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If the reporting tonight on her deal with prosecutors holds up. prosecutors have alleged that marina butina was acting as a secret agent of the russian government in this country when she made contacts and set up meetings and foreign trips and lines of communication between russian officials and american activists associated with the nra and the national prayer breakfast. "the daily beast" has recently reported that her purported american boyfriend has himself received a letter from prosecutors ...

The nra and its politics. its a term that seems literally foreign. in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, there was all of the sudden a weird russian twist in u.s. gun politics. a spelled out maria butinas plea agreement in december 2015 in the middle of the presidential campaign right before the iowa caucuses, a former nra president and a future nra president and a whole delegation of fnra officials an members all got an all-expenses paid trip to moscow. it was organized by the right...

Meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. he did it by e-mail with the unsubtle suggest line, kremlin connection. and paul erickson didnt name alexander torsian in the e-mail but he referred to him as president putins emissary on this overture. that didnt work, but that same month torsian sought a meeting with donald trump at an nra convention. and that itself didnt pan out, but torsian did get to spend some time with donald trump jr. at a gala hosted be i the nra. and then at the beginni...

Report that butina has already started meeting with prosecutors as part of this deal. if this abc and cnn reporting is correct, that means that on wednesday afternoon, the judge will be hearing maria butinas guilty plea, and we presumably will have some public-facing indication of the kind of cooperation deal she is making in conjunction with that plea. i should tell you the daily beast has just matched that reporting from abc news and cnn, and in their report, theyre adding some sort of incredi...

Daily beast" several days ago that he has received a target letter that federal prosecutors are considering charging him as a foreign agent, as an agent of the russian government operating in this country. will the erickson case finally become clear if maria butina is pleading and cooperating? then there is the question of whether her plea will ultimately give us a window into what freaking happened with the nra in the middle of this election interference scandal. could the resolution of maria b...

Unsubtle subject line, kremlin connection. and paul erickson didnt name alexander torchin in the e-mail but he referred to him as president putins emissary on this. that didnt work, but that same month torchin sought a meeting with donald trump at an nra convention. and that itself didnt pan out, but torchin did get to spend some time with donald trump jr. at a gala hosted by the nra. and then at the beginning of this year, we learn that the fbi was investigating whether all of this, the nras hu...

Dimitri rigosin. who is a putin deputy. after she sent a message to the russian central bank official to whom she basically reported as part of this alleged foreign the agent scheme. her message had two translations in the plea agreement. the first translation about these nra officials going to moscow in december, 2015, said, quote, we should let them express their gratitude now. we will put pressure on them quietly later. the second translation, the alternate translation in the plea agreement a...

Russian government, we learned a the beginning of this year that the fbi was investigating whether all those things might be investigated. mcclatchy reporting in january, quote, the fbi is investigating whether a top russian banker with ties to the kremlin illegally funneled money to the nra to help donald trump win the presidency. quote, fbi counterintelligence investigators have focused on the activities of aleksandr torshin, the deputy governor of russias central bank, who was known for his c...

Rights in russia. and alexander torsians group doesnt do anything to support gun rights in russia, at all. what they have done is make lots and lots of connections to the american nra. this official alexander torsian and his protege maria butina started attending the nras yearly conferences every year in the usa. at the start of the 2016 campaign, torsian and butina hosted that delegation in moscow, december 2015. then during the campaign, butina was flying around the country, showing up at even...

The nra, this blatant illegal coordination, what appears to be blatant illegal coordination, put that together with the nra inexplicably tripling their spending in order to support trump, and it does seem like there might be something going on there, especially given that their spending to support trump was all out of a part of the nra where they dont have to say where the money came from. i should also mention while im being snarky about campaign finance violations, willfully violating campaign...