What the notes reveal, though, isn’t necessarily anything new and nefarious about what was discussed about the meeting. Trump Jr. has argued almost from the outset that the promise of dirt on Hillary Clinton was not fulfilled. The Magnitsky Act was named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-corruption lawyer who died under suspicious circumstances in a Russian prison in 2009. It’s almost certainly a reference to Juleanna Glover, who worked with Browder in advocating for the Magnitsky Act. Manafort appears to have stopped taking notes once the real focus of Veselnitskaya’s lobbying — repealing the Magnitsky Act and allowing Americans to once again adopt children from Russia — became clear.

Source: Washington Post May 16, 2018 17:17 UTC