So Trump took $10 million in bribes from Egypt in 2016 and Bill Barr helped to bury the case

[Botany]

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(Well in 2016 half of the Republican Senators were taking Russian money via the NRA too.)

From CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/trump-campaign-donation-investigation/index.html

Sisi became the first foreign leader to call and congratulate Trump after he won the election.  At a 2019 G7 summit, Trump called out, “Where’s my favorite dictator?” as he awaited the Egyptian President,  according to press reports.

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“The case even landed before the Supreme Court in early 2019. The high court ultimately declined the company’s bid to block Mueller’s subpoena in March 2019.”

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Federal law enforcement officials suspected, in part because of intelligence information, that there was money moving through the Egyptian bank that could connect to Trump’s campaign donation, according to the sources. Yet untangling the web of Trump’s complex business interests ultimately remained out of reach.

Campaign finance law prohibits foreign political contributions to campaigns for public office. A financial tie between a sitting president and a foreign country could also have explosive national security consequences.

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I wonder if Garland will even touch this because of the statue of limitations or is it too
close to the election?

[Irish_Dem]

1. From day one, Trump sold out the US for cash.

[Botany]

3. And that is what was in the Steele Dossier.... Trump was in debt to other countries even before he was

in the White House. Forget about the pee pee stuff.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Exactly. He monetized everything the minute he announced his candidacy.

Jared Kushner was the money man who handled the transactions.

I wonder what the total haul is.

[Botany]

5. From the CNN piece. Looks like Bill Barr cut the $ from Egypt to Trump out of the Mueller Report

According to a recent book by Andrew Weissmann, one of Mueller’s senior prosecutors, the special counsel’s office consisted of three principal teams: one focused on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, another on Russia’s election interference, and a third on the President’s attempts to obstruct justice.

But there was a fourth team, CNN has learned: one partly dedicated to investigating the Egypt matter.

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Good God in Butter what laws didn’t Trump and company break? And why isn’t he in prison right now?

[Turk182]

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[AllaN01Bear]

25. this .

[underpants]

26. $$$$

Marking this. Jesus

[orangecrush]

19. "Welcome to DU"

Just read your profile.

Interesting!

[Emile]

7. Wow, how did William Barr miss prosecuting this?

[Botany]

9. Barr missing this was not by accident. Just like Iran Contra he made things go away. That was his job.

I think the level of corruption is so deep and @ so many different levels that it is “baked
into the cake” to keep things hidden from the American people because “they” are corrupt
too. It is almost like the mafia where they get you to do a crime to “earn your bones” and
the mob has something over you or Putin getting kompromat on people so he has them by
the balls.

[KPN]

28. Yup, there's a substantial contingent of Republicans who have

forever adhered rigorously, righteously, and actively to the maxim “the ends justify the means”.

[PatSeg]

29. I think there is no end to the corruption

that will be uncovered about the Trump administration. As bad as we think it was, I have a feeling that it was far worse.

[KPN]

33. There's no question in my mind about that.

[Attilatheblond]

41. And we STILL don't know what Trump said to Justice Kennedy that pissed him off so much

Or what Kennedy and Ivanka discussed during their lunch date just prior to his resignation from the SCOTUS, creating the vacancy for Kavanaugh and the beginning of the Trump INC. hostile takeover of that court.

We do know Justice Kennedy's son was employed by Deutsche Bank, in the division that worked with loans to Trump during a time other banks would no longer take his calls. Makes ya wonder if that bank was doing laundry for other foreign powers and players.

[PatSeg]

49. Oh yes, the corruption surrounding Deutsche Bank

could probably fill volumes.

There was so much corruption during the Trump administration, it is hard to keep track of it. I'd already forgotten about Justice Kennedy.

[Attilatheblond]

51. Hard to remember each individual questionable chapter in the Book of Trump Corruption

The book written by global oligarchs, evidently.

My peculiar mind sometimes forgets why I walked from one room to another, but has a powerful knack for recalling seemingly odd singular events and seeing the connections that tie so many together. I remember & remind, so you don't have to!

[PatSeg]

54. Ha, ha, I'm pretty much the same way

Of course with Trump, there was SO much to remember, we have to share the burden with others.

I realize that a lot of that was intentional on Trump's part. Whenever there was focus on one potential scandal, he would just distract the press's attention with another outrage. Then he'd just keep it going and going.

It rather reminds me of the Bush administration whenever there was risk of being exposed, they'd just change the color-coded threat level or release a dubious video of Bin Laden. They were so obvious, but people fell for it. Trump took it to the next level.

[tavernier]

8. Bill Barr

The head hog on Old Weird Donald’s farm
Ee ii Ee ii Oh.

Yup, Billy Barr.

If Mr.Putin ever gets it in his head to snatch you and throw you in a Russian jail, I hope America doesn’t try to rescue your traitorous big behind.

[gab13by13]

10. Putin will give Barr a position at the Kremlin.

[gab13by13]

11. What is scary to me

is what we don't know.

We know about the Saudi quid pro quos, Jared getting over 2 billion dollars.

We know about Putin funneling money through the NRA.

TSF isn't going out of his way to flatter Kim Jung Un for free.

I guarantee, without proof, that TSF stole classified documents to sell them to the highest bidder, Iran included.

Christopher Wray is wrong in saying the biggest threat to our country comes from White Supremacists. The biggest threat to our country comes from the Republican Party and its partisan Supreme Court.

[raging moderate]

20. To these people, the word "corruption" has a different meaning.

To most of us on DU, the word "corruption" means sinister violation of legal and social ethics for personal gain. To these people, the word "corruption" means any thwarting of the desires of society's overlords.

[KPN]

34. Yup, white supremacists are just a subset of the

Republican Party.

