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There is a Federal Inquiry of Trump’s Friend Thomas Barrack (Trump Inauguration Chair) Focused on Middle East Foreign Lobbying nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
In May 2016, Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman, had a question about the speech’s contents for Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a top campaign fund-raiser and close friend of Mr. Trump.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
Mr. Barrack was, in fact, coordinating the language in a draft of the speech with Persian Gulf contacts including Rashid al-Malik, an Emirati businessman who is close to the rulers of the United Arab Emirates.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
Investigators are looking into “whether Mr. al-Malik was part of an illegal influence scheme,” although no details of that potential scheme have been made public.
nytimes.com/2019/06/02/wor…
The exchanges about Mr. Trump’s energy speech are among a series of interactions that have come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors looking at foreign influence over his campaign, his transition and the early stages of his administration
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑Investigators have looked in particular at whether Mr. Barrack or others violated the law requiring people who try to influence American policy or opinion at the direction of foreign governments or entities to disclose their activities to the DOJ.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑Investigators are seeking to determine whether Mr. Barrack and others tried to sway the Trump campaign or the new administration on behalf of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, two closely aligned countries with huge stakes in United States policy.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑Between Trump’s nomination and the end of June, Colony Capital, Mr. Barrack’s real estate investment and private equity firm, received about $1.5 BILLION from Saudi Arabia and the UAE through investments or other transactions like asset sales.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑That included $474 million in investment from Saudi and Emirati sovereign wealth funds, out of $7 billion that Colony raised in investment worldwide.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑During the Trump campaign, Mr. Barrack was a top fund-raiser who opened communications with the Emiratis and Saudis, recommended that the candidate bring on Paul Manafort as campaign manager

#MANAFORT
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
📌And then tried to arrange a secret meeting between Mr. Manafort and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

📌Mr. Barrack was later named chairman of Mr. Trump’s inaugural committee.
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
🔑The SDNY opened an investigation into possible violations of campaign finance law, focusing partly on whether foreigners, who were barred from contributing to the $107 million inaugural fund, illegally funneled donations through Americans.

nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🇺🇸#TrumpInauguration🇺🇸

🔑Questions about whether Mr. Barrack complied with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), arose during the Russia inquiry led by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and were referred to the United States attorney’s office in Brooklyn. #EDNY
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑Central to the inquiry into Barrack are his dealings with Mr. al-Malik, who is well connected in the court of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, the de facto ruler of the UAE widely known by his initials, M.B.Z., and is close to the prince’s brother,
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑MbZ’s brother Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed, who oversees the United Arab Emirates’ intelligence services. Sheikh Hamdan is considered to be Mr. al-Malik’s patron and a major financier of his business activities.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
❓Did Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed introduced KUSHNER’s pal Mr. Gerson to Kirill Dmitriev (GRU), who acts as a liaison between President Vladimir V. Putin and the Persian Gulf monarchs?

🔑MbZ & PsyGroup
📌Psy Group thread

🔑MbZ & the January 2017 meeting in the Seychelles
Back to our story:

When Mr. Trump was elected, Mr. al-Malik received a coveted invitation to the inaugural’s most exclusive event — the chairman’s dinner, hosted by Mr. Barrack.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑Investigators have documented a string of instances in which Barrack appears to have tried, with feedback from Mr. al-Malik and others, to shape the message of the Trump campaign or new adm in ways that were more friendly to Middle East interests.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
🔑In one email to the U.A.E.’s ambassador in Washington, (Yousef Al Otaiba) Mr. Barrack promoted MANAFORT as someone who was “totally programmed” on the alliance between the Saudis and Emiratis. #1MDB
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
In late June, Mr. Manafort alerted Mr. Barrack that Trump had softened his stance on a Muslim ban.

Mr. Barrack quickly forwarded the email to Yousef al-Otaiba, the Emirates’ powerful ambassador in Washington. #1MDB
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
‼️July 2016, Barrack informed Otaiba that the Trump team had REMOVED language from the proposed GOP platform that would have CALLED FOR THE DISCLOSURE OF REDACTED PAGES related to Saudi Arabia in a report on the 9/11/01, terrorist attacks on the US. 🤔
nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/…
📌Two days later July 15, 2016, Congress released the passages, which detailed contacts between Saudi officials and some of the hijackers.
nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/…
📌The Report details contacts between Saudi officials and some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, checks from Saudi royals to operatives in contact with the hijackers and the discovery of a telephone number in a Qaeda militant’s phone book
nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/…
📌That was traced to a corporation managing an Aspen, Colo., home of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/…
📌The document, 28 pages of a congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is also an unflattering portrayal of the Saudi kingdom’s efforts to thwart American attempts to combat Al Qaeda in the years before the attacks.
nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/…
🔑But some former September 11 Commission staff members pointed out that the wording in the group’s final report did not rule out the possibility that ‘lower ranking Saudi officials’ had assisted the hijackers

Stay tuned...😎
nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/…
📌In particular, some investigators remain puzzled by the exact role played by Fahad al-Thumairy, a Saudi consular official based in the Los Angeles area at the time of the attacks.

The article hints at an ‘ah shucks we gave up investigating.’ NOT!😎
nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/…
I digressed, back to the letter re suppression of 9/11 info Barrack sent Otaiba:

“Really confidential but important,” Barrack wrote to Otaiba enclosing campaign emails on the subject.

📌“Please do not distribute.” ORLY? Why?
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
📌Hmmm. Why did TeamTrump & the Saudis want to prevent the disclosure of redacted pages related to Saudi Arabia in a report on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States?

🔑Reminder 9/11 remains unresolved.

Click the link:
law.stanford.edu/2019/01/22/a-f…
🔑March 2019:

🔑U.S. Said to Have Tapes of Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Plotting With Co-Conspirators #Rainfall “Decades of receipts” 😎
nytimes.com/2019/03/25/us/…
💰Barrack & the Saudi Nuke Deal

Investigators have also questioned witnesses about Mr. Barrack’s involvement with a proposal from an American group that could give Saudi Arabia access to nuclear power technology.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
💣Probe into Saudi Nuke Deal💣

📌Investigators have also asked about another economic development plan for the Arab world, written by Mr. Barrack and circulated among Mr. Trump’s advisers.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/…
💰A Shift in Policy

🔑Kushner met Ambassador Otaiba in May 2016. Soon after, Mr. Barrack and Ambassador Otaiba began working to arrange a secret meeting (Sept 2016) between Mr. Manafort, and MbS, the dominant adviser to his father, King Salman.
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
📌Mr. Barrack had befriended Mr. Manafort in the 1970s, when they were both living in Beirut and working for Saudi interests

📌I will circle back on this point in a bit.
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
💰Background - Trump

By 2010, Barrack had acquired $70 million of the debt owed by Jared Kushner, on his troubled $1.8 billion purchase of a skyscraper at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York.
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
📌After a call from Mr. Trump, Mr. Barrack was among a group of lenders who agreed to reduce Mr. Kushner’s obligations to keep him out of bankruptcy.
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
💰Qatari Blockade & Kush’s 666 bailout.

🔑Mr. Barrack wrote again to Otaiba on May 26 2016, to introduce Mr. Kushner, who was preparing for a role as a presidential envoy to the Middle East.

“You will love him and he agrees with our agenda!” Mr. Barrack promised in another email.
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
🔑Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the U.S., attempted to shape American policy toward the Middle East & lobbied over a regional dispute with Qatar. #KushBlockade
wsj.com/amp/articles/s…
Tom Barrack 👉🏼 Kushner 👉🏼 Yousef Al Otaiba

💰1MDB & UAE & Yousef Al Otaiba

💰Qatari Blockade Timeline

💰Qatar - Russia/Rosnef - Qatari Sovereign Wealth Fund & TeamTrump

💰Broidy: Saudi & UAE💰
💰Nader - Broidy UAE & Qatar

💰Erik Prince - Saudi

💰Ancient History

Barrack & Trump first met in the 1980s, He negotiated Trump into overpaying for two famous assets: a one-fifth stake in the New York department store chain Alexander’s in 1985, and the entire Plaza Hotel in 1988.
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
Mr. Trump paid about $410 million for the Plaza and later lost both properties to creditors.

“He played me like a Steinway piano,” Mr. Barrack recounted in a speech at the Republican convention.
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
The Long History of Vornado Realty Trust & Trump - Alexander’s

Manafort 16m loan from Calk’s bank, Lorber & Calk do biz, fake fight sue each other, 2m settlement, Lorber & Witkoff do biz with JhoLow’s booty stolen from #1MDB, JhoLow buys L’Ermitage w/ 1MDB funds; Tom Barrack, Kush gets a cut for 666. Follow the money

Qatar to Buy New York's Famed Plaza Hotel - Once Owned by Trump and Later a Saudi Prince
The Plaza Hotel for $600M deal is the largest investment in the Western property market by Qatar since the start of the Saudi-led blockade in June last year
haaretz.com/amp/middle-eas…
🔑”He [Barrack] is the only person I know who the president speaks to as a peer,” said Roger Stone, a veteran Republican operative who has known both men for decades.

🔑“Barrack is to Trump as Bebe Rebozo was to Nixon, which is the best friend,”
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
📌Fun fact: in the early 1970s Stone and Manafort had met through College Republicans. They shared a home state, an affection for finely tailored power suits, and a deeper love of power itself. Together, they campaigned with gleeful ruthlessness.

amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
Black, Manafort and Stone formed a lobbying Firm. Time magazine deemed the operation “the ultimate supermarket of influence peddling.”
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
📌Stone, Manafort & Black’s client base grew to include dictatorial governments in Nigeria, Kenya, Zaire, Equatorial Guinea, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia, among others.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
📌Stone, Manafort & Black’s firm was a primary subject of scorn in a 1992 report issued by the Center for Public Integrity called “The Torturers’ Lobby.”
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
Manafort has an extensive background advising and lobbying on behalf of governments and politicians in developing and sometimes deeply authoritarian countries — such as then-Zaire, Nigeria and the Philippines (Marcos)
eurasianet.org/what-was-manaf…
The firm ‘Black, Manafort’ known colloquially as the ‘The Torturers’ Lobby’
cloudfront-files-1.publicintegrity.org/legacy_project…
Manafort👉🏼Marcos👉🏼Epstein(?)👉🏼40 Wall Street👉🏼Trump
Manafort’s long and sordid history of working for the world’s worst people
thinkprogress.org/manaforts-form…
Manafort’s ME Connex:

🔑Late 1980s, Manafort teamdd up with an arms dealer from Lebanon named Abdul Rahman Al Assir, the BIL of the Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, the middleman used in the arms-for-hostages scheme that became the Iran-Contra scandal.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
Fun fact: Trump sold his 281-foot yacht to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for $20 million. (The boat had been originally owned by late Saudi billionaire and arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a cousin of Jamal Khashoggi.)

chicagotribune.com/news/nationwor…
Manafort’s exploration of the outermost moral frontiers of the influence biz w/ kleptocrats, thugs, & other dubious characters. But none of these relationships imprinted themselves more deeply than his friendship & entrepreneurial partnership with Al Assir
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
📌One of the more noteworthy was an arms sale Assir & Manafort helped broker between France and Pakistan, lubricated by bribes and kickbacks involving high-level officials in both countries, that eventually led to murder allegations.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
Al Assir introduced Manafort to an aristocratic world that exceeded anything he had ever known. “There’s money, and there’s really big money,” a friend of Manafort’s told me. “Paul became aware of the difference between making $300,000 and $5 million.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
🔑”i really need to get to” trump, Manafort told an old friend, the real-estate magnate Tom Barrack, in the early months of 2016.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
🔑Barrack, a confidante of Trump for some 40 years, had known Manafort even longer.

🔑When Manafort asked for Barrack’s help grabbing Trump’s attention, he readily supplied it.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
🔑Manafort reached out to Oleg Deripaska almost immediately upon securing a post within the Trump campaign, after having evaded him for years.

🔑Through Konstantin Kilimnik, he sent along press clippings that highlighted his new job.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
“How do we use to get whole,” Manafort emailed Kilimnik.

“Has OVD operation seen?”

🔑Manafort’s spokesman has acknowledged that the initials refer to Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
In the course of the exchanges, Kilimnik expressed optimism that “we will get back to the original relationship” with the oligarch.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/55…
Trump and Putin Connex, via Campaign Advisers

politico.com/magazine/story…
A Portrait of Konstantin Kilimnik, Russian patriot and Paul Manafort’s buddy

proekt.media/portrait/2018/…
🔑Konstantin Kilimnik, an elusive figure now indicted alongside Manafort on witness tampering charges, was far more involved in formulating pro-Russia political strategy with Manafort than previously known.
apnews.com/f498ec3fec8c41…
Re: What do Kyrgyzstan, Manafort, Kilimnik, Deripraska, money laundering, insider trading & Facebook’s IPO have in common?

There is more but this is enough for tonight.

