So for those watching the Mueller witness show (making inferences from minor public announcements, because that damn ship doesn’t leak), there’s the carrots (Flynn, Gates, etc) and the sticks (Manafort). But Mueller just handed out an unusually large carrot. Complete immunity, granted to a nasty piece of work who could easily go down for a lot of unsavory shit. I’m hoping he got something equally large in return. And I hope Nader has a security detail, because he could be ratting on any or all of about four different organizations that like to assassinate people for fun and profit.
Questions I have include:
- What is the crime?
- Does this have anything to do with Russia?
You mean the crime being granted immunity or the crime being investigated? If the former, Nader is ick personified – there’s some indicators of that in the article of the sort of crimes being granted immunity. If the latter, we don’t know even that much – all of the specifics are behind the scenes and we don’t see any results until there’s an indictment. As I said, the Mueller team just doesn’t leak so you have to infer a bit. Nader organized the Seychelles meeting between Russian bankers/mobsters and the Trump team (Kushner et al and for some reason Erik Prince IIRC), so that’s the likely link to the Russia investigation. But again, we don’t know much until the indictments come out.