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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: TomSea on January 02, 2019, 12:59:27 pm

Title: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: TomSea on January 02, 2019, 12:59:27 pm
Old story from July of last year. Still, this is a leftist source but I didn't know she met some fairly important people. Politicians must have that problem to worry about who they are photographed with OR, they just say "those things happen".

Maria Butyna, the purported Russian spy but how dangerous is this stuff really?

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Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
And is this the unnamed American who helped Russia infiltrate the NRA?
CASEY MICHEL
JUL 17, 2018

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Story: https://thinkprogress.org/here-are-all-the-republicans-and-conservative-activists-maria-butina-met-134988a75bbb/

As if she would really influence Republican policy or NRA for that matter, still, the pictures need to be seen and each of us judge it fwiw.

She went to a number of functions apparently.
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: Restored on January 02, 2019, 01:27:34 pm
It's not like she walked up to them and asked "I'm a Russian spy. Can I have a picture with you?"
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 02, 2019, 01:33:59 pm
What's the scandal here, Tom?  That politicians posed for photos with a political groupie?
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: Axeslinger on January 02, 2019, 01:39:47 pm
The group that should probably be most concerned and is most liable  is the NRA.
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: edpc on January 02, 2019, 05:04:59 pm
The group that should probably be most concerned and is most liable is the NRA.


Which was probably the entire point to their overall agenda. The 2nd Amendment assures all others. Their operations since the 1920s have been to sow discord, plus undermine our institutions and values.
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 02, 2019, 08:19:40 pm
Think Progress? Really? *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 02, 2019, 08:24:56 pm
Why the eff are we posting Left wing vomit from 6 months ago that doesn't mean anything?

Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: Wingnut on January 02, 2019, 08:30:47 pm
Why the eff are we posting Left wing vomit from 6 months ago that doesn't mean anything?

Think Progress? Really? *****rollingeyes*****

The Hill must have been down today.
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: TomSea on January 02, 2019, 08:37:13 pm
We know some people are not informed, we all don't have to be. Why didn't the conservative press pick this up? I saw that Santorum didn't li ke this photo on the web in twitter. I don't know if that is so, but it set me to seeing if it was what I thought it was. Better to be informed. I don't see any falsehoods in the story.
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: thackney on January 02, 2019, 09:38:03 pm
...I don't see any falsehoods in the story.

The falsehood is thinking this IS a story.
Title: Re: Here are all the Republican leaders and conservative activists Maria Butina met
Post by: Absalom on January 03, 2019, 05:54:39 am
Commentary is too stupid for words.
Conservative republican politicians are about as real as Unicorns;
neither of which ever existed.