***D Jr's meeting with Kremlin lawyer was primarily about Russian SANCTIONS, not orphans.***

DJT, Jr., and JARED, and MANAFORT, in my opinion, were really there to discuss Russian SANCTIONS with the Kremlin lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Background: in retaliation for the passage of the 2012 Magnitsky Act, with its sanctions, Putin had cut off the adoption of Russian children to the US.

So Russian sanctions and Russian/US adoptions are directly tied. And the sanctions – not Russian adoptions -- were the key interest of attorney Veselnitskaya.

Russian orphans are merely pawns. And a much more sympathetic cover story for DJT, Jr.

(We know DT doesn't have a genuine interest in the Russian adoption issue because he hasn't done a thing to promote this cause either before or since becoming President.)


From May 2016:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-dirty-game-in-the-us-congress

The Daily Beast has seen an email sent to the Open Dialog Foundation, a Poland-based NGO, from a man named Anatoli Samochornov, who claimed to “represent” HRAGIF along with Natalia Veselnitskaya, identified in the email as “a Russian lawyer who conducted an extensive investigation of the Magnitsky case.”

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Veselnitskaya is not shy about her opinions of the Magnitsky Act, about Browder, or about journalism aimed at uncovering Russian corruption. Her Twitter feed and interviews on Russian state television reveal her to be a staunch adherent of the Kremlin’s position on all of the above.

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Browder believes that Veselnitskaya played an integral role in the Nekrasov documentary. “The Russian press referred to her as one of its organizers and the person who provided input for this anti-Magnitsky film,” he said. “It is certainly consistent with their own anti-Magnitsky sentiments.”

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“They said they were lobbying on behalf of a Russian company called Prevezon and asked us to delay the Global Magnitsky Act or at least remove Magnitsky from the name,” the staffer said. “Mr. Dellums said it was a shame that this bill has made it so Russian orphans cannot be adopted by Americans.”