Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, and Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the top Democrat on its subcommittee for national security, the border and foreign affairs, wrote to Trump that they were making the request as a result of a Washington Post article published last month.

"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," the letter signed by the two Democrats reads. "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 fund from the Egyptian president or government."

Trump campaign officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump campaign declined to answer detailed questions from The Post for the story last month but said the Justice Department investigation found no wrongdoing and was closed.

In early 2019, as Mueller was preparing to deliver his report on Russian interference and close his office, his team obtained records from Egyptian banking officials. The records revealed a cash withdrawal of nearly $10 million - an amount almost identical to what the intelligence indicated - from an account tied to the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, The Post reported. The withdrawal occurred in January 2017, five days before Trump took office.

The discovery intensified the probe. Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. who took over the case from Mueller proposed subpoenaing Trump's bank records from a period that included Trump's first months in the White House to see if any of the money from Cairo could be seen landing in Trump's accounts, The Post reported.

But months after the handoff, The Post's investigation found, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining those records. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump's then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe. Michael Sherwin, the then-acting U.S. attorney who closed the case, told The Post he did so for lack of evidence.

There simply is no bottom to Trump's corruption of America's government in service of his own greed and avarice. Trump's DOJ really was his personal defense team and it will only get worse if he gets another try at it.