He grabbed Trump’s attention with a proposal from the security contractor Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, that would, in effect, privatize the war in Afghanistan by sending in 5,500 of Prince’s mercenaries to fight alongside the Afghan military and appointing an American “viceroy” to oversee the war. Prince had, with Bannon’s connivance, designed a proposal so shamelessly aimed at Trump that the PowerPoint presentation he prepared for it compared his war plan to Trump’s turnaround of the Wollman ice-skating rink project in New York’s Central
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