New Hoax Dropped? Illegal Foreign Money – Who Took It?

Never let a crisis go to waste?  But maybe also, never throw away a flimsy theory you might use again?

That seems to be the mantra of a group of Democrats on the House Oversight Committee who are once again asking President Trump about the $10 million in cash they JUST KNOW he took, illegally, from Egypt.

Democratic leaders on the House Oversight Committee asked former president Donald Trump if he ever illegally received money from the government of Egypt, and whether money from Cairo played a role in a $10 million infusion into his 2016 run for president. https://t.co/ffXQuJefx5

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 3, 2024

There’s one problem.  No, that’s not true.  There are tons of problems with this flimsy stack of circumstantial assumptions.  So here’s what’s happening, from a Washington Post story:

Democratic leaders on the House Oversight Committee released a letter Tuesday asking former president Donald Trump if he ever illegally received money from the government of Egypt, and whether money from Cairo played a role in a $10 million infusion into his 2016 run for president.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, and Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the top Democrat on its subcommittee for national security, the border and foreign affairs, wrote to Trump that they were making the request as a result of a Washington Post article published last month. The article revealed details of a secret Justice Department investigation during Trump’s presidency into whether he took an illegal campaign contribution from Egypt.

As members of the House minority, Raskin and Garcia do not have the power to subpoena documents or witnesses, and Trump is under no obligation to respond to their inquiries. But the Democrats said the public deserves answers now that Trump is running for president again.

(emphasis added.)

I want you to notice a few things.  First, this is an old theory that was already thrown out there back in 2016, and the case was closed.  The verdict?  There was nothing but theories; circumstantial dots that agenda-driven investigators wanted to connect, because they’d decided they DID connect at the start.

The problem was… they never did.  The investigations were closed.  The circumstantial theories were shut down (although I could have written a killer cloak and dagger novel based on these theories – very entertaining stuff…).

And what happened?   Well, just as the Washington Post reported, “…Trump is running for president again.”  It was time for a new hoax, or at least a revived theory; either one would do.

And did you catch the part about the letter writers having no authority?  So, what is the point, then?  You know what the point is; to sow doubt on the eve of the election.  That’s why the Washington Post came out with the initial story reviving the old theories a month ago, and that’s why this group of democrats in the House are suddenly leveling the same old charges.

They don’t need the charges to stick.  They won’t.  They’ve already failed once before.  There’s nothing there!  Like I said, it reads like a great cloak and dagger novel, but there are no facts connecting the dots!

But the “charges” don’t need to stick.  They don’t even need to BE actual “charges”.  They just need to linger in the air, and sow doubt through repetition.

A quick glance at an MSNBC story will give us a little more background, and catch us up:

According to the Post’s reporting, two leading House Democrats — Maryland’s Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the Oversight panel, and California’s Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on its subcommittee for national security, the border and foreign affairs — are now pressing the former president for answers.

“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,” the congressmen’s letter reads. “Accordingly, we request that you immediately provide the Committee with information and documents necessary to assure the Committee and the American public that you never, directly or indirectly, politically or personally, received any fund from the Egyptian president or government.”

See?  That’s what this is about.  Just putting the question in the air.  “SURELY you would agree that the American people deserve to KNOW…”  Oh, Good Lord — please spare me the fake indignation.

Since I’m in danger of deleting this whole story right now out of sheer frustration for how baseless these accusations are, let me give you a little play by play as taken from the same MSNBC article I referenced earlier:

Revisiting our earlier coverage, it was about a month ago when the Washington Post first reported that five days before Trump’s inauguration, “a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to ‘kindly withdraw’ nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash.”

The Post’s August report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, went on to note that records indicate that four men ultimately arrived at the state-run National Bank of Egypt and carried away bags containing nearly $10 million in bundles of $100 bills. The money represented “what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency.”

A variety of questions obviously came to the fore. Where’d the money go? What did officials linked to the Egyptian intelligence service want with roughly 200 pounds of $100 bills?

(Again, emphasis added.)

So, let me just point something out as we get deeper into this story.  We have an Egyptian intelligence service being shy about announcing why it’s cashing out a bunch of it’s money.  Got it?  Because that’s all we have so far.  Let’s keep going with our MSNBC article.  This is where it gets good:

According to the reporting, some FBI agents were concerned that the money was intended to go to Trump. In fact, those agents reportedly opened an investigation into whether Egypt illegally funneled $10 million in cash to the Republican for his 2016 campaign.

And while that sounded like the basis for an incredible story, there’s more.

