Maria Butina: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
2009 Sergei Magnitski--an Accountant & Attorney who had uncovered a HUGE tax fraud in Russia is killed in Russian jail by Putin associates.
>>> 1. Born 1989---Was Involved in Politics From a Young Age & Started a Furniture Store in her hometown in Siberia That She Sold in 2011 at age 22 moved to Moscow. No gun background, no cyber background either.
>>> 2. 2011 Maria Butina began working for then-Russian Senator Aleksandr Torshin, an oligarch and Putin ally. Torshin is now the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia
She was an UNPAID special assistant to Torshin from 2011 to 2015 while he was serving on the Russian Federal Council as First Vice Chairman
2012 Congress with bipartisan support passes the Magnitski Act which is signed by Obama. These are the SANCTIONS that Putin so desperately wants to get rid of
>>> 3. 2012 Butina starts building a relationship between the NRA & Her Russian Group, Right to Bear Arms
She attends many NRA events, often accompanied by her former boss, Aleksandr Torshin--Russian oligop, and developed a close relationship with former NRA President David Keene. She also met with another former NRA president, Wayne LaPierre, photos show
Maria also has brought NRA officials to Russia to speak at Right to Bear Arms events. Butina has made appearances with Republican politicians, including ex-Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, former Senator Rick Santorum and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. She was at Walker’s presidential campaign launch in 2015
Me: she lives in Siberia, sells furniture, moves to Moscow at age 22 and then for the next 5 years works with NO pay from an Oligop. Doesn't add up
>>> 4. 2015 Maria asked candidate Trump about Russian Sanctions at the FreedomFest in Las Vegas event in 2015 & Wrote an Op-Ed Saying a Republican President Would Be Good for Russia
Telling Trump she was from Russia and asking what he would do as president about the “damaging” U.S. sanctions.
Trump responded, “I know Putin, and I’ll tell you what, we get along with Putin… I believe I would get along very nicely with Putin, OK? And I mean, where we have the strength. I don’t think you’d need the sanctions. I think we would get along very, very well.”
2015, Butina wrote an opinion piece in The National Interest in which she argued, “It may take the election of a Republican to the White House in 2016 to improve relations between the Ru