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rietrot
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Didn't that already happen?
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The 6 senior Trump 2016 campaign figures to face federal charges
Former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon's fraud arrest on Thursday made him the sixth senior 2016 Trump campaign figure to be hit with federal charges.
The state of play: While Bannon was allegedly involved in a scheme to defraud donors to a private border wall construction project, the other five former Trump campaign officials found themselves wrapped up in the Mueller investigation.
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Former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon's fraud arrest on Thursday made him the sixth senior 2016 Trump campaign figure to be hit with federal charges.
The state of play: While Bannon was allegedly involved in a scheme to defraud donors to a private border wall construction project, the other five former Trump campaign officials found themselves wrapped up in the Mueller investigation.
Steve Bannon
- Bannon, along with three others, allegedly defrauded donors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with a crowdfunding campaign called "We Build the Wall."
- Federal prosecutors say Bannon, via a non-profit, took in over $1 million from the scheme "and at least some of it was used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in [his] personal expenses."
- The former Trump campaign adviser was sentenced to 40 months in prison for crimes including obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress.
- He lied to Congress about his efforts to learn more about when WikiLeaks would publish damaging emails about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
- President Trump later commuted his sentence.
- Trump's former national security adviser pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with the former Russian ambassador.
- The Justice Department moved to drop its prosecution of Flynn in May, but his case is still winding its way through a federal appeals court after a federal judge refused to immediately dismiss it given his prior guilty plea.
- Trump's former campaign chairman was sentenced in 2019 to a total of 7.5 years in prison for crimes related to his work as a political consultant in Ukraine and for bank and tax fraud. He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in 2018.
- The final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee's bipartisan report on Russian interference in the 2016 election found that Manafort tried to pass sensitive internal polling data and campaign strategy to a Russian intelligence officer.
- The former Trump campaign deputy chairman and a top Manafort associate pleaded guilty in 2018 to conspiracy against the U.S. and lying to the FBI. He was sentenced in late 2018 to 45 days in jail, to be served on weekends.
- His relatively light sentence was due to his cooperation with the Mueller investigation.
- The president's former personal lawyer and fixer, who describes himself as "one of Trump’s bad guys" in his forthcoming book, pleaded guilty to to lying to Congress on the president's behalf and is carrying out a three-year prison sentence in home confinement.
- Cohen admitted he lied to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 about the length and scope of his work on plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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"We won with poorly educated, I love the poorly educated!" - Trump, 2016
Trump supporters: i dun no wut dat means but make america grate agen 2020!!!1!
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What's the over/under on the voter fraud commission guy getting arrested for fraud fraud?
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The Orange Dotard repeated this again today.
Trump vs. Supreme Court: President Complains Justices Don't 'Like Me,' Calls Them Threat To Rights
www.ibtimes.com
KEY POINTS
Trump’s tweetstorm followed the court’s decision rejecting administration efforts to end the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, which protects as many as 800,000 so-called Dreamers from deportation. The decision did not address the legality or merits of the DACA program. Rather, it said the Department of Homeland Security failed to follow federal law in its effort to end it. The decision invited the court to try again.
“The recent Supreme Court decisions, not only on DACA, Sanctuary Cities, Census, and others, tell you only one thing, we need NEW JUSTICES of the Supreme Court. If the Radical Left Democrats assume power, your Second Amendment, Right to Life, Secure Borders, and Religious Liberty, among many other things, are OVER and GONE!” Trump tweeted.
Trump said Thursday’s decision granted presidents “far more power” than ever was anticipated. He called on Congress to act on immigration reform.
Trump took the recent decisions personally, saying the court “doesn’t like me.” He called the decisions “horrible” and “politically charged,” and likened them to “shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives.”
Trump has appointed two justices since taking office, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Both dissented from the majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the court’s four liberal justices.
Trump said he would release a new list of possible court nominees.
