Gov’t investigated Mystery foreign donation to 2016 Trump campaign, Trump admin shut it down

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$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt​

Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case.
 
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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. …”
 
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Since receiving the intelligence about Sisi, the Justice Department had been examining whether money moved from Cairo to Trump,potentially violating federal law that bans U.S. candidates from taking foreign funds. Investigators had also sought to learn if money from Sisi might have factored into Trump’s decision in the final days of his run for the White House to inject his campaign with $10 million of his own money.

Those questions, at least in the view of several investigators on the case, would never be answered, The Post 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. …”
 
nycfan said:
Gift link - https://wapo.st/3SxAkvO

$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt​

Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case.
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nycfan said:
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Since receiving the intelligence about Sisi, the Justice Department had been examining whether money moved from Cairo to Trump,potentially violating federal law that bans U.S. candidates from taking foreign funds. Investigators had also sought to learn if money from Sisi might have factored into Trump’s decision in the final days of his run for the White House to inject his campaign with $10 million of his own money.

Those questions, at least in the view of several investigators on the case, would never be answered, The Post 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. …”
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heelinhell said:
This is a preview of what will come if Trump is elected and his Project 2025 is implemented...
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And on the flip side, more avenues of investigatory inquiry in the event he loses... There's no telling how many corrupt / criminal deals surround that man and his campaign.
 
This is a pretty bombshell report by the Post but it's contained mostly to their site for now. I'll be curious to see if other news sites start picking it up and running with it.
 
"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"

So this happened after the 2016 election?
 
BubbaOtis said:
"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"

So this happened after the 2016 election?
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Yes , the suspicion was to refund Trump for $10 million of (allegedly) his own funds he donated to his 2016 campaign in October 2016.
 
Bubba I love you brother but come on when has a President of the USA ever had even a sniff of this ish? I'll wait for you to upload some links. Otherwise STFU!
 
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