Proof of Conspiracy by Seth Abramson

Author:Seth Abramson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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In the first week of January 2017, several American intelligence agencies issue a joint report “accusing Russia of intervening clandestinely during the 2016 election to help Trump win the White House.”204 Meanwhile, the FBI is already investigating Flynn’s December phone calls to Kislyak; these communications become public knowledge on January 12, the second day of meetings in the Seychelles—meetings whose scheduling and conduct are apparently unaffected by a public report accusing Russia of secretly aiding Trump’s election chances.205

That George Nader “uses his connections to Russia” to set up and attend the meetings in the Seychelles underscores that when he gathered together MBS, MBZ, el-Sisi, and others on a yacht in the Red Sea in fall 2015 he may well have been doing so mindful of his ability to access and to some degree represent the interests of top Kremlin officials. It also suggests that he may have played this same role in meeting with Trump Jr. and Stephen Miller at Trump Tower in August 2016 alongside Joel Zamel, who had previously worked for Kremlin-linked oligarchs—and that in the Seychelles Nader may once again have been acting in the interests of the Kremlin.206 According to the Washington Post, Nader will tell Robert Mueller that the purpose of the Seychelles meetings was to have “a representative of the Trump transition … meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the countries … [and] establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and the incoming administration.”207 Prince will under oath contradict Nader, telling the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as detailed by CNN, that the meetings in the Seychelles were “not part of an effort to set up a Russian backchannel with the Trump administration.”208 Prince will further contradict the Seychelles meetings’ organizer by saying that he was not acting as a Trump representative in attending any of the events on the island.209 Prince will tell Congress that he didn’t know who Dmitriev was before meeting him, and that he only Googled him seconds before he met him so he would be able to recognize his face. He will also tell Congress that he would have done more research on the RDIF director and Kremlin agent before meeting him to discuss geopolitics—including urgent matters touching on U.S.-Russia relations—but “data roaming is expensive when you’re overseas.”210 According to publicly available information, Prince is a billionaire worth a reported $2.4 billion.211

When the Mueller Report is released in April 2019, it will confirm Nader’s narrative, rather than Prince’s, in all particulars. Contemporaneous reporting from media in the United States will reach the same conclusion. According to The Intercept, when Prince arrived in the Seychelles his longtime friend and business partner MBZ told the Emiratis gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel that Erik was “his guy” and that the UAE “owed Erik a favor.”212 The digital media outlet adds that, from MBZ’s perspective, “Trump’s public infatuation with Putin and his apparent eagerness to improve relations with Russia gave the UAE a

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