EXCLUSIVE | Paul Erickson, the conservative operative who helped Russian agent Maria Butina make outreach to the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, is still defending her name years after the whole operation went south.
Erickson rarely speaks publicly since being pardoned by then-President Donald Trump in 2021 after serving two and a half years of his seven-year prison sentence. But the interviews he completed for the podcast during his imprisonment and shortly after his release indicate that he still believes Butina wasn’t in the wrong. The podcast episode “Fool Me Twice: A Russian Spy and a South Dakotan Operative Fall in Love,” is the first in a three-part series to be released over the next two weeks.
Erickson’s comments appeared to echo statements from Russian government officials trying to pour cold water on the idea that Butina was guilty. The Russian Embassy has previously claimed Butina was falsely accused.that she was working to spy for Russia, although she pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a Russian foreign agent. “I wasn’t a spy. I wasn’t working for the government.
Erickson was pardoned by Trump in the final hours of his administration, even though the lawyer had pleaded guilty to the charges against him. The former president indicated that he thought Erickson was indicted because of the probe into Russian ties with his campaign. The conviction of Erickson was “based off the Russian collusion hoax,”
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