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Trump Can’t Save Coal: More Capacity Closed in 2018 Than First Three Years of Obama Administration
“Beautiful, clean coal” is not seeing a resurgence, despite what the president claims.

Trump Can’t Save Coal: More Capacity Closed in 2018 Than First Three Years of Obama Administration

 

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Trump Donor’s Meeting With Russian Executive Draws Scrutiny of Special Counsel Mueller

Trump Donor’s Meeting With Russian Executive Draws Scrutiny of Special Counsel Mueller
Witness testimony appears to conflict with Blackwater founder’s account to House panel
Aruna Viswanatha
March 8, 2018 9:46 p.m. ET

A meeting in the Seychelles weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration between a Russian executive and a top Republican donor close to the Trump transition team has drawn the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller, who has heard testimony that appears to conflict with an account of the same meeting given earlier to House investigators, according to people familiar with the matter.:muellercmonson:

Mr. Prince, founder of the Blackwater security firm, told the House Intelligence Committee in November that he had traveled to the Seychelles to meet with Mohammed bin Zayed, crown prince of the United Arab Emirates, and his associates to discuss “potential business in the future,” according to a public transcript released by the panel, which is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

During his stay in January 2017, Mr. Prince said he also met with the Russian executive, Kirill Dmitriev. Mr. Prince told lawmakers that the meeting with Mr. Dmitriev was a short, chance encounter at the hotel bar and was arranged by a member of Mr. Zayed’s delegation. Mr. Dmitriev is the chief executive of an investment fund created by the Russian government and is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

However, testimony earlier this year from George Nader, an adviser close to UAE’s crown prince who is cooperating with Mr. Mueller’s investigation, has contradicted Mr. Prince’s account, according to the people familiar with the matter.:Muellerlmao:

Mr. Nader told Mr. Mueller’s investigators that he attended Mr. Prince’s meeting with the Emirati delegation and that the Emiratis didn’t make the introduction between Mr. Prince and Mr. Dmitriev, the people said.:FBIMuellerLaugh:

Mr. Mueller appears to be investigating whether the meeting was an effort to create a back channel between Russia and the incoming Trump administration, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.:snuggiewtf:

Mr. Mueller’s inquiry is part of a much broader probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether there was any collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign, which Mr. Trump has repeatedly denied, calling the investigation a “witch hunt.” Moscow has denied meddling.

Mr. Nader has been cooperating with Mr. Mueller since January, when investigators stopped him at Dulles Airport and served him with a subpoena, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.

A spokesman for Mr. Prince and a spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment. Mr. Nader couldn’t be reached for comment. The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment.

In the early months of the Trump administration, Mr. Nader visited the White House several times, discussing U.S. foreign policy toward Gulf Arab states with administration officials, including Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Mr. Mueller has evidence that the Seychelles meeting was an effort to create a back channel between the Trump team and Russia.

At the time of the meeting, Mr. Prince had close ties to the Trump team, which he maintained after Mr. Trump’s inauguration. The brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Mr. Prince held meetings in the Trump transition offices before the inauguration, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Prince contributed more than $280,000 to the Trump campaign, the Republican Party and a pro-Trump super PAC, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Mr. Dmitriev was appointed to his role by Mr. Putin and meets frequently with the Russian president to brief him on the activities of his fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund, whose parent company was hit by U.S. sanctions.

Before Mr. Prince’s meeting with Mr. Zayed in the Seychelles, the crown prince had met in December 2016 with top Trump transition officials in New York, according to people familiar with the matter. The Trump officials who attended that meeting included then-incoming national security adviser Mike Flynn, as well as Mr. Kushner and Mr. Bannon, according to the people.

Mr. Nader didn’t attend that three-hour meeting, but greeted Emirati officials as they were departing, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Prince had crossed paths with Mr. Nader years earlier, when he hired Mr. Nader as a business development consultant in Iraq, according to a 2010 deposition by Mr. Prince as part of a lawsuit against his former company, Blackwater.

Mr. Nader remained in close contact with White House allies, receiving updates about activity in the West Wing. Elliott Broidy, a top Republican fundraiser close to the president, sent Mr. Nader a memo last fall summarizing an October meeting he had with the president and other top advisers. The memo was included in a cache of emails from Mr. Broidy’s and his wife’s email accounts provided to the Journal.

