Byron York: In Trump-Russia probe, what's with that meeting in the Seychelles?
by Byron York | Mar 11, 2018, 1:01 AM
It's become a hot topic in coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation: A Trump supporter met with a Russian in the Seychelles in January 2017, and something consequential may or may not have happened.
The Trump supporter was Erik Prince, the former Navy SEAL best known as the founder of Blackwater, the security firm that helped guard U.S. forces and installations in Iraq. Nearly a year ago, in a story headlined "Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel," the Washington Post reported that Prince traveled to the Indian Ocean islands on Jan. 11, 2017, just nine days before the Trump inauguration. Once there, he attended a "secret meeting" with "a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin," arranged by the United Arab Emirates as part of "an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump." The Post reported Prince told top Emiratis that he "was authorized to act as an unofficial surrogate for the president-elect." The paper attributed the story to "U.S., European and Arab officials."
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