Report reveals efforts by Egypt to funnel $10 million to Trump campaign

An organization linked to Egypt's intelligence service withdrew $10 million in cash five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, and special counsel Robert Mueller later investigated whether that money had found its way to him before then-attorney general Bill Barr made what one official called a "jaw dropping" decision to shut down the probe.

The CIA briefed officials at the Department of Justice in early 2017 that Egyptian president Abdel Fatah El-Sisi may have sought to send money to Trump, based on claims by a reliable confidential informant, and they sent the case to Mueller, who had been appointed in May to investigate links between the then-president's campaign and Russia, reported the Washington Post.

The team investigating the Egypt case was dubbed Team 10, as in $10 million, and they noticed that on Sept. 19, 2016, less than two months before Election Day, Trump had a closed-door meeting with Sisi, who had seized power three years earlier in a military coup, at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, and afterward his campaign said he told the foreign leader the U.S. would be a "loyal friend" if he was elected president.