Here it is, the complete story -- Elliott Broidy, George Nader and a yearlong lobby effort to win Gulf defense contracts -- with @desmondbutler ... apnews.com/a3521859cf8d4c…
Some key details from our investigation, thread:
Lobbying was done at the highest levels in Washington, in search of UAE and Saudi Arabia defense contracts
Lobbying was done at the highest levels in Washington, in search of UAE and Saudi Arabia defense contracts
Nader's lawyer declined comment, a lawyer for Broidy said there was no wrongdoing
The @AP discovered a second meeting between Trump and Broidy, Dec. 2, 2017, where Broidy pushed a harder line on Qatar
(The first meeting (previously reported) was Oct. 6, 2017.)
In the meetings, Broidy passed messages that Nader said were from the crown princes directly to Trump, according to documents and interviews
The AP received hundreds of pages of email exchanges and documents and did exhaustive reporting checking them out
In exchanges, Broidy and Nader dubbed Trump "Chairman" and Qatar "the snake." Nader lit into Jared Kushner in one note, calling him the "Clown prince"
The pair's intensive effort began with their meeting at Trump's inauguration in 2017 and it ended when Mueller's agents confronted Nader a year later as he was en route to the Trump Inauguration anniversary party at Mar a Lago
Just a few months after meeting each other, Nader wired Broidy $2.5 million for the lobbying effort
Broidy's sent Nader instructions to wire the money through an opaque Canadian company named Xiemen Ivestments, Ltd. ...
And a few days later, on April 7, 2017, Broidy sent an invoice to Xiemen for the first $1 million of the $2.5 million -- minus $50,000, per this document
Btw, you should really read this document cloud, annotated by @desmondbutler .. a detailed walk through the pertinent details
here's the link: documentcloud.org/documents/4471…
