What a great family..!
99% Chance he's a FREEPER, too.
US Gummint has been wantonly, needlessly screwing this guy over, almost from Day 1.
Truely an American Hero.
Posted on 04/03/2017 3:04:10 PM PDT by dirtboy
he United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.
The meeting took place around Jan. 11 — nine days before Trump’s inauguration — in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said. Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would likely require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.
Though Prince had no formal role with the Trump campaign or transition team, he presented himself as an unofficial envoy for Trump to high-ranking Emiratis involved in setting up his meeting with the Putin confidant, according to the officials, who did not identify the Russian.
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“We are not aware of any meetings and Erik Prince had no role in the transition,” said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary.
“Erik had no role on the transition team. This is a complete fabrication,” said a spokesman for Prince in a statement. “The meeting had nothing to do with President Trump. Why is the so-called under-resourced intelligence community messing around with surveillance of American citizens when they should be hunting terrorists?”
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Comes from this: Though Prince had no formal role with the Trump campaign or transition team, he presented himself as an unofficial envoy for Trump
Good.
It’s like the red phone.
Good- I hope these types of private citizen communications work out some deals to make the world more safe and secure from nincompoops and meddlers like Kerry and McCain
BTW Erik Prince’s sister Betsy DeVos is Trump’s Secretary of Education
LOL, these idiots debunk their own story with this one sentence. What a bunch of loons, LOL.
CGato
Of course. So much inbreeding in the upper crust. I swear, half of DC could donate a kidney to the other half.
"Okay, we gotta manufacture a story before lunch, uh, what group were we successful at leaving a bad taste in the reader's mouth, just far enough back in time to where no one really knows what they did but their name screams 'ominous'?
"How about 'Black water'?
"Yeah, that's a good one let's go with Blackwater."
“Yeah! Black Water. It even sounds racist. Get Maxine black Waters involved.”
“Yeah! Black Water. It even sounds racist. Get Maxine black Waters involved.”
My understanding is that Blackwater changed its name to Xe or Academii, or both, at one time or other.
I would love this scenario as a screen play written by Tom Clancy.
So what. If true, it sounds like Trump might have been working the groundwork to isolate Iran. Sounds like what he promised to do.
Ridiculous..!
Vaudiville material.
Like the “Bush SR-71 to Iran” story, but with more Jason Bourne sprinkles thrown on top.
Another nothing burger.
Would have been nice if the msm covered 0bama with all of these resources and story tellers.
5.56mm
What does this have to do with Trump, then? Sounds like WaPo is trying to kick up dust and hoping the rubes will be confused enough to believe it.
The Post creates a story with their headline but have nothing to back it up.
Bezos and Amazon can rot.
What a great family..!
99% Chance he's a FREEPER, too.
US Gummint has been wantonly, needlessly screwing this guy over, almost from Day 1.
Truely an American Hero.
Blackwater, renamed as XE Services in 2009 and now known as Academi since 2011 after the company was acquired by a group of private investors.
This has everything for the crazed lib - Trump, Putin and Blackwater.
Such fake news click bait.
Remember the ENORMOUS, fallacious hullabaloo about Vallerie Plame?
Well, Eric Prince was a covert US asset.
Leon Panetta blatantly outed him, and almost for NO reason.
Burned him, 100%.
Consequences:
ZIP ZILCH NADA.
Sorry liberal media, that dog don’t hunt no more.
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