Butina Addendum

A follow up to my December 2018 piece on the Butina case:

https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2018/12/butina-mainstream-media-hype-and.html

Maria Butina has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and then faces deportation.

I find it particularly noteworthy that her sentence has come down in the wake of the Mueller Report and the rather stunning defeat and collapse of the Russian Collusion narrative. The media is doing all it can to pivot and spin the results of the report. The narrative has (sleight-of-hand fashion) switched over to obstruction... which indeed Trump has obstructed all investigations. He's got plenty to hide even if it has nothing to do with some kind of collusion conspiracy. He's a criminal to be sure but the Russian story always smelled of deceit and was so bogus that even an official government commission run by a Deep State operative couldn't make it stick.

But the mainstream hasn't given up. BBC and NPR continue to pursue the Anti-Russia narrative ad nauseam and now conveniently Butina is once more in the news. She's to be deported after her sentence. Will she serve the entire 18 months? I can't seem to locate a story that reveals how much time she'll actually end up serving. She may already be eligible for release or as another article indicates she's been credited with nine months served.

She certainly would be released in other plea cases, especially one this weak. But of course the timing of her sentencing is suspect and prosecutors are pushing the national security 'risk' narrative. I have no doubt that any additional time she serves is due to the politics of the hour and has little or nothing to do with her case or her actual guilt which again.... I insist... is virtually negligible. And that's not just opinion. That's the legal reality. Given the grand narrative of what she was being accused of, her plea and sentence is about optics and symbolism. It has nothing to do with security, justice or some kind of prosecutorial vindication. At this point she'll say whatever they want. She's just trying to get out of the United States and leave this nightmare behind her.