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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/us/politics/george-nader-mueller-investigation-united-arab-emirates.html?smid=pl-share
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NYT: Mueller's focus on advisor to Emirates suggests widening probe (Original Post)
triron
Mar 2018
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In one example of Mr. Naders influential connections, which has not been previously reported, last fall he received a detailed report from a top Trump fund-raiser, Elliott Broidy, about a private meeting with the president in the Oval Office.
Mr. Broidy owns a private security company with hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts with the United Arab Emirates, and he extolled to Mr. Trump a paramilitary force that his company was developing for the country. He also lobbied the president to meet privately in an informal setting with the Emirates military commander and de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan; to back the U.A.E.s hawkish policies in the region; and to fire Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson.
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Mr. Nader, 58, made frequent trips to the White House during the early months of the Trump administration, meeting with Stephen K. Bannon and Jared Kushner to discuss American policy toward the Persian Gulf states in advance of Mr. Trumps trip to Saudi Arabia in May 2017, according to people familiar with the meetings. By some accounts, it was Mr. Bannon who pushed for him to gain access to White House policymakers. Others said Mr. Kushner backed him.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. Oh yes!
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)3. Let's remember too that the UAE was one of the countries
cited, along with Mexico, China and Israel that figured they could play Jared Kushner for an easy mark.