Inside the president’s feud with Tom Barrack.
Tom Barrack and Donald Trump have been friends and confidants for more than three decades — the two men are so close, for instance, that Barrack comforted Trump during the funeral of his father, Fred.
But the intimate relationship between the wealthy California investor and the president has fractured so badly that the two no longer speak, current and former White House officials say.
The key issue driving the two men apart: Barrack’s role as chairman of the president’s 2017 inauguration fund, which is under investigation by prosecutors.
Trump was “really upset” to read reports about Barrack’s role in allegedly making it easy for some foreigners and others to try to spend money to get access to Trump and his inner circle and whether some of the inauguration money was misspent, according to a senior administration official.
“The president was really surprised to read all about the inauguration and who was trying to buy access and how, because the president doesn’t get any of that money,” said the official.
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Tom Barrack was one of Trump’s closest friends for three decades. Now, he’s cut off. https://t.co/bhQ62imbj6
— POLITICO (@politico) August 19, 2019
Not surprising. Trump is all about self-preservation. He is distancing himself because he is afraid whatever wrongdoing Barrack may have committed will be laid at his feet too.
Trump expects and demands loyalty from friends, relatives, employees, associates. But they should never expect the same loyalty from him.
Narcissism at its finest on display.
The last paragraph says it all:
““The president was really surprised to read all about the inauguration and who was trying to buy access and how, because the president doesn’t get any of that money,” said the official.”
He wasn’t upset that there might have been wrongdoing. He was upset because he wasn’t getting a piece of the pie.
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