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Date: May 20th, 2018 10:01 AM
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WASHINGTON — Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.

Erik Prince, the private security contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader, told Donald Trump Jr. that the princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president. The social media specialist, Joel Zamel, extolled his company’s ability to give an edge to a political campaign; by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.

Donald Trump Jr. responded approvingly, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, and after those initial offers of help, Mr. Nader was quickly embraced as a close ally by Trump campaign advisers — meeting frequently with Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, and Michael T. Flynn

After Mr. Trump was elected, Mr. Nader paid Mr. Zamel a large sum of money, described by one associate as up to $2 million. There are conflicting accounts of the reason for the payment, but among other things, a company linked to Mr. Zamel provided Mr. Nader with an elaborate presentation about the significance of social media campaigning to Mr. Trump’s victory.

The interactions are a focus of the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, who was originally tasked with examining possible Trump campaign coordination with Russia in the election.

Mr. Nader is cooperating with the inquiry, and investigators have questioned numerous witnesses in Washington, New York, Atlanta, Tel Aviv and elsewhere about what foreign help may have been pledged or accepted, and about whether any such assistance was coordinated with Russia, according to witnesses and others with knowledge of the interviews.

The interviews, some in recent weeks, are further evidence that special counsel’s investigation remains in an intense phase even as Mr. Trump’s lawyers are publicly calling for Mr. Mueller to bring it to a close.

Mr. Nader also visited Moscow at least twice during the presidential campaign as a confidential emissary from Crown Prince Mohammed of Abu Dhabi, according to people familiar with his travels. After the election, he worked with the crown prince to arrange a meeting in the Seychelles between Mr. Prince and a financier close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Companies connected to Mr. Zamel also have ties to Russia. One of his firms had previously worked for oligarchs linked to Mr. Putin, including Oleg V. Deripaska and Dmitry Rybolovlev, who hired the firm for online campaigns against their business rivals.

Mr. Deripaska, an aluminum magnate, was once in business with the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has pleaded not guilty in the special counsel investigation to charges of financial crimes and failing to disclose the lobbying work he did on behalf of a former president of Ukraine, an ally of Mr. Putin. Mr. Rybolovlev once purchased a Florida mansion from Mr. Trump.

Mr. Nader’s visits to Russia and the work Mr. Zamel’s companies did for the Russians have both been a subject of interest to the special counsel’s investigators, according to people familiar with witness interviews.

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“There was a brief meeting, nothing concrete was offered or pitched to anyone and nothing came of it,” said Mr. Mukasey, the lawyer for Mr. Zamel.

By then, a company connected to Mr. Zamel had been working on a proposal for a covert multimillion-dollar online manipulation campaign to help elect Mr. Trump, according to three people involved and a fourth briefed on the effort. The plan involved using thousands of fake social media accounts to promote Mr. Trump’s candidacy on platforms like Facebook.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089354)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 11:02 AM
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Lol Trump is absolutely LOSING IT over this story

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089570)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 11:11 AM
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/998194013193822208?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089597)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 9:43 AM
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Though Zamel is associated with several high-profile companies — including the Israeli-founded, Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm Wikistrat — the company he was representing at this particular Trump Tower meeting was a secretive entity called PSY Group, whose somewhat ominous motto is “Shape Reality.” Their proposal, as described by the Times, involved the use of thousands of fake Facebook profiles:

Mr. Zamel had been working on a proposal for a covert multimillion-dollar online manipulation campaign to help elect Mr. Trump, according to three people involved and a fourth briefed on the effort. The plan involved using thousands of fake social media accounts to promote Mr. Trump’s candidacy on platforms like Facebook.

Currently, the company’s official site is extremely sparse, showing only their corporate logo and a Cypriot business address that is also the address of the Cyprus branch of an international firm that “predominantly serves professional intermediary and corporate clients in Cyprus, Russia and [Central and Eastern Europe].”

An archived version of their website from 2016, however, provides much more detail about the kinds of services they offered, and which suggested ties to various intelligence agencies and described their actions on social media:

Psy Group was founded and is managed by a group of high ranking officers from some the world’s most renowned elite intelligence agencies. Highly experienced in operating in complex and challenging environments, our team has a proven track record in information gathering, analysis, research, special intelligence operations and technology in the physical and cyber domains.

