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THE TRUMP SAGA QUESTION ... MONEY FROM EGYPT? MSNBC: 'Revelatory bombshell': Secret probe of Trump, suspicious Egypt money shut down by Barr's DOJ: WaPo PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJXoWobi6o Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
'Revelatory bombshell': Secret probe of Trump, suspicious Egypt money shut down by Barr's DOJ: WaPo MSNBC Aug 3, 2024 7.18M subscribers ... 2,548,450 views ... 47K likes #Trump #Egypt #Politics Carol Leonnig, national investigative reporter for the Washington Post, talks with Alex Wagner about her blockbuster reporting on a secret investigation into Donald Trump's relationship with Egypt and questions about 10 million dollars in cash that were left unanswered by the Justice Department under Bill Barr. » Subscribe to MSNBC: / msnbc Download our new MSNBC app for the latest breaking news and daily headlines at a glance: https://www.msnbc.com/information/dow... Follow MSNBC Show Blogs MaddowBlog: https://www.msnbc.com/maddowblog ReidOut Blog: https://www.msnbc.com/reidoutblog MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics headlines, as well as commentary and informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House, The ReidOut, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and Alex Wagner who brings her breadth of reporting experience to MSNBC primetime. Watch “Alex Wagner Tonight” Tuesday through Friday at 9pm Eastern. Connect with MSNBC Online Visit msnbc.com: https://www.msnbc.com/ Subscribe to the MSNBC Daily Newsletter: https://link.msnbc.com/join/5ck/msnbc... Find MSNBC on Facebook: / msnbc Follow MSNBC on Twitter: / msnbc Follow MSNBC on Instagram: / msnbc #Trump #Egypt #Politics Transcript 0:00 ANYBODY'S MONEY. I'M USING MY OWN MONEY, NOT USING THE LOBBYIST, NOT USING DONORS, I DON'T CARE. >> I'M SELF FUNDING MY CAMPAIGN. >> I'M TOTALLY SELF FUNDING MY CAMPAIGN . >> ONE OF THE FIRST BIG LIES DONALD TRUMP TOLD AFTER ANNOUNCING HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2016 WAS THAT HIS CAMPAIGN WOULD BE TOTALLY SELF FUNDED. THAT OF COURSE, WAS NOT TRUE. TRUMP ONLY SELF-FUNDED ABOUT 20% OF THE CAMPAIGN AND TURN TO DONORS AND SUPER PAC'S TO PICK UP THE TAB WHENEVER POSSIBLE. BUT THE VERY END OF OCTOBER, LESS THAN TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, THE FAMOUSLY CHEAP DONALD TRUMP OPENED UP HIS WALLET. >> I WROTE ANOTHER CHECK FOR $10 MILLION, I'M SPENDING MONEY LIKE CRAZY. >> TODAY THE WASHINGTON POST IS OUT WITH BREATHTAKINGLY REPORTING THAT PAVES THE LAST MINUTE $10 MILLION CASH INFUSION IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAVE CLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE INDICATING THAT EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT TRIED TO GIVE TRUMP 1:00 $10 MILLION TO BOOST HIS CAMPAIGN AT ALMOST THE EXACT SAME TIME. IN SEPTEMBER OF 2016, CANDIDATE TRUMP WHO WAS ALREADY CALLING FOR HIS INFAMOUS MUSLIM BAND MET ON THE SIDELINES OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR A CLOSED- DOOR MEETING WITH THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT. >> HE'S A FANTASTIC GUY, TOOK CONTROL OF EGYPT AND HE REALLY TOOK CONTROL OF IT AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT MEETING. WE MET, FOR A LONG TIME ACTUALLY, WE HAD A LONG MEETING, AND IT WAS GOOD CHEMISTRY, YOU KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE GOOD CHEMISTRY WITH PEOPLE, YOU ARE THE KING OF