Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to “kindly withdraw” nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash.
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Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019. The discovery intensified a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years earlier with classified U.S. intelligence indicating that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign, a Washington Post investigation has found.
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Within months of learning of the withdrawal, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining bank records they believed might hold critical evidence, according to interviews with people familiar with the case as well as documents and contemporaneous notes of the investigation. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe of Trump.
Of course there's not sufficient evidence if you don't go fucking looking for the evidence.
Is anyone surprised at all that the FOFF took a ten-million dollar bribe from the dictator of Egypt? And is anyone also surprised that Bill Barr covered it up?
And is anyone surprised that most of the media is doing its level best to ignore this story?
I'd contain my surprise if there was any.
ReplyDeleteWe knew he was bought and paid for but seems he has two owners.
Eck!
I remember hearing about it when it happened. And then we didn't ...
ReplyDeleteThe Russians own him. The Egyptians merely rented him.
ReplyDeleteThey got a pretty good deal though, billions of dollars in military aid.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine
course there's not sufficient evidence if you don't go fucking looking for the evidence.
ReplyDeleteIf actual evidence of a crime existed, it would have been on repeat,24/7 on every News outlet, including fux,,err,fox,,
HA! What a larff.. You clowns have been applauding manufactured accusations run through a corrupt judge and he is still walking around.
Right, and your guy keeps blathering about “Crooked Joe Biden and the Biden crime family” and Gym Jordan keeps investigating and you guys have what, exactly? Your guy has 34 felony convictions and is relying on his toadies on the bench to stay out of prison. And only the desperate pleadings of an AZ prosecutor kept your guy from being indicted there.
ReplyDeleteYou apparently support a convicted criminal and I guess you’re good with that. Do you really believe that he waited until he was in his 70s to start committing crimes?