Our influence team is comprised of top experts who specialize in promotion, campaign, advertising, SEO/SEM, ORM, guerilla marketing and more. We maintain a hands-on approach, utilizing decades of experience of interfacing with the highest level of government officials and decision makers to deliver unparalleled results with utmost discretion. […]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36124992)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 10:07 AM
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Uh oh!!!!

There were concerns inside the company, Psy-Group, about the plan’s legality, according to one person familiar with the effort. The company, whose motto is “shape reality,” consulted an American law firm, and was told that it would be illegal if any non-Americans were involved in the effort.

Mr. Zamel, the founder of Psy-Group and one of its owners, has been questioned about the August 2016 meeting by investigators for the special counsel, and at least two F.B.I. agents working on the inquiry have traveled to Israel to interview employees of the company who worked on the proposal. According to one person, the special counsel’s team has worked with the Israeli police to seize the computers of one of Mr. Zamel’s companies, which is currently in liquidation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089373)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 10:15 AM
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Russians hired Israelis to help with their Manchurian candidate operation. Any anti-Semitic Trumpmos care to respond??

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089391)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: snowy range

A third of Israelis speak Russian, bro. The two countries are natural allies and can jointly rule Yankeestan.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089574)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 12:11 PM
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Date: May 20th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Slippery forum community account

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-a-small-world-of-trump-lawyers

Lawyers represent many different clients. There’s a limit on how much we can infer from these relationships. But it is striking how many lawyers with extremely close ties to the Trump family, often longtime lawyers for President Trump himself, are also currently representing various foreign interests who the Special Counsel is now investigating in its probe. What I’m about to describe involves a slightly different set of people. But it is similar and to me quite notable. It comes from this new blockbuster Times article revealing offers of help from a group of Gulf princes which Donald Trump, Jr. apparently eagerly embraced.

Let’s put a pin in that larger story for a moment. We’ll return to it. One of the major players in this is Joel Zamel, an Israeli social media expert who has a company that runs social media psy-ops campaigns quite similar to the effort Russia mounted on Trump’s behalf in the 2016 campaign. The possibility of his doing that on Trump’s behalf came up in these newly revealed meetings. Zamel also has close business ties to a number of key Russian oligarchs who he has frequently worked with. One of them is Oleg Deripaska, the guy Paul Manafort owed all the money to. Needless to say Bob Mueller’s investigators seem highly interested in all of this.

Again, let’s put a pin in that larger set of connections. The Times notes that Zamel is represented by a man named Marc L. Mukasey. You may recognize the name because he’s the son of the former Attorney General Michael Mukasey. For our present purposes what is important is that Mukasey has been the deputy and the law partner of Rudy Giuliani for years. Partnerships are big. You can be the ‘law partner’ of lots of different people. This is different. They’ve been like a team for many years – first at Bracewell Giuliani and then together again at Greenberg Taurig. Indeed, when Giuliani came onboard with President Trump, Mukasey was in discussions to join President Trump’s team. That was just a couple weeks ago!

Now, one might say to all this, people represent lots of different people. As long as you’re clear with all involved about whether there are any conflicts, it’s not necessarily a problem. That’s true as far as it goes. But a lot of these relationships are very close, very incestuous.

Here’s another example. Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s longtime attorney, represented Trump in the Russia probe for a significant portion of last year and has been consulting with the President in recent works also represented the US affiliate of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. That’s the outfit that paid $500,000 to Michael Cohen.

Again, lawyers work for lots of different clients. They sometimes appear to connect up weird combinations of people through different people they represent. All of that’s true. But there are lots of examples of Trump lawyers and people tight in Trump’s orbit representing people on the other side of these collusion investigations. It’s odd.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089434)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: Histrionic bawdyhouse

Lol at the scuffling retards at tpm and lol at you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089546)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 10:46 AM
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Date: May 20th, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: primrose field striped hyena

Nader dindu nuffin! He a good mensch

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981933&forum_id=2#36089523)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 12:08 PM
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Date: May 20th, 2018 12:49 PM
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Date: May 21st, 2018 8:24 AM
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