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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAny 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 organizations 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president, The Washington Post reported in an exclusive on Friday, revealing that federal investigators believed the withdrawn cash may have been intended as a bribe for the Republican.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 Egypts 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
Ol' Billy Barr strikes again. We may never know how thoroughly corrupt that larded piece of shit really was.
Comfortably_Numb
Aug 2024
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Beachnutt
(8,909 posts)1. Not a peep
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)2. It's no biggie when American oligarchs commit crimes.
walkingman
(10,863 posts)3. "Crimes of this magnitude are so hard to prosecute" says our DOJ....
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!
Ocelot II
(130,533 posts)4. There was a huge article about it in my Sunday newspaper.
gab13by13
(32,318 posts)5. Garland doesn't leak.😉
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.
Bundbuster
(4,018 posts)7. He has immunity to steal
