The special counsel's team suggested Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, lied to Congress, and it portrayed the mercenary as amateurish.
The Trump administration’s informal foreign policy adviser Erik Prince, who is best known for founding a military contracting firm called Blackwater that massacred 14 Iraqis in 2007 and who is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, appears to have lied to Congress about conducting an unsophisticated effort to connect the White House and the Kremlin, according to the redacted report of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, released Thursday.
And along the way, Mueller drily notes how the American mercenary ― who pitches himself internationally as a mastermind who can maneuver terrain from Afghanistan to sub-Saharan Africa ― behaves in bush-league style. The report says Prince and Dmitriev met at Nader’s villa on Jan. 11 for 30 to 45 minutes as Prince bashed President Barack Obama and again touted his ties to Bannon. Once Prince went back to his room, he learned a Russian aircraft carrier was headed to Libya and asked Nader to set up another meeting with the Kremlin’s emissary, allegedly because he had important news from Trump-world, according to the report. Prince told Dmitriev the U.S.
Prince claimed he had not known of Dmitriev’s ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin or that they would meet at all, saying it came about because UAE figures he saw earlier in the day had suggested it. Notably, he used the word “Emiratis,” which wouldn’t describe Nader, despite his ties to the country’s leadership.
Aides to Rep. Adam Schiff , who took over the House Intelligence Committee once Democrats regained the lower chamber, did not respond to a HuffPost query about whether Schiff believes that Prince misrepresented the situation during his testimony and the committee might interview him again. Schiff had been vocal in his criticism of the way Republicans ran the committee’s inquiry when they were in control of it.
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