Eric Prince is destroyed on social media after selling $6500 private evacuation flights from Afghanistan

Most people see the chaotic withdrawal of American troops, private contractors, aid organization workers, and Afghan translators & facilitators as an unfortunate but hardly avoidable situation, given the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the Central Asian nation’s military forces and the flight of its former president from the country.

Hardcore Republican operatives, however, take a different perspective.

Some see the controversy around the evacuation — which has thus far managed to get nearly 60 thousand people airlifted out of the country without a single American casualty — as an opportunity to score political points against the Biden administration, even though the withdrawal was set in stone by his predecessor Donald Trump.

Even worse, though, are those GOP luminaries such as Erik Prince, who was the founder of the mercenary security company Blackwater and the brother of  Trump’s reviled Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Prince — whose secretive meeting in the Middle East right after the 2016 presidential election with the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates and Russian bankers raised the interest of those investigating the links between the Trump campaign and Russia — sees the evacuation efforts as a profit-making opportunity.

As reports of private efforts to help more people escape the dangers of Taliban rule in Afghanistan begin to circulate, the details of Prince’s attempts to profiteer on the back of the crisis — by charging as much as $6500 per person to Afghans seeking to escape for seats on private charter flights out of the convulsive country (or more if they need transport from anywhere outside the perimeter of the Kabul airport) — are inspiring caustic pushback on Social media by commentators who are outraged by his greed.

Betsy Devos's brother aka satan Erik Prince is charging $6,500 a seat to Afghans looking to escape. Meanwhile @HillaryClinton has been chartering flights non stop out of Afghanistan free of charge. That is the difference between the GQP and Democrats. https://t.co/aknb8qsBu7

— No Dem Left Behind (@NoDemLeftBehind) August 25, 2021

Merchant of Death and brother of Betsy DeVos, Erik Prince, is charging $6500 per seat on chartered flights out of Afghanistan

Are we surprised?

He milked our government of billions of dollars in defense contracts and impregnated his kids’ nanny as his wife was dying of cancer

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) August 25, 2021

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Charging $6500 per person for a private flight out of Kabul is gross but adds up to chump change for the enormously wealthy mercenary Erik Prince and his family. Worth investigating what else he’s up to in Afghanistan. People like him operate by covering up crime with scandal.

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 25, 2021

Blackwater terrorist Erik Prince is charging $6,500 a seat for a private chartered flight out of Kabul whilst Hillary Clinton has quietly arranged charter flights to fly people out free of charge.

There’s no comparison between pure evil and human goodness.

— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) August 25, 2021

Erik Prince, founder of the notorious Blackwater, is offering people seats on a chartered plane out of Kabul for $6,500/p. In 2017 he proposed plundering Helmand Province of approx $1 trillion worth of lithium, uranium, phosphorus, and other rare elements. https://t.co/kXQ8dQzju3

— Lauren Bohn (@LaurenBohn) August 25, 2021

Erik Prince is profiting off suffering by charging $6500 for private flights out of Kabul. Betsy DeVos is rewriting guidelines for campus sexual assaults to favor the perpetrators. What was it like growing up in that family?

— Rex Zane (@rexzane1) August 25, 2021

Did you even SEE media reporting on Hillary Clinton's chartered flight to assist women & children out of Afghanistan? She charged zero dollars

War criminal mass murderer Republican Erik Prince, of Blackwater mercenaries aka Academi charges $6,500 dollars

Survival of the richest https://t.co/W5VTySvf3O

— Tomi Ahonen Selling Seats For 6,500 Cans Of Goya (@tomiahonen) August 25, 2021

Just so there’s no confusion…

Prince Eric: Husband of Ariel.

Erik Prince: Brother of Cruella de Vil.

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) August 25, 2021

I would say that Erik Prince should be in prison, but I'm not sure prison deserves that.

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) August 25, 2021

LOL this is true. Probably was Erik Prince's primary purpose. Most of his mercenaries there were on various dubious paperwork, easiest to fly them out on his private plane. Sell the extra seats at huge profit to cover the cost of the plane/s https://t.co/4Pm8RDSlAo

— Tomi Ahonen Selling Seats For 6,500 Cans Of Goya (@tomiahonen) August 25, 2021

Erik Prince is doing to Afghanistan airlifts what his sister Betsy DeVos did to U.S. education: putting personal greed over public need. https://t.co/A1E5bCvGKN

— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) August 25, 2021

https://twitter.com/itsnotny/status/1427994168668864526?s=20

Prince and his Republican cohorts will milk the Afghanistan evacuation crisis for all that they can extort while blaming the Democrats, rather than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who engineered the disastrous military intervention in the first place, or Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo who negotiated the surrender of the country to the Taliban to begin with.

There’s no denying that the Afghan withdrawal could have been better planned and executed, but the actions of Prince and his ilk simply add insult to injury and need to be loudly condemned.

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