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deminks

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Mon Oct 16, 2017, 06:12 PM Oct 2017

Boom - Magazine Posts Memo Brought By Russian Lawyer To Trump Tower Meeting

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/russian-lawyer-memo-trump-tower-meeting

Foreign Policy magazine Monday published an English translation of a memo Kremlin-linked attorney Natasha Veselnitskaya took to a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a group of Trump campaign associates, including Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The memo — which was provided to Foreign Policy by the Crimea-based Russian news organization News Front — focuses on attacking the claims of Bill Browder, a major foe of Vladimir Putin, and the Russian sanctions legislation that he advocated for, known as the Magnitsky Act.

The memo includes no mention of Hillary Clinton and its main discussion of internal U.S. politics is about a hearing on a Russian sanctions bill that was ultimately signed into law. It instead focuses on the case for repealing the Magnitsky Act and for doubting Bowder’s claims — a case for which Veselnitskaya is well known for in her lobbying efforts. Adoption—which President Trump and his son first claimed was the subject of the meeting — is only mentioned once and in the context of the ban on Americans adopting Russian children that Russia imposed in retaliation for the sanctions.

Veselnitskaya confirmed the authenticity of the memos in an phone interview with Foreign Policy and said it was the set of talking points that she used not just in the Trump Tower meeting, but in her various discussions while in the United States.

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What?? No Hillary dirt? /sarcasm off
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