Thursday 20 August 2020

Is there a G-d after all?

Former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon, triple-amputee Air Force vet Brian Kolfage and two others have been arrested and charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors with their ‘We Build the Wall’ online fundraiser.
Bannon, Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea are accused of scamming over $25 million under the guise of raising funds to build a wall on the US’ southern border with Mexico in an indictment unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
While donors to the crowdfunding campaign were told Kolfage, the public face of We Build the Wall, “would not be paid a cent,” the quartet allegedly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to themselves, concealing the transactions with phony invoices and accounts.

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However, the former Trump strategist’s troubles may have only begun. GTV Media Group, a media company he launched earlier this year with exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, is under investigation by state and federal authorities over a $300 million private offering, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday. Multiple banks have reportedly frozen accounts associated with the round of fundraising.
Earlier this week, Kolfage announced We Build the Wall would be moving from GoFundMe, saying it was because the platform “supports the racist attacks by #BlackLivesMatter.” He nevertheless congratulated donors on “the largest GoFundMe campaign in history.”
Kolfage’s latest fundraiser, “Black Lives Matter is now a Racist Hate Group,” had been deleted from the crowdfunding platform.

RT.

To answer my own title question: probably NOT! Bannon et al will probably get off with a slap on the wrist due to 'Very Expensive Lawyer Syndrome'. I mean, Bannon: a finer 'man of the people' you never saw, right?

14 comments:

  1. Steve Bannon is the most dangerous man in the world to the global corporatist neoliberal world order. This merely confirms the fact.

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  2. Nope. Bannon will get off almost scott-free. I'd wager a lot of money on that. The other numpties I'm not so sure.

    I wish he WAS a danger to the "global corporatist neoliberal world order" but he'd only replace it with something deeply autocratic. The man's a supreme arsehole.

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  3. People who are in a hurry to completely change the world ASAP and PDQ have no time for niceties like democracy or due diligence.

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  4. As Stalin would say: 'how many divisions does he have?'

    What power does Bannon currently wield? When he was a spad to Trumpo at least he had some, but know??? Inquiring minds want to know!

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  5. A right-wing victory over global neoliberalism would mean a world full of Dutertes, Bolosonaros, Trumps etc. I would quite literally not survive that.

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  6. Name where Trump acts extra-judicially or retract your comparisons.

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    1. Whereas every night in Portland and around the nation, Democrats act extra-judicially committing arson and vandalism.

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    2. Your love affair with the Orange Arsehole is tiresome.

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    3. Portland's Antifa problems began LONG before Trump.

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    4. Beginnings of an "imaginary institution", according to Jerry Nadler...

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  7. I don't know whether Trumpo has acted extra-judicially but either way doesn't mean comparisons with other Far Right arseholes like Duterte and Bolsonaro cannot be made.

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  8. In the event he loses (still not likely) I 'look forward' to his shenanigans to try and turn the tables.

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  9. Democrats act extra-judicially committing arson and vandalism.

    I'm no fan of the Dumbocrats or Biden but what's happening isn't in their interest, quite the contrary. And are the looter/arsonists Dem operatives? Again I doubt that.

    STOP reading election-oriented far right newsletters! ;-) They're pure demagoguery. Like Guilfoyle's soeech e.g.

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    1. My only far-right reading vice is "The Conservative Treehouse". I can't live w/o Sundance's astute analysis...

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