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yellowcanine

(36,792 posts)
Sun Aug 4, 2024, 04:37 PM Aug 2024

Any chatter about the 10 million dollar bribe on the Sunday shows?

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/02/investigators-suspected-that-egypt-may-have-bribed-with-10-million-in-cash/
In January 2017, a bank manager at the National Bank of Egypt in Cairo received a letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service asking them “kindly withdraw” about $10 million in cash from the organization’s account. That took place just five days before Donald Trump became president, The Washington Post reported in an exclusive on Friday, revealing that federal investigators believed the withdrawn cash may have been intended as a bribe for the Republican.

According to bank records, the state-run branch emptied a considerable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency by filling two large bags with bundles of $100 bills weighing a combined 200 pounds. Later four men arrived to carry away the bags.

This sizable withdrawal caught the attention of federal investigators early in 2019, reviving a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years prior into allegations contained in a classified U.S. intelligence assessment that Egypt's dictator, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, had agreed to give $10 million to Trump's campaign. In office, Trump repeatedly praised Sisi, his administration releasing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that had been held up over concern about Egypt's abysmal human rights record.


This came out 2 days ago in the WP. I don't understand why there is so little talk about it. If it had been Hillary or Biden the MSN would be all over it non stop. Not to mention Faux.
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Any chatter about the 10 million dollar bribe on the Sunday shows? (Original Post) yellowcanine Aug 2024 OP
Not a peep Beachnutt Aug 2024 #1
It's no biggie when American oligarchs commit crimes. onecaliberal Aug 2024 #2
"Crimes of this magnitude are so hard to prosecute" says our DOJ.... walkingman Aug 2024 #3
There was a huge article about it in my Sunday newspaper. Ocelot II Aug 2024 #4
Garland doesn't leak.😉 gab13by13 Aug 2024 #5
Ol' Billy Barr strikes again. We may never know how thoroughly corrupt that larded piece of shit really was. Comfortably_Numb Aug 2024 #6
He has immunity to steal Bundbuster Aug 2024 #7

walkingman

(10,863 posts)
3. "Crimes of this magnitude are so hard to prosecute" says our DOJ....
Sun Aug 4, 2024, 04:55 PM
Aug 2024

now take a visit to your local county jail or state prison and ask some of them what they did....

United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, both in terms of numbers and percentage of its population. More prisoners than China and Brazil combined.

American Exceptionalism!

Comfortably_Numb

(4,188 posts)
6. Ol' Billy Barr strikes again. We may never know how thoroughly corrupt that larded piece of shit really was.
Sun Aug 4, 2024, 07:28 PM
Aug 2024
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