Oh boy liberal twitter is practically peeing itself it’s so happy about a report from the New York Times saying that Mueller has proof that someone else lied about a Trump meeting.
NYT’s new article on Nader indicates he attended the Seychelles meeting with Prince and Dmitriev, and is cooperating with investigators. https://t.co/sPOh68POAx
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 7, 2018
Mueller has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration was an effort to establish a back-channel between the incoming administration and the Kremlin, WaPo reports. https://t.co/k9S79Om2XR
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 8, 2018
Oh. My. G-d. https://t.co/KkOLuzjGu3
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 8, 2018
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Mueller gathers evidence that 2016 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlinhttps://t.co/YauvLHQKOf— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) March 8, 2018
Here’s the report from the Wall Street Journal:
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back channel between the incoming administration and the Kremlin — apparently contradicting statements made to lawmakers by one of its participants, according to people familiar with the matter.
In January 2017, Erik Prince, the founder of the private security company Blackwater, met with a Russian official close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and later described the meeting to congressional investigators as a chance encounter that was not a planned discussion of U.S.-Russia relations.
A witness cooperating with Mueller has told investigators the meeting was set up in advance so that a representative of the Trump transition could meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the countries, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
Well. That sounds like a problem – but this another story based on anonymous sources, and so far those have ended up going no where, mostly. There’s a lot more to go before we find out if Mueller has anything definitive on Trump or anyone else…