THAT. A GOOD FEELING BETWEEN US. >> ABOUT A MONTH AFTER THE GREAT MEETING, TRUMP GAVE HIS CAMPAIGN THAT $10 MILLION CHECK , AND THEN, A FEW MONTHS AFTER THAT, JUST FIVE DAYS BEFORE TRUMP WAS SWORN INTO OFFICE, 2:00 THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS THAT A BANK THAT BRANCH IN CAIRO RECEIVED AN UNUSUAL LETTER FROM AN ORGANIZATION LINKED TO THE EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE ASKING THE BANK TO KINDLY WITHDRAW NEARLY $10 MILLION FROM THE ORGANIZATION'S ACCOUNT, ALL IN CASH. INSIDE THE STATE RUN NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT, EMPLOYEES WERE SOON BUSY PLACING BUNDLES OF $100 BILLS INTO TWO LARGE BAGS ACCORDING TO RECORDS FROM THE BANK. FOUR MEN ARRIVED AND CARRIED AWAY THE BAGS WHICH YOU S 2:23 OFFICIALS LATER DESCRIBED AS 2:24 WEIGHING A COMBINED 200 POUNDS 2:27 AND CONTAINING WHAT WAS THEN A 2:28 SIZABLE SHARE OF EGYPT'S 2:30 RESERVE OF U.S. CURRENCY. 2:36 NOW THERE ARE A FEW INCREDIBLY 2:37 IMPORTANT PIECES OF CONTEXT 2:38 HERE. 2:43 ONE, IS THIS KIND OF CASH 2:45 TRANSACTION AND BEING A 2:46 POTENTIAL BRIBE FROM THE 2:47 EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT IS VERY 2:48 MUCH WITHIN THE REALM OF 2:49 POSSIBILITY. 2:49 NEW JERSEY SENATOR BOB -- 2:52 DEMOCRAT BOB MENENDEZ WAS 2:53 CONVICTED ON CHARGES OF 2:54 ACCEPTING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS 2:55 OF DOLLARS OF BRIBES IN THE 2:56 FORM OF ENVELOPES FULL OF CASH 2:57 AS WELL AS LITERAL GOLD BARS. 3:00 CASH AND GOLD BARS THAT CAME 3:06 FROM EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE 3:06 AGENTS FROM THE SAME AGENCY 3:07 INVOLVED IN THIS NEARLY $10 3:08 BILLION CASH WITHDRAW, THE 3:11 OTHER KEY PIECE OF CONTEXT IS 3:12 THAT THE EJECTION PRESIDENT IS 3:17 NOT AS TRUMP PUT IT, A 3:18 FANTASTIC GUY, HE'S AN 3:19 AUTHORITARIAN DESPERATE WHICH 3:24 OVERTHREW THE GOVERNMENT WITH 3:25 MILITARY FORCE IN 2013 AND HAS 3:26 STAYED IN POWDER POWER THROUGH 3:32 SET -- SHAM ELECTIONS BUT 3:36 DESPITE THAT, THE PRESIDENT IS 3:38 ONE OF THE FIRST GUEST THAT 3:39 PRESIDENT TRUMP INVITED TO THE 3:40 WHITE HOUSE AND ONE OF THE 3:41 FIRST FOREIGN LEADERS THAT 3:42 TRUMP MET WITH ON HIS VERY 3:43 FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRIP. 3:44 THROUGHOUT ALL OF HIS 3:44 PRESIDENCY, TRUMP COZIED UP TO 3:50 HIM DESPITE HIS BRUTAL 3:53 CRACKDOWNS ON POLITICAL 3:53 OPPOSITIONS AND HIS BLATANT 3:54 CONSOLIDATION OF POWER AND HIS 3:55 DISREGARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. 3:56 AT ONE POINT, TRUMP WAS EVEN 3:57 OVERHEARD CALLING HIM HIS 4:01 FAVORITE DICTATOR. 4:02 CLEARLY THERE'S MORE THAN ONE. 4:03 SO ALL OF THIS, THE CLASSIFIED 4:04 U.S. INTELLIGENCE, THAT HE 4:05 TRIED TO GIVE TRUMP $10 4:08 MILLION, THE $10 MILLION CASH 4:09 WITHDRAWAL, ALL OF THIS IS RED 4:15 HOT, SO WHERE WE JUST LEARNING 4:16 ABOUT IT NOW? 4:17 THE OTHER HALF OF THIS 4:20 INCREDIBLE PIECE FROM THE 4:21 WASHINGTON POST IS ABOUT HOW 4:22 FEDERAL PROSECUTORS 4:22 INVESTIGATED ALL OF THIS FOR 4:41 >>> BACK IN 2018 IN THE MIDDLE 4:43 OF THE MAHLER INVESTIGATION 4:43 INTO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 4:44 THE ELECTION, THE BC FEDERAL 4:45 COURTHOUSE WAS FILLED DAILY 4:49 WITH REPORTERS LOOKING FOR 4:50 CLUES, LOOKING FOR LEADS, BUT 4:51 ON DECEMBER 14th OF THAT YEAR, 4:52 SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT MADE IT 4:58 DECIDEDLY MUCH MORE DIFFICULT 4:59 FOR THE REPORTERS TO DO THEIR 5:00 JOBS. 5:01 THAT DAY COURT OFFICIALS 5:01 MYSTERIOUSLY SHUT DOWN AN 5:02 ENTIRE FLOOR OF THE FEDERAL 5:06 COURTHOUSE, RESTRICTING ACCESS 5:07 TO BOTH THE PRESS AND THE 5:08 PUBLIC. 