This week, House Oversight Democrats wrote a letter to Donald Trump asking for evidence to disprove claims that he accepted an illegal $10 million campaign donation from Egypt just days before his 2017 inauguration.
Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Robert Garcia (D-CA) demanded that Trump show proof that he never received any money from Egypt, following a recent report on a nearly $10 million withdrawal from the nation’s state-run bank just days before Trump was inaugurated in 2017.
In the letter sent Tuesday, Raskin and Garcia went as far as to call it a “cash bribe” from Egypt’s president, and also allege that former Attorney General Bill Barr and others blocked a Department of Justice probe into that alleged bribe.
The letter comes a month after the Washington Post reported that the DOJ started and halted an investigation into the alleged bribe during Trump's presidency on Barr's order. The Post reported on August 2nd that federal investigators had received classified intelligence suggesting that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi sought to boost Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with a $10 million donation.
They also asked Trump to provide information about that, including any funding sources that he used to repay the “contribution or loan.”
“Surely you would agree that the American people deserve to know whether a former president—and a current candidate for president—took an illegal campaign contribution from a brutal foreign dictator,” they wrote.
Trump would disagree, because he's incapable of taking responsibility or admitting to anything he's done wrong.
Rep. Raskin appeared on MSNBC on Sunday morning to dish about the details with host Ayman Mohyeldin.