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Trump at center of 'most serious allegation of a bribe in White House history': reporter
August 5, 2024 9:48AM ET
Trump at center of 'most serious allegation of a bribe in White House
history': reporter
Last week, the Washington Post reported that former Attorney General Bill
Barr shut down a probe into whether the Egyptian government illegally
funneled $10 million to former President Donald Trump's campaign in 2016.
On Monday morning, one of the reporters behind the scoop took to social
media to discuss why this was such an explosive development.
Writing on Twitter, Post reporter Carol Leonnig said that the
investigation into whether Trump illegally took money from Egypt was "the
most serious allegation of a bribe in White House history."
Specifically, Leonnig cites three factors that make this investigation
stand out: "1/ It was based on "jaw-dropping" CIA intelligence that
indicated Egypt's president sought in 2016 to illegally inject $10M to
help elect Trump; 2/ the lead came from a reliable CIA informant and was corroborated by other US intelligence operations; 3/ investigators then discovered a $10M cash withdrawal in Jan 2017 from key Egyptian spy
agency account that seemed to validate the intel."
According to the Post's reporting, an organization linked to Egypt's intelligence services instructed the country's state-run bank to withdraw
$10 million in cash, which was then stuffed into two large bags and
carried out of the bank.
"Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been
previously reported, early in 2019," the Post reported. "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."
As if that weren't enough, the DOJ was also investigating whether Trump
knew about the potential to be reimbursed by Egypt — and if that
contributed to his decision to spend $10 million of his own money in the
final weeks of the 2016 campaign.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-at-center-of-most-serious-allegation-of-a- bribe-in-white-house-history-reporter/
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