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    Exclamation Trump inaugural fund chairman arrested, charged with acting as agent of a foreign government

    No the foreign gov is not of our closest ally and the only non-racist democracy in mideast.
    Just weeks after taking down deep ziocons funded MAGA ally Netanyahu, so called Biden alpha smackdown is turning into a smackathon?
    Signs were plenty that GOP-Adelson wing was a sinking ship but the speed of these developments is somewhat surprising still:


    Tom Barrack charged with illegally lobbying then-President Trump on behalf of UAE

    Tue, Jul 20 2021
    Key Points

    • Thomas Barrack, a private equity investor who is a close friend of former President Donald Trump, was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges related to illegally lobbying Trump for the United Arab Emirates, the Justice Department said.
    • Barrack was chairman of Trump’s 2017 inaugural fund..
    • Barrack, 74, is a longtime friend of Trump’s, and the founder of the large private equity firm Colony Capital.


    Thomas Barrack, chairman and chief executive officer of Colony Capital Inc., gestures while speaking during the closing reception at the Milken Institute Japan Symposium in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, March 25, 2019. The conference brings together business leaders and government officials to discuss geopolitical, economic and social issues facing Japan. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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    Thomas Barrack, a private equity investor who is a close friend of former President Donald Trump, was arrested Tuesday morning in Los Angeles on federal charges related to illegally lobbying Trump for the United Arab Emirates.
    Barrack, who was charged with three other men in a seven-count indictment in Brooklyn, New York, federal court, was chairman of Trump’s 2017 inaugural fund.
    The Santa Monica, California, resident Barrack and the other defendants are accused of unlawful efforts to advance the interests of the UAE at the direction of senior officials of that nation, “by influencing the foreign policy positions of the campaign of a candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and, subsequently, the foreign policy positions of the U.S. government in the incoming administration,” the Justice Department said.
    cnbc.com/2021/07/20/thomas-barrack-chairman-of-trump-2017-inaugural-fund-arrested-on-federal-charge.html





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    Seems like it would be difficult to prove four people not holding govt positions " influenced foreign policy positions of a campaign " I also find it doubtful you are required to register as a foreign agent if you are lobbying people not yet elected ?. Seems like the "justice " dept might be doing something else there .
    Do something Danke

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    If Epstein were alive, this might not have happened.

    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Seems like it would be difficult to prove four people not holding govt positions " influenced foreign policy positions of a campaign " I also find it doubtful you are required to register as a foreign agent if you are lobbying people not yet elected ?. Seems like the "justice " dept might be doing something else there .

    With legal eagles like these in MAGA camp, not going to be easy for Justice to prove that ham sandwich was indicted very properly.
    They helped save Trump from impeachment also.


    From: "Ken Starr helped Jeffrey Epstein with ‘scorched-earth’ campaign" against Prez Bill Clinton

    Incidentally, one of these two MAGA lawyers (Starr) is so brilliant that he managed to get Bill Clinton impeached over a non-sexual relationship with a White House intern.

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    In related historic news:


    Trump claims he will declassify the 28 pages
    03-18-2016

    Political activity
    Barrack endorsed Donald Trump during the 2016 United States presidential election.[39] He was a major fundraiser for Trump's campaign through the "Rebuilding America Now" Super PAC, which raised $23 million.
    Barrack recommended that Trump hire Paul Manafort as his campaign manager. Barrack first met Manafort in the 1970s when they were both working for Saudis and living in Beirut;[20] In 2007, Barrack had loaned Manafort $1.5 million to refinance a home in the Hamptons.

