$10 million in two duffle bags

[happyhoix]

Egypt may have crammed 10 million in 100 dollar bills into two duffel bags and given them to Trump’s campaign back in 2016, according to the Washington Post. 

After the election, Trump praised Egypt and released hundreds of millions of dollars of aid that the US was sitting on due to human rights abuses. 

There was a secret investigation into it, but Trump refused to release details of the finances (although we do know that he gave 10 million that was supposedly his own money to his campaign around the same time). Since the documents weren’t available, Bill Barr shut the investigation down. 

Accepting campaign donations from foreigners is illegal, but sounds just like something Trump would do. 

If Trump loses, I wonder if the DOJ might think it’s worthwhile to open that case back up again. 

www.salon.com/2024/08/02/investigators-suspected-that-egypt-may-have-bribed-with-10-million-in-cash/

[tallguy]

I was going to post on this earlier.

If you are Bob Menendez taking money from Egypt, you get convicted and forced from office.  If you are Donald Trump taking money from Egypt,  treasonous GOP members protect you from everything.  Seems normal, right?   

[Opti]

Aug 2, 2024 18:52:23 GMT -5 tallguy said:

I was going to post on this earlier.

If you are Bob Menendez taking money from Egypt, you get convicted and forced from office.  If you are Donald Trump taking money from Egypt,  treasonous GOP members protect you from everything.  Seems normal, right?   

Seems like a SNAFU that needs changing.

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[djAdvocate]

any amount over $10000 must be declared.

[Opti]

Aug 2, 2024 21:04:00 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

any amount over $10000 must be declared.

Unless you are a felon ...

[busymom]

Aug 2, 2024 21:12:17 GMT -5 Opti said:

Aug 2, 2024 21:04:00 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

any amount over $10000 must be declared.

Unless you are a felon ...

      Unless your last name is Trump...   

[thyme4change]

I hope this isn’t true. I’m so disappointed in our country.

[Tennesseer]

How could a $10M Egyptian cash withdrawal upend Trump's campaign?
A scuttled Justice Department investigation into alleged foreign election interference returns to complicate the 2024 presidential election

For years, Donald Trump and his extended network have been dogged by allegations of influence peddling by foreign actors keen to make inroads with one of America's dominant political operations. No, not those allegations. These originate two and a half thousand miles south of Moscow at Cairo's state-run National Bank of Egypt where, just days before then president-elect Trump was set to be sworn into office in early 2017, employees were reportedly told to withdraw some $10 million in American currency by an account holder associated with Egypt's national intelligence service. As it happened, shortly before the suspicious withdrawal, Trump himself donated the same amount into his campaign in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election — a conspicuous congruity that helped intensify a highly classified Justice Department investigation. The probe stemmed from an earlier CIA report that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and others were involved in a high-level effort to aid the then-struggling Trump campaign as the presidential election was drawing to a close.

While the basic thrust of these explosive allegations has been public since CNN first published an exposé on the federal investigation in late 2020, a new report from The Washington Post has pushed the story back into the public eye. In it, the Post details not only the previously unknown cash withdrawal, but the scale — and the ultimate shuttering — of the Justice Department's inquiry under then-Attorney General Bill Barr.

With these previously sub-rosa allegations in the spotlight again as Trump again runs for high office, how will this renewed scrutiny of the once-and-potentially-future president's foreign entanglements affect his current campaign?

What did the commentators say?
While much of the country spent the bulk of the Trump administration focusing on alleged Russian influence, investigators pursuing these largely underreported allegations claimed the trail of Egyptian money represented the "most concrete lead" they had for foreign meddling, The New York Times said. This is the "most serious allegation of a bribe in White House history," Washington Post reporter Carol Leonning said on X.

The allegations may be "rock bottom" in America's long history of potentially criminal political bribery, said Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch. "Do not let the matter of Trump, Egypt and the $10 million disappear," and push the Democratic-controlled Senate to "open a full-blown investigation, with efforts to subpoena Barr and other Justice Department higher-ups to explain in public why the case was dropped." Meanwhile, the allegations can "still be pursued as a civil case."

"Every American should be concerned about how this case ended," one of the Post's sources said, under condition of anonymity. "The Justice Department is supposed to follow evidence wherever it leads — it does so all the time to determine if a crime occurred or not."

Citing Sen. Robert Menendez's (D-N.J.) recent conviction for "taking bribes of cash and gold bars while acting as a middleman between New Jersey businessmen and foreign governments, including Egypt" Trump's case — if proven true — "shows a much higher level of corruption from the country," The New Republic said. At the same time, can "anything be done about it?" It's unclear given the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity.

Rest of article here: How could a $10M Egyptian cash withdrawal upend Trump's campaign?