Tom Barrack, Trump's longtime billionaire friend and 2016 fundraiser, has been acquitted on all charges related to accusations he lobbied Trump on behalf of the United Arab Emirates without registering as a foreign agent. Prosecutors alleged he traded on his decades-long friendship with the then-president to give UAE officials access to and insider information on the Trump White House.
Barrack, who served as Trump’s inaugural committee chairman, was also charged with obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI about his UAE contacts in a 2019 interview.
- Barrack denied doing bidding for the UAE and said the praise he showered on the nation and meetings he set up between UAE officials and White House officials were because he wanted to, not because he was being directed to.
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