Blackwater founder Erik Prince squirms in the hot-seat after Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan asks Prince why he referred to people in Iraq as “chanting barbarians American troops had been sent to liberate.”
Erik ‘Squirmin Wormin’ Prince ?
I asked Blackwater founder Erik Prince about calling Iraqis "barbarians" and about the murder & manslaughter that happened on his watch in Iraq.
You should really listen to his replies. (Watch the whole @AJHeadtoHead with him this Friday on @AJEnglish)pic.twitter.com/7f4unXn1zz
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 6, 2019
And perhaps even more damning (legally speaking) was his acknowledgement that he was present at a key 2016 Trump Tower meeting ‘to talk about Iran policy’
As reported by The Hill…
In an interview on Al Jazeera’s “Head to Head” that aired Friday, Prince said he was present at an Aug. 3, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower to “talk about Iran policy.”
The New York Times reported last year that Prince organized a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that included Donald Trump Jr. and Lebanese-American businessman George Nader. During that meeting, Nader reportedly said the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wanted to aid Trump in his bid for the White House.
Prince previously testified under oath to the House Intelligence Committee on Nov. 30, 2017, saying at the time that he had “no official” or “really unofficial role” in the Trump campaign and his only involvement in helping was attending fundraisers and placing yard signs.
“Head to Head” host Mehdi Hasan pressed Prince on why his presence at the meeting was apparently not part of his testimony to lawmakers, to which Prince suggested, “they got the transcript wrong,” prompting laughter from the audience.
The video is just jaw dropping pic.twitter.com/xRMxo1arwf
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) March 8, 2019
