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Sanctions?
Hacking?
Classified intelligence?
Russian hookers peeing on the bed?
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Sanctions
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)dchill
(38,492 posts)Magnitsky is Russian for adoption.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)When pressed on the details of his meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016, Donald Trump Jr. appeared to downplay its significance by linking it to concerns over an issue that appears uncontroversial on its surface: adoption. But the barring of U.S. adoptions of Russian children is a flash point of tense diplomatic relations and tied directly to the Magnitsky Act.
Two weeks after Obama signed the Magnitsky Act, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that blocked adoption of Russian children by parents in the United States. Russia then also imposed sanctions on Browder and found Magnitsky posthumously guilty of crimes.
Supporters of the bill at the time cited mistreatment of Russian children by adoptive U.S. parents as the reason for its passage. But it was widely viewed as a retaliatory act, and the issues have been linked since.
Trump Jr. said that despite assurances that Veselnitskaya would come bearing incriminating information about Hillary Clinton in their 2016 meeting, the topic quickly shifted to the Magnitsky Act and U.S. adoptions from Russia.
Browder described Veselnitskaya in an NPR interview as a longtime foil to him in her efforts to repeal the Magnitsky Act. She represents a member of the Katsyv family, whose company is under investigation by the Justice Department in connection with the laundering of real estate money in New York. Denis Katsyv has lobbied to overturn Magnitsky and to end Russia's American adoption ban...
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Using the sanctions issue as a cover for talking about something much more near and dear to a tRump heart (such as it is)--cold hard cash.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)a resumption of money laundering for Putin and his pals, an endeavor that Trump(R) is already up to his eyeballs in.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Russia. never forget those Istanbul Airport bombers had sophisticated bombs and Russian passports. Turkey was destabilized by pros!
Squinch
(50,949 posts)soon be hosts to those same pros.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)IMO.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)hostages. a lot of governments and segments of societies will hurt "hostages" to strengthen blackmail. They do it all the time.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)There's a racial aspect to the Russian adoption issue that few are discussing, but that the white supremacists in the US find compelling. The adoption ban strongly limits the supply of white babies from Eastern Europe and shifts the US adoption markets even more strongly to other areas of the world. There's a racial subtext to this issue, just as there is with everything Russia on the right these days: Putin is preferable to just about anyone (for the racist right) because he is the "defender" of "white Europe" against the "enemies of the West."
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)unwanted kids. Below is a very common disorder of babies from chronic drunks.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder
IMO, putins army of boots on the ground are full of the abandoned children, they go to military service right from their 'homes' for unwanted kids.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)It's always about money with Trump. And the Russians know it.