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New Questions as 'Notorious Mercenary' Erik Prince Re-emerges in Trump Storyline

Washington Post letters that Blackwater architect Erik Prince attempted to authorize 'back-channel band of communication' amid Moscow and the White House
byLauren McCauley, agents writer
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Erik Prince, brother of Trump's Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who founded the artful aegis abutting Blackwater, which rose to abomination afterwards the 2007 Nisour Square annihilation of 17 Iraqi civilians, had been advising the Trump alteration aggregation "from the shadows." (Photo: Melissa Golden/Redux)
The aspersion surrounding President Donald Trump's declared ties to Russia thickened a bit Monday afterwards the Washington Post appear that "notorious mercenary" Erik Prince took allotment in a artful affair with a acquaintance of Russian President Vladimir Putin "as allotment of an credible accomplishment to authorize a back-channel band of communication" amid Moscow and the White House.
U.S., European, and Arab admiral accepted to the Post that the United Arab Emirates brokered the January 11 tête-à-tête amid the anonymous Russian and Prince, brother of Trump's Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who founded the artful aegis abutting Blackwater—which rose to abomination afterwards the 2007 Nisour Square annihilation of 17 Iraqi civilians.
"Though the abounding calendar charcoal unclear, the UAE agreed to agent the affair in allotment to analyze whether Russia could be abiding to abbreviate its accord with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administering cold that would be acceptable to crave above concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions," appear Adam Entous, Greg Miller, Kevin Sieff, and Karen DeYoung. The talks reportedly took allotment in the Seychelles islands over the advance of two days.

Investigative anchorman and Intercept founding editor Jeremy Scahill, who has long-documented Prince's career as able-bodied as his ties to the UAE, appear aback in March 2016 that Prince was beneath federal analysis for money bed-making and "attempting to agent aggressive casework to adopted governments."

And beneath than a anniversary afterwards the declared Seychelles meeting, Scahill aswell appear that Prince—who "has a abutting accord with Breitbart News and Steve Bannon"—had been advising the Trump alteration aggregation "from the shadows...on affairs accompanying to intelligence and defense."

Placing the Seychelles affair in the ambience of a alternation of apprehensive encounters, the Post continues:
The Seychelles affair came afterwards abstracted artful discussions in New York involving baronial assembly of Trump with both Moscow and the Emirates.

The White House has accustomed that Michael T. Flynn, Trump's aboriginal civic aegis adviser, and Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with the Russian agent to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, in backward November or aboriginal December in New York.
Flynn and Kushner were abutting by Bannon for a abstracted affair with the acme prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who fabricated an bearding appointment to New York after in December, according to the U.S., European and Arab officials, who batten on the action of anonymity to altercate acute matters.

Responding to the report, White House columnist secretary Sean Spicer denied any acquaintance of the Seychelles affair and said that Prince "had no role in the transition." Similarly, a Prince agent alleged the adventure a "complete fabrication," adage that the appointment "had annihilation to do with President Trump," adding: "Why is the alleged under-resourced intelligence association messing about with surveillance of American citizens if they should be hunting terrorists?"

But, as the Post notes, at the time of the Seychelles meeting, the FBI was already investigating communications amid Russian assembly and assembly of the Trump team, namely Flynn and Russian agent Kislyak.

The Post adventure was appear the aforementioned day that Trump and his supporters were up in accoutrements over a address that above civic aegis adviser Susan Rice had "unmasked" the names of some Trump assembly who announced with monitored adopted officials, an action that was said to be "within the law."
On Tuesday, Rice addressed the allegation that the Obama administering "utilized intelligence for political purposes," cogent MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, "That's actually false."

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