George
Nader Represented Putin at Trump-Related
Meeting in the UAE
Watch the grin turn sour in short order - place your bets
Breaking News: S/C Robert Mueller is now looking
at the UAE & Trump financial dealings (NY Times
story) along with and other money deals between Trump Empire, Inc. and lots of
foreign nationals as well as Kushner's panhandling ... those foreign nationals
with big moneyed ties can now easily say: “See, we now own a piece of
America pie and that dream thanks to Donald J. Trump.”
Highlights
from this story:
George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who advises UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan,
the effective ruler of the Emirates, who also attended a January 2017 meeting
in the Seychelles that S/C Mueller’s investigators have examined.
That
meeting, convened by the crown prince, brought together a Russian investor
close to Russian President Vladimir Putin
and Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and an informal adviser to Trump
(and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos) during the presidential transition – that according to three people
familiar with that meeting.
Nader’s
cooperation in the special counsel’s investigation could prompt new legal risks
for the Trump administration since is presence at the Seychelles meeting
appears to connect him to the primary focus of Mueller’s investigation: Examining
Russian interference during the 2016 presidential campaign.
It
seem that Nader represented the crown prince in the three-way conversation in
the meeting overlooking the Indian Ocean in the days just before Trump officially
took office.
At
the meeting, Emirati officials believed that Prince was speaking for the Trump
transition team. The Russian fund manager,
Kirill Dmitriev, represented Putin, according to several people familiar
with the meeting.
By way of background: Nader had grown close later to several advisers in
the Trump White House and he once worked as a consultant to Blackwater, the
private security firm (now renamed to Academi).
It was Nader introduced his former employer (Prince) 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 still in
dispute. During congressional
testimony in November, Prince denied representing the Trump transition team
during the meeting and dismissed his encounter with Dmitriev as nothing more
than a friendly conversation over a drink.
Now a lawyer for Nader is not
responding to requests for comment on this story.
A spokesman for Dmitriev has repeatedly declined to comment about the Seychelles
meeting.
Also, denying anything about the meeting has been Yousef al-Otaiba the Emirati
ambassador in Washington, DC.
My 2 cents: This story shows the tenacity of Mueller to get to
the bottom this whole Trump-Russian election interference mess — whether it is collusion,
conspiracy, coordination, or any other word we choose to call it. It is truly historical and not in a good way for us.
But, know this about Mr. Mueller — he is like a dog with a bone and at this time in
our history he is also the right man for the right job.
As Yogi Berra once quipped: “It ain’t till it's over." Well, neither is this not over — there is a lot more to be revealed.
Stay tuned until the end.
Thanks for coming by.
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