Maria Butina wasn’t a spy, she was a political prisoner held hostage by the United States.
True. he main goal was expanding gun rights in Russia and “taking” the 2nd amendment there. She visited the NRA, and gun conventions and interviewed people. All in the open. When they were pretending Trump was a Russian asset, they were trying to say Russia funnels money to the NRA who then funnels it to Trump. Butina was their “Russian” connection.
Her arrest was shameful and part of the FBI framing Trump as a Russian asset.