future President of the United States and offering help against their opponent would be one way of doing that, would it not?
MR. SIMPSON: That's in character with the Natalia that I know. She seemed ambitious and opportunistic.
MR. SCHIFF: All right. Let me ask you a few last questions. Did you come across in your research anything related to the allegation you may have seen publicly that Erik Prince had a meeting in the Seychelles arranged by foreign parties?
Did that allegation or any facts related to it come to your attention?
MR. SIMPSON: Not specifically that, but Erik Prince's role in the sort of back of a lot of this stuff has come to my attention. And one of the -- I guess I would rather not say anything else. But I just think that he seems to be connected to some of the people who have been making accusations against me. And I have questions about whether he is the one who is --
MR. SCHIFF: And in terms of your investigation, though, did you find any facts related to his foreign travel or his relationships or any work that he was doing on behalf of the Trump campaign?
MR. SIMPSON: Not that I can specifically remember.
MR. SCHIFF: It's been publicly reported that Don Jr. went to Paris, had a meeting with a pro-Russian think tank. Was that a subject of your investigation as well?
MR. SIMPSON: Yes. We did a lot of work on -- so Russia is a major theater of operation - I am sorry, France is a major theater of operation for the Russian services. And they have a lot of, you know, phony think tanks and other operations there. And they were very active in the French Presidential election, and they have been very -- there is a guy named Malofeev who sort of runs
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