The documentation showed OB Projects’ letter of engagement addressed to Mercury partner Bryan Lanza, external, a Republican strategist and former Trump elections campaign communications director.
It said Mercury’s services, to be provided free of charge, would include “contacting appropriate officials in the current administration and Congress to promote paying the Zimbabwean farmers the remaining balance of $3.5bn”.
The letter explained that it envisioned this would happen by the US government supporting the clearance of Zimbabwe’s debt and new financing arrangements via institutions “including the World Bank”.
It would be quite a feat if Zimbabwe was able to refinance its debts, as the southern African nation has not received loans from…