and apparently quite a key adviser to the trump campaign, george nader tried to make his case to a judge today that he should be released on bail ahead of his trial on charges of transporting child pornography. george nader is cited multiple times in mueller s report as a witness who was involved in multiple high-level meetings during the transition and white house meetings as well during the campaign we know that he met with people including mike flynn and jared kushner and steve bannon and donald trump jr. mr. nader reportedly attending a meeting in which the trump campaign was offered a foreign-run social media manipulation campaign to try to tilt the election in trump s favor. imagine that. the trump campaign says they did not buy what was being offered to them at that meeting, but soon after the election, george nader nevertheless paid money to the firm that had been pitching the campaign that particular
disconnect between the lawyers in the case and the jungle who basically told flynn, you don t want me to sentence you right now. why don t you see if you can cooperate more because essentially signaling he was going to throw the book at him. something s going on right now. a lot of people have speculated that flynn may be in line for a pardon right now, and that s why he s replacing his legal team and the president might be heading toward that now. would that be potentially problematic in terms of the president being liable for obstruction? i think it would be very problematic. a pardon under these circumstances would raise all kinds of questions of obstruction. the mueller report alludes to the possibility that the president can be prosecuted after he leaves office in volume 1, pages 1 and 2, talks about preserving evidence, not only documents, but also memories and testimony. and so what the president may well be doing is trying to stop that prosecution after he leaves office.
was running this. he was holding that conference at donald trump s washington, d.c., hotel, of course, because, of course, he was. he had put over half $1 million into the pocket of trump s first national security adviser, but that guy got fired. so why not start putting money directly into donald trump s pocket through his hotel? that was may 2017. if may 2017 rings a bell for you as an important time, that s probably because just four days before that turkish lobbying conference got under way at trump s hotel, robert mueller was appointed special counsel to look into the russian attack on the 2016 election and any potential involvement by the trump campaign. not to mention all related matters. well, here s what we now know as of today. apparently that turkish businessman, the guy who paid mike flynn to lobby for the turkish government, after robert mueller was appointed, that guy s lawyers contacted mueller. contacted the special counsel s
office. they called up mueller and said, hey, our client, who paid the trump national security adviser to work secretly for the turkish government, our client s going to be in town this weekend for a conference at the trump hotel, would you like to speak with him? robert mueller was just appointed less than a week earlier. he probably hadn t even gotten his nameplate on the office door and didn t have a trash can yet. but this turkish guy s lawyers call him up, hey, our client would love to talk with you just in case you have any questions for him. so the special counsel s office apparently did take that meeting. they did that interview with this turkish businessman literally one week after mueller was appointed and that businessman walked in and, according to federal prosecutors, he astoutold them bunch of porky pies. he lied to mueller s investigators after having volunteered that he wanted to and in talk to them. yeah, that s as terrible as an
service, which has always been a source of intrigue. nobody knows what that payment was for. korgts mueller s report, george nader was a key intermediary between the trump transition and the kremlin, including arranging a meeting between a kremlin-connected russian banker and erik prince. that meeting set up by nader was reportedly intended to establish a back channel for communications between the new administration and vladimir putin s office. but now george nader is in custody and awaiting trial on child pornography charges. the judge in his case in virginia today ordered that nader must stay in jail until his trial despite george nader s generous offer in court today that he would not only pay $1 million cash bond, he was also happy to pay for round-the-clock security guards for himself who surely would not let him go astray or flee the country.