RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 US ELECTION & SPIN-OFF INVESTIGATIONS

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--A 29-year-old Russian woman was arrested for espionage. According to prosecutors, ^ Mariia Butina was living as a gun-loving graduate student in the U.S. and cohabitating with an older American man who's a Republican consultant. She was able to infiltrate the NRA and the National Prayer Group and attend the inauguration. She also reportedly traded sex for access/information to pass on to her Russian boss. She's being held without bail because she's been deemed a flight risk. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/us/po...tment.html

--After Trump expressed doubt in U.S. Intelligences' unanimous reports of illegal Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and praised Putin's "strong and powerful" denial..........his top Intelligence advisor, DNI Dan Coats, took to the media (without White House approval). Coats told the American people that there is no doubt the Russians were behind the hacking and other election crimes, that they're still doing it, that Russian operatives have been fucking with our electrical grids and infrastructure, and that the U.S. is on red-level alert in those regards. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli...789436002/

--Last night, the NYT published an article indicating that Trump received a detailed briefing laying out proof that Vladimir V Putin had directed complex cyber interference into our 2016 elections. Trump received that classified briefing (which included U.S. intelligence and corroborating intelligence reports from other countries) in January 2017, two weeks ahead of his inauguration. Trump's repeated public claims of no knowledge for over a year have been lies. The Obama Administration wanted the matter investigated early on, but Senate Majority Leader McConnell denied the request and reportedly threatened to paint the request as a partisan hit job if it went public. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world...ling-.html

Things are really heating up.