Carol Leonnig
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And he scolded FBI Director Chris Wray and said, you better have some serious adult supervision of this investigation because I've got my doubts.
And within...
A matter of a few weeks, the U.S.
attorney in D.C., Jesse Liu, told the FBI agents she was not going to authorize them to pull Donald Trump's financial bank records to help establish, did he get the $10 million?
Hey, by the way, your quick read is quite good.
You're getting all the juicy bits with your biscuits.
Yeah, you nailed it.
The statute of limitations had not run and the Biden DOJ did not open that investigation.
There were people who told us that Merrick Garland was never briefed on it, but like, it's kind of a big deal.
So, and it was in the news and, you know, it's not like it should have been a surprise to anyone that there was this scuttlebutt about LCC writing this huge check, allegedly writing this huge check that ended up being
you know, 200 pound bags taken out of an Egyptian bank.
That's part of the evidence that the investigators had.
And they were trying to trace when it left that bank in Egypt in duffel bags, did it eventually go to Trump?
But no, the Biden DOJ did not look.
She had been essentially shoved out of her U.S.
attorney position by Bill Barr when she got nominated for a higher job.
He was like, OK, you got a nomination.
Get out.
I want to put my person in.
And that was at the end of 2020.