elliott broidy, he is no longer the deputy finance chairman of the rnc. he stepped down from that position when it was revealed he made hush money payments to a playboy model with whom he d had an affair. oddly, the hush money payments were brokered by the presidents long-time attorney michael cohen and another man named keith davidson, two men involved in hush money payments before the election arrangements for which michael cohen is now serving his own federal prison sentence and for which he too had to step down as deputy finance chairman of the rnc. broidy himself has also reportedly come under federal investigation for, among other things, offering to have the justice department investigation into a huge international fraud case turned off. broidy was offering a contract in which he said that he could get that investigation quashed if the interested parties would pay him and his wife $75 million. now, why did elliott broidy believe that he could turn off a major justice departme
the crown prince of the uae was there. mbz was there. erik prince was there. the guy from the russian sovereign wealth fund was there as an emissary of the kremlin. nader is the one who brought them all together. that s january 2017. later that month, donald trump is sworn in and becomes president. axios goes on to report that george nader becomes a frequent visitor in the trump white house. during that first year that trump is in office, that s when nader and elliott broidy are trying to pull off this scheme where broidy will get paid a million dollars of contracts in exchange for him using his influence to turn the president, to turn the u.s. government, against qatar, despite the fact we have this big air base there. and then as we are rolling up on the one-year anniversary of trump being in office, in january of 2018, george nader apparently makes plans to travel to mar-a-lago to attend what were expected to be over the top festivities at the president s private club in florida to
broidy was offering a contract in which he said that he could get that investigation quashed if the interested parties would pay him and his wife $75 million. now, why del yot broidy believe that he could turn off a major justice department investigation in exchange for tens of millions of dollars? i don t know. but that is one of a number of issues for which elliott broidy has reportedly come under investigation. nice folks from the trump campaign. nice folks from the trump-era republican national committee. now, as for elliott broidy s business partner in that qatar thing, well, as of today he has a new and newly serious additional child pornography charge to contend with. devlin barrett and rachel weiner at the washington post were first to break the news today that george indicted again on new child pornography charges stemming from an fbi search of his three iphones at dulles airport in
that the u.s. government should turn against qatar. that the u.s. government should separate itself from and start denouncing qatar. where we have that huge air base. right? qatar, this crucial u.s. ally in the middle east. the biggest u.s. military outpost anywhere in the middle east. those other gulf countries right next to qatar, though, uae and saudi arabia, they see qatar as their arch enemy. they want to turn the u.s. government against qatar. how much would they be willing to pay for that? almost anything presumably. well, george nader and elliott broidy reportedly teamed up after they met at the trump inauguration to try to give those countries someone to pay in order to achieve that result. and that result, the president himself inexplicably delivered in the rose garden standing right next to the president of romania on a fine june day in 2017, just months after he was inaugurated. out of the blue inexplicably denouncing qatar as terrorists. it s almost like you could pick any
broidy was operating some kind of defense contracting firm. nader was planning to hook him up with a huge amount of contracting revenue, like a billion dollars in contracts from uae and saudi arabia. was that because his defense contracting firm was the greatest one on earth and ought to have those contracts? i don t know. but this is what broidy was reportedly going to do in exchange for him getting those contracts. in exchange for those billion dollars worth of contracts broidy, right, this deputy finance chair for the rnc, leading fund-raiser for the trump campaign, broidy would use his influence with the new trump administration to get the administration to do things that the u.s. government would never otherwise be inclined to do. but that saudi and united arab emirates wanted. specifically, in exchange for his company getting a billion dollars in contracts, broidy would reportedly try to persuade the trump administration that the president should start talking smack against qatar