Wait so Don Don Jr admits he met with the Russian lawyer because she had some sort of info on Hillary Clinton, but I thought there was no Russian meddling in the US election or so we’ve been told. No wait, Feds admitted there was some sort of Russian meddling in the US election but the Trumps had no involvement. Yet, apparently by Don Don Jr’s admission, the campaign was looking for something (just like any campaign would) yet still deny any connections. I still say it was Prof Plum in the Green Room with a candlestick (up his ass) – PB/TK
There’s a very specific reason why the Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. wanted to talk about adoptions – By Natasha Bertrand / July 10 2017
Donald Trump Jr. said he met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June at Trump Tower to discuss compromising information she said she had on Hillary Clinton, but was disappointed when she changed the subject to Russia’s adoption policy.
“It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information,” Trump Jr. said in a statement to the New York Times, and that the adoption policy “was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting.”
Veselnitskaya would have had her own motivations for pivoting from promises of dirt on Clinton to 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 $230 million 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.
Magnitsky uncovered the scheme on behalf of the investment advisory firm Hermitage Capital, which was at that point the largest investment firm in Russia. Magnitsky was later thrown in jail by the same Interior Ministry officers he testified against during criminal proceedings to punish those involved in the tax scheme, Hermitage founder Bill Browder recalled in 2015.
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