Current Events > AG Barr may have killed an investigation into cash payments from Egypt to Trump.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/

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 organizations account all in cash.

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.

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 Trumps then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probeof Trump.

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. Wrayto impose adult supervision on FBI agents Barr described as hell-bent on pursuing Trumps 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 gofar enough in seeking that evidence.

Every American should be concerned about how this case ended, said one of the people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discussthe internaldissension. The Justice Department is supposed to follow evidence wherever it leads it does so all the time to determine if a crime occurred or not."

Exonerated 2.0

Every Republican is a corrupt piece of shit, example infinity + 1.

Oh look, another incident of the gop being corrupt. Incoming mental gymnastics from brainless chuds in 3...2...1...

Barr was the most corrupt AG this country has ever had.

That's saying something.

ClayGuida posted...

Barr was the most corrupt AG this country has ever had.

That's saying something.

And even he drew a line before Donnie.

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Same reason Ron Johnson hasn't been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States; Merrick Garland is either too milquetoast or too duplicitous to do what needs to be done.

darkace77450 posted...

Same reason Ron Johnson hasn't been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States; Merrick Garland is either too milquetoast or too duplicitous to do what needs to be done.

And or when Bart to DOJ to bury the case, they took it literally and also salted the earth

.... actually this is Garland's fault for at least not having a second look at this. He has to go in January if not sooner.

darkace77450 posted...

Same reason Ron Johnson hasn't been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States; Merrick Garland is either too milquetoast or too duplicitous to do what needs to be done.

If Kamala wins the election, I really hope she kicks him to the curb.

Solar_Crimson posted...

If Kamala wins the election, I really hope she kicks him to the curb.

She no doubt will. She'll absolutely be dropping several members of the cabinet, if not the entire thing. Though cabinets rarely last through different administrations. If Harris wins, this will only be the 2nd time since 1988 that the same party controls 2 different administrations and I'm unsure how many Bush kept from the Reagan regime, not to mention cabinet officials rarely last all that long. I'm sure Obama had some turnover and Trump had everyone quit or get fired by the end of his 4 year term.

This appears to be catching fire. Several Congressmen called on the Senate to open an investigation.

hopefully harris makes doug jones her ag

DoJ needs to respond to this.

BDSMKane posted...

DoJ needs to respond to this.

Garland is probably pulling a Dubya and hiding.

BDSMKane posted...

DoJ needs to respond to this.

The statute of limitations has expired.

divot1338 posted...

The statute of limitations has expired.

Then its unfortunately irrelevant. I found this older article though.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/trump-campaign-donation-investigation/index.html

The case was first looked at by the Special Counsel investigators who failed to bring a case, and then it was looked at by the US attorneys office, and career prosecutors in the national security section, who also were unable to bring a case. Based upon the recommendations of both the FBI and those career prosecutors, Michael Sherwin, the acting US attorney, formally closed the case in July.

This makes it sound a lot more settled than the article in OP does.

If its past the statute of limitations, hope for the best and expect the worst. This should have gone somewhere but didnt, but hopefully thats because there was nowhere for it to go.

Add it to the list.

BDSMKane posted...

Then its unfortunately irrelevant. I found this older article though.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/trump-campaign-donation-investigation/index.html
This makes it sound a lot more settled than the article in OP does.

If its past the statute of limitations, hope for the best and expect the worst. This should have gone somewhere but didnt, but hopefully thats because there was nowhere for it to go.

Add it to the list.

It expired in January 2022. It was in the article I posted on my topic.

And they didnt bring a case because the DOJ blocked their access to records.