Posted on 03/05/2018 12:45:37 PM PST by detective
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 Trump’s White House.
Mr. Nader is now a focus of the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel. In recent weeks, Mr. Mueller’s 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. Nader’s 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.
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This has nothing whatsoever to do with Russia or the election.
Mueller is completely out of control.
Since when is the UAE part of Russia?
Totally out of control, but according to Rod, he’s well within his stated mission.... SMH.
How bizarre is this?
This is really odd. I have a strong feeling that Mueller’s exploring something other than Trump.
Q: So how did someone investigating in the USA, connect with someone from Lebanon?
A: Valerie Jarrett, Huma or someone on Hillary’s staff told him.
People with strong connections already in Lebanon.
So now they are alleging that Trump colluded with the UAE? LOL this whole thing is laughable
If Mueller is NOT one of Trump’s 4-D chess pieces...
Yep— I would think it’s a textbook case of no probable cause, so any “evidence” gets tossed.
Rush spoke about this at length and pointed out the hypocrisy of the the allegations of foreign money in elections, the clinton foundation and how soon after hillary lost the election the clinton foundations was shut down...
Hillary’s minions and Obama’s wiretapping found nothing so Sessions gives the Democrats a blank check to go after Trump
Headline is wrong.
It suggests Mueller is grasping at straws.
Perhaps a platoon of patriotic Marines will bust into Mueller’s shop, arrest every one of those traitors and
Shuffle them off to Gitmo.
I can dream, can’t I?
Yep. This has nothing to do with Russia collusion.
If Mulehead keeps this up there will be civil unrest.
I agree. The Democrats are betting heavily on retaking Congress and they want Mueller to find ANYTHING they can use in an attempt to impeach President Trump. If the Republicans in Congress don’t wise up quickly, the Democrats will be successful and will be “in power” from then on. Republicans will never regain Congress OR the White House. They will stack the Supreme Court to make sure that any legislature is passed by either voting or jurisdictional edict.
Jeff Sessions has been AG for 1 year, 24 days.
There are so many easy things Mueller could go after if he was not targeting Trump. Mueller wouldn't need to go on a fishing expedition to the UAE if he were going after somebody "other than Trump".
Obviously, Mueller is going after Trump.
Mueller is getting desperate for something more than small fry who told a little White lie and he is running amok.
If we only had someone with the power to rein him in and end this unwarranted mission creep.
Someone like a real Attorney General.
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