Is this story why Trump was rage tweeting today?

This news drop is gianormous & as illustrated far reaching & key to the TrumpSaudiRussia conspiracy on numerous fronts.

Tragically we have another mass shooting—coinky dink?😱
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I haven’t added Barrack’s DAMAC, CITIC (Chinese state construction company) & a few other connex I am too tired to remember right now. 🤷‍♀️
Correction ^^ China State Construction Engineering Corporation CSCEC (not CITIC)

Global Players - DAMAC - CSCEC
Barrack -DAMAC - China - Indonesia

Barrack - DAMAC - Dubai - Trump kids - Gentry Beach, etc.

💰Nader -Jan 2017 Seychelles Meet
6/6/19: The WH has invited some of Trump's key business allies to an event in Bahrain intended to kick-start the adm’s long-awaited ME peace plan.

The Bahrain meeting will focus on Kush’s economic part of the "deal of the century,"
cnbc.com/2019/06/06/whi…
📌6/6/19: Tom Barrack, CEO of real estate investment firm Colony Capital, will be heading to the Bahrain event. Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman, BlackRock's Larry Fink and Goldman Sachs' Dina Powell were also invited.
cnbc.com/2019/06/06/whi…
J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon was also invited, but will not attend, Dimon, who considered a 2020 presidential run 😱 & bragged that he could beat Trump, but has also praised some adm moves, including tax cuts and deregulation.#BearSterns #2008Meltdown
cnbc.com/2019/06/06/whi…
7/25/19: Barrack steps down from Colony Capital

Now we know why....
Donald Trump’s Biggest Backer Tom Barrack Has Been Quietly Operating In China For 12 Years

#DAMAC

H/T @ninaandtito
tmtpost.com/2527418.html
Corporate and Foreign Interests Behind White House Push to Transfer U.S. Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia
Prepared for Chairman Elijah E. Cummings
Second Interim Staff Report Committee on Oversight and Reform U.S. House of Representatives
July 2019

oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Investor Tom Barrack, one of President Trump's close confidants, heavily lobbied for a plan to construct dozens of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia that he has at times stood to profit from, the Democratic-held House Oversight and Reform Committee
thehill.com/homenews/house…
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The Trump Adm has virtually obliterated the lines normally separating gov’t policy making from corporate & foreign interests & sought to profit personally

Flynn, Barrack & others pushed a scheme to build dozens of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia.

#Grifters
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And did so while seeking to avoid 123 restrictions on the transfer of U.S. nuclear technology and reap profits from the effort

Barrack submitted drafts of 2016 'America First' energy speech to UAE & Saudi for edits & TeamTrump largely accommodated requested changes.
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Barrack arranged for language requested by the UAE & Saudi officials to be added to Trump’s speech with the help of Manafort.

“This is the most likely final version of the speech. It has the language you want,” wrote Manafort in an email to Barrack
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💰Tom Barrack - Saudi Nuke Deal

Emails show that Barrack, a close friend of Trump had access to high-level officials in Trump’s Commerce Dept and used this access to share materials that were part of a plan to share nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia
citizensforethics.org/tom-barrack-pi…
Some advocating for this plan stood to make money from it.

The correspondence shows Manafort’s partner Rick Gates was enlisted to help arrange a meeting w/ ComSec Wilbur Ross shortly after these materials were shared, & the meeting was a priority for Ross
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The House Oversight committee released a report detailing concerns about efforts w/in the WH to provide nuclear tech to Saudi in  2017. Those involved in advocating for the plan–from both inside and outside the govt–apparently stood to make money from it.
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💰#MoscowMitch💰

🐢 is a Russian asset

🐢 blocks us from protecting/hardening our elex systems.

Let’s call this what it is: unpatriotic.

🐢 is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Putin’s bidding harming our sovereignty.

#TraitorMcConnell
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A KSU server, wiped clean in July 2016,

April 2016, Kislyak visited KSU (GA).

Trump beat HRC in GA w/ a razor-thin 5% of the vote. 🤔
💰MoscowKemp3💰

Was GA’s Elex System Hacked in 2016 &2018?

Mueller raises new questions about the integrity of GA’s voting infrastructure. Why is the state stonewalling?

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Let me explain how Paul Manafort's #TrumpRussia indictments are rolling rapidly from election inference into a replay of the Jack Abramoff scandal, but on STEROIDS, involving the secretive sale of American foreign policy for dark money.

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