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Mueller’s Focus on Adviser to Emirates Suggests Broader Investigation
The New York Times ^ | MARCH 3, 2018 | MARK MAZZETTI, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MAGGIE HABERMAN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: emirates; mueller; muellerinvestigation; muelleroutofcontrol; trump; uae
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To: JoSixChip
That's if there's any "crime" applicable to Trump.

This looks a lot like the charges against Manafort, where Mueller is going way beyond his initial mandate and found some money moving around somewhere that could be construed as "laundering," for which a Federal prosecutor could indict just about anyone.

If the Dems want to go the impeachment route, they can use any excuse the want if they retake the House.

I'm almost inclined to say, "bring it on," because I'd like to see Maxine Water's head on a pole on the Mall along with the others.

21 posted on 03/05/2018 1:16:53 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: detective

Mueller is fishing for something/anything.


22 posted on 03/05/2018 1:19:39 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

I AM SICK & TIRED OF THE WITCH HUNT!CONGRESS: DE-FUND MUELLER ET AL. Does Sessions have any conflict
of interest with UAE aspects? MUELLER does, he worked for the FBI & is a friend of Comey.


23 posted on 03/05/2018 1:20:30 PM PST by Tuketu (The Dim Platform is splinters bound by crazy glue. TRUMP is the solvent.)
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To: detective

Mueller = Lavrentiy Beria

“Show me the man and I will show you the crime.”


24 posted on 03/05/2018 1:21:18 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: tennmountainman
If Mulehead keeps this up there will be civil unrest.

I don't think so. Let me know when it happens.
25 posted on 03/05/2018 1:21:48 PM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Fantasywriter

Yeah, well, do that enough and you’ll make enough enemies and get what Beria got in the end.


26 posted on 03/05/2018 1:23:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: detective

This is all going as planned. The snail speed of the fake investigation by wretched swamp into the next elections.


27 posted on 03/05/2018 1:26:20 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: dfwgator

Beria died hard.

Mueller is protected by layers of Deep State. The speed with which Rosenstein orchestrated Sessions’ recusal and Mueller’s appointment speaks volumes. It was well planned in advance, and intended as a coup.

If—and this is a mighty big if—Mueller ever wraps up, he’d better have fabricated something explosive on Trump. Otherwise, you’re right; heads will roll.


28 posted on 03/05/2018 1:29:17 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

Beria used to mock his victims going to Stalin and acting out their last moments of hysterical crying and yelling.

When it was Beria’s turn, he cried as hysterically as his victims.


29 posted on 03/05/2018 1:33:48 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

You got that right. Beria was way better at killing than at showing an ounce of dignity when what went around came back around.


30 posted on 03/05/2018 1:37:59 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: b4its2late

Mueller is the Master, RosenWeasel the Slave.


31 posted on 03/05/2018 2:07:19 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Fantasywriter
" It was well planned in advance, and intended as a coup."

Totally a RICO Conspiracy to commit Sedition.

32 posted on 03/05/2018 2:09:37 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: detective

Tye Middle East now? Wow, so does that place Clinton and Hussein Obama in the crosshairs?


33 posted on 03/05/2018 2:15:46 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Paladin2

Agree. Sessions sure had a lot of people fooled. They just better all hope their treachery succeeds. If Trump ever manages to get out from under this travesty, he’ll...counter punch.


34 posted on 03/05/2018 2:29:55 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: detective; All

OH MY GOD —- Dan Bongino is a friggin’ GENIUS. FF to 42:29 and listen to his section on why he thinks Mueller is chasing the UAE angle now. Remember when Obama was SNUBBED by UAE during transition bc they didn’t tell him they were in town? He was PISSED...

https://twitter.com/bloodless_coup/status/970786794425016321


35 posted on 03/05/2018 2:30:09 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: FreeReign

>>Mueller wouldn’t need to go on a fishing expedition to the UAE if he were going after somebody “other than Trump”.

I don’ think so. This UAE rep is only marginally associated with Trump. He is, however, heavily associated with Syria and the Obama admin.


36 posted on 03/05/2018 3:54:39 PM PST by struggle
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To: detective

Clinton Foundation.


37 posted on 03/05/2018 4:06:51 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Demographics destroys cultures more completely than thermonuclear war.)
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