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submitted 1 month ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

I think in the beginning he was testing the waters to see what he could get away with. He got more brazen as he got to the end of his term.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

He never went for the big bucks. Think of it this way; $10 million wouldn't buy an apartment in Trump Tower.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Couldn’t pay me $10M to live in a building with that fuck’s name on it. Hope they’ll all ashamed of their address.

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