If you were to just look at this man – a former Navy SEAL – you’d probably not think there was anything particularly bad or evil about him. He looks professional and clean-cut.
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His name is Erik Prince. Prince is the founder and former CEO of scandal-ridden Blackwater (since rebranded as Xe) and the little brother of Betsy DeVos. He’s also a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, and donated $250,000 to Trump’s election efforts in 2016.
Perhaps you don’t think the connections to Blackwater and DeVos are enough to raise him to “evil” status. I get that.
The evil part would be the casual and cold way that he lied under oath to Congress – and continues to lie, backtrack, and contradict himself in an hour-long interview with Medhi Hasan (you can view the whole thing here). If you don’t have time for the whole thing, this minute and a half video has one of the most striking bald-faced lies:
The video is just jaw dropping pic.twitter.com/xRMxo1arwf
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) March 8, 2019
No video? Hasan’s write up of the interview at The Intercept has plenty of choice bits, such as this:
[Prince] denied that his current company, Frontier Services Group, is planning to build a “training facility” in Xinjiang, China, where more than a million Uighur Muslims are being held in Chinese detention camps, dismissing a press release confirming the news as a mistranslation from Mandarin. I had to inform him that the press release was issued by his own company, FSG, in English.
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/08/erik-prince-trump-mehdi-hasan/
We simply cannot keep excusing this kind of blatant lying. The audience for the interview (in Oxford) has the right, astonished reaction at this bullshit.
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When will Americans react the same way?