The worst things about this Stormy Daniels soap opera is that it’s sucking the oxygen out of the truly thermonuclear story about Erik Prince in the Seychelles. /1
People calling this a “back channel” do not seem to understand the history of back channels to Moscow, or how and why they’re formed. Whatever this was, it’s not a “back channel.” /2
And it raises the question: Why did the administration need to send the brother of a cabinet secretary to a meeting? What exactly was going to be negotiated just before the inauguration? If this doesn’t look like a back channel, it looks like a backroom deal. /3
Eric Prince has no discernible background background in Russian affairs. And why meat so far away? And then why deny it after? There is a whole history of back channels, but this doesn’t fit. /4x
