George Nader, a shadowy figure who for decades has served many conservatives operating in the Middle East, and has been linked to the Trump transition team, was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges, The Washington Post reports.
What makes Nader’s links to numerous high-level Republicans so astonishing is he had previously served a year in jail after being convicted on similar charges and for sexually abusing 10 boys years ago in the Czech Republic. He was also previously separately indicted on child porn charges but they were later dropped.
Nader attended a 2016 Trump Tower meeting headed by Donald Trump Jr., which also was attended by key figures in the Trump orbit. Among them, Erik Prince, the founder of the militia corporation Blackwater, and a Trump supporter and GOP donor. Also present was Stephen Miller.
Nader worked as a consultant to Erik Prince, who happens to be the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
“Nader played an unusual role as a kind of liaison between Trump supporters, Middle East leaders, and Russians interested in making contact with the incoming administration in early 2017,” The Post notes.
He also “helped arrange a meeting in the Seychelles in January 2017 between Erik Prince,” The Post adds, “and a Russian official close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
The Post describes Nader as a “key witness in former Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian election interference.”
Nader has also been called a business partner to a top Republican Party fundraiser and the now-former deputy finance chairman of the RNC, Elliott Broidy.
Here’s a CNN report from 2018 on Nader: