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| The White House Is A Smoke Machine |
| The White House Is A Smoke Machine When It Comes To Russia
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 4-April-2017
5:42:21 AM |
| The Washington Post's national security team just registered another big scoop: Shortly before President Donald Trump's inauguration, Blackwater founder Erik Prince conducted a secret meeting with a Russian close to Vladimir Putin for the purposes of setting up a back-channel line of communication between the Russian leader and Trump, according to U.S., Arab and European officials.
The White House is already (sort of) denying that it has anything to do with this. "We are not aware of any meetings, and Erik Prince had no role in the transition," press secretary Sean Spicer said.
A few things call this denial into question.
The first is that Prince isn't just some businessman. He was a high-profile Trump supporter who is close to Stephen Bannon and just happens to be the brother of Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos. He was also seen at Trump Tower during the transition period and was advising Trump on intelligence and defense issues, according to the Intercept. And he definitely toed the Trump line on Russia and hacking. He's not just some guy.
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