you use that term _very_ broadly. She's being charged with being a unregistered Russian agent rather than being a Russian spy. The distinction is important because an agent of a foreign power can register with the US government, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the charging document that indicates that she's done something that would have been illegal had she been registered. If you contrast that with espionage, espionage is generally not legal even if you have registered yourself as a foreign agent.

(I'm not minimizing the severity of this, and I think this indictment is actually one of the more interesting and embarrassing indictments so far, but I think the words matter).

[Raster]

13. Russian Gun Rights???? Ha. Ha. Ha....

...There are no and there will be no "gun rights" in Russia. Putin* will never allow ordinary Russian citizens to have guns. He's too afraid they'd be used against him and his regime.

No, Ms. Butina's "gun rights" scam is primarily used to interface with America's NRA and to funnel dark Russian money to the NRA... ILLEGALLY, of course.

[marble falls]

14. And yet they get outraged when Sacha Baron Cohen spoofs one of them ...

bupkis for an agent of another government "fooling" her way into the White House and bumping into so many people on her way to a photo op with cheetolini.

Only a Russian 2nd Amendment right activist. Right.

[lagomorph777]

16. Dem candidates need to run ads featuring photos of Buttina with RePutins.

Put a big red hammer & sickle on her in the ads.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Colluding with a Russian spy. nt