“Today, Rep Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Rep Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, are demanding answers from Donald Trump after a bombshell report by the Washington Post surfaced new evidence suggesting the former president may have illegally accepted a $10 million campaign contribution from Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign and that appointees in his own Department of Justice (DOJ) covered it up,” says a joint Tuesday press release by Raskin and Garcia.
“A recent report from the Washington Post has created renewed suspicion that you collected a $10 million cash bribe from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. 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. 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 funds from the Egyptian President or Government,” wrote the Members.