robert mueller s team to refer tom barrack for potential prosecution, specifically to refer him to the justice department, to prosecutors in the eastern district of new york for potential criminal prosecution as a foreign agent. new york times was first to report that in the summer of 2019. well, now almost exactly two years later it is, in fact, that u.s. attorney s office in the eastern district of new york that has, in fact, brought a prosecution today against, in fact, tom barrack for, in fact, allegedly being a secret foreign agent. i don t know why it took two years for mueller s criminal referral of tom barrack as a potential foreign agent to produce an unsealed indictment to that end, but two years almost to the day since that was first reported here it is. in the indictment unsealed today, prosecutors allege that the people tom barrack showed that draft speech to during the trump campaign might have been redacted in his fbi notes from the mueller investigation, but in the in
prosecution. specifically to refer him to the justice department, in the eastern district of new york for potential criminal prosecution as a foreign agent. new york times was the first to report that in the summer of 2019. well now, almost exactly two years later, it is in fact that u.s. attorney s office in the eastern district of new york that has in fact brought a prosecution today against, in fact, tom barrack for, in fact, being a secret foreign agent. i don t know why he took two years for mueller s criminal referral of tom barrack as a potential foreign agent, to steal a new indictment to that end, but almost two years since it has been reported, here it is. and in the indictment, until today, prosecutors allege that the people tom barrack show that draft speech to might have been redacted in his fbi notes from the mueller investigation. but in the indictment, they spell it out. they say the people who he showed the draft speech to were
eastern district of new york that has, in fact, brought a prosecution today against, in fact, tom barrack for, in fact, allegedly being a secret foreign agent. i don t know why it took two years for mueller s criminal referral of tom barrack as a potential foreign agent to produce an unsealed indictment to that end, but two years almost to the day since that was first reported here it is. in the indictment unsealed today, prosecutors allege that the people tom barrack showed that draft speech to during the trump campaign might have been redacted in his fbi notes from the mueller investigation, but in the indictment they spell it out. they say the people who he showed the draft speech to were representatives of a foreign government, representatives of the government of the united arab emirates. they allege that tom barrack would go on to run the trump inauguration and to be one of trump s biggest fundraisers. they allege that he essentially let a foreign government write
draft. they got inside our help inside the trump administration, scuttling a trump administration planned that there should be a big meeting involving the warring gulf states. the united arab emirates didn t want that, they got tom barrack to call it off. over and over, they got what they wanted because they had this highly placed source at the very top of the u.s. government. they got what they wanted, it worked for them. and thomas barrack, it worked for him to. the new york times reporting that in the three years after trump became the republican nominee for president in the summer of 2016, in the three years following him getting the nomination, the uae and our close allies, the saudis, collectively shoved 1.5 billion dollars into thomas barrack company. one and a half billion dollars over three years. nice work if you can get it. according to the portrayal in this indictment, tom barrack,