Dems Ask DOJ To Investigate Egypt’s $10M Cash Bribe
The Washington Post reports:
Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent the Justice Department’s inspector general a letter Monday asking him to investigate whether Trump appointees “interfered with and, ultimately, blocked” a criminal probe into U.S. intelligence that the Egyptian government sought to give Donald Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign.
The Post reported that, five days before Trump took office, an amount nearly identical to the $10 million described in the intelligence about Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi was withdrawn at a bank in Cairo, in U.S. $100 bills, from an account linked to the Egyptian General Intelligence Service.
Last month, top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent Trump a letter asking whether he ever illegally received money from the government of Egypt. Trump
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