Democrats Go Virtual, Bannon Goes to Court

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday—along with Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato, and Timothy Shea—after federal prosecutors discovered they defrauded donors involved with the “We Build the Wall” campaign, a GoFundMe that shored up $25 million in donations since its inception in 2018. The unsealed federal indictment is damning, and even shows evidence of the grifters’ amusement with scamming their donors and misappropriating the funds for personal use. The grift looks a lot like what happened recently with the NRA with Wayne LaPierre, and reminds us that scamming donors is an ever-present problem on the Right. As David says on today’s pod, “Right-wing institutions are bilking from angry grandpas and grandmas—their extra dollars—to fight for the people, when they’re really conning the people.” Catch the latest episode for some highlights (and lowlights) of the Democratic Convention, a primer on employment law in relation to the Goodyear diversity slideshow, Facebook’s strike against QAnon and Antifa, and an answer to a listener question from about the citizenship of a tv show character. Show Notes: -Trump embracing QAnon in front of reporters, Sarah’s “Mid Week Mop-Up With Mo Elleithee”, parody Orrin Hatch tweet, and the indictment against Steve Bannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato, and Timothy Shea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and Sarah, I refuse to believe it.
0:27.0	I refuse to believe it.
0:29.0	I can't wait for what's coming next.
0:31.0	I refuse to believe that the GoFundMe for Build the Wall was crooked.
0:36.0	It's shocking, isn't it?
0:38.0	I am stunned. I'm shocked. I'm appalled. I'm amazed.
0:42.0	Listeners, what we're talking about is just before we began recording this podcast, I got a press release from the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York.
0:53.0	It's said leaders of we build the wall online fundraising campaign charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors.
1:01.0	Who was included among the leaders of the campaign, one Steve Bannon, who Sarah allegedly diverted some of the $25 million raise privately to build the wall and stop the caravans diverted that to fund his lifestyle.
1:18.0	What? Could that possibly have happened?
1:23.0	I have questions about his lifestyle. I don't know if you saw that interview, but I don't think it's going to haircuts.
1:29.0	No, it's true. It's true. Okay, that's just a teaser. We're not going to actually start with the indictment of Steve Bannon.
1:36.0	But that is some of the late breaking news that came in right before we started recording.
1:41.0	There was other late breaking news that we're going to get to.
1:44.0	But here's what we're going to cover today. We got a lot to cover.
1:48.0	So we're going to talk about the Democratic National Convention.
1:51.0	We're going to talk about Bannon. We're going to talk about some late breaking developments on Trump tax returns.
1:56.0	We're going to have a really brief primer on employment law related to all lives matter and black lives matter.
2:03.0	We're going to talk about social media and Facebook's strike against QAnon and Antifa.
2:09.0	By the way, Sarah, just all the more reason to listen to our podcast last week, we talked QAnon.
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