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Erik Prince, Americas most notorious mercenary, is lurking in the shadows of the incoming Trump administration. A former senior U.S. official who has advised the Trump transition told The Intercept that Prince has been advising the team on matters related to intelligence and defense, including weighing in on candidates for the defense and state departments. The official asked not to be identified because of a transition policy prohibiting discussion of confidential deliberations.
On election night, Princes latest wife, Stacy DeLuke, posted pictures from inside Trumps campaign headquarters as Donald Trump and Mike Pence watched the returns come in, including a close shot of Pence and Trump with their families. We know some people who worked closely with [Trump] on his campaign, DeLuke wrote. Waiting for the numbers to come in last night. It was well worth the wait!!!! #PresidentTrump2016. Princes sister, billionaire Betsy DeVos, is Trumps nominee for education secretary and Prince (and his mother) gave large sums of money to a Trump Super PAC.
In July, Prince told Trumps senior advisor and white supremacist Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, that the Trump administration should recreate a version of the Phoenix Program, the CIA assassination ring that operated during the Vietnam War, to fight ISIS. Such a program, Prince said, could kill or capture the funders of Islamic terror and that would even be the wealthy radical Islamist billionaires funding it from the Middle East, and any of the other illicit activities theyre in.
Read more at https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/notorious-mercenary-erik-prince-is-advising-trump-from-the-shadows/
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)whoever?
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)LisaM
(27,827 posts)I commented on the time that DT tapped DeVos that while he insanely blamed Hillary and Obama for creating ISIS, he was actually trying to appoint the sister of the person who essentially did create ISIS.
Is his nickname the Prince of Darkness? Because it should be.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Prince is such a good, Nazi for Christ!
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)Phoenix61
(17,013 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)That is no good.
Initech
(100,099 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Betsy DeVos.
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Prince is an absolute clear and present danger to progressive values and world peace.
JustAnotherGen
(31,866 posts)I've had a bead on him for awhile - and knew the Devos connection.
democrank
(11,100 posts)The corrupt mercenary? Perhaps he'd like to perform for Comrade Trump on Friday and take the stage just before the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
orangecrush
(19,611 posts)Resurrecting the Vietnam era Phoenix death squads for terrorists.
How long before he gets around to us?