5:08 REPORTERS ASSUMED THAT THE 5:09 CLOAK AND DAGGER MANEUVERINGS 5:10 WERE RELATED TO RUSSIA BUT TWO 5:12 YEARS LATER WE LEARNED IT WAS 5:13 ABOUT A SEPARATE INVESTIGATION 5:14 LOOKING INTO WHETHER THE 5:18 EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT COULD HAVE 5:19 BACKED THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 5:20 THAT DONALD TRUMP DONATED TO 5:21 HIS OWN CAMPAIGN IN 2016. 5:26 AND TODAY IN AN EXCLUSIVE AND 5:27 DEEPLY REPORTED INVESTIGATION 5:28 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, WE ARE 5:29 LEARNING ABOUT HOW A $10 5:35 MILLION CASH CASH WITHDRAWAL AT 5:36 A BANK IN CAIRO, FIVE DAYS 5:38 BEFORE TRUMP WAS INAUGURATED, 5:39 HOW THAT INTENSIFY THAT 5:39 INQUIRY. 5:40 AND ALSO ABOUT THE EFFORT 5:45 INSIDE TRUMP'S DOJ TO BRING THE 5:47 INVESTIGATION TO A CLOSE. 5:48 JOINING ME NOW IS ONE OF THE 5:49 JOURNALIST WHO WROTE THE STORY, 5:50 CAROL LEONNIG, SHE IS OF COURSE 5:52 A PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AND AN 5:57 INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER AT THE 5:58 WASHINGTON POST. 5:59 THIS STORY IS NOT TO BE 6:00 BELIEVED, THANK YOU FOR BEING 6:01 HERE TONIGHT, FIRST, JUST YOU 6:02 KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF INS 6:03 AND OUTS BUT AS YOU UNDERSTAND 6:05 IT FROM YOUR REPORTING, WHERE 6:06 DO INVESTIGATORS, OR WHERE DO 6:07 THEY SUSPECT THE MONEY MAY HAVE 6:09 COME FROM, AND WHERE WERE THEY 6:10 CONCERNED IT MIGHT HAVE GONE? 6:16 >> FIRST OFF, THANKS FOR 6:19 FOCUSING ON THE STORY, WHICH 6:20 WAS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO 6:21 REPORT OUT AND IT INVOLVED A 6:22 LOT OF SENSITIVITY INCLUDING 6:23 WHERE I WILL START THE STORY 6:24 WHICH IS CLASSIFIED 6:25 INTELLIGENCE. 6:25 THE CIA BASICALLY ALERTED THE 6:31 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN THE 6:32 EARLY PART OF 2017 THAT THEY 6:33 HAD INFORMATION FROM AN 6:36 INFORMANT AND OTHER COOPERATED 6:37 SOURCES OF INTELLIGENCE THAT 6:37 INVESTIGATORS AT THE TIME 6:41 DESCRIBED AS JAW-DROPPING. 6:42 THE INTELLIGENCE SUGGESTED THE 6:43 PRESIDENT OF EGYPT WAS PLANNING 6:48 AND ARRANGING TO SEND $10 6:56 MILLION, ILLEGALLY, TO HELP 6:57 DONALD TRUMP'S REELECTION 6:58 EFFORT. 6:58 YOU MAY REMEMBER AT THAT TIME, 6:59 THERE WAS THIS CONCERN IN 7:03 DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN WORLD 7:04 THAT AFTER THE ACCESS HOLLYWOOD 7:05 REVELATIONS, DONORS WERE 7:06 BACKING AWAY FROM HIM AND HE 7:16 DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY LEFT AND 7:17 IT WAS RUNNING ON FUMES AND HIS 7:18 AIDES WERE ASKING HIM TO WRITE 7:20 A BIG CHECK OF HIS OWN MONEY TO 7:21 THE ACCOUNT AND HE WOULD NOT DO 7:23 IT. 7:23 WELL, IN SEPTEMBER, HE MEETS 7:24 HIM AND AT THE END OF OCTOBER, 7:25 HE WRITES THIS CHECK. 7:26 WHAT THE INTELLIGENCE SUGGESTED 7:27 AND WHAT LED TO AND SPURRED THE 7:28 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 7:29 INVESTIGATION WAS THAT HE 7:30 WANTED TO HELP TRUMP HE WAS 7:32 PROMISING A GREAT RELATIONSHIP 7:37 IF HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT AND 7:40 THE INVESTIGATORS NEEDED TO GET 7:42 TRUMP'S BANK RECORDS TO TRY AND 7:48 FIGURE OUT WHO THIS MYSTERIOUS 7:50 MONEY THAT THEY LATER LEARNED, 7:51 HAD ACTUALLY BEEN WITHDRAWN, 7:52 JUST AS THE INTELLIGENCE 7:52 SUGGESTED, FROM ONE OF THE 7:53 ACCOUNTS LINKED TO THE EGYPTIAN 8:00 INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, THIS MONEY 8:01 WITHDRAWN, PUT INTO FULL BANK 8:02 -- DUFFEL BAGS, VERY LARGE 8:08 PERCENTAGE OF U.S. BILLS, AND 8:09 IN THE EGYPTIAN CURRENCY, DID 8:18 THAT MONEY THAT GOT WITHDRAWN, 8:20 FIVE DAYS BEFORE DONALD TRUMP 8:20 BECAME PRESIDENT, DID IT LAND 8:21 IN DONALD TRUMP'S ACCOUNTS? 