[Peace-discuss] Trump and Erik Prince / in communication

[Karen Medina]

Dear Peace-discuss,

from Jeremy Scahill, January 17, 2017 "Notorious Mercenary Erik Prince is
Advising Trump from the Shadows

"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 [...]"
[...]
"[Erik] Prince’s sister, billionaire Betsy DeVos, is Trump’s nominee for
education secretary and Prince (and his mother) gave large sums
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/22/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-loves-anti-iraq-war-donald-trump0.html>
of money to a Trump Super PAC.

"Prince has a close relationship with Breitbart News and Steve Bannon,
Trump’s senior counselor and chief strategist."

[...]

"In July [2017], Prince told
<http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/07/27/blackwater-founder-erik-princes-three-point-plan-to-destroy-islamic-state/>
Trump’s senior adviser 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.”

"In September [2017], Prince backed Trump’s proposal to commandeer Iraq’s 2
million barrels of daily oil output. “For Mr. Trump to say, ‘We’re going to
take their oil — certainly we’re not going to lift it out of there and take
it somewhere else, but putting it into production, and putting a tolling
arrangement into place, to repay the American taxpayers for their efforts
to remove Saddam and to stabilize the area, is doable, and very plausible,”
Prince said
<http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/09/08/erik-prince-trumps-idea-of-tolling-iraqi-oil-to-repay-american-taxpayers-would-work/>
on Breitbart Radio.

"Prince’s sister, Betsy DeVos, is Trump’s nominee for education secretary
and she has all but vowed to embark on a crusade to push a privatization
and religious agenda in education that mirrors her brother’s in military
and CIA affairs. Prince has long been a contributor to the campaign of
fellow Christian warrior Mike Pence, and he contributed $100,000 to the
pro-Trump Super PAC Make America Number 1. Prince’s mother, Elsa, pitched
in another $50,000. That organization, run by Rebekah Mercer, daughter of
billionaire hedge funder Robert Mercer, was one of the strongest
bankrollers of Trump’s campaign."

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