Donald Trump handles questions at Freedom Fest July 11,'15 Las Vegas
Posted on 07/16/2018 1:41:40 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
She was known about long before today's indebtment
As the Legislature convenes one more time to deal with Governor Dennis Daugaard’s veto of two of their gun bills, an eager reader gets me reading about the National Rifle Association’s Russia connection, which will lead us to Donald Trump, Sibby, and Mathew Wollmann.
In 2014, to punish Russia for supporting separatist militias in Ukraine, the United States imposed sanctions on two state-owned Russian banks, two state-owned Russian oil companies, and six Russian arms manufacturers, including Kalashnikov, maker of the AK-47 rifle. To maintain access to the lucrative American gun market, Kalashnikov spun off a sanctions-evading U.S. branch that is building a factory in Florida.
The year before those sanctions, the National Rifle Association started forging connections with certain Russians. Russian senator Alexander Torshin, who Spanish investigators allege has ties to Russian mafia, attended the NRA’s national meeting in Houston in May 2013. Former NRA president David Keene reciprocated with a visit to Russia in November 2013. Specifically, Keene attended a conference of Право на Оружие—Pravo na Oruzhie, which translates as “Right to Arms”—a new Russian activist promoting gun rights in Russia.
The young woman standing next to Keene is Pravo na Oruzhie founder Maria Butina (contrary to temptation, that u goes /oo/, like the u in Putin). Butina likes guns.
Butina also likes American politics. Shortly after she attended the NRA national meeting in Nashville in April 2015, she and Torshin got introduced by David Keene to Wisconsin Governor and GOP Presidential hopeful Scott Walker:
Then in July 2015, Butina showed up in the audience at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas and posed a question to GOP candidate Donald Trump (see 9:15 in video): see comments
Butina asks about American sanctions on Russia that are “damaging” both countries. Trump says, “I know Putin, and I’ll tell you what: we get along with Putin…. I don’t think you’d need the sanctions. I think that we would get along very, very well.”
Butina is now taking graduate classes at American University in Washington, D.C.
Since February 10, 2016, Butina has also been the sole organizer of Bridges LLC, an entity incorporated in South Dakota with an office at 4904 Oxbow Avenue, Suite, 305, Sioux Falls, 57106.
The agent of Butina’s South Dakota corporation is Paul Erickson, a Vermillion native, long-time Republican consultant and prominent NRA member. Erickson was involved in the campaign to oust Tom Daschle from the Senate back in 2004, along with our friend from Mitchell Steve Sibson.
In September 2010, Erickson organized another business from that same 305 office at 4904 Oxbow, Investing with Dignity LLC. He must have gotten distracted with the Romney campaign and other projects, since after 2012, he failed to file his annual reports, until Secretary of State Shantel Krebs dissolved his corporation in April 2015. Erickson got Investing with Dignity LLC reinstated in 2016.
Butina appears to have spoken on behalf of Investing with Dignity LLC to Sioux Falls CTE students in a program called the Academy of Finance on May 13, 2015:
Butina posted these photos publicly on Facebook on May 13, 2015. However, the banner lists the 2013 sponsors. If you zoom into the classroom picture, just over the grey-sweatshirted student, the red ink by his head appears to refer to a semester test taking place “Fri May 15”, and May 15 was a Friday in 2015. The green ink on the board reads “Paul Erickson Investing with Dignity LLC.”
Just a few weeks prior to the Academy of Finance event, Butina says she made her first speech ever to an American university… at the University of South Dakota, in Vermillion, where she spoke to 30 people about her cause.
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Donald Trump handles questions at Freedom Fest July 11,'15 Las Vegas
OMG I hear Big Bird and the Purple Dinosaur from PBS was involved too.
I was in military intelligence. But they never tried to entice me with something like that.
Maybe if your rank was a little higher :-)
So what is the point, another convicting the NRA and Trump by innuendo?
Interfering with the Summit.
So according to this article she is organizing gun rights groups in Russia with Putin’s blessings. The next Stalin/Mao/Hitler.
That makes a lot of sense.
Were those wild boar or wolves she was standing by in the hunting picture?
...and...?
Did they think NRA members were going to vote for Clinton. lol
Idiotic. So is your argument that the NRA was honeypotted into supporting Trump over Hillary? That’s retarded.
I’m so sorry!
Honey traps, that’s where you give them the Big O, and then in post-coital bliss, they tell you all the national secrets, right?
I learned about one, but I just never found a Russian babe with any big secrets to tell me afterwards.
Since we have been told that Hillary committed no crimes be no reasonable prosecutor could establish criminal intent, I suppose criminal intent will not be a factor in any kangaroo court trial of the NRA.
“...including Kalashnikov, maker of the AK-47 rifle. To maintain access to the lucrative American gun market, Kalashnikov spun off a sanctions-evading U.S. branch that is building a factory in Florida. …” [from the original dakotafreepress.com article, 2nd paragraph]
Forum members need to recall that South Dakota was the state that elected George S McGovern to be one of it US Senators, time after time. He failed to carry his home state in the 1972 Presidential election.
The state has a long dreary history of Left/Progressive activism, thanks to radical labor organizers infesting the mining workforce; Depression/Dustbowl era seducing the cropland-farming agricultural sector (mostly east of the Missouri River, where 3/4 of the population lives) into dependence on the Democrat Party; and large American Indian reservations which were radicalized into identity politics in the 1970s (remaining hotbeds of upset and resentment to this day).
The briefest look at dakotafreepress.com’s homepage will reveal that they believe themselves to be a “true” organ of the “liberal media”. Lots of Lefties in South Dakota have deluded themselves into believing the state is “oppressed” by corporations and the Evil Right Wing. They remain unhappy, despite the fact that the largest city - Sioux Falls - is run by a solid Democrat machine and most state newspapers stake out editorial positions proudly Left of center. Democrat Senators Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson were put out of office only with the greatest effort, and health problems in Sen Johnson’s case.
South Dakota Public Broadcasting - TV and Public Radio, run out of studios & offices at the Al Neuharth Media Center on the campus of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion - tirelessly promote themselves as the only unbiased news outlet in the state [sic], and flog their fundraising marathons by claiming to be THE ONLY cultural entity that unifies the entire state.
The Left is nothing, if not a gaggle of megalomaniacs.
The claims about the AK-47 are laughable. None of those have been made inside Russia since the AKM came out in the 1950s. And it’s ludicrous to imply that the fortunes of Konzern Kalashnikov hinge upon US civilian gun sales.
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