Trump collusion with Egypt

You can learn about it from Cafe Insider or Democracy Now, or you can read about it in several places, including here or here.

The Egyptian government may have given $10 million to Donald Trump in 2017, violating U.S. law—but the investigation into the payment was squashed by Attorney General William Barr.

The Washington Post reports, citing unnamed sources, that an investigation began in 2017 that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi was seeking to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 election campaign. Federal investigators discovered in 2019 that, only five days before Trump was sworn into office, nearly $10 million in cash was withdrawn on behalf of an organization linked to Egyptian intelligence.

  MSN

While the basic thrust of these explosive allegations has been public since CNN first published an exposé on the federal investigation in late 2020, a new report from The Washington Post has pushed the story back into the public eye. In it, the Post details not only the previously unknown cash withdrawal, but the scale — and the ultimate shuttering — of the Justice Department's inquiry under then-Attorney General Bill Barr.

  The Week

Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, told Newsweek that it would be very difficult to prove a case against Barr as the attorney general has wide discretion on which cases to pursue.

"The problem is that absent smoking gun proof, it is near to impossible to identify an improper motive even if subordinates uniformly disagree with a decision."

  Newsweek

The problem is that in this country, the claim "no one is above the law" is a lie.

Remember the fun we had with this image?

There is one picture from Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East that has come to stand in for the entire thing. It is a photo of Trump, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi holding a creepy glowing orb in a darkened room in Saudi Arabia.

  Vox

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.