Posted on 08/22/2020 10:15:33 AM PDT by conservative98
Kolfage, a Purple Heart veteran who lost an arm and two legs in Iraq in 2004, was arrested at his home in Florida and is accused of being the main beneficiary of the scam, allegedly pocketing a staggering $350,000 of donor money while he and his wife flaunted their extravagant lifestyles on social media.
Newly resurfaced footage of the pair taken on June 24, 2019 shows the two men openly laughing and joking about peddling money from the border wall scheme, more than a year before the feds swooped in.
In the video, part of We Build The Wall's 'Wall-A-Thon' fundraiser to draw in donors to the scheme, Bannon boasts that they are on board Kolfage's 'million-dollar yacht' and laughs that the veteran 'took all that money' from the scheme.
'Welcome back and this is Stephen K. Bannon,' Bannon says to the camera, while sitting next to Kolfage.
'We're off the coast of Saint-Tropez in southern France, in the Mediterranean. We're on the million-dollar yacht of Brian Kolfage.'
The two men look at each other and laugh as Bannon pats Kolfage on the shoulder.
'Brian Kolfage - who took all that money from Build The Wall,' Bannon adds, while Kolfage continues to smile at his alleged co-conspirator.
Bannon then says: 'No, we're actually in Sunland Park, New Mexico.'
Social media users were baffled at the footage, which, based on the allegations made against the two men this week, point to an inside joke about the scam that was very much under way at the time.
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Is that like asking 1st grader kids to run the class without any teacher? Candy, snacks, lunch and then recess.
This can all be true, every word you wrote, and Steve Bannon can still be a shady grifter.
In fact, I'd say honest, saintly people do not get far in the types of endeavors that Bannon pursued.
Wow.
I really thought he was an honest guy.
What a jerk he turned out to be.
That’s the problem with non profits...There are rules up the ying yang and you better follow them to the letter...
I donated $500.00 2x and I am not sorry one bit this entire thing is BS just as it was with Flynn hard to believe the people on this sit are STILL NOT AWAKE!! Bannon is VERY EFFECTIVE on campaigns the NEEDED him gone and now he’s gone!!
“ Wait’ll the dust settles.”
No kidding. The way that story rolled out reeks.
A four jurisdiction prosecution for this? Barr should demand an audit of the costs.
Yep, it smells like a fresh load of Southern District of New York horse turds, ripening in the August sun of a hot NY City afternoon...
Just like the Clinton Foundation follow the rule to a tee, LOL, LOL, LOL!!! These two did nothing wrong, just like always these conservatives on this site after all this corrupt government has done to ANYONE affiliated with Trump STILL BELIEVE this BS!! REALLY, WAKE THE HELL UP!!!
I look at this as a PAC or lobbyist organization, one actually working in our favor. Go Bannon go!
"Hey, man! It's corruption!!!", said the corrupt nest of snake SDNY "prosecutors"...
Color me disgusted with almost all of you! Do ANY of you believe in the presumption of innocence? In this day when we the people are facing relentless lies and attacks from the media, from leftist politicians, and the “deep state” — all I suspect agents of cartels and Chinese communists, why would we believe ANYTHING.
We are all of us flawed human beings, but we are all from Donald Trump to quite young people, patriots who love our country and dismayed with the breathtaking dishonestly and destruction from the left. The left does this, fake criminal accusations, show trials and kangaroo courts. This is a classic communistic tactic. Now they go after prominent conservative voices, some day they will go after you with lies and fake charges!
Color me skeptical.
Shame on the lot of you. I see this over and over again here among so-called conservatives who claim to be classical liberals who, as I stated above, and often before, that it seems you do not believe in the presumption of innocence — and we certainly should believe it of our own.
Color me disgusted with almost all of you! Do ANY of you believe in the presumption of innocence? In this day when we the people are facing relentless lies and attacks from the media, from leftist politicians, and the “deep state” — all I suspect agents of cartels and Chinese communists, why would we believe ANYTHING.
We are all of us flawed human beings, but we are all from Donald Trump to quite young people, patriots who love our country and dismayed with the breathtaking dishonestly and destruction from the left. The left does this, fake criminal accusations, show trials and kangaroo courts. This is a classic communistic tactic. Now they go after prominent conservative voices, some day they will go after you with lies and fake charges!
Color me skeptical.
Shame on the lot of you. I see this over and over again here among so-called conservatives who claim to be classical liberals who, as I stated above, and often before, that it seems you do not believe in the presumption of innocence — and we certainly should believe it of our own.
Have you?
See my post #55.
Democrat political operatives in the DOJ and the courts are ALWAYS considered guilty of partisan Democrat Resistance activities, until proven innocent, in my view.
I’m reserving any decision about this until I see the proof and evidence that they did something illegal.
It wasn't unreasonable to pay the organizers, especially the guy who was doing the heavy lifting. He deserved a salary and other compensation and perhaps the others as well. But, they told the donors that they were not doing this. They lied. When Bannon decided to pay Kolfage, the organization should have disclosed that to all of the donors, amended their by laws and offered refunds for any who didn't want to agree to the change.
Probably, few would have asked for their money back and then the organization could be operating legally. It sucks when you decide to defraud.
Did they disclose to you that they had decided to pay Kolfage a salary?
I don’t believe that. I didn’t even know who Bannon was. Followed Trump since he came down the elevator. Trump won the election. Bannon tooted his own horn.
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