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This is akin to a hostile takeover
Sanders camp quietly pushes Khanna presidential bid
Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned and participated in domestic terrorism, is in a small town in Poland with more than 60 Ukrainian children, trying to facilitate their adoption in America.
"with the intent that ultimately that ends in adoption"...uh....sounds like a weird way to do international adoption to me
like, do they fly the kid to the US, place them with a foster family, and then there's a trial period where the family decides to keep them or not? and if they don't keep the kid, do they ship them back to Ukraine or Poland?
yep, this seems like a pretty common sense thing that they're completely ignoring.
if you're unfamiliar with Shea's previous work before he got into child trafficking, he's one of eastern WA's premiere shitbags: