Steve Bannon, Brian Kolfage Of We Build The Wall Arrested

Steve Bannon, Brian Kolfage Of We Build The Wall Arrested

Steve Bannon, Brian Kolfage Of We Build The Wall Arrested

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and triple amputee Brian Kolfage, along with two others, were arrested on warrants issued by the Southern District of New York. They are charged with fraud. These four men are innocent until proven guilty, and we question anything that comes out of the SDNY, but there have always been questions about the We Build the Wall political action committee.

You can read the entire press release from the SDNY here. Below is a relevant portion of the press release:

Starting in approximately December 2018, BRIAN KOLFAGE, STEPHEN BANNON, ANDREW BADOLATO, and TIMOTHY SHEA, and others, orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors, including donors in the Southern District of New York, in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign ultimately known as “We Build The Wall” that raised more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States. In particular, to induce donors to donate to the campaign, KOLFAGE repeatedly and falsely assured the public that he would “not take a penny in salary or compensation” and that “100% of the funds raised . . . will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose” because, as BANNON publicly stated, “we’re a volunteer organization.”

Those representations were false. In truth, KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall, which they each used in a manner inconsistent with the organization’s public representations. In particular, KOLFAGE covertly took for his personal use more than $350,000 in funds that donors had given to We Build the Wall, while BANNON, through a non-profit organization under his control (“Non-Profit-1”), received over $1 million from We Build the Wall, at least some of which BANNON used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in BANNON’s personal expenses.

In full candor, I donated to We Build the Wall in the very early days. But, within seconds of hitting the donate button, I had questions. By what authority could an alleged charitable organization build a border wall on private or Federal lands? Who would provide oversight? I stopped the donation before it went through. The more I thought about it, the more janky the whole thing seemed. Although Steve Bannon was not involved at the time, there were questions about Brian Kolfage, too. I couldn’t tell whether he was a young man trying to find a way to make a living or a scam artist. The idea of the people building the wall was enticing. It was kind of a big pluck you to the Left.

Brian Kolfage, Steve Bannon and the others did build a bit of wall, with the landowner’s permission, but without building permits. And, a portion of the privately funded wall is falling down:

But engineers who had seen the evidence of erosion told ProPublica and The Texas Tribune there were good reasons not to build so close to the river.

“When the river rises, it will likely attack those areas where the foundation is exposed, further weakening support of the fence and potentially causing portions … to fall into the Rio Grande,” Alex Mayer, a civil engineer professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, said in the ProPublica-Tribune report.

The construction near the river also led the U.S. government to sue Fisher Industries on behalf of the International Boundary and Water Commission, alleging the construction violates international treaties governing the use of the river.

President Trump has never been in favor of the privately funded wall, and today, he distanced himself from Steve Bannon. This is unusual for the President who is extraordinarily loyal.

I love it when an alleged reporter asks Donald Trump about the “lawless” people he has associated with. Well, when the government is out to get your people, they will use any means necessary, legal or ethical, or not.

As I said in the beginning, Steve Bannon, Brian Kolfage and their associates are innocent until proven guilty and this is the Southern District of New York. If only the SDNY would go after some of the obvious scam pacs and foundations, especially the ones that rhyme with Blinton.

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  • Quentin Q. Quintela says:

    Trump, loyal? You really are delusional. Look at all the people Trump has thrown under the bus when they were no longer useful to him. Remember Jeff Sessions? Wasn’t Sessions the first senator to come out strongly in support of Trump? Look how Trump treated Sessions. Trump has left a trail of people he has used and discarded.

    I’m not sure if your assertion that Trump never supported “We Build The Wall” is correct. Kris Kobach, the general counsel for We Build the Wall, said that Trump gave his blessing to the project. Something doesn’t add up here. Maybe you can take a deep dive into this and see why there is conflicting information about Trump’s support of the project. I’m looking forward to your findings. Trump Jr. was without doubt a supporter of the project by the way.,

    I’m looking forward to your cracker jack ace reporter investigative journalism about whether Trump did at one time say he supported teh project.

  • Drew458 says:

    I donated in the first days too, once, even though I wondered if a task like this was possible. Shortly thereafter the dark rumors started, but an almost daily stream of emails from Kolfage kept my faith. And those emails told me the President was strongly behind them. I seem to recall President Trump even mentioning their efforts approvingly once or twice. Time goes by … and the other week there was a Tweet from realdonaldtrump complaining that the We Build The Wall people did it just to make him look bad. Very confusing.

    I think there is a strong chance that this is a political hit job, right up to and including the arrest of Bannon, cuffed and escorted from a yacht owned by some “renegade” Chinese guy. Too weird, too pat. I hope this turns out to be garbage. But if not … well we’ll have to look carefully to see if any law has actually been broken. Just because Kolfage said he’d take no compensation, does that legally bind him? Can he get bennies in an indirect manner? These foundations are all a bucket of slippery eels, so let’s not leap to conclusions. “Come on man”, look at the Clinton Foundation. If the stuff they get away with is legal, how could there be a crime with this bunch? OTOH, it would feel pretty bad to be taken in by a vet who gave us his word.

    • Blaclmore says:

      Come on man, you are demented, Sessions back stabbed President Trump by recusing himself ( did you forget this fact Bozo) and you call yourself intelligent.Face the facts you do not know who built the wall or who funded it. President Trump has had lots of people say anything to get a job in the whitehouse, then back stab him once they get in. Should I say more?

  • “The idea of The idea of the people building the wall was enticing. It was kind of a big pluck you to the Left.”

    OR, it was kind of PROOF of a bunch of idiots.
    “Hey pluck you! We’re gonna do it anyway”. Kind of childish, right?

    More proof:
    “I donated to We Build the Wall in the very early days.”
    “I stopped the donation before it went through”

    See how those are contradictory? Your writing shows inability to see the truth, through the constant lies.

    “I didn’t like it” in the above clip referring to the private wall. Lie.

  • […] he had a storied career. He was involved with Brian Kolfage and building the private wall on the Southern Border. He currently hosts a radio program called Steve Bannon’s War Room. Although Bannon […]

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