The 2016 Egyptian bribe of $10 million to Trump.

[BluesLegend]

LOL you poor math struggling Dems, Trump loses $10M in his couch cushions yearly.

 

[berg80]

It ain't a deflection if it's true. Trump didn't need the money. 10 million is chump change in a political campaign. Hunter made as much with a no show job courtesy of the "big guy". The point is that agents in the government will spin facts and leak stories to their friendly minions at WAPO and WAPO will lie and never apologize as long as they think it will benefit Biden or whoever the hell is running the Country these days.

What lie did the WaPo tell?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Five days before the election the money was withdrawn.

The article says 5 days before the inauguration.

But it may have been pledged money.

 

[odanny]

The article says 5 days before the inauguration.

But it may have been pledged money.

It makes sense the money was given to Trump after the election, perhaps the issue is that this was marked as a "campaign contribution" and clearly was not.

 

[odanny]

LOL you poor math struggling Dems, Trump loses $10M in his couch cushions yearly.

Probably more than that.

 

[berg80]

The article says 5 days before the inauguration.

But it may have been pledged money.

That's my assumption.

 

[berg80]

It makes sense the money was given to Trump after the election, perhaps the issue is that this was marked as a "campaign contribution" and clearly was not.

It's illegal either way. If it happened.

 

[irosie91]

Sure and that is also spelled desperation. Or just plain grifting. Your choice.

what was to objective of the bribe?

 

[odanny]

That's my assumption.

"Pledged" money?

How does that work, making this payment to someone who is not even President? Can this somehow be construed as a "campaign contribution? when the campaign has long since ended?

Of course, Barr killed any investigation into it.

 

[Care4all]

what was to objective of the bribe?

They got the military buys they wanted and asked for, that was being withheld by the previous admin.

 

[irosie91]

It makes sense the money was given to Trump after the election, perhaps the issue is that this was marked as a "campaign contribution" and clearly was not.

maybe it was a golf bet ???

 

[irosie91]

They got the military buys they wanted and asked for, that was being withheld by the previous admin.

oh----business

 

[surada]

Is American aid reserved only for terrorists like democrats do. How much for Iran? How much for hamas?

Democrat bastards.

Israel has received the lion's share of US foreign aid since 1948.

 

[Care4all]

oh----business

Yeah, sure.

 

[irosie91]

Israel has received the lion's share of US foreign aid since 1948.

It is the will of ALLAH

 

[surada]

It ain't a deflection if it's true. Trump didn't need the money. 10 million is chump change in a political campaign. Hunter made as much with a no show job courtesy of the "big guy". The point is that agents in the government will spin facts and leak stories to their friendly minions at WAPO and WAPO will lie and never apologize as long as they think it will benefit Biden or whoever the hell is running the Country these days.

US foreign policy was about cleaning up Ukraine's reputation for corruption so they could attract foreign investment. That meant getting rid of Shokin and teaching highest and best business practices.. That policy was backed up by the IMF, EU and UN.

 

[SeaMajor7]

It makes sense the money was given to Trump after the election, perhaps the issue is that this was marked as a "campaign contribution" and clearly was not.

 

[irosie91]

US foreign policy was about cleaning up Ukraine's reputation for corruption so they could attract foreign investment. That meant getting rid of Shokin and teaching highest and best business practices.. That policy was backed up by the IMF, EU and UN.

I don't remember any politician running on the "CLEAN UP
UKRAIN'S reputation for corruption" platform. You got a citation?

 

[Magnus]

what was to objective of the bribe?

Do you understand the concept of bribes?

The same objective that the Egyptians bribed Menendez for.

 

[marvin martian]

It's never the actual bribe that is most damning, it is the extensive coverup by multiple layers of the Trump Justice Dept.

Does America want 4 more years of Trump criminality?

No, we don't.


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.

Inside the state-run National Bank of Egypt, employees were soon busy placing bundles of $100 bills into two large bags, according to records from the bank. Four men arrived and carried away the bags, which U.S. officials later described in sealed court filings as weighing a combined 200 pounds and containing what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency.

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.

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.

The behind-the-scenes drama played out during an especially tense time for the Justice Department, with Trump accusing the agency of pursuing a politically biased “witch hunt” against him in its probe of Russian election interference, his appointees seeking to rein in investigators they saw as partisan, and some career supervisors growing wary of plunging the agency into yet another legal battle with the president.

Barr directed Jessie Liu, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in D.C., to personally examine the classified intelligence to evaluate if further investigation was warranted. Barr later instructed FBI Director Christopher A. Wray to impose “adult supervision” on FBI agents Barr described as “hell-bent” on pursuing Trump’s records, according to people familiar with the exchange. It is unclear what if any actions Wray, who was also appointed by Trump, took in response.

In June of 2020, the prosecutor Barr appointed to take over the office leading the case closed the probe, citing “a lack of sufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/

LOL