I don't get why the lawyer wanted to talk to Don Jr. and gang about adoption laws in the first place when they were in no position to do anything about it.
This is where the background comes in handy.
Russian lawyer sergei magnitsky was exposing Russian money laundering, and wound up dead.
Congress blamed Putin, and passed the magnitsky act
Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the
U.S. Congress and signed by President
Obama in November–December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian lawyer
Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009.
In response to the sanctions the act imposed, Vladimir Putin stopped the adoption of Russian babies by US citizens.
The Russian lawyer has been trying to get the Magnitsky act repealed, or it's effects nullified by executive order.