    On April 26, 2016, Barrack began an email correspondence with one of his business partners, UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, reassuring him that Trump had investments in the UAE. “The emails were the beginning of Mr. Trump’s improbable transformation from a candidate who campaigned against Muslims to a president celebrated in the royal courts of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi,” according to New York Times writer David D. Kirkpatrick, who characterized this as a testament to Barrack's "unique place in the Trump world". On May 26, Barrack wrote to Otaiba to introduce Jared Kushner, and the two met later that month.[20] On July 13, Barrack conveyed to Otaiba that Trump had removed from the Republican Party platform the plank calling for the release of the 28 pages of redacted information from the 9/11 report.[20] On July 21, Barrack spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

    In September 2016, Barrack helped set up a meeting between Trump and the Emir of Qatar in Trump Tower, although, as Kilpatrick noted, none of the investments brought in from the gulf by Mr. Barrack's firm in the two years following that meeting came from Qatar.[20] After Trump became president, Barrack continued to act as a middleman between him and Arab princes.
    Barrack served as chairman of the committee overseeing the 2017 Trump inauguration, for which he raised over $100 million, doubling the previous record.[18] Barrack hired Rick Gates, first to help run the inauguration and, following that, as a consultant for his company. Gates was fired from the latter position in October 2017, the day he was indicted.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack

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    The Board of Directors of the Ron Lauder, Elliott Broidy affiliated Secure America Now (SAN) that worked on the 2016 Trump campaign, included John Bolton and Mike Huckabee.
    Dick Morris, who has worked for Bill Clinton, advised Huckabee on his campaigns in 1993, 1994, and 1998. Mike Huckabee’s daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was President Donald's White House Press Secretary for 2 years.
    In January 2018, Huckabee praised Doha, Qatar as "surprisingly beautiful, modern, and hospitable". Mike Huckabee forgot to mention that Qatar had paid him $50,000 as an "honorarium".


    Nader was an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi (MBZ, of the UAE) for years.
    See the gay paedophile George Nader pictured with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.


    George Nader has also worked as a business agent in Iraq for the private military contractor Blackwater, owned by Erik Prince (the brother of Donald’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos).
    Since Erik Prince arranged the meeting between Joel Zamel, Nader and Trump’s team on 3 August 2016, George Nader frequently met Jared Kushner, Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon.
    Nader and Prince were also discussing a plan to get $2 billion from the Saudis for a private army to fight against Yemen.

    After Broidy donated $189,000 to the RNC on 30 November, George Nader was allowed to be photographed backstage with president Donald.


    After Trump was elected president, Nader paid Zamel a large sum of money, $2 million.
    After Donald’s inauguration, Zamel and Nader met Kushner and Bannon at the White House, supposedly promoting a plan to sabotage Iran. Nader advocated this project to American, Emirati and Saudi officials, estimated at a cost of about $300 million.

    Zamel has also worked for the Emirati royal court as a consultant.
    In December 2016, Nader again hired an internet company linked to Zamel — WhiteKnight, based in the Philippines.

    According to insiders, Nader visited Moscow at least twice during the presidential campaign as an emissary from Crown Prince MBZ.
    Joel Zamel also has ties to Russia. One of his firms has worked for Russian oligarchs like Oleg V. Deripaska and Dmitry Rybolovlev: http://web.archive.org/web/20200203212730/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/politics/trump-jr-saudi-uae-nader-prince-zamel.html


    On 3 June 2017, emails from United Arab Emirates ( UAE) envoy Yousef al-Otaiba were released by GlobalLeaks. Otaiba has “almost constant phone and email contact” with President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner. The two first met this June at the behest of Thomas Barrack, another billionaire and backer of Trump.
    In 2000, Otaiba became the director of international affairs for Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MBZ), the crown prince of Abu Dhabi.
    Otaiba also emailed with Robert Gates, former defence secretary for Barack Obama. Gates is also associated with Mohammed bin Zayed.

    Yousef al-Otaiba has repeatedly discussed the strategy towards Iran with the CEO of the FDD, Mark Dubowitz.
    Part of the leaked mails, is the agenda for an 11-14 June 2017 meeting between the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and UAE government officials. As attendees for the FDD are listed: Mark Dubowitz, John Hannah, and Jonathan Schanzer. UAE officials also requested the attendance of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. The agenda includes a discussion on Qatar, and in particular"Al Jazeera as an instrument of regional instability": https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...66679/FDD2.pdf

    See the following excerpts from the document, the first image is a mail announcing a discussion on Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood on 23 May 2017.


