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referenced. An expert discussing this used the word extradition; perhaps another would be more correct if not any more legal. Putin has a huge grudge against Browder for encouraging passage of the Magnitsky Act in our country and other actions in other nations. He's now claiming Browder, Ambassador McFaul and the others were involved in criminal conspiracy. Putin doesn't want to question, but to imprison and to cause great uproar here.

Trump is already far, far over the line toward committing this atrocity even by saying he's considering it. If Trump ordered arrests and and we learned these people had been flown to Russia, whereabouts unknown, what would we do?

Remember, Trump very publicly broke what have to be a bunch of laws thousands of times in arresting people claiming refugee status and kidnapping their children, putting them in detention facilities, immediately trafficking some of them into a foster-care-to-adoption pipeline. He believed the right would continue to support him, and he was very right.

He plans to double down on atrocities against immigrants using other excuses. Detention camps for over 100,000 are in the works.

I now believe the only personal limits to what this wannabe dictator would do are those actions he fears could come back and hurt him and crimes so big that he's lacked the guts to proceed, such as using our nukes or bizarrely invading Venezuela. So far.

He's given us strong reason to believe that only considerations of political fallout to him would keep him from obligingly arresting former government officials and turning them over to Putin. And the right might be initially a little shaken but would form back up and support it. Putin even helped this along by personally claiming Browder donated $400 million (!) to Hillary's campaign.