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Wendy Siegelman
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Tom Barrack, long-time Trump pal & biz assoc, ran inaugural fund, helped recruit Manafort, employed Rick Gates & has a great PR team...

This Bloomberg story paints Barrack as passionate but distracted, leaving his firm Colony Capital struggling HT @lrozen bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Today's Bloomberg story highlights Tom Barrack's "Trump Slump" and emphasizes how much money his firm has lost in it's public stock price
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
However, a June 2018 NYT article described how after Trump won the nomination, during the period the stock was declining, Tom Barrack's firm Colony Capital raised more than $7 billion in investments with 1/4 from UAE and Saudi Arabia
Here's another very flattering WaPo piece on Barrack from October 2017
washingtonpost.com/politics/hes-b…
Media is often soft in covering Barrack even though he picked Manafort for Trump's campaign, employed Rick Gates, & ran the inaugural fund

And I broke this news MSM hasn't covered - Barrack's Colony Capital was a big partner of Brexit funder Richard Tice
Confidential Memo: Colony Capital, the company of Trump Inaugural Chair Tom Barrack, sought to profit from WH admin, foreign connections - Now Federal prosecutors are investigating the Inaugural Committee & foreign donations. by @JustinElliott @ilyamarritz
propublica.org/article/trump-…
"The Colony memo shows how the company was positioning itself to take advantage of Barrack’s relationship with Trump and foreign officials immediately after the president was sworn in."
propublica.org/article/trump-…
Feb 2017 8 pg memo for Tom Barrack's firm Colony Northstar with strategy to open a DC office w/focus on US infrastructure projects with a staff of 6-15 people and $2.5 mil budget - to cultivate relationships "while avoiding any appearance of lobbying"
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5726…
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