In the memo, Mr. Broidy—who serves as national deputy finance chairman at the Republican National Committee—said he told the president that he had met with top Emirati officials, including Mr. Zayed, on behalf of his defense company. The memo also said Mr. Broidy had urged Mr. Trump to support a plan “being constructed” by Mr. Zayed to create a regional counterterrorism task force.

Mr. Broidy described Mr. Trump’s response as “extremely enthusiastic,” and said he urged the president to have a “quiet meeting” with Mr. Zayed in New York or New Jersey.

“President Trump agreed that a meeting with MBZ was a good idea,” Mr. Broidy wrote in the memo.

Write to Rebecca Ballhaus at Rebecca.Ballhaus@wsj.com and Aruna Viswanatha at Aruna.Viswanatha@wsj.com








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I believe a sovereign nation has every right to arm itself in the name of self defense.

I believe the Russians should not have interfered in our domestic affairs just as I believe the U.S should never interfere in the domestic affairs of other nations.

Nap, you only hate this Russian meddling because it was done to us. You are a hypocrite and an imperialist.

Just cause we both hate Trump doesn't mean I agree with your imperialist agenda.

I want more countries aligned with the United States versus China or Russia.

They dont give up trying to undermine us, so I dont want us to give up under mining them.

I have no problem with geopolitical games.

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Sens. Warren, Carper, Peters and Rep. Cummings want info from Apollo and Citigroup about Kushner Cos. loans after Jared joined the W.H. The letters, obtained by Politico, ask for dates the loans were offered, conditions of the loans and info on how Kushner Cos. got the loans. pic.twitter.com/iQAJayHgg4
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The letters ask for all meetings between the two firms and Kushner, and details about those meetings. They request *all documents* from the loan process and whether any of the loans included foreign financing. twitter.com/kylegriffin1/s…
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You think Trump is going to denuclearize NK:idontthinkso:. That's not even the right move even if they could do that

They imprisoned and beat an American to death less than 2 years ago for tearing down a banner.

They are a terrorist nation that only became more dangerous cause Trump was too stupid to shoot those missles down before they confirm/show they had the capacity to reach Hawaii.

 

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The cyberwar that never happened: How Obama backed down from a counterstrike against Russia

In the summer of 2016, as evidence mounted of Russian meddling in the U.S. election, a team in the White House began work on a far-reaching counterstrike against Russian media, the Kremlin oligarchy, and Putin personally — plans that were shelved when President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, ordered the staffers to “stand down.”

Wallander proposed leaking snippets of classified intelligence to reveal the secret bank accounts in Latvia held for Putin’s daughters — a direct slap at the Russian president that would be sure to infuriate him. Working with Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state for European affairs, Wallander drafted other proposals: to dump dirt on Russian websites about Putin’s money, about the girlfriends of top Russian officials, about corruption in Putin’s United Russia Party. The idea was to give Putin a taste of his own medicine. “We wanted to raise the cost in a manner Putin recognized,” Nuland says.

But the “signal” Daniel had intended was never sent; the plans were scrapped by Rice and Lisa Monaco, the president’s homeland security adviser, who worried that if news of the project leaked it would “box the president in” and create pressure for him to act. One day in late August, according to Isikoff and Corn, Rice called Daniel into her office and ordered him to “stand down” and “knock it off.” The White House was not prepared to endorse any of these ideas. “Don’t get ahead of us,” Rice warned.

After the stand-down order, according to Isikoff and Corn, Obama and his senior advisers decided on a different approach — one that would frustrate the NSC hawks, who believed the president’s team was tying itself in knots and looking for reasons not to act. Rather than striking back, the president would privately warn Putin and vow overwhelming retaliation for any further intervention in the election. Obama delivered the threat at a private meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit that September. The president later informed his aides he had delivered the message he and his advisers had crafted: We know what you’re doing. If you don’t cut it out, we will impose onerous and unprecedented penalties. One senior U.S. government official briefed on the meeting was told the president said to Putin in effect: “You f*** with us over the election and we’ll crash your economy.”