New Report Undermines Erik Prince's Sworn Testimony On Ties To Campaign

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Source: TPM


By Allegra Kirkland | May 21, 2018 12:45 pm

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Most recently, a blockbuster New York Times report published Saturday detailed how Prince personally arranged and attended an August 2016 meeting between foreign emissaries and Donald Trump’s eldest son. At the meeting, Prince told Donald Trump Jr. that “we are working hard for your father.”..............................................

Prince’s interview focused primarily on a January 2017 trip he took to the Seychelles, ostensibly to meet with officials from the United Arab Emirates, and a conversation he had there with a Russian banker allied with Vladimir Putin. In his testimony, Prince downplayed the trip, saying it was primarily an opportunity to discuss business prospects with the UAE’s government and characterizing his conversation with the banker, Kirill Dmitriev, as a chance encounter. Prince insisted that he was not there as a representative of the incoming administration.

In Prince’s account, his contact with the Trump campaign was limited to semi-regular text exchanges with Steve Bannon, providing a few unsolicited papers on Middle East policy, and donating money.

That does not appear to be accurate.

George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who serves as a top adviser to the UAE, has told Special Counsel Robert Mueller that the Seychelles meeting was actually a planned effort to set up a secret communications backchannel between the Trump transition team and Russian government, according to reports................................................

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/erik-prince-appears-lied-congress-russia-trump-meetings

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Beyond exposed Prince as another corrupt #trumpswamp LIAR--nothing is likely to happen to him.


"The Times report provides new evidence that Prince may have knowingly perjured himself in his congressional testimony. Lying to Congress is a crime punishable by up to five years in prison, but it is rarely enforced."

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. You wonder how many of rump's co-conspirators, criminal associates, like Prince

knew just how dumb rump is?

That they were aligning their criminal acts with someone very dumb and able to expose them easily.

Would they all be in jail by now if the traitor in the WH didnt have the powers of the prez?

[JustAnotherGen]

5. He owned (possibly still does)

A unit in Manhattan Trump Tower. . . and he and HIS third wife were at Trump Tower literally hanging with the Trump family on election night. His third wife was a stoop and left her FB open.

He's not that smart - but the op is right - Victoria Toensing will get him off again. She always does. He will never serve one day for perjury.

[rzemanfl]

2. Lying IN Congress should be a crime too-and enforced. n/t

[turbinetree]

3. Traitor...................and this asshole didn't even call the FBI...................

[SayItLoud]

4. Lying to Congress a crime rarely prosecuted...buy a lid of grass....

Busted! Be black and Bustedx2 and very likely shot.

VOTE or we get to keep what we have and more of the same.

[heaven05]

6. +++