Steve Bannon Indicted

[Meadmaker]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/bannon-build-the-wall-indictment/index.html

Indicted for fraud. Seems he and others created a "We Build the Wall" fundraising campaign, but didn't use the money for building the wall.



I wonder if there is also a "We Drain the Swamp" organization.

 

[theprestige]

LOL.

Anyway, good. I hope he gets all the due process he deserves.

 

[rockysmith76]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/bannon-build-the-wall-indictment/index.html

Indicted for fraud. Seems he and others created a "We Build the Wall" fundraising campaign, but didn't use the money for building the wall.



I wonder if there is also a "We Drain the Swamp" organization.

Who said we don't need the wall.

 

[varwoche]

A political cartoonist should depict Bannon as a waiter serving an over-sized Trump some coffee, with a line of waiters behind him, and a line of waiters on their way out the door recognizable as Manafort, Flynn, Epstein, etc.

 

[Dr. Keith]

LOL.

Anyway, good. I hope he gets all the due process he deserves.

I expected more from you.

He should at least get the due process required by law, hoping for him to get less is just mean.

 

[theprestige]

Who said we don't need the wall.

A political operative stands accused of exploiting their candidate's campaign platform to commit fraud. If true, it deserves condemnation. The accusation itself deserves attention, not deflection. Stop trying to distract from what's happening just because you can't figure out how to justify it.

 

[ponderingturtle]

A political operative stands accused of exploiting their candidate's campaign platform to commit fraud. If true, it deserves condemnation. The accusation itself deserves attention, not deflection. Stop trying to distract from what's happening just because you can't figure out how to justify it.

But the candidate had a fraudulent college, really everyone knew it was a scam anyway so it doesn't count, just like Trump University.

 

[dasmiller]

I wonder if there is also a "We Drain the Swamp" organization.

The alligators who run it have assured us that all the money will go directly to draining the swamp and the alligators themselves won't receive a penny.

 

[theprestige]

I expected more from you.

He should at least get the due process required by law, hoping for him to get less is just mean.

I don't understand this at all. You seem to be agreeing with me in every sense, but somehow you've phrased it like I'm doing something different.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Presidential Pardon in 3, 2, ...

 

[theprestige]

Presidential Pardon in 3, 2, ...

Avatar bet?

 

[kookbreaker]

Yeah, remember Bannon wrote a book about the President. Not in Trump’s happy bin. Bannon is already an unperson in the President’s eyes.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Avatar bet?

That Trump will pardon Bannon or commute his sentence should he face jail time?
Assuming that Bannon doesn't cooperate against Trump?

I would take a limited-time avatar bet on that.

Of course, Trump has time until January to do that (assuming he won't win in November), but Bannon's trial is almost certain to run longer than that.

 

[Venom]

I wish him well.

But I'll wait for the results too.

 

[acbytesla]

That Trump will pardon Bannon or commute his sentence should he face jail time?
Assuming that Bannon doesn't cooperate against Trump?

I would take a limited-time avatar bet on that.

Of course, Trump has time until January to do that (assuming he won't win in November), but Bannon's trial is almost certain to run longer than that.

He can preemptively pardon Bannon.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump claims he didn't approve of the private donation fundraising scheme. But he did.

Trump reacted to the news on Thursday, saying, "I feel very badly. I haven't been dealing with him for a very long period of time. Haven't been dealing with him at all. Don't know anything about the project at all. It's a very sad thing by Mr. Bannon.”

But that's not what Kris Kobach said over a year ago:

Kris Kobach, a former Kansas secretary of state who acted as an advisor for We Build The Wall, told the New York Times in January 2019 that Trump gave his “blessing” to keep the fundraising campaign going.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisett...ild-the-wall-fundraising-scheme/#7e3e1d843662

 

[theprestige]

Trump claims he didn't approve of the private donation fundraising scheme. But he did.



But that's not what Kris Kobach said over a year ago

FTFY.

And let me guess: You don't trust Donald Trump, and you don't trust Steve Bannon, but you do trust Kris Kobach?

 

[theprestige]

That Trump will pardon Bannon or commute his sentence should he face jail time?
Assuming that Bannon doesn't cooperate against Trump?

I would take a limited-time avatar bet on that.

Of course, Trump has time until January to do that (assuming he won't win in November), but Bannon's trial is almost certain to run longer than that.

Heh. Seems like your "Presidential Pardon in 3, 2, ..." is laughably premature. How about we wait until there's actually something there to bet on?

 

[ponderingturtle]

FTFY.

And let me guess: You don't trust Donald Trump, and you don't trust Steve Bannon, but you do trust Kris Kobach?

Trump endorsed it enough to let jr, promote it.

 

[Dr. Keith]

I don't understand this at all. You seem to be agreeing with me in every sense, but somehow you've phrased it like I'm doing something different.

I'm implying that he doesn't "deserve" even the bare minimum required by law.

Such that getting all that he deserves would not be very good.

Sorry, it didn't land. Many of my attempts don't.