Notorious Mercenary Erik Prince Is Advising Trump From the Shadows

[discocrisco01]

Erik Prince, America’s 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, Prince’s latest wife, Stacy DeLuke, posted pictures from inside Trump’s 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.” Prince’s sister, billionaire Betsy DeVos, is Trump’s nominee for education secretary and Prince (and his mother) gave large sums of money to a Trump Super PAC.

In July, Prince told Trump’s 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 they’re in.”

Read more at https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/notorious-mercenary-erik-prince-is-advising-trump-from-the-shadows/

[dalton99a]

1. +1

[WhiteTara]

2. You're okay will assassinating

whoever?

[dalton99a]

4. No. I'm kicking the thread to highlight the Blackwater connection to Trump.

[LisaM]

6. This is so ironic.

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]

7. Excellent point. More tax money will now be funneled to this mercenary sociopath/murderous leech.

[Chasstev365]

3. This is the best Nazi Comparison yet!

Prince is such a good, Nazi for Christ!

[stuffmatters]

5. No coincidence Prince's sister, Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick for Sec'y of Education

[underpants]

11. I didn't know they were brother and sister

[Phoenix61]

13. Just one of many reasons to dislike her.

[AngryAmish]

8. The Donald is getting communique a from The Shadow Realm?

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That is no good.

[Initech]

9. What, is he Bane now? Time for you to come out of the shadows Erik!

[guillaumeb]

10. And his sister will soon be advising from the open.

Betsy DeVos.

[superpatriotman]

12. This is a most disturbing development

Prince is an absolute clear and present danger to progressive values and world peace.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. This can't be posted enough

I've had a bead on him for awhile - and knew the Devos connection.

[democrank]

15. Erik Prince?

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]

16. Prince was suggesting to Banner

Resurrecting the Vietnam era Phoenix death squads for terrorists.

How long before he gets around to us?