Thomas Barrack was indicted on seven charges, including lying to the FBI.
The charges against Barrack, 74, are unrelated to his work as the chair of Trump’s inaugural committee, which wasTuesday’s indictment out of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleges that Barrack worked with Al-Malik and Grimes on behalf of four unnamed UAE government officials to influence public opinion as well as the foreign policy positions of Trump’s campaign and, later, his administration.
As a part of that campaign, Barrack repeatedly promoted the UAE in media appearances with advice and talking points from the Emirati officials, prosecutors allege. Following one interview, on July 18, 2016, on an unnamed national TV network, Barrack emailed Al-Malik, “I nailed it … for the home team,” referring to the UAE, according to the Justice Department. In a September 27, 2016, TV appearance he praised two of the officials by name.
Barrack also shared a draft of a speech Trump was planning to give about US energy policy with the UAE officials and asked for their edits, which included inserting a line that would praise one of the officials by name. The Trump campaign removed the line, but Barrack convinced them to include a different line in which Trump would pledge to “work together with our supportive allies in the Gulf.
Barrack also sent a draft of an op-ed he was writing for an unnamed national media outlet to the Emirati officials for edits, which included removing a reference to “dictatorships” in the Middle East; “They don’t want to be also labeled as dictators,” Barrack was told according to the indictment. At their advice, he changed the word to “regimes.” In the op-ed which was published on Oct. 22, 2016, Barrack also “praised the ‘brilliant young leaders’” of the UAE, the indictment says.
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