Barrack Says Israel has More Chapters Left for Hezbollah and Iran!
Tom Barrack, a 78-year-old billionaire real estate investor, a close friend of Trump and a key figure in his Middle East foreign policy (Ambassador to Turkey, envoy to Syria and Lebanon) has discussed Trump's US policy in Iraq and Iran in a candid interview with the UAE-based IMI Media Group, published on The National newspaper:
He admits that previous direct US military operations in Iraq led to chaos and loss of lives and trillions in US taxpayers' money due to the regional divisions, factions and Iran's sabotage: "For (Trump) then to be imputed with regime change, we had two regime changes in Iran already. Neither one worked. So I think wisely leave it to the region to solve."
To explain why Israel did not finish Hezbollah or the Iranian regime, Barrack says: "We are not at the end yet. It is chapter five, and we have five more chapters to go!"
In 2022, Barrack was acquitted of illicit lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates. The charges stemmed from allegations he used his personal access to Trump to secretly promote the UAE’s interests. During the trial, US attorney Ryan Harris told jurors Barrack 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.
In 2023, The Wall Street Journal published an article on how before 2016 election, convicted child sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein invited Trump campaign backers Peter Thiel and Thomas Barrack to meetings with a top Russian diplomat.
Recently, as part of Epstein documents released by US Congress, a March 2016 email was released, in which Epstein asks Barrack to make him smile by sending him a pictures with a “child.” Epstein later responded to an email from Barrack, writing, “Photos look good.”
According to Wikipedia, In 2010, Barrack bought $70 million of Jared Kushner's debt on 666 Fifth Avenue. Kushner later avoided bankruptcy when Barrack agreed to reduce his obligations after a request by Trump. In 2016, Barrack conveyed to UAE that Trump had removed from the Republican party platform the plank calling for the release of the 28 pages of redacted information from the 9/11 Commission Report.
The grandson of Lebanese Christian immigrants, Barrack now controls $60 billion in private equity assets. In 2014 he married Rachelle Roxborough at his 700-acre vineyard and polo ranch in California's Santa Ynez Valley. They divorced two years later after having two children together. He has four other children from previous marriages or relationships from unnamed woman/women.
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