Posted on 08/25/2020 5:35:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
On August 20th, President Trump’s former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was arrested on fraud charges relating to the “We Build the Wall” construction project on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The news made for splashy headlines, but story behind the charges was more mundane. Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee veteran and Purple Heart recipient, used a crowdfunding website as part of a political gag aimed at raising $1 billion dollars to construct a U.S.-Mexico border wall. After unexpectedly raising $17 million dollars within the first week, Kolfage decided to hand off the suddenly real and ambitious initiative to someone with more experience, connections, and resources. Steve Bannon stepped up to help the fledgling project navigate the labyrinth of red tape and regulations designed to stop the project.
The crowdfunding website relinquished the funds to a nonprofit set up by Bannon as Kolfage continued to promote the project, raising additional funds while promising to spend 100% of funds on the wall’s construction and not to pay a salary to the organizers. Indeed, the bylaws of the new 501(c)(4) “We Build the Wall” nonprofit reflect these statements. Under Bannon, “We Build the Wall” began paying various construction, marketing, and legal vendors for work relating to the project. One of these vendors owned by Bannon associate Timothy Shea began paying Kolfage for marketing work on the project. Kolfage could not get paid as an organizer but could as an employee of a vendor, receiving a total of $350,000 since 2018 for his work on the project.
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/24/steve-bannon-cant-use-deep-state-conspiracy-defens/
...the use of ‘encrypted communications’. Is that illegal now? So, in other words, they’re ‘claiming’ that something ‘could’ have been illegal.
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Bannon and his group are very tech savvy and they also know the real enemy is the CCP and they so state. Probably means they have no Chinese tech with backdoors.
When the War Room feed goes sideways, they are on it quickly and get it fixed quickly. The comments/live chat include comments in Mandarin. They stream Chinese citizen whistleblowers out of HK and the Mainland.
CCP wants Pompeo and Navarro gone, too.
They are driving the CCP insane, just like Trump does to both CCP and progs.
...Barr parrots the left with his “I’m not being political”...
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They are bending over backwards to not do a thing that can be construed as political, even though the progs allege that constantly.
The edge is sharp and it is a balancing act. Hints dropped (I know: we’re all tired of hints and reading tea leaves. Me, too) indicate that they are going for treason.
Why do you think Nasty is so unhinged about *enemies of the people* and her (much violated) oath of office?
Games within games and for all the marbles.
as I said from the start, I simply do not trust New York not to engage in politically motivated lawfare.
They are bending over backwards to not do a thing that can be construed as political, even though the progs allege that constantly.
The edge is sharp and it is a balancing act. Hints dropped (I know: we’re all tired of hints and reading tea leaves. Me, too) indicate that they are going for treason.
Why do you think Nasty is so unhinged about *enemies of the people* and her (much violated) oath of office?
Games within games and for all the marbles.
Democrats are always unhinged. This is SOP for them.
The DOJ and GOP Senate are bending over backwards to do nothing and run out the clock on Trump. Support the years long Mueller coup, wait on IG Horowitz another year, ignore evidence gathered by House GOP, slow walking Durham investigation, refuse to even investigate in GOP Senate, etc., etc.
Yeah, I hear you.
All I can say is: it’s not over and when it is there will be no question as to whether it was done legally and Constitutionally or not.
When the scoundrels are screaming about Constitutional oaths, you know they are also up against the wall.
It appears to all hinge on this election, so let’s take it one step at a time, which it looks like our guys are doing. We only get one shot. The progs are rapidly expending ammunition while simultaneously throwing troops at multiple fronts.
I was a little girl during WWII. I remember the adults moving pins on maps as they kept track of the battles with only radio disinfo for guidance. A roller coaster of emotion because for so long in so many places, the Allies appeared to be losing. And then they won.
To mix wars, the progs have lost the hearts and minds and are reminiscent of Hitler in the bunker.
I think we shall see Nuremberg 2.0.
But they SAID they were not going to take one penny, so THEY MUST GO TTO JAIL...
Nevermind this is not ‘profit taking’ this is pay for work. They would have had to hire and pay SOMEONE...
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