    The second and third are about the “assessment of Qatar’s troubling regional role” on 11-15 June 2017.


    The FDD is financed by none other than Sheldon Adelson: https://theintercept.com/2017/06/03/...-against-iran/


    See Mohammed bin Zayed (centre) with Republican senators Bob Corker, Mitch McConnell (husband of Trump’s Transport Secretary Elaine Chao), John McCain, and Democratic senators Ben Cardin and Jack Reed.


    Then on 14 June 2017, the president of the FDD, Clifford D. May, published the following...
    FDD Senior Fellow David Weinberg, had this to say about the leaked mails:
    The emails were cherry-picked and given to tendentious media outlets in an attempt to embarrass the ambassador and critics of Qatar.
    May claims that Qatar:
    extends its hospitality to the Taliban, provides refuge to Hamas leaders, takes a tolerant attitude toward al Qaeda financiers, enjoys cordial relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, supports the Muslim Brotherhood and, via al Jazeera, its media outlet, spreads Islamist propaganda.
    (…)
    In April, according to sources cited by the Financial Times, Qatar paid as much as $1 billion to Iran and al Qaeda, ostensibly to secure the release of members of the royal family and their companions who were kidnapped while hunting in Iraq. In May, the Saudi press reported that Qatar’s foreign minister met with Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top terrorist master.
    May refers to the 23 May conference, which was attended by 1) Robert Gates, who served as Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence; 2) Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and 3) Jake Sullivan, former (and current) national security advisor to former Vice and current President Joe Biden: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media...tar-ultimatum/
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    Fundraiser Cultivates 2 Crown Princes to Nail $1 Billion in Business

    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    The Board of Directors of the Ron Lauder, Elliott Broidy affiliated Secure America Now (SAN) that worked on the 2016 Trump campaign, included John Bolton and Mike Huckabee.
    Dick Morris, who has worked for Bill Clinton, advised Huckabee on his campaigns in 1993, 1994, and 1998. Mike Huckabee’s daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was President Donald's White House Press Secretary for 2 years.
    In January 2018, Huckabee praised Doha, Qatar as "surprisingly beautiful, modern, and hospitable". Mike Huckabee forgot to mention that Qatar had paid him $50,000 as an "honorarium".


    Nader was an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi (MBZ, of the UAE) for years.
    See the gay paedophile George Nader pictured with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.


    George Nader has also worked as a business agent in Iraq for the private military contractor Blackwater, owned by Erik Prince (the brother of Donald’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos).
    Since Erik Prince arranged the meeting between Joel Zamel, Nader and Trump’s team on 3 August 2016, George Nader frequently met Jared Kushner, Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon.
    Nader and Prince were also discussing a plan to get $2 billion from the Saudis for a private army to fight against Yemen.

    After Broidy donated $189,000 to the RNC on 30 November, George Nader was allowed to be photographed backstage with president Donald.


    After Trump was elected president, Nader paid Zamel a large sum of money, $2 million.
    After Donald’s inauguration, Zamel and Nader met Kushner and Bannon at the White House, supposedly promoting a plan to sabotage Iran. Nader advocated this project to American, Emirati and Saudi officials, estimated at a cost of about $300 million.
    ...

    Just when you think America First movement and "follow the money" aspects are well covered by MSM, something new pops up in non-MSM media. Reading all these reported claims together appears to paint quite a stunning picture.


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    Trump claims he will declassify the 28 pages
    03-18-2016

    Political activity
    Barrack endorsed Donald Trump during the 2016 United States presidential election.[39] He was a major fundraiser for Trump's campaign through the "Rebuilding America Now" Super PAC, which raised $23 million.

