I hope this has legs and that it tarnishes his version of things, but I feel this issue has been so normalized that people won't care. And the ones that do will dismiss it as political payback of some kind. But it is important for us to know since it pretty well confirms everything we've been preaching about.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/george-nader-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges.html
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In the grand web of the Mueller investigation, Lebanese-American businessman George Nader enters at a key point off the coast of East Africa. An adviser to Emirati crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Nader reportedly brokered a meeting in the Seychelles between a Russian surrogate close to Putin and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who has denied that he represented the Trump administration in any capacity.
According to Nader’s testimony in the Mueller report, that claim is dubious at best: Prince once told lawmakers he didn’t “fly there to meet any Russian guy,” but Nader told the special counsel he informed Prince that Russia was “looking to build a link with the incoming Trump administration.” The businessman, long considered a liaison between Washington and Middle Eastern officials, was a major source of information for the special counsel: The redacted Mueller report released in April refers to Nader in almost four dozen footnotes.
Nader provided testimony on the alleged attempt to establish a back channel between Trump and Moscow in exchange for immunity on any related charges. But on Monday, Nader was arrested on child-pornography charges in New York when he arrived at JFK airport. Justice Department officials state that Nader was originally charged in January 2018, when he arrived in Washington, D.C., from Dubai with a phone containing pictures of minors engaging in sexual conduct.
An affidavit unsealed on Monday asserts that a search warrant approved for a “matter unrelated to child pornography” allowed federal agents to search items on Nader. Upon his arrival in D.C. in January 2018, the FBI interviewed him on “a matter unrelated to child pornography,” after which Nader was told of the warrant. Three of his phones were seized, and an agent found “multiple files” of child pornography, at which point a second search warrant was issued to search for similar files. According to the affidavit, 12 sexually explicit videos of minors were found on Nader’s phones. If convicted, the 60-year-old faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of 40 years.
This is not a new legal issue for Nader: The businessman has faced charges of child pornography or underage sexual abuse every decade since the 1980s. In 1991, he served a six-month sentence after pleading guilty to the same charge after he flew from Germany to D.C. with two sexually explicit videotapes of 13- or 14-year-old boys. In 1985, he faced a similar charge for importing from the Netherlands magazines with depictions of naked children, a charge that was dismissed after a judge ruled the search warrant for Nader’s home was invalid. In 2003, he was convicted in the Czech Republic of sexually abusing 10 boys between 1999 and 2002, for which he served one year in prison.
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PutinsPenthouse ago
You missed the point of that Middle Eastern Eye article.
Those Arab leaders did not back Hillary, they backed Trump. Here's the part you missed.
Couple of other points to show how these folks supported Trump.
The NY Times just had an article that the most powerful Arab leader is the head of the UAE not Saudi Arabia -Mohammed bin Zayed. Nader was MBZ's man.
A. MBZ secretly came to America and met with team Trump.
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Erik Prince was representing team trump at that meeting.
Nader also worked with Eliot Broidy, the convicted felon that Trump installed on the Republican National Committee finance team.
Nader was working very, very closely with Team Trump.
theooeht ago
No, he wasn't, and I haven't missed anything.
Prince and The Trump team have continually denied that he represented them in any way, shape, or form. There is no proof other than his sworn statement to Mueller who we know is a liar himself. As I stated in the OP, I doubt whether this child-pornography charge will do much good in discrediting Nader. And there you go proving my worst fears true. Even with the latest charge that could land Nader in jail for 40 years, it's not tarnishing his word that was only his word without any proof to back it up. And, yet, Mueller singled him out to be star witness:
Why? For the same reason Steele was singled out to create a fake dossier: because both would say or do anything they were paid to do.
I'm extremely disheartened that people overlook such evidence when trying to ascertain the truthfulness of an individual. We've seen it in the Kavanaugh witch hunt and in this Mueller one. So go ahead and believe what you like. There's no convincing you. But I hope it does red-pill those that wish to take their blinders off.
Thanks.
think- ago
Yep.