Steve Bannon is a free man today thanks to Donald Trump’s pardon of the far-right power player in the last minutes of his presidency. Others involved in the same scheme as Bannon weren’t so lucky: Two of them pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding donors to the $25 million GoFundMe border wall project known as “We Build The Wall.”
Where’s wall dough?
Check the marinas.
So, can our freshly minted convicts Kolfage and Badolato find some way to flip on Bannon for something he wasn’t pardoned for? Most of the pardons dished out in the waning moments of the term were for very specific charges, not blanket pardons. Is there some aspect of the Wall™ grifting that was not charged and thus available for new indicting?
(Glad to finally be able to comment! Thanks, TPM)
While I’m glad this is happening, the scam was ALWAYS obvious to those who were paying even a modest amount of attention. It’s kind of a wonder (to me) that MAGA groundlings have any cash left at all.
They only bleed them 5 or 10 bucks at a time. The other scam is “automatic donations.” Just a colossal scam all the way down.
MAGAts grifting other MAGAts? I’m not seeing the problem here…
It boggles the mind that people are so stupid they’d donate to something like this. These dupes were supporting Trump…not a wall and doing so after they knew he lied to them about Mexico footing the bill. I can’t muster up any sympathy for them…they really deserved to get fleeced.
That Stephen K. Bannon is a stand-up guy, isn’t he?
He’s a POS but his cover, the pardon, no longer covers after this.
Awwww two widdle snowflakes hurt cause Creamsicle Face didn’t pardon them.
Boo hoo!
It’s been tempting for me to set up a grift because those idiots are throwing money at anyone with a product.
But I’m betting your border wall wouldn’t blow over in a stiff breeze. Highly disqualifying, IMHO.
“They Michael Flynn’d me,” …
Is a curious turn of a phrase.
The thing I note is that they said every dollar would go to build the wall. If they hadn’t said that, and given themselves million dollar salaries for “management” wouldn’t the whole thing be legal? Or, let’s says they gave themselves $500K each for “management”, put a law firm on retainer for no more than $100K/year ,hired a real estate agent (whose job would be to buy land for the wall at prices that no one would sell for) for $50K/year and an assistant or two, they’d have been perfectly legitimate, even if no wall got built.
I think the government needs to require all “charities” to report their overhead in large print.
“We’re on the million-dollar yacht of Brian Kolfage. Brian Kolfage, who took all that money from Buid the Wall!”
—Steve Bannon, 2022
“That money”?
He means your money. Here’s the dirty little conservative secret — they want more.
They took one for the team. Likely not what they intended.
Those who worship the Cult of the MAGAT where willing to die to appease their G-D King T****p (aka “Owning the Libs.”)
What’s a multi-million dollar con compared to that?
Despite the obvious fraud and grift, I was watching a couple of MAGAts on local T&V last night. When asked why they still supported him, even after 1/6, they mentioned the wall. Ukraine. His grate approach on COVID.
Sigh. I did like that social awareness study that strongly suggested FOX/OAN viewers could be cured with one month’s dose of CNN.
It did - at least in my case - but it doesn’t any longer. There’s just a whole lot of stupid out there, way more than I ever suspected.