Mueller was so desperate to find a scapegoat for "Russian interference" that he sent staff to interview Maria Butina in jail, in January of this year. Of course, she had no knowledge of "collusion." But she's still sitting in jail, as a political prisonerhttps://spectator.us/maria-butina-crime-russian/ …
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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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Rolling Stone lost the last of its credibility with the debunked UVA story. The situation at the magazine has become even more perilous since then. It’s sort of like what happened at Mic.https://theoutline.com/post/2156/mic-com-and-the-cynicism-of-modern-media …
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thanks for shedding light on this, man
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