As longtime Trump friend, adviser, and ally Roger Stone explains, “[Thomas Barrack] is the only person I know who the president speaks to as a peer. Barrack is to Trump as [Florida banker] Bebe Rebozo was to Nixon, which is the best friend.”24 But Barrack is also more than this to the extended Trump family: he is Jared Kushner’s lender, holding $70 million of the debt owed by Kushner on the worst real estate investment of his career, 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.25 Barrack’s late-2000s investment in Kushner helped save Ivanka’s husband from bankruptcy, a circumstance that could have
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