The arrest and unravelling of Steve Bannon
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🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign chief, appeared in Manhattan federal court via video last week. He was arrested and charged for allegedly siphoning money from a fundraising campaign to build the president’s controversial border wall with Mexico. He pleaded not guilty. Today we take a look into his past to separate the man from the myth.
Guests:
Josh Glancy, Washington Bureau Chief for The Sunday Times.
Sebastian Gorka, Former Deputy Assistant to the President in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: CNBC, DW News, CBS News, Ruptly, The Sun, CNN, Sky News, Al Jazeera.
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| 0:00.0 | As the long summer was drawing to a close, the Lady May, a sleek |
| 0:09.4 | a sleek 150 foot long mega yacht worth $30 million was gleaming in the sun. |
| 0:17.0 | Gliding gracefully between the exclusive results of the Hamptons and the wealthy upmarket coast of Connecticut. |
| 0:27.0 | Owned by a Chinese billionaire, the man sipping coffee on the deck was his rather portly guest of honor, the former chief |
| 0:35.7 | strategist to the President of the United States of America, and Alt Wright radio ranta, Steve Bannon. |
| 0:44.0 | Bannon had been summering on a yacht called The Lady May, |
| 0:48.0 | which belongs to a slightly mysterious Chinese benefactor. |
| 0:51.0 | It's a 28 million dollar yacht and he'd been having a |
| 0:55.4 | very dolly sound we've been sort of doing TV hits from the deck of his yacht and |
| 0:59.8 | he had this gorgeous tan and he's grown his hair out so he looks like he's been on a sort of grateful |
| 1:05.7 | dead tour for six months. |
| 1:07.8 | But the summering came to an abrupt end. |
| 1:11.2 | On the 20th of August, a boat owned by the U.S. Coast Guard blocked the Lady May, and |
| 1:17.5 | armed agents stormed the yacht. |
| 1:20.7 | This was an audacious operation carried out by the US Postal Service. |
| 1:27.0 | Steve Bannon was under arrest. |
| 1:32.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. Today, the arrest and unraveling of Steve Bannon. Hi there it's Jake Humphrey here from the High Performance Podcast. |
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