Maria Butina, the convicted Russian spy who tried to infiltrate the NRA, was targeted in the latest

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Business Insider

round of US sanctions

Maria Butina, a Russian woman convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent before and after the 2016 election, is among the hundreds of Russian lawmakers facing new sanctions from the Biden administration.

Butina made headlines when she was charged in 2018 with scheming to infiltrate powerful conservative circles, including the National Rifle Association, to influence US policy in Russia's favor.

In 2019, Butina pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent in her attempts to forge ties with influential conservatives and gun rights activists.

She served 15 months in prison before returning to Russia, where she joined the Duma, the country's lower house of parliament. On Thursday, the Treasury Department targeted her and 327 other members of the Duma to be sanctioned for supporting Russia's month-long war against Ukraine.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/maria-butina-convicted-russian-spy-150828461.html

[Turbineguy]

1. The Russians have known for over a century.

The soft underbelly of the West is the gullibility of conservatives.

[peppertree]

3. And the greed of (some of) the 1%

Hitler understood that too, and went out of his way to court them - successfully, in many cases.

[Martin68]

6. The gullibility or the collusion?

[suegeo]

4. Butina helped another red sparrow

Spy Elena Branson fled the USA in the fall of 2020

FBI raided her home with a battering ram.

Spy Branson phoned spy Butina who helped Branson lawyer up.

Spy helped promote Trump
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216461015

Russian and banking connections:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216459036

[NBachers]

7. Who was that guy she was involved with as a sorta girlfriend?

[L. Coyote]

8. Which one? Rick Santorum? Scott Ealker? Don Jr?

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[IthinkThereforeIAM]

12. Paul Erickson was her South Dakota boyfriend, many more of her men here...

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... and as you can see from this article, the South Dakota GOP was all too happy to have her show up for Young Republicans conventions and campouts. Not to mention dragging her right in to Southeast Vo-Tech in Sioux Falls...

[link:https://dakotafreepress.com/2017/03/27/maria-butina-connects-russians-nra-trump-sibby-and-mathew-wollmann/|


Even Dusty Johnson, R-SD House of Representatives, was at one of the big Republican youth campouts, where Butina was shown to them as someone to admire.

[The Jungle 1]

9. Those stupid old white boys at NRA thought she really liked them.

How stupid can you be.
The NRA is a russian asset.

[Warpy]

10. Yep, pretty little white girl, sexy accent, loved guns

They couldn't wait to open the till. For her part, she supplied them with some dirty money in rubles and taught them ways to launder it, although those old boys didn't listen much and got caught pretty quickly and easily.

Now she'll be living on Doshirak and cheap vodka, like everybody else with no money, at least while the Doshirak holds out.

[niyad]

11. She did not "try". She DID.

[Marcuse]

13. She loves me. She really loves me.

[Lulu KC]

14. I was just wondering what had happened to her!

Glad to hear it.

[Crowman2009]

15. Hopefully next year some war widows will shave her head and parade her through the streets of Moscow