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'Resign': Jarring break inside Trump world as his own envoy defies him

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President Donald Trump's own ambassador to Turkey publicly contradicted official U.S. policy on the Golan Heights this week, asserting that Israel holds the territory in defiance of United Nations resolutions and triggering a MAGA backlash. Tom Barrack, who also serves as Trump's special envoy for Syria and Iraq, made the remarks in an interview Friday with Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur Mario Nawfal. His comments put him directly at odds with a signature foreign policy move of the president he serves. "In the Golan with Syria, they still occupy the Golan against the UN resolutions, against all of the international order, which has said the Golan is Syria's," Barrack said, according to Middle East Eye . Pushback came swiftly from far-right activist Laura Loomer, a close Trump ally, who posted on X that Barrack "should resign for his lack of understanding of U.S. foreign policy." She called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to correct the ambassador and claimed, without evidence, that