• Adviser to Emirates With Ties to Trump Aides Is Cooperating With Special Counsel
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[QUOTE]WASHINGTON — An adviser to the United Arab Emirates with ties to current and former aides to President Trump is cooperating with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and gave testimony last week to a grand jury, according to two people familiar with the matter. Mr. Mueller appears to be examining the influence of foreign money on Mr. Trump’s political activities and has asked witnesses about the possibility that the adviser, George Nader, funneled money from the Emirates to the president’s political efforts. It is illegal for foreign entities to contribute to campaigns or for Americans to knowingly accept foreign money for political races.[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/politics/george-nader-special-counsel-mueller-cooperating-seychelles.html[/url]
You missed the real meat, OP. [quote]legal risks for the Trump administration, and [B]Mr. Nader’s presence at the Seychelles meeting appears to connect him to the primary focus of Mr. Mueller’s investigation: examining Russian interference during the 2016 presidential campaign.[/B] [B]Mr. Nader represented the crown prince in the three-way conversation in the Seychelles[/B], at a hotel overlooking in the Indian Ocean, in the days before Mr. Trump took office. [B]At the meeting, Emirati officials believed Mr. Prince was speaking for the Trump transition team, and a Russian fund manager, Kirill Dmitriev, represented Mr. Putin[/B], according to several people familiar with the meeting. Mr. Nader, who grew close later to several advisers in the Trump White House, had once worked as a consultant to Blackwater, a private security firm. Mr. Nader introduced his former employer to the Russian. The significance of the meeting in the Seychelles has been a puzzle to American officials ever since intelligence agencies first picked up on it in the final days of the Obama administration, and the purpose of the discussion is in dispute.[B] During congressional testimony in November, Mr. Prince denied representing the Trump transition team during the meeting and dismissed his encounter with Mr. Dmitriev as nothing more than a friendly conversation over a drink[/B].[/quote] Mr. Nader was in the meeting as a surrogate for the crown prince. Mr Prince was in the meeting as a suspected surrogate for the Trump campaign. Kirill Dmitriev was in the meeting as a suspected surrogate of Putin. Mr. Prince claimed that the meeting was "nothing more than a friendly conversation over a drink," during sworn congressional testimony. If Nader's testimony refutes that, we've got another indictment coming up.
This is HUGE. It begins to tie together the Seychelles meeting and the missing link. There's about to be a Trump-UAE scandal along the same lines as Trump-Russia. [editline]6th March 2018[/editline] Nader testified to the Grand jury last week too. Goodness. [editline]6th March 2018[/editline] Nader testified to the Grand jury last week too. Goodness.
[QUOTE=Llamaguy;53182517]This is HUGE. It begins to tie together the Seychelles meeting and the missing link. [B]There's about to be a Trump-UAE scandal along the same lines as Trump-Russia.[/B][/QUOTE] Didn't the Steele Dossier say that, in part, Trump and co were glad to have Russia be the prominent boogeyman as it distracted from other parties/countries (such as China) also trying to exert influence over Trump? ...Hmm, interesting coincidence. These latest stories really make you wonder! :thinking:
[QUOTE=Llamaguy;53182517]This is HUGE. It begins to tie together the Seychelles meeting and the missing link. There's about to be a Trump-UAE scandal along the same lines as Trump-Russia. [editline]6th March 2018[/editline] Nader testified to the Grand jury last week too. Goodness. [editline]6th March 2018[/editline] Nader testified to the Grand jury last week too. Goodness.[/QUOTE] Jeez, I missed that he'd already testified lol. The progress of the investigation in only the last ~10 days has been bonkers.
A few other things to remember about our good buddy Erik Prince: [URL="https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/erik-prince-private-spy-network-trump-administration/index.html"]He proposed a private unaccountable spy network to Trump.[/URL] He also wants mercenaries to take over the US military's job in Afghanistan, privatizing America's military commitments. When Prince was interviewed under oath by the House Intelligence Committee, he openly defied the panel, refused to answer questions, and earned what should've been multiple counts of contempt. However nothing happened, because the House Intelligence Committee is a bogus investigation run by Nunes, a known Trump minion who recused himself until he didn't. [URL="http://www.businessinsider.com/erik-prince-testimony-house-intel-committee-devin-nunes-russia-probe-2017-12"]Nunes and Prince talked before the Congressional hearing, implicating Nunes in potential witness tampering and obstruction of justice.[/URL] Erik Prince is brother to Betsy Devos, Secretary of Diseducation. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Trump-Russia but it shows that there's a real problem in that family.
[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;53182527]Didn't the Steele Dossier say that, in part, Trump and co were glad to have Russia be the prominent boogeyman as it distracted from other parties/countries (such as China) also trying to exert influence over Trump? ...Hmm, interesting coincidence. These latest stories really make you wonder! :thinking:[/QUOTE] Didn't he also exempt the UAE from his asinine travel ban?
If he is cooperating with the investigation, doesn't that pretty much confirm that this... [quote]Mr. Mueller appears to be examining the influence of foreign money on Mr. Trump’s political activities and has asked witnesses about the possibility that the adviser, George Nader, funneled money from the Emirates to the president’s political efforts.[/quote] is a perjury trap?
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