{"id":1378,"date":"2017-07-19T21:27:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2017-07-19T21:27:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:27:58","slug":"talking-about-adoptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Adoptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that seems to be missing from reporting on Trump Jr&#8217;s meeting and Trump Sr&#8217;s unadvertised meeting with Putin where they &#8220;talked about adoptions&#8221; is that the 2012 Russian restriction on adoptions was retaliation for the US passing the \u201cRussia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012\u201d. The American law barred eighteen specific Russians from entering the US *and* froze their American holdings.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no talking about adoptions without also talking the sanctions. It isn&#8217;t like the Russians were offering to unilaterally remove the adoption ban. &#8220;Talking about adoptions&#8221; is essentially a euphemism for discussing the removal of sanctions against a bunch of super wealthy Russians who are probably well-connected to Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that seems to be missing from reporting on Trump Jr&#8217;s meeting and Trump Sr&#8217;s unadvertised meeting with Putin where they &#8220;talked about adoptions&#8221; is that the 2012 Russian restriction on adoptions was retaliation for the US passing the \u201cRussia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012\u201d. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-russiagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}