Discussion: Judge Orders Russian Mariia Butina Detained Until Criminal Trial

pgwhitfield · July 18, 2018, 3:51pm

Red Sonia,

Have fun constructing sex toys in prison.

becca656 · July 18, 2018, 3:51pm

She also provided the committee with some 8,000 pages of documents, her lawyers said.

So wait a minute.

If she did nothing, how are there even 8 pages of documents to be provided, let alone 8,000?

uneducated · July 18, 2018, 3:52pm

Don’t think it was her foot.

spencersmom · July 18, 2018, 3:53pm

Poor Mariia - those brown roots are gonna start showing bigly when she loses access to the salon

and the NRA’s credit card…

ericr · July 18, 2018, 3:54pm

Just wondering, can she be ‘flipped’, like Manafort or Cohen ? She likely has lots of juicy juicy worthwhile details to spill. But then, what would be in it for her? Go back to Russia - right.

causeforconcern · July 18, 2018, 3:55pm

The rest of her life. She’s 29.

blogamator · July 18, 2018, 3:59pm

If she flips she better not pose for pictures on the Grand Canyon rim anymore.

becca656 · July 18, 2018, 4:00pm

Like the 8,000 pages of documents she has inexplicably submitted (for someone who wasn’t involved and isn’t guilty).

marymaryquitecontrary · July 18, 2018, 4:00pm

OT: Yesterday Russian prosecutors named former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul as a person of interest in its probe against financier-turned-anti-Russia crusader Bill Browder.

occamscoin · July 18, 2018, 4:01pm

The court wants to see her International Studies homework.

demosthenes59 · July 18, 2018, 4:01pm

Russian spy Maria Butina (and her use of sexual favors) was eerily forshadowed by Jennifer Lawrence’s character in the movie Red Sparrow:

phi · July 18, 2018, 4:03pm

Leave Mariia alooone! She’s had to fake it for Paul Erickson, a fat old two-pump chump with a coat of hair everywhere but his head. Hasn’t she suffered enough?

erik_t · July 18, 2018, 4:04pm

Even if I were an innocent visitor from a less-than-friendly nation, I think I’d buy my plane ticket home the fucking moment I got hauled in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. I can’t even imagine how paranoid I would be if I were actually a spy.

Surprised Vlad didn’t let her come home – I’d expect him to be a little more sensitive to the well-being of his assets.

occamscoin · July 18, 2018, 4:06pm

Leaving her in place to be arrested and have her story told let Putin clown America. Again.

demosthenes59 · July 18, 2018, 4:06pm

If that were the case, Putin would have permitted his asset Trump to defect to Moscow after the disastrous Helsinki meeting.

lizzymom · July 18, 2018, 4:12pm

Not to worry, US Person 1 is covering her homework for her anyway. She’ll graduate on schedule.

gajake · July 18, 2018, 4:16pm

Vlad likes spies who don’t get caught. And there’s always Novichok.

marymaryquitecontrary · July 18, 2018, 4:21pm

I thought people were being crass, but it is being reported all over the place that she did have sex and offer to have sex as part of her work. Wow. SMH

Going off the rails on a crazy train.

lizzymom · July 18, 2018, 4:22pm

Oh, we’re starting tit for tat games now. Excellent.

spin · July 18, 2018, 4:28pm

well that was fast. i guess a series of intercepts to her KGB (sorry GRU, old habits die fast) handlers after the Friday announcement of the indictments of 12 Russians, and the moving boxes were enough to keep her in jail.

The judge knows the Mueller has more on her and the NRA, and he knows that Mueller moved fast, and that is telling.

But she has a really hard choice. Does she get convicted? or does she roll-over and then have to go into witness protection for the rest of her life. Putin kills traitors.

odds that Trump pardon’s her? Odds Nunez claims she is framed?