Robert Mueller makes major breakthrough in Erik Prince’s Trump-Russia Seychelles scandal

| 6:04 pm EDT July 17, 2018
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With the discovery that a Russian agent was working directly with the NRA to set up a backchannel from Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is it a coincidence that new information has become public of a completely separate backchannel operation on the same day? While the arrest and indictment of Maria Butina was announced on Monday, the same day as Trump’s treasonous meeting with Putin, more has also become known about the secret meeting that took place in the Seychelles in January 2017.

Palmer Report has reported on the Seychelles meeting that took place between Erik Prince (a former Navy Seal, founder of the mercenary unit Blackwater, and brother of Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos), George Nader (an advisor to the United Arab Emirates and who is currently cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation), and a Russian investor with ties to Putin.

An exclusive report by NJ Advance Media, the largest digital provider of news in New Jersey, is now providing the names of multiple other Russians involved in this secretive meeting. Using Seychelles aircraft data, they were able to identify who traveled on and off the island. Mueller’s investigation is now looking into these meetings that took place over multiple days and his “inquiry into the meetings suggests there is growing interest by the Mueller team into whether foreign financing, specifically from Gulf states, has influenced President Donald Trump and his administration.”

Initial reports only concentrated on setting up backchannels to allow Trump to speak directly to Putin without being detected by the United States intelligence community. We now know that the meetings also involved sanctions, energy, and Syria, while participants came from Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and the United States. Aircraft data shows that more than ten Russians, some with direct Kremlin links, participated in these meetings that took place for up to more than a week. The Russian plane first landed in Seychelles on January 10, the day before Prince arrived.

The plane, which is owned by Russian billionaire and current deputy in the Russian state Duma Andrei Skoch, flew to Dubai the same day it arrived. The plane returned to pick up a total of sixteen passengers on January 19, the day before the World Economic Forum began in Switzerland. It was reported that several of the passengers participated directly in discussions on international trade and sanctions. The fact that Mueller is already investigating this supposedly secret rendezvous should certainly further frighten Erik Prince, Donald Trump, and any other Americans who may have participated.