let’s not forget the $10 million dollar bribe

Washington Post headline, 12 days ago:

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

The story sank like a stone. One WaPo article and the media’s not touched it since.

Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019. 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, a Washington Post investigation has found.

Since receiving the intelligence about Sisi, the Justice Department had been examining whether money moved from Cairo to Trump, potentially violating federal law that bans U.S. candidates from taking foreign funds. Investigators had also sought to learn if money from Sisi might have factored into Trump’s decision in the final days of his run for the White House to inject his campaign with $10 million of his own money.

Those questions, at least in the view of several investigators on the case, would never be answered, The Post found.

Bold added.

This is just one of many, any single one of which would’ve, in a sane body politic, have ended a career and sent people to jail. It’s also another investigation killed by Trump’s political appointees.

I’m hoping this one will come back.

82 days remain.

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