Maria Butina won’t be leaving for Russia anytime soon. What does she know that Russian intelligence would interested in? She was getting ready to move a large amount of cash outside of the USA.
It seems to me her attorney has no real defense for her. She has cash, the sympathies of the Russians offering her removal from the USA to Russia, she has no real ties to the USA (no family, no anticipated wedding) and only official Russian intelligence in the USA as friends.
She was using the promise of sex to top leadership of the corporations she sought to be a lobbyist. She was seeking an affiliation with the NRA to lobby with Congress. She wanted relationships with Congressional members as a lobbyist. She knew exactly what she was doing. She knows how money is corrupting our politics. She wanted the power of the NRA to influence Congress with plenty of money as a lobbyist. WOW. This is a prime example of the corrupting influence of money in USA politics. It is a very dangerous corruption. It is a corruption that assaults the USA national security.
She was very confident in her power. She was circulating among powerful Republican organizations to prove she was one of them. This level of success by a Russian operative cannot be ignored. She was successful and looking for more success as a lobbyist. She was accumulating plenty of money and she would in time seek out Democratic infiltration for her own purposes.
Russia was definitely gaining control. Russia hacked the Democrats to disadvantage them while infiltrating the Republicans to the highest office in the land.
Money. It was the leverage that worked. We don’t know how much money Trump is into Russia for, but, it is obvious the Russians wanted control of the USA government through the Republican Party. The petroleum party.
I don’t feel comfortable with this reality at all. The country is losing control of its government and money is all part of it.
I want a “Maria Butina Law” that controls campaign financing and returns the government to the people. Real return to the people, not a populous political rant that changes as soon as the election is over.
