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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.
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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.
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…
Like cartels literally bringing in duffel bags full of money to launder at HSBC
He has not been president for quite a while. The current DOJ has certainly had time to look into this.
You mean Merrick “mustn’t anger the republicans” Garland’s DOJ?
I want that fucker gone. Fewer Garlands, more Khans.
I’m so sorry, I couldn’t resist.
I completely agree with you; she rocks.
I’ll see myself out
I would love a few people with even half her spirit in the judicial branch…
To think he would have been Obama’s shining SC pick…
You prefer Kavanaugh then I take it? Or Gorsuch?
No, I think he should have picked someone who wasn’t solely picked because it should have had a good chance of passing senate votes when McConnell wasn’t going to allow a vote to begin with.
Pepperidge Farm Remembers
This would be career ending for anyone else.
For Donald Trump, it’s a Tuesday.
Oh dip, they’re demanding an answer this time. He’s gonna have to respond or else they’ll… checks papers oh, they’ll just demand it again. Must be nice to avoid any and all repercussions from breaking the law over and over and over again.
Under normal circumstances, you ask the questions to get a record of the answers, so that you can prove the answers are lies. The more information the accused has when they provide answers, the more thoroughly they can lie.
With Mango Mussolini, there’s never any consistency to his blatant lies, and he never pays any price for changing his story. Everyone knows he’s a liar, so he can be as brazen as he wants to be because he knows he can lie without losing supporters.
So I’m with you. Democrats will circle up like a lacrosse team at a prep school mixer. Oh shit, Campbell is gonna go ask Lauren Z to dance. Let’s go back him up. Here he goes-OH she said no… no wait he said “PSYCH!” He wasn’t really asking, I bet she feels so dumb. Sick burn, Campbell. Let’s go throw empty yoohoo bottles onto the roof of the auxiliary building and talk about what boobs probably look like.
That’s what I picture every time I read about the Congressional Democrats. Campbell, Monty, Gunner, Brook, Tripp, Blake, and Gian, all hanging around in blazers and sweatervests talking about how cool it’s going to be when they finally do something someday.
And yet corporate news is unable - unwilling and unable - to say that he lies.
Journalism is a farce.
Hey - don’t make them issue a statement!
Ohh ho, they’ll do it! And that statement will say they are very concerned!!
So - just watch your step, Clownface von Fuckstick
Careful. They could issue a demerit. Three of those and you get a citation. Keep pressing your luck and after 5 citations you get a violation…
Hey China, take notes. This is how you issue a stern rebuke!
As an aside…
Oh dip
Is this a thing now? Is it like “oh damn”?
/getting-old-person
Beyond everything else, the fact that Donald Trump made so little money off the White House is staggering to me.
He could have gotten $50 billion from the Saudis on Inauguration Day if he’d had the balls to demand it.
He wouldn’t have had to change any policies or make any new laws, just tell them that it was what it was.
Small-time player. Terrible at making deals.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tony-schwartz-author-donald-trumps-art-deal-trump/story?id=40662196
BTW, Trump pretty much gave away the farm to his co-author. Schwartz got full credit and half the profits, unheard of for a ghost writer. Schwartz also left Trump’s circle after the book came out and has bad mouthed him ever since.
It wasn’t titled “Art of the Great Deal”.
Yeah, but he somehow marketed the hell out of it. It was somewhere down in the top 100 of the reading list before college.
I think in the beginning he was testing the waters to see what he could get away with. He got more brazen as he got to the end of his term.
He never went for the big bucks. Think of it this way; $10 million wouldn’t buy an apartment in Trump Tower.
Couldn’t pay me $10M to live in a building with that fuck’s name on it. Hope they’ll all ashamed of their address.
List is from 2019, I’m sure more have followed
It is kind of impressive how wildly unsophisticated the Trump clan is with their scams. I guess if it works on their rube supporters. What I mean is like why bother investing in a real bearded lady when you can just show them a poorly drawn picture of one and charge the same admission.
they’ve been allowed to do whatever they want for so long they stopped trying to properly hide it very long ago.
And they still get away with it. It’s ridiculous.
Republicans will deny it, refuse to cooperate, and face zero consequences, so what does it matter?
Why would you ask him anything? His answer will always be the same: Biden, Harris or foreigners are to blame is what he would say. Why bother? It’s a waste of time.
