Xenophobe white nationalist Trump whisperer Steve Bannon has been charged with criminal fraud for his part in (oh, the irony!) the "We Build The Wall" scam:
Former Trump White House political strategist Steve Bannon has been charged with criminal fraud for his role in a crowd-funded campaign to build President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Thursday that Bannon and several other leaders of the ‘We Build The Wall’ online fundraising campaign have been indicted for defrauding “hundreds of thousands” of donors.
“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,” said acting SDNY U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss. “While repeatedly assuring donors that Brian Kolfage, the founder and public face of We Build the Wall, would not be paid a cent, the defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle.” (our emphasis)The indictment also names Timothy Shea, Trump's Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
One by one, they're going down. Maybe justice will be served, after all.
BONUS: The USPS delivers more than the mail --
Steve Bannon arrested by US Postal Service Agents.
Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) August 20, 2020
And --
Trump was in this up to his eyeballs. Possibly even the kickbacks:https://t.co/EgoIEKrVaI— digby (@digby56) August 20, 2020
President Trump
on...
BANNON: "Haven't been dealing
with him at all"
COHEN: Did a
"tiny, tiny fraction" of my legal
work
MANAFORT: "I didn't know
Manafort well"
STONE: "Roger
didn't work for me in the
campaign"
FLYNN: "Impossible for me
to know this" https://t.co/f7x0giXYBI
—
Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August
20, 2020
