Why the arrest of Tom Barrack is a trumpata for Trump (and the US)

Tom Barrack is an Arab-American billionaire who is considered one of the main financiers of the Trump campaign. Italics by Giuseppe Gagliano

What does the arrest of Tom Barrack, one of Trump's closest and most important advisors, prove?

WHO IS TOM BARRACK

Primarily Barrack is a 74-year-old Arab American billionaire and was considered a major funder of Trump's campaign in 2016, as well as being chairman of the inaugural committee for Trump's investiture ceremony.

AGENT OF THE EMIRATES

Second, the arrest – made thanks to lengthy and laborious investigations by the FBI and the Department of Justice – proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Tom Barrack would have acted as the UAE's agent of influence in the period between 2016 and 2018 together with two of his collaborators, namely 27-year-old Matthew Grimes, an employee of his investment company, and Rashid Al Malik Alshahhi, an Emirati citizen, once his business partner.

Third, the purpose of his lobbying was of course to promote the political goals of the UAE as evidenced by the fact that his collaborator Rashid Al Malik Alshahhi was paid directly by the UAE intelligence in order to influence Trump's choices in the context of foreign policy.

WHAT THE EVENT SHOWS

We asked ourselves at the beginning what this story proves.

It demonstrates the power of the Saudi lobby and above all its ability to influence or otherwise condition the choices of American foreign policy, as we had already indicatedin a previous article .

A QUESTION

Finally, a final question: in the current Biden administration there are no Saudi and Israeli lobbyists?

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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tom-barrack-arresto/ on Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:16:52 +0000.