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It more accurate to view Prince's role in the Seychelles as an outsider desperate to insert themselves as a player in the Trump admin by using his 2012 friendship with Bannon (soon to be NSC member) previous hiring of bagman Nader in Iraq and previous friendship with the CP.
It was Jared's friend Rick Gerson that worked with Dmitriev to draft a simple working agreement approved by Putin and sent to Rex Tillerson. Dmitriev reached out to Nader to connect him to Trump insiders thinking that would avoid violating the Logan Act. Prince was just hustling.
The Logan Act (unlike FARA or ITAR) is quite explicit: The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States."
Like FARA (not ITAR) its toothless and rarely used "Only two people have ever been indicted on charges of violating the Act, one in 1802 and the other in 1852." Prince/Gerson thought the nine day gap to inauguration would cover their freelance diplomacy.
All this bold stupidity at a time when Obama was busy tightening the screws of Russia as he was packing his stuff to leave. He zapped the GRU and Yevgeny Prigozhin's IRA for messing with the election. Literally the week before the Seychelles trip. theguardian.com/us-news/2016/d…
