Tom Barrack, a California billionaire and ally of Donald Trump, used his testimony at his U.S. federal trial to question Trump’s leadership on foreign policy, saying the former president was clueless about the dynamics in the Middle East, the Times of Israel reports.
Barrack testified that some of his clients in his private equity firm “were upset I was friends with the president.”
Trump, he added, was perceived as someone who “could not spell Middle East… It was a nightmare.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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