George Nader, the business Manager, who is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, has extensive personal ties with Russia, which could help researchers to answer key questions about the degree of interaction of the trump campaign with Moscow during the elections in 2016.
According to the new York times, Nader, who works for Mueller probe in exchange for at least partial immunity already came to Russia to do business with Russia and develop relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the inner circle at least as early as 2012. It is quite close to the Kremlin even had a picture taken with Putin.
That puts some of his meetings with like-minded trump, as during the transition between Obama and trump administration, and after trump took office in the New world. This raises the question of whether or not it can have a direct financial benefit from helping to establish a more balanced relationship between the US and Russia. And this raises the possibility that it could act as an informal mediator on behalf of Russia in these meetings or give expert advice on how to get in touch with the Kremlin.
Nader used his connections with Russia to help set up a meeting in January 2017 in the Seychelles, which included Kirill Dmitriyev, Russian Fund Manager with close ties with Putin, and Erik Prince, founder of private security firm blackwater and informal adviser to trump the transition team.
What extracurricular meetings is a key coordinator of the tramp, the investigation, as it could give answers about any potential deals, or informal agreements between trump and Russia before he took office.
Nader also met with senior officials trump campaign Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner during the transition at least once, and he had regular meetings with them in the first months of his presidency.
Outside Russia, when Nader, Muller is also investigating how Nader may have helped the United Arab Emirates to increase its political influence in the trump White house strikes a great deals with the top tube fundraiser. In other words, when Nader is crucial for understanding how more than one foreign country may have tried to secretly influence the White house.
Russia when Nader can be very valuable to investigate Mueller
The times reports that Nader has extensive experience with Russian elites, that is, at least half of the decade. He helped to mediate in the hands of a $ 4.2 billion deal between Russia and the Iraqi government in 2012. At the time, Nader acted as an informal adviser to the then Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and accompanied him to Moscow. This deal eventually fell apart due to corruption charges, but the exchange shows that Nader was cardinal with real influence among the Russian elite.
In 2012, Nader also took part in St. Petersburg International economic forum, which is basically the Russian version of the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, every year. It’s by invitation only, and the organizers of the conference of senior officials in Putin’s inner orbit. It is unclear if he took part in the conference since then.
According to the Times sources, Nader returned to Russia “often” working in the UAE government. Nader was accompanied by Mohammed bin Zayed, UAE-the de facto ruler for several such trips.
Russia when Nader make it more likely that it is potentially important information to offer investigators Muller about their own communication with colleagues trump, including the Prince, Bannon and Kushner. It looks increasingly likely that he has contacts deep within Putin’s inner circle and could act as a messenger to key information about the negotiations about how us-Russian relations can be improved.
For example, Nader could shed some light on what actually happened at the meeting, Seychelles and whether the Prince Dmitriev discussed any kind of a quid Pro quo between Putin and trump related to the intervention of Russia in the elections of 2016.
Nader may have helped the UAE to buy influence with a trump administration
Nader cooperation with the probe may also give Mueller an understanding of how other countries tried to influence the trump administration.
Nader seems to have used some potentially questionable tactics to lobby for countries in the Middle East, according to the new York times. During the inauguration of trump, he met Elliott Broidy, Executive and top tube fundraiser. They quickly developed a collegial relationship, and it seems that the Nadir has helped Broidy to do some major business deals in exchange for influence at the White house.
Nadir helped to connect Broidy for some new potential clients for private Broidy the security company, Estonian by circini: UAE and Saudi Arabia. He helped Estonians by circini to win more than contracts with the United Arab Emirates $ 200 million and was recently in negotiations with Broidy to execute the contract on $ 650 million with Saudi Arabia.
Then they discussed how Broidy can use their influence in Washington to lobby on behalf of the Saudi and UAE foreign policy goals, how to take a hard line against Qatar and Iran.
Just a few weeks after Nader wired $ 2.5 million Broidy through a company in Canada, Broidy began to make large donations to members of Congress who have been backing legislation critical of Qatar for supporting terrorism in the middle East.
Last fall, Broidy Nader sent a memo detailing how he used a meeting in the oval office with trump to put pressure on the President to meet with bin Zayed and the support of its foreign policy goals in the region. He also urged trump to fire then-Secretary of state Rex Tillerson.
It’s unclear what they discussed in those meetings, but given the style of Nader of using business deals to score political points, the investigators, of course, looking for signs that he violated laws restricting and regulating the flow of foreign money in American politics.
All of this suggests that Nader is not just your average businessman, or even your average character in Trumpworld. Instead, it is potentially an important source for researchers looking to answer the question of whether Russia and the trump campaign in collusion in 2016.
Sourse: vox.com
