I know this is SDNY, but no way this gets by Barr and POTUS w/o them knowing before it goes public...therefore, there may be something to this...I hope not.
Issue advocacy is a lucrative industry on both sides of the political aisle with a big cash flow. Look at the donations to BLM in the name of social justice by corporations. Look at the Clinton Foundation where next to nothing goes to the “cause.”
Look at the NRA where your donations provided hundreds of thousands of dollars for Wayne’s wardrobe (and his posh travel).
I will reserve judgment on this until we learn more, but I will point out the double standard which is obvious and as stated above the Clinton Foundation is the model for this kind of scheme.
From July...
Trump on private border wall segment: ‘It was only done to make me look bad’
A report indicated a section of the wall is already displaying structural troubles.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/12/trump-border-wall-make-me-look-bad-357706
Saying it was done to embarrass him, President Donald Trump on Sunday said a reportedly defective section of his new border wall should not have been built by a private company.
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune reported Thursday that a segment of the wall along the Texas-Mexico border was showing dangerous “signs of erosion“ only months after being completed. The section was constructed by Fisher Industries of North Dakota, whose owner called the design a “Lamborghini.” It cost $42 million.
“I disagreed,” Trump tweeted Sunday, “with doing this very small (tiny) section of wall, in a tricky area, by a private group which raised money by ads. It was only done to make me look bad, and perhsps it now doesn’t even work. Should have been built like rest of Wall, 500 plus miles.“ (The misspelling of “perhaps” was part of the tweet.)
Bannon lost a ton of credibility when he hitched his wagon to Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race back in 2017. It’s one thing to support a staunch conservative and a “culture warrior” in an important election, but when you come out and publicly support a weirdo and loser like that it really makes you look bad.
SDNY is known for running its operations independently and loves it.
So there’s no way this isn’t part of a political play. They’ve been trying to get at President Trump for years.
All they landed up with is destroying one of his lawyers, Michael Cohen.
So, I have to be skeptical. Even if these type of groups are rife with this kind of excess; the politics here is beaming.