Rather than choosing to explain how the adoption issue is related to the Magnitsky Act, both of which reportedly were discussed at the meeting last summer among Donald Trump Jr., Manafort, Kushner, and the russian lawyer Natalia Yeselnitskaya, talking-heads such as Anderson Cooper are insisting that adoption was not discussed, not wanting to say that Putin prohibited the adoption of russian children by Americans out of concern for the children’s safety, enacted around the time that the U. S. passed the Magnisky Act against some russian oligarchs accused of atrocities.
