DUmp has a sad: Trump ally Tom Barrack acquitted of foreign agent charges

[DUmpDiver]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142990269

Omaha Steve (90,468 posts)


Trump ally Tom Barrack acquitted of foreign agent charges
Source: AP

By TOM HAYS

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s inaugural committee chair, Tom Barrack, was acquitted on all counts Friday at a federal trial in which he was accused of using his personal access to the former Republican president to secretly promote the interests of the United Arab Emirates.

The jury deliberated three days before finding Barrack not guilty of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Barrack had vehemently denied the charges.

Barrack, 75, is an old friend of Trump and is a California billionaire who chaired Trump’s inaugural committee. He was among of a long line of Trump associates to face various criminal charges.

In closing arguments on Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Harris told jurors that Barrack schemed to become the “eyes, ears and the voice” for the Emirates as part of a criminal conspiracy to manipulate Trump’s foreign policy. At the same time. he leveraged his back-channel connections to get the UAE to funnel tens of millions of dollars into an office building he was developing and into one of his investment funds, he added.

WA-03 Democrat (2,558 posts)

4. That was a close one

Despite his crimes his wealth protected him!
Laws are clearly only for the small, poor and powerless.

Proceed evil bastards!

But you're all for Hillary skating and J6ers having the whole of DOJ thrown at them, right?

[CollectivismMustDie]

Dear Omaha Steve,

Have a mini-taco and a smile, and shut the **** up.


 

[SVPete]

LIEden DOJ's big mistake was not charging Tom Barrack with being a California billionaire who does not support Dem candidates.

[Ptarmigan]

Oh well.

[RuralNc]

The Mutts dont seem to shocked or concerned. I think the walnut sized matter in their noggins is preoccupied with Doomsday. I mean Tuesday. 

[ADsOutburst]

Oh darn. They couldn't have another successful show trial.

[DefiantSix]

Oh darn. They couldn't have another successful show trial.

"Successful" has been a tough standard for them to meet lately. Seems the only success they've ginned up in the show trial biz was that 'Contempt of Congress' horseshit (name me three people who DON'T hold Congress in utter contempt).

Hell, after they sent the US-KGB Feebs on that farsical raid on Mar-A-Lago, they still couldn't come up with enough to charge Orange Man with anything substantial, even after swiping every scrap of paper exchanged between The Donald and his attornies in the process.

Beria would be spinning in his grave to see what the Feebs have done to his legacy...