weird how teflon don suddenly changed his story that it wasn't about dirt, it was about ADOPTIONS.
now he and all the dumbo parrots are all like YA it
was dirt..bbbbut what? they did it too!!
the meeting involved both dirt AND relief from sanctions under the Magnitsky act (regarding ADOPTIONS, among other things)
...the famous
June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, which has become a focus of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether anyone in Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia...
Trump has said he didn’t know about the Trump Tower meeting until a year later, when he dictated a statement on behalf of his son that the discussion was primarily about a dispute over adoptions of Russian children.
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Magnitsky Act passed in the United States in 2012 ---
I'm Bill Browder. Putin Made a Big Mistake When Trying to Get Access to Me Through Trump
Trump and Son at Legal Risk If Found Lying About Russia Meeting
...the meeting’s organizer had pledged damaging information from the Russians...
...at the
June of 2016 meeting, the participants ended up
discussing relief from U.S. sanctions on Russia...
Mr. Manafort, the former campaign chairman, also recently disclosed the meeting, and Donald Trump Jr.’s role in organizing it, to congressional investigators...
...
the meeting lasted about 30 minutes and
focused on the Magnitsky Act and the adoption issue...
the Magnitsky Act passed in the United States in 2012. This is a law that allows the U.S. government to freeze assets and ban visas of human-rights violators around the world. Some of these human-rights violators had killed Sergei Magnitsky, my Russian lawyer who was murdered in a Moscow jail for uncovering a massive $230 million government-corruption scheme that we’ve since traced to known Putin cronies. In essence, Putin received some of the proceeds of this crime, and he is terrified that the Magnitsky Act could be applied to his offshore fortune, which is probably one of the largest amassed in modern times.
Since 2012, Putin has made it perhaps his largest foreign policy priority to have the Magnitsky Act repealed.
July 17, 2018
I wasn’t watching the Donald Trump–Vladimir Putin press conference from Helsinki. But when my phone started burning up with messages, I knew something was going on. I quickly discovered that Putin had mentioned me by name. No journalist had asked about me. He just brought me up out of the blue.
Putin offered to allow American investigators to interview the 12 Russian intelligence agents just indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in exchange for allowing Russians to have access to me and those close to me. This is no idle threat. For the last ten years, I’ve been trying to avoid getting killed by Putin’s regime, and there already exists a trail of dead bodies connected to its desire to see me dead. Amazingly, Trump stood next to him, appearing to nod approvingly. He even later said that he considered it “an incredible offer.”
The Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign has investigated and found the $230 million that Sergei Magnitsky exposed and was killed over. There are now a number of live law-enforcement investigations around the world determining just who benefited from this crime. These have resulted in tens of millions of dollars of frozen assets. Furthermore, these investigations don’t only put at risk the beneficiaries of this crime, but the benificiaries of many other similar crimes. These people are ready to kill to keep their money.
What’s really behind Putin’s obsession with the Magnitsky Act
Why Does the Kremlin Care So Much About the Magnitsky Act? - The Atlantic
There's a very specific reason why the Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. wanted to talk about adopting babies
...a discussion of Russia's adoption policy, which was altered to bar American families from adopting Russian children in retaliation for the signing of the Magnitsky Act in 2012...
The Magnitsky Act was passed to punish those suspected of being involved in the death of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who uncovered a tax fraud scheme in 2008 that implicated high-level Kremlin officials and allies of President Vladimir Putin. The scheme quickly snowballed into one of the biggest corruption scandals of Putin's tenure.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
Former CIA Chief Brennan: Trump-Putin Presser Nothing Short Of "Treasonous," "There Will Be Consequences For Him"
