{"id":1725271,"date":"2022-11-04T16:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725271"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:14:54","slug":"trump-ally-tom-barack-found-not-guilty-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-ally-tom-barack-found-not-guilty-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Ally Tom Barack Found Not Guilty of Acting as Foreign Agent for UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-ally-tom-barack-found-not-guilty-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-uae%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_TomBarrack.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A jury found 75-year-old Tom Barrack, a friend of former president <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-trump-very-happy-twitter-is-now-in-sane-hands\">Donald Trump<\/a>, not guilty on Friday of acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the United Arab Emirates during the Trump administration, obstructing justice, and lying to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/officers-who-took-a-knee-rewarded-by-fbi-agents-association\">FBI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/jury-finds-trump-friend-tom-barrack-not-guilty-foreign-lobbying-lying-rcna55257\">NBC reports<\/a> that after the verdict, Barrack thanked the jury and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m so moved by them and the system&#8221; adding &#8220;God bless America&#8221; and &#8220;The system is amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barrack also said he was going to head to the \u00a0Statue of Liberty and &#8220;have a drink&#8221; to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>In a federal court in Brooklyn, he had been accused of acting as an unregistered foreign agent and then lying about that role.<\/p>\n<p>It took the jury about two hours of deliberations to acquit Barrack of the charges.<\/p>\n<p>A former fundraiser and longtime friend of Trump, Barrack was accused by the prosecution of providing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) intelligence on the White House and Trump&#8217;s campaign in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign agent charge would have carried up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Barrack, a billionaire who acted as the chairman of Trump\u2019s inaugural committee, said he simply made comments praising the UAE of his own accord.<\/p>\n<p>A co-defendant Matthew Grimes was also found not guilty of a foreign agent charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jury found 75-year-old Tom Barrack, a friend of former president Donald Trump, not guilty on Friday of acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the United Arab Emirates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1725274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}