Amid renewed scrutiny, Erik Prince to host fundraiser for Russia-friendly congressman

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Rebecca Berg, CNN

Updated 9:16 AM ET, Thu March 8, 2018

(CNN) - Blackwater founder Erik Prince will host a fundraiser this month for Russia-friendly Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, as Prince faces new questions over a 2017 meeting currently being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Prince and Rohrabacher have been friends and mutual supporters for years: Prince interned for the California congressman on Capitol Hill in 1990, and Rohrabacher vigorously defended Prince when Blackwater faced congressional scrutiny during President George W. Bush's administration.

The fundraising event, slated for March 18 at Prince's Middleburg, Virginia residence, is expected to be attended by GOP Reps. Tom Garrett Jr. and Dave Brat, and Lt. Colonel Oliver North, according to an invitation obtained by CNN. Tickets start at $1,000 for the general reception, although donors paying $2,700 will also be invited to attend a VIP event beforehand. But the fundraiser comes at an uneasy moment for the longtime allies.

Prince, an associate of President Donald Trump, is confronting renewed questions regarding a January 2017 trip to the Seychelles islands, where he met with a Russian banker, Kirill Dmitriev and Emirati officials. Also in attendance was George Nader, a Middle East specialist with ties to Emirati leaders. Nader is now cooperating with Mueller's investigation, CNN has learned.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/erik-prince-fundraiser/index.html

[SunSeeker]

1. Unfuckingbelievable.

Fuck these treason weasels.

[CanonRay]

2. Well there's a pair

maybe the FBI will arrest them together. Warms my heart thinking about it.

[MBS]

10. Thanks for the optimistic thought.

. . though Rohrabacher losing his congressional election would be a wonderful consolation prize. If memory serves, he just barely won in 2016.

Actually, both outcomes would be best of all.

[MBS]

12. And Oliver North, too?!

Plus official far-right nutcase David Brat.Wow, what a crew. I hope that this gets tons of publicity in Rohrabacher's SoCal home district.

[CanonRay]

13. Maybe North is there to give pointers on

life after a felony conviction.

[MBS]

14. Good idea.

[Zoonart]

3. So here is my question?

Why are they not worried? They are lightyears from circumspect and the lying and theiving continue unabated
I don't like the answer my "Spidy Sense" gives me: The coup has already occurred and we are well into it.

[global1]

5. If You Didn't Ask This Question - I Would Have.....

I just can't believe how these people associated with Trump and this Russian thing - just throw caution to the wind and shove this arrogance right back at us.

[Zoonart]

7. Such a huge departure from the norms defies logic.

[MBS]

9. + 10000

[Phoenix61]

4. Gotta fill those coffers

Good lawyers are expensive.

[Historic NY]

6. The investigated holding fund raisers for the investigated.

[Corgigal]

8. Good

Take his passport, and everything that is going on at the fund raiser will be taped. More light on the cockroaches.

Just protect Mueller and his team.

[pnwmom]

11. Excellent. Prince and Rohrabacher together. Mueller, are you listening?

A great time to arrest them both.

[Gothmog]

15. Who is surprised by this?