MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Minister has held a telephone call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which he complained about the Americans’ arrest of a Russian woman on allegations of being a covert agent.
U.S. prosecutors have accused Maria Butina of working to infiltrate political organizations, including the National Rifle Association, before and after Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “stressed the unacceptability of the actions of the U.S. authorities who arrested Russian citizen Butina on the basis of fabricated charges, and the need for her early release,” the ministry said about the Saturday call.
The two diplomats also “exchanged views on prospects for further building relations” in the wake of the Helsinki summit of Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the ministry said.
@system
Nobody gives a sh*t what these Russian terrorists say. Butina ends up imprisoned forever, I hope.
We should trade Butina and Trump to Russians for a spy to be named later.
She was a damn spy and to add insult to it, she was incredibly obvious about it. So she sits in jail until her trial, which should be awfully interesting, Foreign Minister Horseface, and then she’ll sit in jail for 15 years or so unless she flips, baby, and tells us everything she knows, in which case she gets a few years and then you can have her back if that’s what she wants. But it’s game over. Your boy in the White House doesn’t have the juice to get this done, so you might as well not bother asking.
Might I suggest Lavrov order another tit-for-tat and arrest an American spy? I’m pretty sure Carter Page is available.
Then we can begin negotiating a swap.
Don’t forget cash considerations.