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Bill Maxwell 🌊#ImpeachmentHearingsNow
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Erik Prince's Hong Kong–based security company is working in Iraq again.

Prince, best known for his company Blackwater, a private mercenary company that was banned from Iraq after contractors opened fire on and murdered unarmed civilians in Baghdad.

buzzfeed.com/rosalindadams/…
Erik Prince - brother of Betsy Devos and Trump's Oliver North.
What does Prince do for the administration?
Picture a guy going around the world selling military equipment and hit man type services out of the back of a van. (Off the books)
dailydot.com/layer8/erik-pr…
He doesn't just deal in arms and assassinations either, Prince also does communications and counter-intelligence work.
He doesn't get too hung up on terms like "good guys" and "bad guys," nope whoever is writing the check is good enough for him.
thedailybeast.com/report-mueller…
An important detail often overlooked in the this story about the back channel communication that he was working on, is that it was during the transition period, meaning the "back channel" he was setting up was for the Trump ADMINISTRATION and Russia, not just the campaign.
The quid pro quo, from Trump?
Maybe this could help Erik's business a bit? And Erik's sister Betsy got a pretty good job, plus inmates for their private detention facilities. 👀

Trump announced he will withdraw from the international Arms Trade Treaty.
bbc.com/news/world-us-…
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You guys didn't know that Melania's dad is a Communist with ties to old Soviet Russia?
She was a teenage pageant girl who went to Moscow around the same time as Trump's 1988 visit.

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Ivana's dad too!

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🌊Bill Maxwell 🗽#ProtectMueller
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Graham’s political action committee took $800,000 from Len Blavatnik, a citizen of the US and UK who emigrated from the USSR in the 1970s, and has since returned to Russia where he has partnered with Viktor Vekselberg & Oleg Deripaska.
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Len Blavatnik is the business partner of Viktor Vekselberg in Rusal, world’s second-largest aluminum manufacturer, which was founded by Oleg Deripaska. Do those names sound familiar?
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#GOPRussia #TrumpRussia
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We believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic," the piece reads.
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The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
I would know. I am one of them.
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