Bill Browder fires back at Putin after press conference

[txradioguy]

After having his name invoked in a joint press conference with President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, businessman and Magnitsky Act advocate Bill Browder boasted that he has “hit the Achilles' heel of the Putin regime.”

Browder, the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital, spoke to Fox News just minutes after Putin mentioned his name during the press conference Monday in Helsinki, Finland following his summit with Trump.

“What this shows is that my advocacy of getting Magnitsky Acts all over the world passed—in seven countries—has hit the Achilles' heel of the Putin regime,” Browder told Fox News, referring to his push for Russia sanctions. 

Putin mentioned Browder while outlining a proposal to question the 12 Russian intelligence officers indicted last week by a U.S. grand jury for allegedly hacking Democratic targets during the 2016 election.

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Browder further claimed Monday that a Putin associate benefited from the financial fraud Magnitsky uncovered and added: “Putin should be interrogated for his role in that crime.”

Browder testified last year before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his knowledge of the controversial firm Fusion GPS.

Browder, during that testimony, claimed that the company worked on the infamous anti-Trump dossier while also working “on behalf of the Russian government” to fight the U.S. sanctions that had enraged Moscow’s elite—under the Magnitsky Act.

Browder testified that Fusion GPS conducted a “smear campaign” against him in a bid to fight the Magnitsky Act. Browder also testified that that campaign was orchestrated by Natalia Veselnitskaya—the same Russian attorney who sought the highly scrutinized Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

“They were talking about a repeal of sanctions so that Russian torturers and murderers could keep their money in America,” Browder testified.

In retaliation for the U.S. passage of the law, Russia banned Americans from adopting Russian children.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/16/bill-browder-fires-back-at-putin-after-press-conference.html

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In retaliation for the U.S. passage of the law, Russia banned Americans from adopting Russian children.

I think it was more due to gay couples adopting children from Russia. The Russkies are extremely anti-gay

[txradioguy]

I think it was more due to gay couples adopting children from Russia. The Russkies are extremely anti-gay

They are especially under Putin.  But the ban was still put in place as a result of what Browder was trying to do regardless of who was adopting Russian children.