    Barrack recommended that Trump hire Paul Manafort as his campaign manager. Barrack first met Manafort in the 1970s when they were both working for Saudis and living in Beirut;[20] In 2007, Barrack had loaned Manafort $1.5 million to refinance a home in the Hamptons.
    On May 26, Barrack wrote to Otaiba to introduce Jared Kushner, and the two met later that month.[20] On July 13, Barrack conveyed to Otaiba that Trump had removed from the Republican Party platform the plank calling for the release of the 28 pages of redacted information from the 9/11 report.[20] On July 21, Barrack spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

    In September 2016, Barrack helped set up a meeting between Trump and the Emir of Qatar in Trump Tower, although, as Kilpatrick noted, none of the investments brought in from the gulf by Mr. Barrack's firm in the two years following that meeting came from Qatar.[20] After Trump became president, Barrack continued to act as a middleman between him and Arab princes.

    Barrack served as chairman of the committee overseeing the 2017 Trump inauguration, for which he raised over $100 million, doubling the previous record.[18] Barrack hired Rick Gates, first to help run the inauguration and, following that, as a consultant for his company. Gates was fired from the latter position in October 2017, the day he was indicted.

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    I really hope that nobody will look into the Qatar blockade and the financing of Kushner's NYC 666 Fifth Avenue!

    Tom Barrack told the Washington Post that he tried to use his Qatar connection to help Kushner with 666 Fifth Avenue. “Barrack said he told the former prime minister of Qatar to consider investing in the Kushner Cos. property,” according to the Post.
    (...)

    The Qataris reportedly believe the blockade may be linked to their rejection of funding for 666 Fifth Avenue.
    (...)

    Tillerson reportedly later came to believe concluded that Trump’s White House remarks were written by Yousef al-Otaiba, UAE ambassador to the U.S., and passed to the President by Jared Kushner.
    (...)

    The Kushners receive a $184 million loan from Apollo Global Management to refinance a building in Chicago. The Qatar Investment Authority is one of Apollo’s largest investors. The loan is triple the average property loan made by Apollo.
    (...)

    August 1-3, 2018: The Kushners receive bailout on 666 Fifth Avenue from Qatar-supported company (plus Westinghouse deal)
    https://www.justsecurity.org/69094/t...-house-policy/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    I really hope that nobody will look into the Qatar blockade and the financing of Kushner's NYC 666 Fifth Avenue!
    Actually once GOP base rockstar Steve Bannon and 9/11 hero mayor Giuliani's predictions have turned out to be wrong:


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    • References Deutsche Bank records that have reportedly been subpoenaed
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    Isn't it strange how most American media ignore the relevance of the Qatar blockade, but Al Jazeera finds it important?
    Donald Trump's longtime friend Thomas Barrack has pleaded not guilty to the United Arab Emirates lobbying charges.

    Barrack is charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements during a June 2019 interview with federal agents.
    Barrack has been released on a $250 million bail after his arrest in California.

    Prosecutors said that Barrack provided UAE officials with information about how senior US officials viewed the blockade against Qatar started mid-2017 by a group including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/...-lobbying-case
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    Matthew Grimes, who worked at the Colony Capital of Thomas Barrack, was charged along with Barrack.

    Colony worked closely with funds in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, raising at least $1.5 billion from the UAE and Saudi Arabia since Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination.
    Barrack’s firm also got money from the Abraaj Group, a UAE private equity firm that collapsed and was fined a whopping $314.6 million for misconduct in 2019.

    Prosecutors accuse Barrack of providing foreign government officials with “sensitive non-public information about developments within the Administration, including information about the positions of multiple senior United States government officials with respect to the Qatari blockade conducted by the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries”.

    In 2016 during the election campaign, Barrack with Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort set up the super PAC "Rebuilding America Now", which spent $21 million to support Trump.
    The PAC was accused of illegally laundering foreign money into the US to support Trump and illegal communication with the Trump campaign using firewalls: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/202...h-allegations/
    (https://archive.is/IDO2h)
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