Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attempted to give $10 million to former President Donald Trump to boost his 2016 presidential campaign, according to an investigation by the Washington Post.
“The investigation referred to found no wrongdoing and was closed,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told the Washington Post, which published the investigation on Friday.
“None of the allegations or insinuations reported have any basis in reality. Washington Post “It is constantly used by Trump opponents from the Deep State and bad-faith actors who spread hoaxes and deceptions to fool the unwary,” Cheung added.
Trump's current spokesman also called for the Publications denounce “textbook fake news.”
He Washington Post Five days before Trump took office in January 2017, $10 million was reportedly withdrawn from a Cairo bank by a group linked to the General Intelligence Service, Egypt's intelligence agency.
He Mail The report says US federal investigators learned of the exchange in 2019 and had been investigating the CIA tip for two years that Sisi planned to give Trump $10 million.
He Publications The report comes after a Democratic senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, was convicted of bribery for taking gold bullion and cash from Egyptian sources. He faces a maximum sentence of 222 years.
In 2019, Trump's praise for Sisi was lavish despite allegations of human rights abuses against the Egyptian ruler.
“Every American should be concerned about how this case ended. The Justice Department is supposed to follow the evidence wherever it leads; it does this all the time to determine whether a crime was committed or not,” an anonymous government source told The Washington Post. Washington Post.
