House Democrats ask Trump for proof he did not take $10 million 'cash bribe' from Egypt

• Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked Donald Trump about a nearly $10 million withdrawal from Egypt's state-run bank, just days before Trump became president.
• Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia said they were looking into allegations that Trump took a "cash bribe" from Egypt's president.
• They also asked Trump to provide information about a $10 million donation Trump gave his own campaign in late 2016, including any funding sources used to repay the contribution or loan.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked Donald Trump to show proof that he never received any money from Egypt, following a recent report on a nearly $10 million withdrawal from the nation's state-run bank days before Trump became president in 2017.

The Democrats in a letter Tuesday said they were looking into allegations that Trump took a "cash bribe" from Egypt's president, and that former Attorney General Bill Barr and others blocked a Department of Justice probe into that potential bribe.

The letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin, the committee's top Democrat, and Rep. Robert Garcia, the minority leader of a subcommittee on national security, was spurred by a report in The Washington Post that revealed the existence of the secret DOJ probe.

"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," they wrote.

They also asked Trump to provide information about a $10 million lump sum that Trump put into his own campaign in late 2016, including any funding sources that he used to repay the "contribution or loan."

The Post first reported on the letter from Raskin and Garcia on Tuesday morning. The