Meeting in the Seychelles
On January 11th 2017, Erik Prince (CEO of Blackwater, Trump supporter and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos), Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the UAE, George Nader (an American businessman now co-operating with Mueller investigation), and Kirill Dmitriev (a Russian with ties to Putin), meet in Seycelles. Prince lies to Congress about reason for the meeting. Prince says unplanned; Nader says that he, Nader, planned the meeting and that the subject of the meeting was setting up a back channel between Trump and Russians.