Uh, not really. It was not about CHILD ADOPTION!!!!!! It's about theft of hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's not about adoption policy unless you actually believe Team Trump held an innocent meeting on with a lawyer close to the Kremlin and then chose to lie about it. Unless you believe Putin actually had legit concerns about adoption and was not doing as retaliation for the economic sanctions that we're part of the Magnistky Act. The Magnistky Act was named after a Russia tax lawyer who helped uncover a $230 million dollar tax fraud involving officials at the highest levels of government. He was killed in custody.
The Russian lawyer invited to the Trump Tower meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya, is best known for mounting a multipronged attack against the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law so enraged Mr. Putin that he retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian children.
...Under the law, some 44 Russian citizens have been put on a list that allows the United States to seize their American assets and deny them visas. The United States asserts that many of them are connected to fraud exposed by Mr. Magnitsky, who after being jailed for more than a year was found dead in his cell. A Russian human rights panel found that he had been assaulted. To critics of Mr. Putin, Mr. Magnitsky, in death, became a symbol of corruption and brutality in the Russian state.
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Uh, not really. It was not about CHILD ADOPTION!!!!!! It's about theft of hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's not about adoption policy unless you actually believe Team Trump held an innocent meeting on with a lawyer close to the Kremlin and then chose to lie about it. Unless you believe Putin actually had legit concerns about adoption and was not doing as retaliation for the economic sanctions that we're part of the Magnistky Act. The Magnistky Act was named after a Russia tax lawyer who helped uncover a $230 million dollar tax fraud involving officials at the highest levels of government. He was killed in custody.