One of the things about the Trump regime is that there are so many atrocities that any particular atrocity is down the memory hole in no time. I may have mentioned that I try to document those atrocities day by day in a journal I keep, but it only skims the surface. By the way, do you recall that on this day two years ago Rudy Giuliani let it be known that “Truth isn’t Truth”?
Anyway, on to my main point.
Steve Bannon has been arrested for defrauding true believer Trumpers. What a surprise! I guess grifters just have to grift. This morning the genius said that he, himself, was against the “We Build the Wall” project from the start. Since he lies all the time any rational person would have concluded, based on said denial, that he was in on it too, but it’s always nice to have evidence.
So it’s good to have the internet, because whenever Trump lies, there’s alway someone who remembers a relevant atrocity, and here’s one that’s relevant to Trump’s claim that he was against the “We Build the Wall” project from the start:
Donald Trump’s former longtime henchman Steve Bannon was arrested this morning for raising millions of dollars for an imaginary “We Build the Wall” border wall project and allegedly pocketing the money. Trump then claimed during a press conference that he had always disapproved of Bannon’s project. But the money trail says otherwise.
Last December the Washington Post reported that the Donald Trump administration had steered a $400 million government contract toward a firm which had “partnered with right-wing activist group We Build the Wall to construct fencing on private land with millions of dollars raised through online donations.”
This was an ugly enough scandal at the time, but it fell by the wayside as other scandals grabbed the headlines. But after the news today that “We Build the Wall” was nothing more than a phony scam, multiple people across social media dup [sic] up the old WaPo article…
Don, Jr. is implicated as well, and it would be ever so nice to see him join Steve on the docket, along with the general counsel Kris Kobach and advisory board members Erik Prince, former CO congressman Tom Tancredo, Sheriff Dave Clarke and former pitcher Curt Schilling.
Just as a side note, it is interesting that these grifters can’t seem to be discreet about things. If you’ve promised to plow every nickel you raise into building a wall, it just doesn’t seem like such a good idea to skim millions of dollars and then spend a million of it on a yacht that all the world can see.