Trump Praised Steve Bannon's GoFundMe Scam

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Trump Reportedly Gave 'We Build The Wall' His Blessing And Tried To Steer $1B Contract To Its Builder

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President Trump on Thursday distanced himself from his former strategist Steve Bannon after the latter’s arrest for his involvement in ‘We Build The Wall’ – an allegedly fraudulent GoFundMe to build a private US-Mexico border wall – but contemporaneous reports suggest Trump praised the project and even steered a contract to the same GOP-connected builder the group used.

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[Claustrum]

1. The only reason he criticized the scam is because he didn't personally benefit from it n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Sorry,Trump did benifit.

100 k to his Campaign via Fischer and Cramer.

[Initech]

2. It's almost like he tries to come up with the absolute worst answer to everything.

Really even a broken clock gets it right twice a day

[RANDYWILDMAN]

3. Shocker...

It's only bad cause they got caught and Trump didn't make any money off of it.