Seen this Vladimir Putin video clip? No wonder she's flipping.
Путин: Если вы проведете опрос среди молодых людей, многие не скажут, кто был первым космонавтом. А многие будут уверены, что это был американец pic.twitter.com/tkLxt5SXOD
— Дмитрий Смирнов (@dimsmirnov175) December 11, 2018
She won't incriminate "herself or anybody else," the Kremlin cited her father as saying today. I'm sure he felt free to speak his mind.
Earlier, Putin commemorated a monument of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer exiled for criticism of the former Soviet Union. Said Putin, perhaps cryptically to others in exile, “Solzhenitsyn was a true Russian who even in exile, did not allow anyone to talk disparagingly about Russia.”
Maria Butina's plea hearing has been delayed until Thursday. We don't know how disparagingly she'll be willing to speak about Russia, or how honestly. Prosecutors for the U.S. will soon find out how much cooperation she's willing to give, and how much valuable information she may have to share on various investigations involving the President, and others.
Anyone seen Butina's longtime spy handler Torshin lately? No?
Wonder when he'll show up dead.
In related news, today Paul Erickson’s attorney William Hurd gave a statement in response to questions about Butina’s plea deal with federal prosecutors.
“Paul Erickson is a good American. He has never done anything to hurt our country and never would.”
Good luck with that.
Pretty extraordinary that Russian operative Maria Butina is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors investigating Russian influence on 2016 election. To put this in @TheAmericansFX terms, it's like Philip and Elizabeth throwing in with Stan.
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) December 11, 2018
