Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking at several other meetings that took place in early 2017, in addition to a previously reported meeting between a Trump adviser and foreign individuals, NJ Advance Media reported on Tuesday.
The report did not provide details on who attended the meeting or exactly when the meetings took place. Per NJ Advance Media:
The sources said several of those meetings took place around the same time as another meeting in the Seychelles between Erik Prince, founder of the security company Blackwater, Kirill Dmitriev, the director of one of Russia’s sovereign wealth funds, and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the effective ruler of the United Arab Emirates (also known as “MBZ”).
The Washington Post reported last year that Prince met with a Russian businessman close to Vladimir Putin in January 2017 in an apparent attempt to set up a backchannel between associates of incoming President Donald Trump and Moscow. One of the participants in that meeting, George Nader, is cooperating with Mueller’s investigation.
Read NJ Advance Media’s full report on the additional meetings here.
I recall how pleasant he was about the House Committee hearing:
“Walking out of the Capitol alone, Prince characterized the interview as a waste of his time. He demanded that Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the committee, apologize for “wasting all of our time, for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a meaningless fishing expedition.””
So, Erik Prince lives in Abu Dhabi, and so does MBZ.
Kirill Dmitriev (a former Goldman Sachs guy, natch), lives in Russia.
Why do they all have to meet in the middle of the Indian Ocean other than to pull off some world-shaking fuckery?
This morning during Executive Time:
No collusion! No collusion! No collusion! No collusion! No collusion! No collusion! No collusion! No collusion! No collusion! No collusion! Nocolludun! Nocolludun! Nocolludun! Nocolludun! Nocolludun! Nickoludin! Nickoludin! Nickoludin! Nickoludin! Nickoludin!
Nickelodeon! Nickelodeon! Nickelodeon! Nickelodeon!
Pure bluster.
With this crew I am constantly reminded of that old saw “the best defense is a good offense.”
And, Dog knows, these guys are all offensive…!
I thought MBZ was from Dubai. He owns the Four Seasons Resort there on Mahe. I’ve been there and seen his house, his mother-in-law’s house with the rail ramp going down the beach, along with his floating heliport so that he doesn’t have to mix with the hoi poloi when his private jet lands at the airport in Victoria. My now son-in-law was working at the Four Seasons there when my daughter and I met him. He doesn’t have a lot of good things to say about Arab guests, but he does say the Russians were worse.