The New York Times, on Tuesday, reported Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed Lebanese-American businessman George Nader. The focus on Nader, who is reportedly cooperating and testified before a grand jury last week, brought focus back to a murky January 2017 meeting, during the presidential transition, in the Seychelles with Nader, a Putin-aligned Russian investor, and Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater and informal Trump adviser. The secretive meeting has been the subject of much speculation from those that were not involved and significant misdirection from those that were. The meeting was also speculated to be a potential backdoor link—with a U.A.E. detour—between the Trump universe and the Kremlin. On Wednesday, the Washington Post’s reporting confirmed that Mueller’s investigators have evidence the meeting was, in fact, an attempt to establish a back channel between the incoming Trump administration and the Kremlin.
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