Revealed: What Erik Prince and Moscow's Money Man Discussed in That Infamous Seychelles Meeting

[MelissaB]

Revealed: What Erik Prince and Moscow’s Money Man Discussed in That Infamous Seychelles Meeting

Mueller’s team and Congressional investigators have looked into a meeting in the Seychelles between allies of Trump and Putin. Now we have the Russian read-out of what was said.

Joint U.S.-Russian raids to kill top terrorists. Teamwork between an American government agency and a sanctioned Russian fund. Moscow pouring money into the Midwest.

These are just a few of the ideas the head of a Russian sovereign wealth fund touched on during his meeting with former Blackwater head Erik Prince in the Seychelles, just weeks before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to a memo exclusively reviewed by The Daily Beast.

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A few days after the Seychelles meeting, while at the Davos World Economic Forum, Dmitriev sent out the two-page memo summarizing portions of his Seychelles conversation. The memo, which The Daily Beast reviewed, lists four potential areas of cooperation and calls for an action plan to improve U.S.-Russian relations over the next 12 months.

The first bullet point proposes the U.S. and Russia work together on “military coordination and joint actions in Syria against ISIS.” It’s an idea that appealed to some of the most important players in the early Trump administration; Mike Flynn, Trump’s first and famously Kremlin-friendly national security adviser, pushed to expand U.S.-Russian military communications in Syria, a move that may have been illegal.

More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/revealed-what-erik-prince-and-moscows-money-man-discussed-in-that-infamous-seychelles-meeting

[PearliePoo2]

1. "Teamwork between an American government agency and a sanctioned Russian fund."

Oh those pesky sanctions again, eh?

Nail 'em Bob Mueller!

K&R

[MelissaB]

2. ... another snip

Third, the memo proposes ways the U.S. and Russia can develop “win-win economic investment initiatives that will be supported by both electorates.” “Understanding U.S. production by foreign companies is a focus of the new administration,” the memo says. It goes on to note that Russian companies would “make investments with RDIF financing to serve the U.S. market in the Midwest, creating real jobs for hard hit area with high employment.”

Trump spent his presidential campaign pledging to bring back jobs to blighted Rust Belt towns, notching wins in Midwestern Democratic strongholds like Wisconsin and Michigan—and even making Minnesota competitive. The memo is evidence that Russia was listening and proposing a way to help make Trump’s central campaign promise come true.

[ffr]

4. You just nailed the "but wait, there's more," meme

Russia is going to invest in the GOP's midwest campaign, basically a Russian welfare gift to the GOP for the $1 trillion worth of lifted sanctions (via Flynn) over ten years.

This is sooo deep!

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[gratuitous]

5. Lot of substantive talk for a chance meeting over a beer

I wonder if the Secretary of Education's brother was being fully truthful in his statements about that meeting in the Seychelles?

[ffr]

6. I imagine papers are flying and work-through-lunch mandatory at TRMS today.

All vacations postponed too.