June 4, 2019: Witch Hunt? A Witch Gets Shot off a Broom

 

6/4/19: The Mueller “Witch Hunt” continues. George Nader, a Lebanese American businessman is the latest witch to be shot down while riding a broom. Nader was arrested on June 3, after landing at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. His arrest, under sealed indictment, stems from the Russia investigation. That means he spends today consulting with lawyers. 

Nader with the president.

 

Questioned about suspicious contacts with Russians. 

Nadar, an occasional Trump adviser, was first stopped by F.B.I. agents at a D.C. airport on January 17, 2018. He was pulled into a side room and questioned about suspicious contacts with Russians during the 2016 campaign. At the time, Nader was headed for Mar-a-Lago, to celebrate Trump’s first year at the helm. 

Nader had also been part of the Trump transition team, headed up by that paragon of Christian virtue, Vice President Jesus. 

Now, agents wielding a warrant confiscated his electronic devices (Nader’s, not the vice president’s). A subsequent search revealed evidence of possible child pornography. A new warrant resulted. A dozen sexually explicit videos were recovered. That led to a sealed indictment. But yesterday was the first chance authorities had to arrest Nader, who works overseas. 

If convicted, Nader – who was convicted on child pornography charges in the Czech Republic in 1991 – faces at least fifteen years in prison.

 

Nader is exactly the type of sleazebag who routinely floats to the top in stories involving Mr. Trump. He first came to the attention of federal investigators when they got wind of a secret meeting in January 2017, in The Seychelles. Admit it: you have no idea where these islands are. 

Neither did this blogger. 

This explains why they were perfect for a secret meeting. Nadar was one participant. Kirill Dmitriev, representing Vladimir Putin, was a second. Third was Erik Prince, brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Once the secret meeting was revealed, Prince claimed it was all a matter of chance. He just happened to be vacationing in The Seychelles. And he just happened to run into the Russian guy in a bar. And they just happened to decide to have a friendly chat, of no consequence. 

The Mueller Report proves otherwise. Nader set it all up. Mueller has emails and phone records.

 

That wasn’t the first time Nader was involved in a suspicious secret meeting. In May 2018, the “Fake News” New York Times broke the story of another secret conclave. This one, in August 2016, had involved Nader, Donald Trump Jr., and representatives of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. 

Plus: Erik Prince! 

Plus: Joel Zamel, representing an Israeli tech company. Zamel pitched a plan to “to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Hillary Clinton.” 

Participants in that meeting disagree about what happened next, with almost everyone conveniently denying any such work was ever performed (which would surely have been illegal). 

Oddly enough, Mueller’s team turned up evidence that Nader sent Zamel $2,000,000 after the election.

 

To spice up the story, let’s toss another felon into the stew. After Trump won the election, Nader helped arrange a defense consulting deal between the United Arab Emirates and Elliott Broidy. That deal was worth as much as $600 million. It was an odd choice, for sure, since Broidy wasn’t the type you’d trust with a contract of that magnitude, or any other contract. He was convicted in 2009 of paying a cool million dollars in bribes to New York State officials. In return, he had scored a deal to invest $250 million in New York State pension funds. 

Broidy is also the guy who agreed to pay a $1.6 million hush money payment to a Playboy Bunny he impregnated. 

That deal was worked out by a third felon, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer. 

The Bunny had an abortion.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE (August 2019): We were in error, above. Broidy is not a felon. He plead guilty to a felony, but was later allowed to plead to a misdemeanor after he agreed to cooperate with investigators in the bribery scandal.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE #2 (October 2020): Okay, Broidy is now a felon again. This time he plead guilty to one charge of influence-peddling on behalf of foreign countries, while also having President Trump’s ear. 

In one case, “Foreign National A” handed Broidy what an ordinary person might refer to as a $9 million bribe.