House Oversight Democrats are pressing Donald Trump on that alleged massive campaign donation from Egypt.

One month after The Washington Post revealed that the Egyptian government may have illegally given Donald Trump $10 million in 2017, Democrats have announced they will be investigating the allegations.

Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led by ranking member Representative Jamie Raskin, announced in a press release Tuesday that they will be “demanding answers” from the Republican presidential nominee not only over the possible bribe from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, but also over evidence that the Justice Department, led at the time by Attorney General William Barr, covered it up.

  • tetrachromacy@lemmy.world
    844·
    2 months ago

    Oh dip, they’re demanding an answer this time. He’s gonna have to respond or else they’ll… checks papers oh, they’ll just demand it again. Must be nice to avoid any and all repercussions from breaking the law over and over and over again.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 months ago

      Hey - don’t make them issue a statement!

      Ohh ho, they’ll do it! And that statement will say they are very concerned!!

      So - just watch your step, Clownface von Fuckstick

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

      Under normal circumstances, you ask the questions to get a record of the answers, so that you can prove the answers are lies. The more information the accused has when they provide answers, the more thoroughly they can lie.

      With Mango Mussolini, there’s never any consistency to his blatant lies, and he never pays any price for changing his story. Everyone knows he’s a liar, so he can be as brazen as he wants to be because he knows he can lie without losing supporters.

      So I’m with you. Democrats will circle up like a lacrosse team at a prep school mixer. Oh shit, Campbell is gonna go ask Lauren Z to dance. Let’s go back him up. Here he goes-OH she said no… no wait he said “PSYCH!” He wasn’t really asking, I bet she feels so dumb. Sick burn, Campbell. Let’s go throw empty yoohoo bottles onto the roof of the auxiliary building and talk about what boobs probably look like.

      That’s what I picture every time I read about the Congressional Democrats. Campbell, Monty, Gunner, Brook, Tripp, Blake, and Gian, all hanging around in blazers and sweatervests talking about how cool it’s going to be when they finally do something someday.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 months ago

        And yet corporate news is unable - unwilling and unable - to say that he lies.

        Journalism is a farce.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      6·
      2 months ago

      As an aside…

      Oh dip

      Is this a thing now? Is it like “oh damn”?

      /getting-old-person

  • capital_sniff@lemmy.world
    45·
    2 months ago

    It is kind of impressive how wildly unsophisticated the Trump clan is with their scams. I guess if it works on their rube supporters. What I mean is like why bother investing in a real bearded lady when you can just show them a poorly drawn picture of one and charge the same admission.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      they’ve been allowed to do whatever they want for so long they stopped trying to properly hide it very long ago.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 months ago

      Republicans will deny it, refuse to cooperate, and face zero consequences, so what does it matter?

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPM
    1431·
    2 months ago

    Somehow I haven’t heard of this before now - the Egyptian Government’s intelligence agency apparently shuttled $10 million to the Trump Campaign through a shell company, then the investigation was buried when Trump took office and control of the Justice Dept.

    This would be career ending for anyone else.

    • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
      75·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty wild.

      records indicate that four men ultimately arrived at the state-run National Bank of Egypt and carried away bags containing nearly $10 million in bundles of $100 bills. The money represented “what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency.” Source

      Talk about suspicious…

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      121·
      2 months ago

      He has not been president for quite a while. The current DOJ has certainly had time to look into this.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    2 months ago

    Why would you ask him anything? His answer will always be the same: Biden, Harris or foreigners are to blame is what he would say. Why bother? It’s a waste of time.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    46·
    2 months ago

    Beyond everything else, the fact that Donald Trump made so little money off the White House is staggering to me.

    He could have gotten $50 billion from the Saudis on Inauguration Day if he’d had the balls to demand it.

    He wouldn’t have had to change any policies or make any new laws, just tell them that it was what it was.