[Hill Reporter] In an interview that aired on CNBC, Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, elaborated on why he was contacted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and what the meeting with his investigators was like.
"Look, anytime you sit down for an interview like that it’s ‐ I think you probably would rather go to a proctology exam," Prince said, according to reporting from CNBC.
Although his comments suggested that he found the interview to be quite daunting, Prince said the meeting itself was "much ado about nothing."
"I answered their questions, and they haven’t talked to me since," Prince said.
Previous reporting from the Washington Post indicated that Mueller and his team were seeking out Prince due to a meeting he had in the United Arab Emirates shortly after Trump won the presidential election in 2016, but before he actually became president.
Prince was serving as an informal adviser to the president at the time, and had met with a man named Kirill Dmitriev, who runs Russia’s sovereign investment and has strong ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Individuals with knowledge of Dmitriev and Prince’s meeting say that it was set up in advance, and included discussions into finding ways to form backchannel communications between Trump and Putin.
Prince denied those allegations, stating that the meeting was a chance encounter during a trip he made to celebrate Trump’s win.
"I went to see an old friend, leadership in the [United Arab Emirates] after the election, and there was a Russian there," Prince said. "So I had no contact with him before, no contact after."
Beyond being a strong supporter of Trump’s and a former adviser to the president-elect during the transition period, Prince has other ties to the White House: his sister is Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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It will likely become a permanent democratic party agency.
Perhaps you have noticed that the Mueller investigation's expansion has apparently found no democratic party members requiring interviews or questioning.
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So if one would employ socialist logic, Trump was/is owned by Tsar Vlad, right? Then why exactly would somebody travel half way round the world to establish a connection?
What would the problem be with powerful world leaders having informal back channels to one another even IF any of this nonsense were true?
[Advocate] The body of another young black man has been found at the West Hollywood apartment of Ed Buck ‐ a prominent Democratic donor who allegedly has a fetish for drugging sex workers ‐ reports Wehoville.
Buck, a white man in his 60s, was investigated previously by authorities after the death of Gemmel Moore, who died of a methamphetamine overdose in Buck's home in July 2017. Since Moore's death was classified as an accidental overdose, numerous young black gay men have alleged that Buck has a fetish for shooting drugs into black men he picks up off the street or on hookup sites. Moore had written about Buck injecting him with dangerous drugs before his death.
"I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that," Moore wrote in his journal in December 2016. "Ed Buck is the one to thank. He gave me my first injection of crystal meth."
Buck claims he's not responsible for Moore's death and did not furnish him with drugs. The Los Angeles County District Attorney declined to file charges against Buck, saying there was "insufficient evidence."
The name of the person who died in Buck's home in the early hours of Monday has not been released. Wehoville described him as a young African-American man and featured a picture of a body being removed on a gurney.
Community activists like Jasmyne Cannick have accused Los Angeles officials of declining to prosecute Buck in 2017 thanks to his contributions to powerful politicians such as Hillary Clinton, California Gov. Jerry Brown, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, and numerous West Hollywood City Council members. Cannick is organizing a vigil and rally for tonight in front of Buck's home, at 1234 Laurel Ave.
"City Council members John D’Amico and Lindsey Horvath have reached out to City Manager Paul Arevalo, asking him to request that newly elected Sheriff Alex Villanueva put priority on investigating [the young man's] death," Wehoville reports. "Councilmember Lauren Meister also has pressed for the homicide division to investigate."
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In July of last year, prosecutors declined to file charges against Buck in the death of Moore. According to a coroner's report, Buck's apartment was full of drug paraphernalia, including 24 syringes containing brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag containing a piece of crystal-like substance.
Gemmel Moore, 26, was found dead at Buck's West Hollywood apartment on July 27, 2017.
Moore's death initially was ruled an accidental methamphetamine overdose, but the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office re-opened the investigation after writings in Moore's journal implicated Buck in his drug use.
Think a GOP Donor would (or should) get away with that?
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Buck's attorney, Seymour Amster said “All indications are he had nothing to do with this tragedy.”
Some said Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer were nice boys too.
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He's a VIP Money Source - you've gotta let a guy have hobbies
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Buck's attorney, Seymour Amster said “All indications are he had nothing to do with this tragedy.”
Ok, sounds like we all agreed that the death was a tragedy and any punishment be meted out accordingly. The rest sounds like the lawyer is talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time.
[Investor's Bus Daily] Socialism: Newly minted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she isn't modeling her brand of socialism on socialist basket cases like Venezuela, but on successes like Sweden, Norway and Finland. Apparently, she hasn't bothered to look at just what sorts of economic policies those "socialist" countries have been pursuing lately.
