House Oversight Democrats are pressing Donald Trump on that alleged massive campaign donation from Egypt.

One month after The Washington Post revealed that the Egyptian government may have illegally given Donald Trump $10 million in 2017, Democrats have announced they will be investigating the allegations.

Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led by ranking member Representative Jamie Raskin, announced in a press release Tuesday that they will be “demanding answers” from the Republican presidential nominee not only over the possible bribe from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, but also over evidence that the Justice Department, led at the time by Attorney General William Barr, covered it up.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPM
    1431·
    2 months ago

    Somehow I haven’t heard of this before now - the Egyptian Government’s intelligence agency apparently shuttled $10 million to the Trump Campaign through a shell company, then the investigation was buried when Trump took office and control of the Justice Dept.

    This would be career ending for anyone else.

    • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
      75·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty wild.

      records indicate that four men ultimately arrived at the state-run National Bank of Egypt and carried away bags containing nearly $10 million in bundles of $100 bills. The money represented “what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency.” Source

      Talk about suspicious…

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      121·
      2 months ago

      He has not been president for quite a while. The current DOJ has certainly had time to look into this.