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[Vesper 30,088]

oh the humanity!

[Vesper 30,088]

Reuters sketch of Steve Bannon appearing handcuffed in court in Manhattan today.

 

Steve Bannon Is Charged With Fraud in We Build the Wall Campaign

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyregion/steve-bannon-arrested-indicted.html

Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former adviser and an architect of his 2016 general election campaign, was charged on Thursday with defrauding donors to a private fund-raising effort called We Build the Wall, which was intended to bolster the president’s signature initiative along the Mexican border.

Mr. Bannon, working with a wounded Air Force veteran and a Florida venture capitalist, conspired to cheat hundreds of thousands of donors by falsely promising that their money had been set aside for new sections of wall, according to a federal indictment unsealed in Manhattan.

The fund-raising effort collected more than $25 million, and prosecutors said Mr. Bannon used nearly $1 million of it for personal expenses.

Despite the populist aura he tries to project, Mr. Bannon is known to enjoy the high life, and he was arrested at 7:15 a.m. on a $35 million, 150-foot yacht belonging to one of his business associates, the fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, law enforcement officials said.

Working with the Coast Guard, special agents from the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan and federal postal inspectors boarded the yacht off Westbrook, Conn., the officials said. Mr. Bannon, 66, was on deck, drinking coffee and reading a book, when the raid occurred.

The criminal charges, filed a week before Mr. Trump was to accept the Republican nomination for a second term, marked a stark turn of fortune for the flamboyant political strategist. Mr. Bannon first came to prominence when he was in charge of the right-wing media outlet Breitbart, where he had aligned himself with the alt-right, a loose network of groups and people who promote white identity.

As chief strategist, Mr. Bannon was one of the most powerful figures in the White House early in the Trump administration, but he stepped down in August 2017 after frequently clashing with other aides.

With the indictment, Mr. Bannon became the seventh Trump associate to have been charged with federal crimes, a list that includes Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager; Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser; and Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer.

 

 

 

[NikkiCFC 8,285]

When dictator takes automatic rifle it means he is gone soon... Fucking idiot, who you gonna shot, your own people?

[Vesper 30,088]

Horrific video of yank coppers in Wisconsin shooting an unarmed black man in the back this fucking SHIT has to end!!!!!!!

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Jonathan Pie - written by alt right Spiked 

https://libcom.org/blog/unsurprising-reason-jonathan-pie-rants-sound-straight-out-spiked-06022018

[Atomiswave 6,117]

On 24.8.2020 at 7:21 AM, Vesper said:

Horrific video of yank coppers in Wisconsin shooting an unarmed black man in the back this fucking SHIT has to end!!!!!!!

If that was any of my family members that got done like that by that coward...... That was filthy, avoidable and totally not needed. Who the fuck gave you the permission to kill an unarmed man going nowhere surroundered by 2 other cops?

[lucio 5,418]

I don’t know if it’s true but apparently he had a knife and made a move to get a gun from the car 

 

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

28 minutes ago, lucio said:

I don’t know if it’s true but apparently he had a knife and made a move to get a gun from the car 

 

Sounds like the police are saying drop the knife in the video too

[Atomiswave 6,117]

THats pure stupidity then, cops already happy to use extra force no reason to give them any more incentives. Especially in this day and age.

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

1 hour ago, Atomiswave said:

THats pure stupidity then, cops already happy to use extra force no reason to give them any more incentives. Especially in this day and age.

Right but wouldn't you agree it's much better for all the facts to be presented before immediately jumping on the Racist cop kills black man narrative?

[Atomiswave 6,117]

Just now, MoroccanBlue said:

Right but wouldn't you agree it's much better for all the facts to be presented before immediately jumping on the Racist cop kills black man narrative?

I never said those guilty are racists but yes I agree we need both sides of the coin to judge. Some are racists, some incompetent and some way too happy to start shooting.

[Fernando 6,585]

52 minutes ago, Atomiswave said:

I never said those guilty are racists but yes I agree we need both sides of the coin to judge. Some are racists, some incompetent and some way too happy to start shooting.

But even more the idiots who get caught in that. 

If you know cops are like that why go looking for trouble? 

If you want to live avoid being caught in the cross fire. 

It's not like a war where you have no choice but to be there. But here, come on men be smart and don't get caught in shenanigans. 

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Hard to know what to believe. BBC saying he stopped to break up a fight, his kids were in the car saw him shot, and hes paralysed from the waist down. 

[Atomiswave 6,117]

1 hour ago, Fernando said:

But even more the idiots who get caught in that. 

If you know cops are like that why go looking for trouble? 

If you want to live avoid being caught in the cross fire. 

It's not like a war where you have no choice but to be there. But here, come on men be smart and don't get caught in shenanigans. 

Yes true that....its not always you who are sick though, sometimes your environment is sick

1 hour ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Hard to know what to believe. BBC saying he stopped to break up a fight, his kids were in the car saw him shot, and hes paralysed from the waist down. 

Damn....tough luck man. I had many friends who suffered the same cuz of war, it shatters their reality. Like getting their soul amputated.

[lucio 5,418]

5 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Hard to know what to believe. BBC saying he stopped to break up a fight, his kids were in the car saw him shot, and hes paralysed from the waist down. 

Looks like there was an arrest warrant out for him , for the rape of a 14 year old girl, and was known to have weapons and a history of violence , if that’s true I’m glad he got shot