[Attilatheblond]

43. The useful idiots, cultivated to give camouflage for the real and active threat, the puppet masters of the GOP

[malaise]

42. But they are all

white supremacists

[tanyev]

12. Now I'm wondering how much of Donny's obsession with NATO countries not paying their fair share

is because they were approached with the same plan and declined to participate.

[Dan]

40. I don't know where I heard it or read it, but

Somewhere I heard/read that Trump was offered $10B to get rid of NATO.

One of those things that may or may not have been true, but once he was in Office with all actions, I came to believe that it was true. And then, I realized that he couldn’t do such a thing within the first term because the American (some of them) would revolt. So, the second term was all important to him - and I still believe that is the case.

[BoRaGard]

13. "Ha ha. Screw all you honest Americans. Ha ha." - The Felon/Rapist/Grifter (R)

Frikking republicons are a crime syndicate.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. When will we stop just "moving on" and actually prosecute high level criminals?

[Farmer-Rick]

15. OK, so the not so justice department

Has hidden most all of Pedo Trump's worst crimes. I mean we still haven't had an investigation into him palling around with Epstein and 12 year old girls.

But how did the Supremes help hide the crimes? They declined to stop the subpoena.

[malaise]

16. Yes

Lock them up

[JT45242]

17. Again all those asshats who thought Barr was an improvement over other cabinet critters..always party over country

Barr was supposed to be the respected former AG. He was the party loyalist who buried Iran contra and arranged pardons for all the traitors who stole the election by paying Iran to hold onto the hostages.

If we, as Democrats, had pushed on all the treason of Reagan and his gang. We would never had this stuff. Because they would have seen consequences.

[Susan Calvin]

35. And Nixon. nt

[UpInArms]

45. And baby bush

For his war crimes

[Baltimike]

18. He has no worries. Merrick Garland won't do a thing about it. nt

[aggiesal]

21. Kind of sucks, just how corrupt our country has become, since Fox came along! n/t

[UpInArms]

46. The death of the Fairness Doctrine

With the white paper written by Robert Bork

[Scrivener7]

22. Ha ha! You asked if Garland will prosecute it.

Good one.

[dlk]

23. Trump is, without a doubt, the greatest grifter of all time

His personal enrichment has been and always be his sole reason for existence. Absolutely nothing else matters to him.

Bill Barr is as dirty as the day is long. How he evades accountability is an interesting question.

[usaf-vet]

24. In my opinion WE have to stop worrying about things like "is it to close to the election". Ask what would the R's do?

In the recent past, we (Obama) lost a SCOTUS pick. And we gained another Trump SCOTUS pick by McConnell (aka turtle), bending the same precedence to benefit the RW in both cases.

In one case, "it's too close to the election," and in the second, "it's never too close if we benefit."

We have to stop following the Marquess of Queensberry Rules when the RW party follows alley-fighting rules—which means there are no rules!

[krkaufman]

38. " bending the same precedence"

Nothing was “bent.” McConnell fabricated the “not in an election year” nonsensical so-called precedent, and then discarded, broke it, as soon as it was convenient.

[Janbdwl72]

27. Why is this not a surprise

The worst grifter in American history strikes again.


Yet one more of the thousands of reasons to be sure he is defeated at the ballot box in November.

[cbabe]

30. Bet this really annoys bob menendez. 'Everybody does it.'

[Attilatheblond]

47. Wondering if ol Bribe Me Bob gave some helpful info

If he gets a short stay at Club Fed, I will be pretty convinced he helped this bigger bribery case move along.

[mucifer]

31. No immunity. he wasn't President yet.

[sdfernando]

32. A nice October surprise

would be the release of the FULL and UNREDACTED Mueller report.

[Lovie777]

36. Barr buried a lot of illegal issues throughout shithole's tenure in the capacity.....................

of the presidency, one comes to mind the Mueller report.

[Attilatheblond]

48. Barr 'made his bones' long before he became Trump's fixer, err... AG

Wasn't he key to making Iran Contra shrink in scope?

[Deep State Witch]

37. Bob Menendez

Would like a word.

[NHvet]

39. Trump and his ilk

care only about one thing, and one thing only and that's their bank accounts. Always, and forever. Nothing else matters.

[samsingh]

44. would this be considered an official act?

also - why is President Biden not declassifying all the dirt on trump asap so that voters know the truth about the traitor

[gab13by13]

53. Biden has the really damaging Epstein documents

but a lot of Big Names would be implicated.

[samsingh]

60. so black out those pieces

[dalton99a]

50. Kick

[LetMyPeopleVote]

52. Who is surprised by this?

[louslobbs]

55. They're a criminal cult....

not a single doubt in my mind. If they ever got power again, this country would be a maga cult criminal enterprise, with the worst of the worst all aligned with each other to steal everything they can get their hands on and that includes, stealing from each other. And don’t even think of trying to rein them in or hold them to account…..just look what happens to those who try to hold Putin to account….rest in peace Alexei Navalny.

[Bev54]

56. It is likely the money just went through Egypt and was actually from China.

I assume the statutes of limitations will prevent further investigation. But it seems once again the Garland bashing has started when in fact the case was closed before Garland and othe DOJ appointees were place and Michael Sherwin who was still there failed (likely purposely) to brief Garland or others on the investigation. It was closed Garland and others did not know about it, Barr and his flunky Sherwin buried it.

So please stop the Garland bashing, he seems to be everybody's punching bag and very few know the details of anything they accuse him of.

[Skittles]

57. but her emails.....

[Botany]

58. Not only her emails but her email server too skipping the fact that all active email accounts have ...

… Servers.

[Blue Owl]

59. Denial isn't just a River in Egypt, Donald