That Slate article linking this to Roseneft and Kusher $$ needs is looking better and better.
And a backchannel to Russia was needed WHY? To have Putin deliver his orders for Trump to screw up America directly with no interference from proper channels of communication or any regard for the United States of America.
Backchannel for how to get the quid to Trump and Assoc.
Is this Nader letting Trump know how much Mueller knows?
Erik Prince thinks that he is James Bond but he is turning into Maxwell Smart. Can’t wait to see him go to jail and become pauperized. Maybe this will get his sister Betsy DeVos dumped from the Cabinet, too.
Three unrelated thoughts on this!
- Who leaked this? Mueller’s team? It seems out of character, but I suppose they might be rattling the cage to watch the monkeys freak out (frightened people make mistakes). Alternatively, if it’s Nader’s crew who leaked this, perhaps he’s letting the other perps know that “Mueller knows all about this”. Doing so would seem to put him in some legal jeopardy, though
- The Russians were really working this on multiple channels, weren’t they! Even they must have been shocked that just about every channel worked!!!
- I find it hard to believe a principled conservative like Erik Prince would engage in such under the table shenanigans /snark
Was it the Russians trying to establish multiple channels or the Trump team? Either way, Mueller keeps finding new threads to pull and they all come from the Dotard’s whole cloth. The news just keeps getting worse for inept, criminal and treasonous Trump. It will take a very long time to overcome the damage they have done to our country. FSM help us if Republicans hold any power other than the Executive (bad enough) after elections this fall.
And still most of his 33% will not believe nor understand how deep their leaders are in bed with Russia. Those who do and remain Republicans are truly without a doubt traitors to their country and this goes especially for the Faux News Kremlin apologizers.
It’s like every rock Mueller turns over has something under it. Every single one.
What a great idea it was to privatize the army and intelligence! Nothing has ever gone wrong with hiring mercenaries before. Yet I predict this will not prevent Prince from getting government contracts in the future.
And a mere week before the inauguration.
No.
“Yet I predict this will not prevent Prince from getting government contracts in the future.”
Highly doubt it. I predict that in the future Erik shall be called, “The Inmate Formerly Known as Prince.”
Based on Kush asking then-ambassador Kysliak in December 2016 to set up a back channel to Moscow using the Russian facility, I see no reason to question which side was desperate to set up these channels that would bypass US intelligence.
Russia/Putin had their list of “wants” from Fat Nixon and his new admin but they didn’t need to call and beg. Instead, they had plenty of persuasive means - kompromat and/or money desperately needed by King Tub and his minions - in order to get their phones to ring.
I love this sentence from the WaPo article:
“Nader’s account is considered key evidence — but not the only evidence — about what transpired in Seychelles, according to people familiar with the matter.”
It’s also interesting because the Seychelles has a policy whereby anyone can buy their freedom from deportation for $10 million. I’ll admit that this is old information. That price tag may have gone up a few pennies. I wanted to move there back in the early 80s, and couldn’t afford it. As i recall, that was the price for a permanent residency visa.
A real nothingborscht.
Man, Richard Nixon wasn’t lying when he said Watergate was a third rate burglary. Compared to this Trump/Rusher thing, it was like ripping the tag off your mattress.
I wonder if Nader was given a wire after his “meeting” at Dulles.
Traitors-R-Us. RICO time for all of them.