U.S. investigators, relying on U.S. intelligence, reportedly came to believe that Egypt’s then-president wanted to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 candidacy. Around the same time, Trump met with Egypt’s then-president, praising him on Fox News soon after as a “fantastic guy.”

We don’t know whether Egypt gave Trump the money. We do know that a few weeks after Trump met with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi — the one who apparently wanted to give the Republican $10 million — Trump somehow produced $10 million of his own money for his campaign. It was, however, structured as a loan so Trump would get the money back.

(MORE emphasis added…)

Again, can you see how this is being laid out to get you to connect dots that, in reality, are not connected?  The only intention here is to create enough plausible doubt in the mind of voters that they second guess their willingness to cast a vote for President Trump.

“…some FBI agents were concerned…”  That’s called a hunch, and it’s not much to go on.

“We don’t know whether Egypt gave Trump the money.”  That’s a fairly important point to make.  Glad MSNBC made it for us.  I’m surprised, actually.  (Sarcasm intentional.)

So, let me cut to the chase, because quite frankly the democrats’ theories are so thin I’m running out of story at this point.  I believe anyone with eyes to see could agree — is it POSSIBLE that these things are connected?  Yes.  But is there any proof?  No.  And the fact that the only thing democrats can point to for an argument along those lines is that President Trump won the election and became President and allegedly hindered the investigation… shows just how much space really exists between these dots.  A lot.

If you need more convincing, I’ll offer up one more thing; check out this video of Rachel Maddow herself conversing with a legal pundit… trying to jumpstart the legal investigation anew:

WATCH: @BarbMcQuade answers a question from Rachel @maddow about The Washington Post’s exclusive new reporting about how a “$10M cash withdrawal drove [a] secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt.”#LastWord pic.twitter.com/er6RobY6je

— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) August 6, 2024

If you made it through that, congratulations.  I know I’m asking a lot, and not everyone has the stomach to handle THAT MUCH agenda-driven hate.  So good job, if you stuck it out.

Here’s my question.  How many times did they actually use the word “theory” or “theorize”?  Several.  I’m not going to be exact, because quite frankly I don’t want to watch it again.  Ugh.  I think I counted three or four.  But… several times they referred to the “theories” and “theorizing” about how these dots might connect; how they MIGHT connect.

Except, as I’ve pointed out, they don’t.  And the closer in you get, the easier it is to see just how much space exists between these circumstantial dots.

I give you… an entire circus of circumstantial theories, once again via our “friends” at MSNBC:

The then-GOP candidate, of course, ultimately won the election. It was during that presidential transition period, shortly before Inauguration Day 2017, when an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service allegedly picked up 200 pounds of $100 bills from Egypt’s state-run national bank.

Soon after, Egypt’s president became one of Trump’s first foreign guests at the White House — a generous diplomatic gesture — and the then-American president ultimately released over $1 billion in military aid for Egypt.

U.S. investigators never proved that the cash from that Egyptian bank went to Trump.

(emphasis added.)

Ah, look.  That circus of theories ended with a solid statement.  “U.S. investigators never proved that the cash from that Egyptian bank went to Trump.”  Let me just say, if that is what happened and they wanted to prove it, they surely could have.  It wouldn’t have taken special access to President Trump’s finances.  Attorney General Bill Barr wouldn’t have had enough reach to conceal it.  If it had happened, we would all know.  It is provable — if it actually happened as they “theorize”.

But, like I said, proving it isn’t the issue.  Sowing doubt about President Trump’s loyalty to the United States, is.

And in a surprise twist, check this out.  Who DID take foreign money and get caught doing so?  Why, that would be Bob Mendez, the DEMOCRATIC Senator from NJ!  From The National Pulse, here’s our plot twist:

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.

You don’t say.  Sixteen counts?  Bribes, corruption, and special favors.  A sitting U.S. Senator, bought and paid for by foreign entities.  And all along it was actually the democrats.  No theories.  Provable fact.

These photos from the Bob Menendez indictment are wild.

Bribed through gold bars, jackets stuffed with cash. Luxury vehicles.

Allegations that Menendez was essentially acting as an agent of Egypt while serving as a US Senator. pic.twitter.com/jtEI813c8p

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) September 22, 2023

Makes one wonder… just what other goings-on might be proven out, in Congress, in the White House, once the tables turn in November?  No wonder the progressive elite are acting like it really is the end of the world if the power they now wield is lost.  For many, it might just be the end of their corrupt little world, and the beginning of something a little less corrupt for America.

That’s MY theory.