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    Such a sweet girl

    ...and dem Russians ain't doing nuttin

    From this morning's WSJ:

    By Aruna Viswanatha
    Updated April 26, 2019 11:54 a.m. ET

    A Russian woman who pleaded guilty to conspiring to create back-channel lines of communication to influence Republican political positions was sentenced to 18 months in prison, after a judge sided with prosecutors who argued her actions posed serious national-security risks for the U.S.

    U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Maria Butina to serve the sentence, saying that her actions didn’t reflect merely registration violations, as Ms. Butina’s attorneys had argued, and that they came against the backdrop of Russia’s wide-ranging efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.

    “The conduct was sophisticated and penetrated deep into political organizations,” Judge Chutkan said.

    In pleading guilty in December, Ms. Butina, 30, admitted that while she was a graduate student in Washington, she was also working with a top official from Russia’s central bank to develop back-channel relationships with conservative American politicians, including through the influential National Rifle Association. That conduct violated a law that requires any agents of foreign governments to notify the attorney general of their activities.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    What do you mean the Russians ain't doing nothing. It is well settled that they interfered in the 2016 election. It is also well settled after a two year investigation that neither Trump or his Administration had anything to do with it. Confused.
    I just going to point out the only reason Trump's group didn't collude is that I figure they were to stupid to figure out how to do it. Your opinions could be different.
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    It is very well settled that the evil Rooskies tried to influence our election, as they have historically tried to do and as we have tried in their’s, but it is also well settled that they are and were thankfully inept and had no effect. A big fat zero. They will try again. We will try again. It’s life in the present, folks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    It is very well settled that the evil Rooskies tried to influence our election, as they have historically tried to do and as we have tried in there’s, but it is also well settled that they are and were thankfully inept and had no effect. A big fat zero. They will try again. We will try again. It’s life in the present, folks.
    Again, not arguing with that statement---but I am wondering how we can be sure of no effect.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Again, not arguing with that statement---but I am wondering how we can be sure of no effect.
    The Rooskie efforts were aimed at states which voted Democrat in the 2016 election and were puny anyway. $160,000 to ads on Facebook that ran in blue states is pretty feeble. If you find someone who you think was guided to vote Trump or not vote Hillary, be the first to out one. Mueller said he and his team could find none.
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    I hope that is the case, but I am concerned that our efforts to negate such interference in the future is at best lame.
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    I'm voting for Trump so they won't go after it anymore.
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