Trump vs. Supreme Court: President Complains Justices Don't 'Like Me,' Calls Them Threat To Rights
Trump vs. Supreme Court: President Complains Justices Don't 'Like Me,' Calls Them Threat To Rights
Trump says he's putting together a list of possible future high court nominees.
www.ibtimes.com
- Trump criticized recent decisions by the high court as "horrible" and "political"
- He said Thursday's DACA ruling is just the latest in a string of decisions that have gone against his administration, pointing up the need for "new justices"
- Liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is the oldest member of the court at 87
Trump’s tweetstorm followed the court’s decision rejecting administration efforts to end the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, which protects as many as 800,000 so-called Dreamers from deportation. The decision did not address the legality or merits of the DACA program. Rather, it said the Department of Homeland Security failed to follow federal law in its effort to end it. The decision invited the court to try again.
“The recent Supreme Court decisions, not only on DACA, Sanctuary Cities, Census, and others, tell you only one thing, we need NEW JUSTICES of the Supreme Court. If the Radical Left Democrats assume power, your Second Amendment, Right to Life, Secure Borders, and Religious Liberty, among many other things, are OVER and GONE!” Trump tweeted.
Trump said Thursday’s decision granted presidents “far more power” than ever was anticipated. He called on Congress to act on immigration reform.
Trump took the recent decisions personally, saying the court “doesn’t like me.” He called the decisions “horrible” and “politically charged,” and likened them to “shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives.”
Trump has appointed two justices since taking office, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Both dissented from the majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the court’s four liberal justices.
Trump said he would release a new list of possible court nominees.
Yip loads of zombies mindlessly defending Trump, when it is his campaign that was found to have worked with the Russians.
2 of his campaign managers have been arrested. His lawyer. His associates.
He mishandled the coronavirus pandemic.
He screwed the farmers over.
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Like last time. Damn, we still hear the whinging about the last time. You have your elections confused.
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Question
Do the "Trump Supporters" (considering we're mostly in SA and can't actually support him) actually like him or is it more a case of annoying/sticking it to "the left"? You know, the same way girls with parental issues date the guy their parents hate just to piss them off.
Do the "Trump Supporters" (considering we're mostly in SA and can't actually support him) actually like him or is it more a case of annoying/sticking it to "the left"? You know, the same way girls with parental issues date the guy their parents hate just to piss them off.
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It is simple.
Find me more than 2 trump supporters on this forum who are not
1. Confederate flag supporters
2. Apartheid flag supporters
3. White Christians of the the 6000 year old earth + flat earth kind
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Slowwww clap.
Nice windmill there Don Quixote ... watch out it doesn't get the better of you
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Didn't know Bannon was so filthy rich...the allegation (if true) makes it even more deplorable than it is already.
Note that Trump didn't actually support this effort:
spectator.us
Note that Trump didn't actually support this effort:
Does Steve Bannon’s arrest hurt the Trump reelection effort? - The Spectator World
Trump seems intent on setting a Guinness Book of World Records for employing confidence men
spectator.us
Yeah because Trump is true working class ...Like last time. Damn, we still hear the whinging about the last time. You have your elections confused.
Not at all like the people Chris was criticising.
LoL, this surface - he's so vapid and all he ever does is spout non-sincere BS. Yet demands.
Anyway, here's some funny sheet:
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Bannon is smart. He was the brains behind Trump's campaign. He saw a need in US politics for the type of politician he could get Trump to be.Didn't know Bannon was so filthy rich...the allegation (if true) makes it even more deplorable than it is already.
Note that Trump didn't actually support this effort:
Does Steve Bannon’s arrest hurt the Trump reelection effort? - The Spectator World
Trump seems intent on setting a Guinness Book of World Records for employing confidence men
He knows the kind of people who voted for Trump. He spent years convincing people to ignore the facts, trust only what Trump tells you.
He just used that to play the ordinary folk. Played to their bias. Used Trump Jr to boost and promote the scheme (Jr being more naive that Donnie). People fell for this hook line and sinker, because Bannon and his crew knew they would.
They fell for the myth of the competent president, this was an easier sell.
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