Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel/2017/04/03/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html
The 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.
Prince was an avid supporter of Trump. After the Republican convention, he contributed $250,000 to Trump’s campaign, the national party and a pro-Trump super PAC led by GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, records show. He has ties to people in Trump’s circle, including Stephen K. Bannon, now serving as the president’s chief strategist and senior counselor. Prince’s sister Betsy DeVos serves as education secretary in the Trump administration. And Prince was seen in the Trump transition offices in New York in December.
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Nothing but pure SCUM. That whole family.
That could be at least three separate articles.
Betsy DeVos is Eric Prince's SISTER? How did I miss this before? And Prince was the one who was flogging the story that the Abedin/Weiner emails would implicate Clinton right before the election 
They are all deeply enmeshed with Bannon and the shady Mercer family. Holy shit.
It's drip, drip, drip with the Trump Russia mess. Meanwhile, the GOP is enabling them as we are rushing headlong into a deeply illegitimate Supreme Court pick... They are going to do something desperate soon. They need to change the subject, and Trump's Twitter tirades don't work anymore.
I was fascinated! I looked through the box of weird potions, opened all the caps to smell them and promptly came down with a horrible case of stomach flu. From then on, the smell of those products always made me want to hurl. Guess I was onto something 
