George Nader was a back-channel moderator with Syria

George Nader, the mysterious Lebanese-American businessman who attended Trump campaign meetings with foreign officials during the presidential transition—and who is now cooperating with the Mueller probe—took millions of dollars from the United Arab Emirates before he began handing out large political donations to U.S. lawmakers considering legislation targeting Qatar, the UAE’s main rival.

A number of well-connected and experienced Middle East hands in Washington told me they'd never heard of George Nader.

“In the 1990s, George Nader was a very effective under-the-radar operator in the peace process,” former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin S. Indyk told the Times. “Then, he disappeared.”

George Nader and bin Zayed were a world away on the Seychelles island chain in the Indian Ocean.

Mr. George Nader spoke to the crown sovereign in the three-path discussion in the Seychelles, at an inn sitting above in the Indian Ocean, in the prior days Mr. Trump took office.

Amid the center piece of the most recent decade, Mr. George Nader seems to have invested the majority of George Nader's energy in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq after the 2003 intrusion. He grew close connections to national security authorities in the Bush White House.

A prior adaptation of this article misquoted the estimation of an arrangement George Nader helped specialist in 2012 for the administration of Iraq. It was $4.2 billion, not $4.2 million.

George Nader, 58, is apparently a nearby consultant to the UAE's MBZ. One source with information of their relationship disclosed to The Atlantic that Nader was the crown ruler's "detachment".

George Nader was a back-channel moderator with Syria amid the Clinton organization, rethought himself as a guide to the accepted leader of the United Arab Emirates, and a year ago was a continuous guest to President Trump's White House.

"In light of his notoriety for reasonableness and his surprising access to key political and business pioneers all through the locale, George Nader has delivered a magazine of qualification and superb," Rahall, D-W.Va., said on Capitol Hill at the time.

George Nader “effectively vanished from the capital’s policy scene, and his magazine ceased publication in 2002.”