$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to “kindly withdraw” nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash.

Inside the state-run National Bank of Egypt, employees were soon busy placing bundles of $100 bills into two large bags, according to records from the bank. Four men arrived and carried away the bags, which U.S. officials later described in sealed court filings as weighing a combined 200 pounds and containing what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency.

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There certainly seems to be a pattern emerging involving Trump, foreign governments, and Bill Barr shutting down any investigation into whether wrongdoing occurred.

So in this case we have the President of Egypt wanting to donate $10 million to Trump's campaign, Egyptian intelligence withdrawing $10 million from a Cairo bank, and right around the same time we have Trump pledging $10 million of his own money to his campaign.

Unfortunately, we'll probably never know what, if anything, happened because Bill Barr stepped in and made sure the investigation got shut down.

It's certainly interesting that Egypt was also recently implicated in Bob Menendez's case.

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Laughing from my Burisma chair....

Oh, your source is paywalled by the way so I can't see where or who is involved in regards to Trump.

Oh that is so sweet, you choose to start a thread on a conspiracy theory with zero supporting evidence when Biden is now known without any doubt to have been receiving money from several govts including Russi, China, and Ukraine. Wire transfers and the complete money trail laid bare. But instead of being interested in that, you link a Washington Post speculation story about Trump. Good grief.: roll:

Is this like the Russia Collusion 'investigation'.

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Of course Bill Barr's fingerprints are all over this.

"Bill Barr is appointed attorney general, and then he learns about this investigation going on. The U.S. attorney that you just mentioned has been running the investigation. Bill Barr apparently, according to your reporting, thinks some of the agents on the case were [Robert] Mueller guys and had been on the Mueller investigation. So he shuts down the investigation at that point, just shuts it down?"

"Barr does not shut down the case," Leonnig replied. "Great question, by the way. He doesn't shut it down. He does two things; he inserts himself and says, you better look hard at this intelligence. Look hard at whether or not there is a predicate, a legal justification to get these additional Trump records. The investigators, of course, are gobsmacked by this. This is jaw-dropping intelligence."

www.rawstory.com...

Within months of learning of the withdrawal, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining bank records they believed might hold critical evidence, according to interviews with people familiar with the case as well as documents and contemporaneous notes of the investigation. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe of Trump.

www.washingtonpost.com...

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They desperation of having a terrible, failed candidate that was never voted for will cause a massive grasping of straws attempting to deflect to Trump.

a reply to: UKTruth

The response from the Trump team:

A spokesman for Trump’s presidential campaign did not answer a list of questions from The Post, instead referring to this story as “textbook Fake News.”

“The investigation referenced found no wrongdoing and was closed,” spokesman Steven Cheung said by email. “None of the allegations or insinuations being reported on have any basis in fact. The Washington Post is consistently played for suckers by Deep State Trump-haters and bad faith actors peddling hoaxes and shams.”

originally posted by: UKTruth
Oh that is so sweet, you choose to start a thread on a conspiracy theory with zero supporting evidence when Biden is now known without any doubt to have been receiving money from several govts including Russi, China, and Ukraine. Wire transfers and the complete money trail laid bare. But instead of being interested in that, you link a Washington Post speculation story about Trump. Good grief.: roll:

Is this like the Russia Collusion 'investigation'.

It’s what obsession and desperation looks like. Trump owns all the real estate between the ears.

originally posted by: wAnchorofCarp
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Laughing from my Burisma chair....

Oh, your source is paywalled by the way so I can't see where or who is involved in regards to Trump.

Not even entertaining the possibility — cuz Trump.

Are you Bill Barr?

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just another wp hit piece.

i wonder why the OP left this out, Reprint of Post Article on msn

Barr directed Jessie Liu, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in D.C., to personally examine the classified intelligence to evaluate if further investigation was warranted. Barr later instructed FBI Director Christopher A. Wray to impose “adult supervision” on FBI agents Barr described as “hell-bent” on pursuing Trump’s records, according to people familiar with the exchange. It is unclear what if any actions Wray, who was also appointed by Trump, took in response.

In June of 2020, the prosecutor Barr appointed to take over the office leading the case closed the probe, citing “a lack of sufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.”

That conclusion belied the months of internal disagreements over whether investigators had been allowed to go far enough in seeking that evidence.
$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

but you know it's all right when a dem run DOJ prosecutor finds lack of credible evidence or that the president is a old babbling good meaning fool.

another thing the call to the bank if i'm reading right came 5 days before being sworn in. the article also says it was suppose to be going to his campaign.

sound like a load of horsesh@@ to me.

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More like the investigation that was initiated when Italy reported to the DoJ they had evidence implicating Trump in a crime only for Bill Barr to bury it.

We still have no idea what that was about. Which is weird considering the person put in charge of it was John Durham as part of his investigation as special counsel. Now, why was Durham put in charge when it seemingly had nothing to do with what he was investigating? Who knows? Why was there no mention of it the investigation in his final report? Who can say?

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: wAnchorofCarp
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Laughing from my Burisma chair....

Oh, your source is paywalled by the way so I can't see where or who is involved in regards to Trump.

Not even entertaining the possibility — cuz Trump.

Are you Bill Barr?

Hey maybe you can answer how Harris is going to turn the country around after her and Joe's destruction tour the last 3 1/2 years?

You're compadres here can't seem to figure it out.

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I even went to extra lengths because the source, messenger and Barr have no integrity.

Guess what is found...nothing.

Don't project your hangups onto me Annee ...

originally posted by: RazorV66
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They desperation of having a terrible, failed candidate that was never voted for will cause a massive grasping of straws attempting to deflect to Trump.

Exactly. The Dems here refuse to show us on the doll where the DNC hurt them.

Cheers

originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: Threadbarer

They desperation of having a terrible, failed candidate that was never voted for will cause a massive grasping of straws attempting to deflect to Trump.

Are they deflecting from their horrible candidate or from the FBI and USSS toatlly screwing up of theur one job and the coverup going on when attempting to assassinate their political opponent?

It's worth noting the DOJ's Investigator General just released a report slamming Barr for taking partisan actions designed to help Trump.

a reply to: RazorV66

This topic is about the possibility of Trump being a foreign agent to Egypt. Start a new topic if you want to discuss something else.

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It figures you'd post crap from Raw Story.

Raw Story. Extreme left. Not credible.

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originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: RazorV66

This topic is about the possibility of Trump being a foreign agent to Egypt. Start a new topic if you want to discuss something else.

Yea, you don't get to derail everyone else' threads then cry when pressed about correlating questions in yours

originally posted by: Threadbarer
It's worth noting the DOJ's Investigator General just released a report slamming Barr for taking partisan actions designed to help Trump.

Partisan like classified documents?

Or partisan like actions in Ukraine?

Or partisan like sending a DoJ employee to NYC to try a case that the jurisdiction that the law falls under turned it down?

Or partisan like regurgitating an article so heavy on opinion that any facts are only through anonymous sources?

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It's worth noting the DOJ's Investigator General just released a report slamming Barr for taking partisan actions designed to help Trump.

a dem run DOJ's Investigator General just released a report slamming Barr for taking partisan actions designed to help Trump.

there i fixed it for you, their just mad cause barr screwed up another one of we got him now moments.