Trump has generally wielded his pardon power horribly but one person who would deserve a pardon 100% is Maria Butina. She was railroaded by overzealous, politically-motivated prosecutors for conduct that under most circumstances would not be regarded as remotely criminal
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I’m incredibly disgusted by the journalists, such as
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Tim hasn’t responded to me but guess what
@7im, your sleazy and sexist smears are on the record. “Femme fatale”? You should be ashamed of yourselfpic.twitter.com/p6Ca4fX62j
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Maria has filed an appeal and started a defense fund: https://www.mariabutinafund.com/ Remember: not a spy, not a "honeypot," had nothing to do with "Russian interference," was subjected to months of solitary confinement, and most recently was shipped out to a remote jail in Oklahoma
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I find this case so infuriating on so many levels -- utterly despicable conduct by prosecutors, the judge, and most egregiously the media -- that you'll have to excuse me if I extend this thread longer. Someone's life was destroyed based on a pack of lies. It's nauseating
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Fundamentally this is about abusive, punitive state power being cynically wielded to satisfy a political vendetta. For “progressives” to have no concern at all is disgraceful. Republicans don’t seem to care much either. Butina has been completely abandoned. Cowardly and pathetic
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I firmly believe that when historians analyze with critical distance the moral panic that has consumed American political and media consciousness since 2016, Maria Butina is going to be identified as one of its chief and most blatant victims
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Great article, well done. Such an interesting and disturbing case. I will share it on Facebook.
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The people caught up in this whole Special Counsel Investigation should all have tge charges against them dropped if it is discovered that the information used to get the original FISA warrants that started this whole debacle was not legitimate(or properly predicated).
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Her legal defense fund is at http://mariabutinafund.com . .
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She clearly works for Mossad.
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If that were true Trump would have pardoned her twice already
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Glad to see some common sense being written about this terrible injustice. The people responsible for throwing this innocent woman in jail need to be named and eventually held accountable for their tyrannical behavior.
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I completely forgot about her. This is terrible.
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I just keep thinking of that song by David Bowie, constantly...https://youtu.be/MJRF8xGzvj4
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Then why was this red sparrow meeting with Obama officials and Aleksander Torshin in 2015?
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The
@HouseJudiciary is run by a fraud...so is@SpeakerPelosi ...#DemExit cc:@senjudiciary@JudiciaryGOP@SCOTUSblog@TheJusticeDept@USAttyHuber#CoverUP :-->https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1082410474497548308 … … …#ObamaLegacy
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She pled guilty.....
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... after months of solitary confinement to a ridiculous law about registration that 99.9% of foreign lobbyists ignore and nobody has ever been punished for unless they were also caught doing serious espionage.
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