Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, is in a world of hurt. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a team of highly talented investigators checking his business transactions out, both before and during the president’s first year in office. It is getting really bad.
Kushner, who does not have a top-level security clearance but access to all the nation’s most secret intelligence, has been taking trips to meet with leaders in Israel and other countries. Yet, it is the meetings with the man who is in effect the United Arab Emirates leader (UAE) that is most troublesome.
Mueller’s investigators have just been scrutinizing whether one of the UAE’s leader’s advisers to the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. The Lebanese-American businessman, George Nader, has visited the White House numerous times this previous year, according to The New York Times.
The probe has taken Mueller’s people beyond how Russia affected the 2016 presidential election and any relationship that had on the Trump campaign. Now, he is looking at how Nader impacted the Trump administration’s policies.
The special counsel is especially interested the possibility that the UAE may have bought influence with Trump by donating to his presidential campaign. It is illegal for any foreign country to contribute to a U.S. presidential campaign.
Mueller unsealed indictments against 13 Russian nationals for their part in meddling in the Trump-Hillary Clinton presidential election. As of now, it is unclear whether the UAE was related to the Russian arm of the investigation.
Last year, Trump asked Qatar to quit funding terrorism during a UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt, and Qatar dispute. Unfortunately, the U.S. president’s involvement conflicted with his own Cabinet’s stance. They said it interfered with their campaign against ISIS.
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Trump did not report all of Nadar’s trips to the visit him or his administration. The president’s top fund-raiser, Elliott Broidy, gave him an in-depth report about a private meeting in the Oval Office with the U.S. commander-in-chief. The New York Times obtained a copy of Broidy’s memo regarding the meeting. An individual who was critical of the UAE’s influence in the White House.
The Times reported:
‘Mr. Broidy owns a private security company with hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts with the United Arab Emirates, and he extolled to Mr. Trump a paramilitary force that his company was developing for the country. He also lobbied the president to meet privately “in an informal setting” with the Emirates’ military commander and de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan; to back the U.A.E.’s hawkish policies in the region; and to fire Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson.’
It has come to light that the special counsel filed a superseding indictment against Paul Manafort. He was Trump’s campaign manager for nearly half of a year.
Mueller also obtained a guilty plea from Rick Gates, long-time business associate of Mueller and Trump campaign worker. Gates traded that plea for his cooperating in the special counsel’s investigation.
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