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Nevilledog

(55,083 posts)
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 01:34 AM Jan 2021

Rick Wilson had an interesting comment about Bannon's pardon



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Rick Wilson
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If you don't think Bannon's Chinese sugar daddy is Trump's new banker, I have a acid-etched bathtub to sell you.
10:30 PM · Jan 19, 2021
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Rick Wilson had an interesting comment about Bannon's pardon (Original Post) Nevilledog Jan 2021 OP
Steve Bannon is irrelevant. Let him be pardoned DonaldsRump Jan 2021 #1
Trump just made Bannon a co-operative witness Eyeball_Kid Jan 2021 #3
No, he didn't. herding cats Jan 2021 #8
And what if he shows up and repeatedly says Mr.Bill Jan 2021 #4
Which is exactly what folks like Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman did during Watergate DonaldsRump Jan 2021 #6
Hmmm.... The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2021 #2
Bet trump demanded a hefty cut of the money Bannon stole... brush Jan 2021 #5
Well if he then Bannon will have to tell any investigators that might look into it and he can't cstanleytech Jan 2021 #11
Read up on this guy! Guo Wengui SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2021 #7
I have a feeling a new media group is in the works. ancianita Jan 2021 #9
Some federal investigators should look into that actually especially if there was anything cstanleytech Jan 2021 #10

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
1. Steve Bannon is irrelevant. Let him be pardoned
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 01:41 AM
Jan 2021

If he has anything worthwhile, the Democratic-controlled Congress and/or the the Democratic-controlled Justice Department will subpoena him and require him to testify. If he doesn't show up or if he lies, he will be prosecuted.

That's what was missing the last four years. It is no longer missing as of today!

Eyeball_Kid

(7,604 posts)
3. Trump just made Bannon a co-operative witness
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 01:56 AM
Jan 2021

not just in Congress, but in state and federal crimes.

herding cats

(20,051 posts)
8. No, he didn't.
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:39 AM
Jan 2021

The only thing Trump pardoned him for was bilking money from donors in a boarder wall grift. Thats all. That's the only crime he cannot take the 5th on now.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
6. Which is exactly what folks like Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman did during Watergate
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 02:12 AM
Jan 2021

and they were convicted of perjury.

Who gives a shite about Bannon. I only care that Joe and Kamala along with a Democratically controlled Congress start on January 20. We can deal with the rest.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
5. Bet trump demanded a hefty cut of the money Bannon stole...
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 02:00 AM
Jan 2021

from the "Build the Wall" fund.

He's desperate for money as Putin and the oligarchs aren't going to wait forever.

cstanleytech

(28,477 posts)
11. Well if he then Bannon will have to tell any investigators that might look into it and he can't
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 04:17 AM
Jan 2021

refuse to answer.

ancianita

(43,307 posts)
9. I have a feeling a new media group is in the works.
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:43 AM
Jan 2021
Bannon once describing himself to writing colleague Julia Jones as the "Riefenstahl of George Bush", modifying the ending as "the GOP" when Jones was horrified.[343] The opening of Bannon's documentary film The Hope & The Change (2012) consciously imitated Riefenstahl's film The Triumph of the Will (1935), which depicted the Nuremberg Rally held in 1934

According to The Guardian (London) in January 2018, Bannon's ideology is substantially similar to that of Stephen Miller, Tucker Carlson, Benny Johnson, Raheem Kassam and Matthew Boyle, the latter two having been protégés of Bannon at Breitbart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon

cstanleytech

(28,477 posts)
10. Some federal investigators should look into that actually especially if there was anything
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 04:15 AM
Jan 2021

criminal going on just to be sure.
Bannon of course will have to answer their questions and he cannot lie about it either nor can he plead the 5th as any crime "he" might have committed was just pardoned.

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