Even with the fakery of calling out the National Guard to prop up a failing border wall initiative, 45* failed to distract from the continuing Biglygate corruption scandal.
For Mueller, it’s never not been about the money in #TrumpRussia, as corroborating witnesses are having trouble getting in and out of the US.
George Nader also met with Bannon and Kushner during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations at least once, and also regularly during the early months of the presidency — including in May, right before Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia.
It’s possible that Nader has valuable information on the Trump transition team’s meetings with foreign officials that have puzzled investigators for months. And Mueller’s investigators are looking into how he may have funneled Emirati money to a top Trump fundraiser to influence the White House’s Middle East policy.
As the Associated Press reports, the Mueller probe is especially interested in two meetings in particular that occurred while Nader was serving as an adviser to the UAE. The first is a meeting he attended in Trump Tower in New York in December 2016 with Jared Kushner; Steve Bannon, who was then Trump’s chief strategist; and Mohammed bin Zayed, the UAE’s de facto ruler.
The second event was in January 2017 in Seychelles, a collection of islands in the Indian Ocean. That meeting included Nader; bin Zayed; Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian fund manager with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin; and Erik Prince, the founder of the private security firm Blackwater and an informal adviser to the Trump transition team.
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The questions by Mr. Mueller’s team concern a private consulting firm, Wikistrat, as well as two of its co-founders, Joel Zamel and Daniel Green.
Wikistrat—which was founded in Israel in 2010 and today is based in Washington, D. C.—bills itself as a crowdsourced consulting firm that draws on a large network of experts to help analyze geopolitical problems on behalf of corporate clients and governments.
Wikistrat operates a global network of over 2,200 subject-matter experts working collaboratively via our online platform to help decision-makers identify solutions to complex strategic challenges. The crowdsourced approach enables public and private sector clients to obtain deeper insights about the future – as well as plan more creative policy options and strategies – with unparalleled speed and cost efficiency.
Wikistrat’s crowdsourcing methodology – Collaborative Competition™ – allows for the generation of diverse and interdisciplinary insights unavailable through traditional analysis, with complete transparency and client interactivity. We leverage our experience of having conducted hundreds of crowdsourced studies and simulations to deliver a range of bespoke analytic services, including:
- Prediction and early warning
- Scenario planning
- Strategic forecasting
- On-the-ground collection
- Innovative policy recommendations
- Real-time analysis and monitoring of geopolitical affairs
- Modeling complex environments through the combination of big data and crowdsourcing