A convicted Russian agent who was recently freed from US prison says her new seat in Russia's parliament is 'not a reward'

Business Insnider ^ | November 19, 2021 | John Haltiwanger and Sonam Sheth

[Navy Patriot]

Maria Butina, a Russian national who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and acted as an unregistered foreign agent in the US, denied this week that her new seat in Russia's parliament is a gift.

"It's not a reward," Butina told the New York Times in a new interview. "I wasn't a spy. I wasn't working for the government. I was just a civilian."

"If I had known that I have to register to build peace between the two nations by my own initiative, I would have loved to," she added.

[Navy Patriot]

Maria made a mistake believing in the First and Second Amendments, and the Blind "Justice" of American Courts and Prosecutors.

She came in Friendship and found that The Law Is A Trick.

[Fido969]

TTIUWP.

[Navy Patriot]

She does have good trigger discipline, but refuses to model bra holsters.

[dfwgator]

She could teach Alec Baldwin how to properly use a gun.

[noiseman]

I don’t get the reference to trigger discipline. I didn’t see a gun in the photo.

[mvonfr]

In fairness, her seat in Duma was a gift all right.

She was not elected on her own merits or campaigning but because of her being placed on the candidate list of United Russia party. And placing her on the list was a gift all right.

OTOH, any reasons to think that she would do worse that a random apparatchik?

[exinnj]

Not guilty, not a chance…

[gov_bean_ counter]

Sure it wasn’t. Wink, wink…

[nascarnation]

Well done!

[Thunder90]

That can be an asset now. She could be appointed to head some sub Cabinet position in the Biden administration. Perhaps undersecretary of Defense. Hunter needs more $$$..... Just like that Omovora woman.

[Navy Patriot]

I didn't say there was a gun in the photo.

However there MAY be a small pistol in the photo.

[nascarnation]

Let's deport Kamala and AOC and bring Maria back!

[Bratch]

[nascarnation]

[ASOC]

Not KGB. Is FSB. *Spy* is so last Century....

[Navy Patriot]

In fairness, her seat in Duma was a gift all right.

I dunno, she brought home proof that American Marxists were Russo phobic, and American JustUs was equivalent to Soviet Show Trials ...

Russians just might want leaders and lawmakers that see through the American Media Swamp, like Business Insnider.

[Ken H]

“In fairness, her seat in Duma was a gift all right.”

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Her seat anywhere would be a gift:)

[OldWarBaby]

Ivan would never go for that trade. We’d have to throw in Detroit as a target freebie. Remember the old red phone call spoof where the pres was calling Kruschev to admit we’d fired a missile by accident?

[OldWarBaby]

Bob Newhart-—took me a minute

[Navy Patriot]

Trying to keep a straight face here, but, try as I might, I cannot find a picture of Maria where she is not fully clothed, and almost none with cleavage.

Maybe cleavage?