Trump’s intel pick collaborated with a fierce Russia foe - POLITICO

GOP Rep. John Ratcliffe, the president's nominee for director of national intelligence, once worked with a leading Putin critic on the Magnitsky Act — which Russians have been pushing to overturn.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/29/john-ratcliffe-russia-trump-1439536

Trump fails to produce required report on Khashoggi murder, claims 'right to refuse' following law - Daily Kos

Congressional Republicans are worried that Donald Trump might overreach his authority by misusing the National Emergency Act to steal billions for his wall, but that's not the only sign that Trump is simply done even pretending about this separation of powers thing. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1834249

The once poisoned and imprisoned foes of Putin gather in London - The Washington Post: Analysis

Russian dissidents and their Western allies gather in London to honor Sergei Magnitsky. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/11/17/once-poisoned-imprisoned-foes-putin-gather-london/

About that meeting - Daily Kos: Cartoon:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1787574

Keep an Eye on the Magnitsky Act - Mother Jones

Back in 2016, when Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya met at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort, the alleged topic of conversation was the Magnitsky Act. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/07/keep-an-eye-on-the-magnitsky-act/

Could Trump face Magnitsky Act sanctions? - Daily Kos

Already branded by a survey of historians as America's worst ever, the presidency of Donald Trump may also live in infamy as the most ironic. After all, the man who ran to "Make America Great Again" has already ceded global climate leadership to China and Europe, withdrawn from the Pacific trade partnership created by the United States, and angered American allies both by abandoning the P5+1 Iranian nuclear agreement and unilaterally triggering a trade war. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1771832

When Putin Asked For Help On Sanctions, Trump Listened – Talking Points Memo

For more than a year, there’s been intense scrutiny of Russia’s sprawling campaign to influence the 2016 election, and of the extent to which Donald Trump’s campaign was complicit in it. But the question of just what Russia hoped to get from Trump has stayed mostly on the back-burner.....
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/when-putin-asked-for-help-on-sanctions-trump-listened

Donald Trump Jr. Told Russian Lawyer 'If We Come to Power' an Anti-Russia Law Would Be Reconsidered -- Newsweek

The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. said the president's son offered a change in U.S. law "if we come to power," but promptly lost interest when she did not mention Hillary Clinton. ....
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jr-told-russian-lawyer-if-we-come-power-anti-russia-law-702516

The gripping story behind the case for Trump-Putin collusion -- Salon

The most important witness so far in the investigation of President Trump's ties to Russia didn't even qualify for CNN. ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/10/the-gripping-story-behind-the-case-for-trump-putin-collusion_partner/

LIVE: William Browder Testifies before Senate Judiciary Hearing Russian Meddling US Election 7/27/17 - YouTube

This is what Trump's latest tweets and Scaramucci's outrageous comments were meant to distract us from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-RsAGjUXtg

William Browder Testifies before Senate Judiciary Hearing Russian Meddling US Election 7/27/17

This is the big story Trump hopes you missed while he distracted with tweets about transgender people in the military and Scaramucci's obscene comments about people in the White House.

William Browder's testimony goes into great detail about what the Russians -- especially Putin -- want, and what it means when Donald Trump Junior says they talked about adoptions in his meeting with the Russians.

EXPLOSIVE Testimony on Putin's Corruption & Meddling. Justice Department Officials Testify on Foreign Agent Registration Requirement. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on foreign agent registration requirements.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/S-RsAGjUXtg

Dissident Director Helped Trump’s Russia Comrade Attack U.S. -- The Daily Beast

When the Trump family has tried to explain away Donald Trump Jr.'s most suspicious meetings with Russian officials, or the president's with Vladimir Putin himself, they said they were just talking about orphans. But in the annals of Washington's deeply troubled relations with Putin, that's code: They were discussing sanctions. ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/dissident-director-helped-trumps-russia-comrade-attack-us

Read the Full Text of Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee -- The Atlantic

"I hope that my story will help you understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington and how they use U.S. enablers to achieve major foreign policy goals without disclosing those interests," Browder writes. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-browders-testimony-to-the-senate-judiciary-committee/534864/

Taking Stock of the Times Blockbuster -- TPM

I want to share a few initial thoughts on this afternoon's Times blockbuster. If you have not seen it yet, yesterday the Times reported that Donald Trump Jr., along with Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, met last year with a Russian lawyer with close ties to the Kremlin, Natalia Veselnitskaya, about something called the Magnitsky Act. ...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/taking-stock-of-the-times-blockbuster