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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/26/1666425/-Mike-Pence-Is-Toast-Anonymous-Letter-To-WaPo-Shows-The-Role-Of-Eric-Prince-In-Trump-RussiaMike Pence Is Toast: Anonymous Letter To WaPo Shows The Role Of Eric Prince In Trump-Russia
By ursulafaw
Saturday May 27, 2017 · 12:00 AM EST
Mike Pence lost all plausible deniability about his alleged ignorance of all things Russian today, if the Washington Post is correct that Pence benefactor and mentor Erik Prince is the "representative of Trump" named in an anonymous letter received by the Post in December; and moreover that Prince was a member of the Trump transition team all along.
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Erik Prince is an interesting character. Erik Prince portrays himself as a mix between Indiana Jones, Rambo, Captain America, and Pope Benedict, according to The Intercept article, "Mike Pence Will Be The Most Powerful Christian Supremacist In U.S. History." Mike Pence and Erik Prince go back a long ways. Erik Prince is Mike Pence's benefactor. Mike Pence is Neo to Erik Prince's Morpheus. Bankrolling Mike Pence so that he can become POTUS and implement dominionist rule in Washington is Erik Prince and Mike Pence's dream. The Intercept said this:
...his close relationship to Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater. In December 2007, three months after Blackwater operatives gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdads Nisour Square; Pence and his Republican Study Committee, which served the purpose of advancing a conservative social and economic agenda in the House of Representatives, organized a gathering to welcome Prince to Washington. But their relationship is not just forged in wars. Prince and his mother, Elsa, have been among the top funders of scores of anti-gay-marriage ballot initiatives across the country and have played a key role in financing efforts to criminalize abortion.
Prince has long given money to Pences political campaigns, and toward the end of the presidential election, he contributed $100,000 to the pro-Trump/Pence Super PAC Make America Number 1. Princes mother kicked in another $50,000. [...] Erik Prince...portrays himself as a mix between Indiana Jones, Rambo, Captain America, and Pope Benedict...
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Mike Pence has been playing games pretending that he is a Washington outsider, which defies the imagination let alone common sense. He has lost all plausible deniability after today. It will be interesting to see him squirm out of this one. Pence and Prince were side by side on the transition team and the Washington Post has it down in black and white and considerable detail. After today's bombshell about Jared Kushner requesting a communications back channel a lot more dots are getting connected in the Trump Russia investigation. Yeah, Mike, as the Hoosier good ole boys say, Last time there was a leak like this, Noah done got hisself a boat.
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Mike Pence Is Toast: Anonymous Letter To WaPo Shows The Role Of Eric Prince In Trump-Russia [View all]
babylonsister
May 2017
OP
DeVos Med. co. was the other server (Trump tower server too) connected to the Russian Alfa Bank.
Madam45for2923
May 2017
#30
$6,000,000,000 was lost in Iraq. A lot, maybe an awful lot, surely went through Blackwater & pockets
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#20
Pallets of cash unloaded from cargo planes. Hauled away in wheel barrels. Yes I remember.
Snotcicles
May 2017
#56
Well, that and they needed someone the conservative Christians would back.
Crash2Parties
May 2017
#53
Was aware of Prince's connections to Trump, but not to Pence. This is extremely important.
suffragette
May 2017
#5
Plus... It was the Prince/DeVos Spectrum server communicating with Alfa Bank & Trump server..
MedusaX
May 2017
#11
I keep saying, the IC is putting together a "prosecutable package" that will deliver the whole cabal
NightWatcher
May 2017
#13
"Why, BOTH kinds of music: country AND western!" Yeah, Docreed, "Paul and Manafort"!
Leghorn21
May 2017
#39
How can all these creepy, ugly, disgusting, pustules of human beings stand to be near each other?
WinkyDink
May 2017
#25
Strong relationship between Mercer (lunatic billionaire king of data analysis)Pence&Prince/DeVos too
stuffmatters
May 2017
#41
Blackwater? Privately owned army that got no bid contracts during Dumbya's reign of terror?
Thor_MN
May 2017
#47
That Blackwater crap and the independant contractor scam is one of the biggest crimes against us
brewens
May 2017
#48
Under the guise of 'Christianity' they want to privatize everything .. even wars.
YOHABLO
May 2017
#49
Watch for the names Mike Rogers and Pete Hoekstra to start showing up. Just a hunch. nt
Snotcicles
May 2017
#58