8:24 THE INVESTIGATORS, FROM THEIR 8:25 STANDPOINT, THEY WOULD NEVER BE 8:26 ABLE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION 8:27 BECAUSE AS SOON AS THEY BEGAN 8:28 PROPOSING SUBPOENAS TO DO THIS, 8:29 THE U.S. ATTORNEY SAID THAT 8:37 SHE, JESSE LOU, NEEDED TO 8:38 REVIEW THIS AND BRIEFED THE 8:39 ATTORNEY GENERAL. 8:39 A FAIRLY NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL 8:40 NAMED BILL BARR, AND WITHIN 8:50 DAYS OF REVIEWING THE 8:51 INTELLIGENCE HERSELF, MEETING 8:52 WITH BILL BARR, CONFERRING WITH 8:53 HIM, SHE RETURNED TO 8:54 INVESTIGATORS AND SAID SHE NO 8:55 LONGER BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS A 8:56 GOOD IDEA. 8:56 THE FBI WAS SO ANGRY THAT THEY 9:02 BEGAN PREPARING THEIR VERSION OF AN ULTIMATUM. THEIR VIEW WAS IF WE CAN'T EVER LOOK AT TRUMP'S BANK RECORDS, WHICH ARE A PRETTY EASY THING FOR FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS TO SUBPOENA, IF WE CAN'T GET THOSE, THEN, THERE IS NO CHANCE IN THE WORLD OF US EVER GETTING TO THE TRUTH OR THE BOTTOM OF THE INVESTIGATION. >> YEAH, I MEAN THERE SO MUCH HERE, CAROL, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I'M INTERESTED IN, YOU KNOW, THERE IS AN ASPECT OF MONEY LAUNDERING, I WILL READ AN EXCERPT FROM THE PIECE. INVESTIGATORS SAW HALLMARKS OF AN INTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING OPERATION IN THE WAY THE FUNDS MOVED INTO AND THROUGH ACCOUNTS AHEAD OF THE CASH WITHDRAWAL, INDICATIONS OF A POTENTIAL CRIME THAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN RELATED TO AN EFFORT TO HELP TRUMP. THERE'S EFFORT TO HELP TRUMP AND THERE'S ACTUALLY THE SOURCE OF THE MONEY AND THEN THERE'S INVESTIGATION BEING QUASHED, WHAT STANDS OUT TO YOU AS THE MOST I THINK, DISTURBING 10:00 ELEMENT OF WHAT IS ALREADY A FAIRLY DISTURBING STORY? >> I'M NOT THE PERSON TO DECIDE WHAT IS DISTURBING, I'M AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER. I LEARN A LOT ABOUT HOW CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE IS HANDLED PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING HIGH PROFILE PEOPLE. AND WHAT MY COLLEAGUE AND I HEARD OVER AND OVER AGAIN AS WE REPORTED THIS OUT, LOOKING UP PEOPLE'S CONTEMPORANEOUS NOTES, LOOKING AT RECORDS FROM THE INVESTIGATION, REVIEWING DOCUMENTS THAT ARE STILL SECRET, WHAT WE HEARD OVER AND OVER AGAIN WAS, THERE WAS CHILLING, JOB RAKING INTELLIGENCE THAT POINTED TO A POTENTIAL MONEY LAUNDERING OPERATION IN AN EFFORT AT LEAST BY THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT TO BRIBE OR COMPROMISE DONALD TRUMP AND THAT WHEN EVIDENCE WAS GATHERED BY MOLARS TEAM AT THE VERY END OF THE MAHLER PROBE, WHEN THIS EVIDENCE WAS GATHERED OF THIS MYSTERIOUS 11:04 CASH WITHDRAWAL PIECE, THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS EXPIRED. THE DEADLINE FOR BRINGING CHARGES UNDER THE FEDERAL STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS EXPIRED JANUARY 15th OF 2022. BUT IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE WITH REPORTING LIKE THIS THAT THIS STORY ENDS THERE.

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