Trump and his team have been quick to lambast any reporting on the matter as "fake news" and saying that the real story is leaked information.

The house is listed for $1,995,000 dollars. (Supplied by Jacob Heglund of JH Realty Partners), The kitchen inside the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. The house is listed for $1,995,000 dollars. The house is listed for $1,995,000 dollars. In a major new report, The Intercept looks at Prince’s latest actions, including his pitch to privatize the war in Afghanistan; his creation of a mercenary army for the United Arab Emirates; a history of mismanaged projects that have soured his relationships with leaders around the world; and his comeback, made possible with the help of the Trump administration. And so, it was no surprise—it was shocking, but it was no surprise—that he had a plan for Venezuela. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com), A hallway window seat on the second floor of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. (Supplied to MLive by Jacob Heglund of JH Realty Partners), The basement game room in the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr NE in Ada, Michigan. This is viewer supported news. has a job opening for a full-time, paid digital social media fellowship. The house is listed for $1,995,000 dollars. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com), The kitchen inside the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to do Part 2 of this discussion and post it online at democracynow.org. We’re joined now by Matthew Cole, the investigative journalist who wrote the story. He had been pitched years before to be an investor in an Israeli intelligence company called Black Cube, which got notoriety during the #MeToo movement, the hashtag #MeToo movement, with the Harvey Weinstein investigations. MATTHEW COLE: Sure. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com), The outdoor basketball court of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com), A entertainment bar in the basement of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. AMY GOODMAN: Project Veritas goes after groups like Planned Parenthood. I’m Amy Goodman. (Supplied by Jacob Heglund of JH Realty Partners), The master bedroom of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. (Supplied by Jacob Heglund of JH Realty Partners), The exterior of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr NE in Ada, Michigan. And what my story did was to look at—and, in fact, that’s actually where the story began for me, and the reporting, was I had done a lot of reporting on Erik’s business efforts in a—his effort in a private equity fund in Africa. The house is listed for $1,995,000 dollars.

(Supplied by Jacob Heglund of JH Realty Partners), The exercise room inside the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. And his plan was to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in their entirety and replace them with something like what he called the East India Corporation—that’s what he compared it to—and that the U.S. should have a viceroy, and that someone like Erik Prince should be the viceroy and put together a private military that would do work with the Afghan army.
(Supplied to MLive by Jacob Heglund of JH Realty Partners), The open-concept kitchen and family room inside the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. I mean, he moved his entire family to the United Arab Emirates. The house is listed for $1,995,000. The outdoor kid's "play park" of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan.

The House Intelligence Committee has sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department for Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com), A seating area in the basement of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan.

And by the end of the Obama—Bush administration, rather, Prince was forced to change the name, because it had become so toxic after Nisoor Square, and sell.

(Supplied by Jacob Heglund of JH Realty Partners), The dining room inside the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr NE in Ada, Michigan. The family room inside the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. House Democrats are accusing Prince of lying to Congress during his November 2017 testimony before the committee, when he described a meeting in the Seychelles with a Russian banker before Donald Trump’s inauguration as a chance encounter.

AMY GOODMAN: You broke news with this part of the piece: “During the 2016 election, he became involved with James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, a group of conservative provocateurs who specialize in using hidden-camera footage and secret recordings.”, MATTHEW COLE: Yeah. "We are not aware of any meetings and Erik Prince had no role in the transition," Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the Post. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! All rights reserved (About Us). Please do your part today. According to the Mueller report, the meeting was an attempt to establish a backchannel between the incoming Trump administration and Russia, and may have been arranged by the Trump team. Prince, a major Trump donor who is also the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, traveled to a remote island in the Indian Ocean in January for discussions with a Putin associate about issues including Iran, the Washington Post said Monday. In her financial disclosure, DeVos reported earning $216,600 as a distributive share from Renaissance Acquisition, meaning she is a partial owner or partner in the business. Officials said that Prince represented himself as an emissary for then President-elect Trump for the meeting in the Seychelles, though both he and the administration deny it.
(Joel Bissell | MLive.com), One of three staircases leading to the basement of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. The house listed for $1,995,000. The house is listed for $1,995,000 dollars. The house is listed for $1,995,000 dollars.

(Joel Bissell | MLive.com), One of three staircases leading to the basement of the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. Controversial Blackwater founder Erik Prince acted as a back-channel go-between for President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a report. It is not known if the meeting delved into other issues besides the Russo-Iranian relationship, a contributing factor to Moscow's support for Bashar al-Assad in Syria. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com), One of seven bedrooms inside the home located at 543 Roundtree Dr. NE in Ada, Michigan. And all of those things are things that Erik Prince has been obsessed with for 20-plus years. The house is listed for $1,995,000 dollars. The kitchen, one of multiple updates, is sleek and modern from its custom white cabinets to the marble subway tile backsplash and luxury stainless steel appliances such as a Thermador gas range. For that, Prince kept his mouth shut. And this was, again, what I was saying about him coming back sort of domestically, was, as he failed abroad, he started to look at politics and come back home. Trump posts contentious ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Lesley Stahl after boasting he’s ‘magnificent brilliant’, Teen arrested after teacher sees him having oral sex with 7-year-old girl during break in online class, Rudy Giuliani caught touching himself in raunchy NYC hotel room scene from new Borat movie, Utah Sheriff’s Sergeant says missing mother’s account ‘doesn’t add up' after being found in Zion Park, Jeffrey Toobin and the m-word: Let’s be honest about what makes this scandal so scandalous, SEE IT: Stephen Colbert makes fun of Rudy Giuliani’s compromising ‘Borat’ scene, Judge tosses one of two murder charges against ex-cop Derek Chauvin in George Floyd case, Florida woman beat girlfriend’s 3-year-old son to death with tire iron: cops, Ravens’ trade for Yannick Ngakoue could open door for Jets to sign Matthew Judon in offseason, Spencer Davis, ’60s British bandleader behind ‘Gimme Some Lovin’' with Steve Winwood, has died, Ghislaine Maxwell’s unsealed 2016 testimony about Jeffrey Epstein reveals angry outburst, denials of sex abuse, Crook with skeleton tattoo steals Queens straphanger cellphone, then snaps selfies, Brooklyn subway station covered in ’70s-style graffiti, What Pope Francis understands about civil unions (and his critics never will), Matthew McConaughey says he was ‘blackmailed’ into sex as a teen, N.J. Gov. Any way to find out? We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work. Democracy Now! The house is listed for $1,995,000. But I actually think that what we’re going to see, and in fact we have some indication already, that Erik Prince is using Project Veritas to target his political enemies or political enemies of the Trump administration or his political associates. A July 23 Facebook post by user Sebastian Twardosz features a picture of a man in riot gear pointing a gun at something out of the frame.