That George Nader indictment? It was a formerly SEALED indictment from Jan. 2018.

[pnwmom]

It didn't just happen now. So something Nader has done -- or failed to do -- caused them to press charges now.

So they had this Jan. 2018 arrest hanging over his head all this time he was giving testimony in the Mueller investigation. And now they're turning the screws.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/figure-linked-to-trump-transition-charged-with-transporting-child-pornography/2019/06/03/caee8aca-862a-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html?utm_term=.fa4f5d7ab66a

Officials said Nader, 60, was charged by criminal complaint over material he was traveling with when he arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport on Jan. 17, 2018, from Dubai. At the time, he was carrying a cellphone containing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, officials said. The charges were unsealed after his arrest Monday morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Seth Abramson
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My take on George Nader's arrest: you don't pull out a sealed indictment from January 2018 unless your cooperation agreement with Nader has broken down in a Manafort-like way. The feds are applying the screws to Nader now—and it's because of what he knows.

1/ I wrote yesterday—see pinned tweet—that the election-interference probes continue. I noted that Nader is at the center of them. And now the feds—who'd said Nader is cooperating—are charging him with a felony that may put him in prison for many years. The math on this is clear.

2/ The odds are now good that we'll find out that two of the men at the center of the Trump [non-conspiracy collusion] story—the investigation of which is very much ongoing—have made a similar decision: to go to prison rather than tell all. And that'd tell us all we need to know.

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3/ The only thing that'd change my read is if we found out *Barr* was behind the unsealing/bringing forward of the Nader indictment. In that case, it'd probably be both an extraordinary evasion of a prior arrangement *and* an attempt to discredit Nader as a witness against Trump.

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1. "visual depictions " ??? Pictures? Cartoons??

[Hekate]

7. Videos on the multiple cell phones he was carrying. Of real children.

[Celerity]

8. legalese for pictures/films

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

[empedocles]

3. Interesting

So much happens beneath the radar of some.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

4. Let's just say he won't be going to the same prison as Michael Cohen

Those charges will land him in less "comfortable" accomodations for the duration of his stay. Not to mention the high esteem in which child sex abusers are held in jail. I can foresee Mr. Nader re-enacting the final scene in Boogie Nights. The words "I said shut -up colonel!" should become familiar to him.

[pecosbob]

5. If you read the document, it's pretty abhorrent...I had to stop part way through

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.386545/gov.uscourts.vaed.386545.2.0.pdf

thanks to Lulu KC

[DangerousRhythm]

9. Holy shit.

Okay, this guy is entirely fucked in the head. I read that and I feel like I need a hot Brillo shower.

Jesus.

[RainCaster]

10. What a sick SOB

The GOP must be so proud of him

[Hekate]

6. Listening to Rachel now. N is only 60 and his record goes back *decades*. He's been in this filth...

...his entire adult life. Ew ew ew

Oh yes, the "record" I refer to is child porn and very personal child rape. He's been charged and arrested several times in his life and has done prison time.

It is to gag.

[Takket]

11. "The only thing that'd change my read is if we found out *Barr* was behind the unsealing/bringing

"The only thing that'd change my read is if we found out *Barr* was behind the unsealing/bringing forward of the Nader indictment."

what possible excuse could he give for doing that excpet to obstruct justice?