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Showing posts with label “We Build The Wall Campaign”. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Steve Bannon Runs Out of Covfefe and is Arrested for Fraud


Steve Bannon former Trump Chief Strategist/Future Prison Inmate

It’s been awhile since we have written on that Clown Prince of Trump Minions Steve Bannon. Although we had originally hoped never to write about Bannon ever again today’s events make us ecstatic to fire away at him again from the IR Batcave. We would argue that better people wouldn’t rejoice so much at the fall of such a washed up party hack like Steve Bannon. We are not better people, not today and not about Bannon. After all old Steve did say there was a special place in hell for Republicans like us who refused to back underage girl lover Roy Moore, he also had business dealings with sexual predator Harvey Weinstein. So given Bannon’s past sins we think we are entitled to indulge in some glee, while reporting on the news today that Bannon and three others were arrested today on charges of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with his failed “We Build the Wall Campaign”.  Justin Wise and Harper Neidig reported on the story for The Hill earlier today:

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon and three others were arrested and charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors who contributed to a fundraising campaign for a private border wall, the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said Thursday.

"As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction," acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said.

The four men are facing charges including one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Each charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.

Bannon, who also served as chief executive of President Trump's campaign in 2016, is the latest member of the president's inner circle to face criminal charges.

Needless to say Trump’s re-election campaign is probably not thrilled with the arrest of Donald’s former campaign manager. Regardless of whatever loyalty Bannon holds or held towards President Trump. True to form President Trump has decided to act as if Bannon and he were never close. Here’s more on Trump, Bannon and the “We Build the Wall” scam:

Following the indictment, Trump said he hadn’t dealt with Bannon “for a very long period of time.”

“I don't like that project. I thought it was being done for showboating reasons,” Trump said. “It was something that I very much felt was inappropriate to be doing.”

Putting the irony aside of Donald Trump being upset over anyone else showboating, Trump’s obsession with building a fantasy border wall is well documented. Readers of this blog might recall a year ago we compared Trump’s zeal to build a border wall at the Mexican border as being the equivalent of Captain Shan’s insane quest to slay Moby Dick. So him claiming that he would view Bannon’s scheme as showboating is a bit hard to swallow. Especially in light of the fact that many of Trump’s family members and associates are involved with the “We Build the Wall” campaign:

Trump was made aware of the “We Build The Wall” campaign shortly after its launch. Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who was an advisory board member for the nonprofit established by the campaign, told The New York Times in January 2019 that the effort had received the president’s blessing.

“I talked with the president, and the We Build The Wall Effort came up,” Kobach said. “The president said ‘the project has my blessing, and you can tell the media that.’ ”

A website for the campaign still includes endorsements from the president's son Donald Trump Jr., former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraising official for the 2020 campaign.

So for an effort that Trump claims to have thought so little of her apparently had no problem with his son Don, Jr, one of his former campaign managers and Kris Kobach one of his chief toady’s shilling for it. Of course when you look at the charges filed against Bannon and his crew it becomes apparent why Trump would want to distance himself from Bannon.

Here’s more details on the charges against Bannon and the others:

Brian Kolfage launched We Build The Wall on GoFundMe in late 2018, quickly raising more than $20 million, before the site threatened to remove his page unless he identified a valid recipient of the funds.

According to the indictment, Kolfage, Bannon and Badolato then formed a nonprofit called "We Build The Wall, Inc." to receive the GoFundMe money.

Despite Kolfage's promises that he wouldn't be taking a salary, federal prosecutors alleged that the group of defendants schemed to pass along hundreds of thousands of dollars to him to help "fund his lavish lifestyle."

Kolfage allegedly took a total of $350,000 from the organization, passed through a series of bank accounts and nonprofits between January and October of 2019.

Prosecutors said one nonprofit controlled by Bannon received more than $1 million, some of which he passed on to Kolfage, while taking a "substantial portion" for personal gain.

Now none of us at INDY REPUBLICAN are attorney’s like our late great teacher and friend Gary Welsh or our friend and ally Paul Ogden. But based off what we can see it is not likely that Bannon and his three associates would have been arrested if the Justice Department didn’t think they had a good case against them. Things are look bad for Bannon & Trump. Knowing Bannon he will do ANYTHING to avoid prison even roll over on Donald. We have a few things to say to Steve Bannon: Steve, we really hate you. You are REAL HUMAN SCUM, but that being said if you have any brain cells at all you will turn on Donald now! He is already ditching you like one of the three rumpled jackets you always wear. Save yourself while you can. And by the way regarding their being a special place in Hell for us Never Trump Republicans, we are okay with that. At least we won’t be stuck in boring, generic, run-of-the-mill Hell! See you when you come up for parole Steve!