Special counsel Robert Mueller has evidence showing that a meeting between the founder of a private security company and a Russian official in the Seychelles last year was intended to set up a back-channel between the Trump administration and the Kremlin.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that a witness cooperating with Mueller has told investigators that the meeting was set up in advance, apparently contradicting what Erik Prince, the founder of the security contractor Blackwater, has told lawmakers about the meeting.
Prince — whose sister is Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — had previously told lawmakers and the press that his meeting with Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian official close with Russian President Vladimir Putin, happened by chance and was not set up ahead of time.
But the witness, a Lebanese-American businessman named George Nader, has testified before a grand jury that the meeting, which took place shortly before President Trump’s inauguration, was, in fact, a planned effort.
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#BREAKING: Mueller has evidence Blackwater founder attempted to set up Trump-Russia back channel: report https://t.co/yL5OHGXkME pic.twitter.com/JfGkmpQD0x
— The Hill (@thehill) March 8, 2018
BREAKING via @sarihorwitz @devlinbarrett: Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin https://t.co/fNspZbxoPk
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) March 8, 2018
Erik Prince's spokesman would not say if Prince did meet with Nader while in Seychelles. https://t.co/8xbNYwM7Go
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 8, 2018
Fun fact: the Crown Prince of UAE who helped set up that meeting also met with Flynn, Bannon and Kushner in NYC in December 2016. In an unusual breach of protocol, the crown prince's visit was not reported to the Obama Administration. (2/2)
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) March 8, 2018
It appears the spray-tanned mercenary Erik Prince, brother of Trump's education secretary, not only met with a Russian official and a UAE sheikh to set up a Kremlin backchannel for Trump in 2016 but perjured himself. https://t.co/wd0ARcFDBR
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) March 8, 2018
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