You may see reports of a meeting between super-mercenary Erik Prince - founder of Blackwater - and a shady Russian in the Seychelles Islands. A meeting that special prosecutor Robert Mueller supposedly finds “interesting” and potentially relevant.
See what the Washington Examiner’s Byron York writes about this meeting.
The Washington Post reported that Prince traveled to the Indian Ocean islands on Jan. 11, 2017, just nine days before the Trump inauguration. Once there, he attended a "secret meeting" with "a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin," arranged by the United Arab Emirates as part of "an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump."On the face of it, another ‘nothingburger.’ You can’t collude today to influence something which already happened yesterday, it has moved from the “might happen” column to the one labeled “history.”
The core question of the (Mueller) investigation is whether the Trump campaign and Russia colluded to influence the 2016 election. The Seychelles meeting took place on Jan. 11, 2017, more than two months after the election. One thing that is certain is that the participants were not colluding to influence the 2016 election.
Of course, the classic problem with special prosecutors is their need to justify their existence (and expense). That need causes them to bird-walk into areas not part of their initial investigatory ambit. This could be another example of that unfortunate tendency.
