Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry
Source: The New York Times
By MARK MAZZETTI, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MAGGIE HABERMANMARCH 3, 2018
WASHINGTON George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades. He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration, reinvented himself as an adviser to the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates, and last year was a frequent visitor to President Trumps White House.
Mr. Nader is now a focus of the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel. In recent weeks, Mr. Muellers investigators have questioned Mr. Nader and have pressed witnesses for information about any possible attempts by the Emiratis to buy political influence by directing money to support Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
The investigators have also asked about Mr. Naders role in White House policymaking, those people said, suggesting that the special counsel investigation has broadened beyond Russian election meddling to include Emirati influence on the Trump administration. The focus on Mr. Nader could also prompt an examination of how money from multiple countries has flowed through and influenced Washington during the Trump era.
How much this line of inquiry is connected to Mr. Muellers original task of investigating contacts between Mr. Trumps campaign and Russia is unclear. The examination of the U.A.E. comes amid a flurry of recent activity by Mr. Mueller.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/us/politics/george-nader-mueller-investigation-united-arab-emirates.html
quartz007
(1,216 posts)I want to see indictments handed out to the Trump cronies, not Russians and UAE citizens, who will never face American justice.
No scenario where that happens.
dchill
(38,468 posts)There ARE scenarios.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)He has a purpose and is spinning a web and this includes those who have helped the Americans commit crimes. You have to get the evidence from all of the parties and that includes those that are foreign as well as domestic.
quartz007
(1,216 posts)otherwise Donny could get another 4 years in White House.
Do you think 2.5 years before next election is enough for Mueller to spin his web?
ActuallyI would prefer indictments of the tRump gang BEFORE coming congressional election in Nov 2018.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)it will likely go into 2019. I want it to be done tomorrow of course but now that computer hacking, illegal foreign money influencing our politicians, etc is expanding I think 2019 seems realistic. Richard Painter is on CNN now saying this as I write.
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