Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing a new hoax targeting former President Donald J. Trump, claiming he illegally took $10 million from Egypt just before the 2016 election. The allegation stems from a now-closed Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation, which ran from 2017 until 2019 and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
In a letter released on Tuesday, Congressional Democrats sought to revive the unfounded allegation against Trump—borrowing heavily from a story published last month by The Washington Post revealing the probe’s existence. While the Post story—through innuendo and hearsay from anonymous sources—attempts to paint the probe as incomplete, then-Attorney General Bill Barr and then-acting U.S. attorney Michael Sherwin definitively closed the case. Sherwin, who led the investigation, has made it clear that there is no evidence that the former president had ever accepted money from Egypt.
The allegations leveled by Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Robert Garcia (D-CA) are all too similar to the public corruption and foreign agent charges that recently brought down the powerful New Jersey Democratic Senator, Bob Menendez. In July this year, a jury found Menendez guilty of 16 felony counts in a federal corruption trial. The New Jersey Democrat was accused of selling his office for bribes and assisting the foreign governments of Egypt and Qatar. In late August, Menedez resigned his seat in the U.S. Senate.
During a June 2022 raid on Menendez’s New Jersey residence, federal agents found over $480,000 in cash connected to the corruption schemes. Bars of gold and a Mercedes Benz were also seized in connection with the case.
In May, Raskin and Garcia’s House colleague, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), was also indicted for accepting $600,000 in bribes as part of an Azerbaijani foreign influence operation.
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