“Guilty,” Butina said with a light accent in entering her plea with U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan at a hearing Thursday morning in federal court in Washington. An undated picture made available by the Press Service of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation on chamber's official website shows gun-rights activist Maria Butina posing with a gun in Moscow. “This case shines important light on the nature and aggressiveness of Russian influence operations targeting the United States, a threat that we need an unequivocal U.S. government commitment to counter, including the president of the United States, and both houses of Congress,” he said. “We get along with Putin,” Trump told Butina, referring to the Russian president. Documents reviewed previously by The Washington Post show the group met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Source: Washington Post December 13, 2018 16:50 UTC