[SG.NEWS.YAHOO] Gavin Newsom (D) took office as Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s new governor on Monday, vowing during his swearing-in ceremony to be hard on President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... while uniting rural and urban communities in the country’s most populous state.
It was a long-awaited moment for the former California lieutenant governor and the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Mayor, who announced his gubernatorial candidacy nearly four years ago. The Democrat takes over the post from Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it... , a decadeslong fixture in statewide politics who termed out of office after 16 non-consecutive years as California governor.
"Here in California, we will prove that people of good faith and firm will can still come together to achieve big things," said Newsom, who handily defeated Republican challenger John Cox. "We will offer an alternative to the corruption and incompetence in the White House. Our government will be progressive, principled, and always on the side of the people."
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Why does Newsom have a h$#d-on for Trump? Is he a Trump-hater?
Is Newsom like Moonbeam and have an agenda to take California further down the dumper?
U.S. federal tax dollars go to California for extensive boondoggle programs and thus we all pay for their bad decisions. Maybe Trump should stop the flow of federal $s.
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Escrow closes on new house in Gardenerville, NV next week. Its costing me tens of thousands to get out of CA but it has finally gotten so oppressive here that I am getting out after decades. Great weather and scenery cannot offset the Cost of living and political climate. Just hope some PC idiot buys my house in El Dorado Hills for the current market values.
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Congrats - been eyeing Gardnerville/Minden if I retire out of CA. Nice community, Sierras/Tahoe adjacent, and close enough to Reno should medical needs arise
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California has been playing musical chairs for awhile. Best that a Democrat gets left without a seat when the Pension crisis hits so they can't blame Republicans for their decade of overspending and pretending all is well.
In other news, New York city will go even broker
[NBCNewYork] New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care to every single resident regardless of someone's ability to pay or immigration status, an unprecedented plan that will protect the more than half a million New Yorkers currently using the ER as a primary provider, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday.
It's not health insurance, his spokesman clarified after the surprise announcement on MSNBC.
"This is the city paying for direct comprehensive care (not just ERs) for people who can't afford it, or can't get comprehensive Medicaid -- including 300,000 undocumented New Yorkers," spokesman Eric Phillips tweeted.
Politico reported the mayor said the cost would be $100 million. It's not clear when it will be implemented. Knowing past government systems... that cost needs to be raised by 5 and it will be implemented when the current leaders need a distraction from their deeds
"This has never been done in the country in a comprehensive way," de Blasio said. "Health care isn't just a right in theory, it must be a right in practice. And we're doing that here in this city."
De Blasio said the plan will provide primary and specialty care, from pediatrics to OBGYN, geriatric and more, to the city's roughly 600,000 uninsured. He said the city already has the foundation for such a revolutionary plan -- a public health insurance option that helps get direct care to undocumented residents.
Notice how that bit about the undocumented is quietly slipped in, dear Reader.
That option will be expanded, the mayor said, and supported with the addition of a new program called NYC Care. Details on the program are expected to be revealed later Tuesday.
"We're already paying an exorbitant amount to pay for health care the wrong way," de Blasio said on MSNBC, referring to the cost of emergency room visits. "What we should be doing is helping them get the primary care." Get ready to pay more then, New Yorkers. Between this and paying for Amazon, you guys will be all broke as fuck in a decade.
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BP, there were two Militia Acts in 1792 during Congress' first meeting. The first defined who was in the militia, the second said that each member of the militia was to arm themselves with the same weapon that the small American army was armed with. Given that precedent, I could see that and 200 rounds of ammunition. Be like the Swiss. Store it at home.
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their inadequate treatment-ration That is the current case for the insured with massive deductibles. It took quite a bit of persuasion to get a relative to go to the ER for what turned out to be the worst case of superficial thrombophlebitis the sonographer had ever seen. His deductible is $5000 per annum.
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I suspect it'll turn a profit. Why? Simple, the vast majority of their care options will be euthanasia so that their death taxes can take a hefty bit of your accumulated life savings and property. You don't think these people have ANY interest in actually helping you survive any longer?
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"Dues-Paying Members of the Central Party will get real medicine. All other citizens will get placebos. All Hail Free Medicine!"
(/sarc, if needed...)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Hill Reporter] In an interview that aired on CNBC, Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, elaborated on why he was contacted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and what the meeting with his investigators was like.
[Advocate] The body of another young black man has been found at the West Hollywood apartment of Ed Buck ‐ a prominent Democratic donor who allegedly has a fetish for drugging sex workers ‐ reports Wehoville.
Jerry 
Why does Newsom have a h$#d-on for Trump? Is he a Trump-hater? 
