Maria Butina: did not engage in "spycraft" in any meaningful sense, did not trade sex for access (a grotesque smear), has been locked in solitary confinement for months. If she wasn't Russian, this would be denounced as the blatant political show prosecution it so obviously is
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Did you actually read that? Prosecutors misinterpreted a text that it’s not clear had anything to do with Erickson. And when she actually plead out she admitted that Erickson wasn’t really her boyfriend—that she used him.
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A core piece of evidence that prosecutors used to depict her as trading sex for access, which was then cited in endless media coverage that made her out to be an amoral slut, had to be retracted. And you're wrong, the plea contains no such admission.
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Man she looks like hell. They're doin a real number on her. Hope this satisfies the centrist "resistance."
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