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babylonsister

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Thu Apr 18, 2019, 03:49 PM Apr 2019

Blackwater founder Erik Prince helped fund effort tied to obtaining Clinton's emails

Grassley??

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/439578-blackwater-founder-erik-prince-helped-fund-effort-related-to?fbclid=IwAR0q1jQTU4qDGreB-jBnVnFEZ94kZUvyQThjMUGeWWhq_ZGh0g5yBUNg2q4


Blackwater founder Erik Prince helped fund effort tied to obtaining Clinton's emails
By John Bowden - 04/18/19 02:48 PM EDT


Blackwater founder Erik Prince was involved in funding an effort to verify if a cache of stolen emails purporting to be from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server were legitimate, according to special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

Prince in 2016 was approached by Barbara Ledeen, an aide to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and agreed to fund the hiring of a tech expert to verify if the emails were from Clinton's server, which was the subject of a 2016 FBI investigation.

"Ledeen claimed to have obtained a trove of emails (from what she described as the 'dark web') that purported to be the deleted Clinton emails. Ledeen wanted to authenticate the emails and solicited contributions to fund that effort. Erik Prince provided funding to hire a tech advisor to ascertain the authenticity of the emails," reads a section of the Mueller report, which was released Thursday.

"According to Prince, the tech advisor determined that the emails were not authentic," the report continues.

Prince, who advised the Trump campaign throughout 2016, admitted last month to have also been involved in a key meeting at Trump Tower during the campaign. At that meeting, businessman George Nader told top members of the campaign that the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia were interested in supporting President Trump's bid for the White House.

Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, previously testified before Congress that he only had an "unofficial" role with the Trump campaign, limited to placing yard signs and attending fundraisers. But in March he told Al Jazeera he had discussed Iran policy with top members of the campaign.

Prince and Nader have both been asked to cooperate in the House Judiciary Committee's ongoing investigation into the president and his advisers.

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Blackwater founder Erik Prince helped fund effort tied to obtaining Clinton's emails (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 2019 OP
So essentially flotsam Apr 2019 #1
Isn't this an FEC violation ? Donation of services without declaring value as a donation ? eppur_se_muova Apr 2019 #2
WHY ISN'T THIS FUCKER IN JAIL ?!!? uponit7771 Apr 2019 #3
K&R Solly Mack Apr 2019 #4
LOL.... yeah Eric Prince a yard sign grunt. nt Snotcicles Apr 2019 #5
They found the emails were not authentic? Boomerproud Apr 2019 #6

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
1. So essentially
Thu Apr 18, 2019, 05:41 PM
Apr 2019

The GOP hired a mercenary to perform a felony so they could commit the felony of election rigging???

eppur_se_muova

(36,262 posts)
2. Isn't this an FEC violation ? Donation of services without declaring value as a donation ?
Thu Apr 18, 2019, 07:43 PM
Apr 2019

Could the Little Prince wind up in jail ??

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