Tag Archives: Steve Bannon

The Daily Beast reports: A new social media network led by Donald Trump adviser Jason Miller is backed by a fugitive Chinese billionaire who once invited Steve Bannon to live on his yacht. What’s not made clear to Gettr’s new users is that the site received initial funding from a foundation owned by Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui and his family. …

“Joe Manchin is not going to fold on this. Joe Manchin understands he’s not gonna fold on this. I actually believe there should be a major effort led by guys like Rick Scott to bring Joe Manchin into the Republican Party right now. “Bring him into the Republican Party, make sure that he’s a welcome member of the Republican Party. …

The Washington Post reports: A sprawling online network tied to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui has become a potent platform for disinformation in the United States, attacking the safety of coronavirus vaccines, promoting false election-fraud claims and spreading baseless QAnon conspiracies, according to research published Monday by the network analysis company Graphika. The report, provided in advance to The Washington Post, …

New Jersey Today reports: Steve Bannon does not typically come across as a paragon of health, so it was probably a bad idea to use the overweight, cigar-smoking, far-right con artist to market vitamins, but the former Trump adviser was hawking a snake oil miracle pill to fight COVID until federal authorities caught up to the scam. Bannon appeared in …

The Washington Post reports: The New York attorney general’s office has partnered with Manhattan’s district attorney to investigate Stephen K. Bannon for the alleged fundraising scam that prompted his federal pardon in the waning hours of Donald Trump’s presidency, according to people familiar with the matter. The move adds prosecutorial firepower to a criminal case widely seen as an attempted …

Reuters reports: Steve Bannon, the former adviser to ex-U.S. President Donald Trump, has lost a legal battle to set up a right-wing Catholic political academy in an abbey in Italy. The Council of State on Monday ruled against the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), backed by Bannon, which wanted to start the school in an 800-year-old monastery south of Rome. Over …

“The so-called Equality Act – we all know that that’s just the Democrats using a play on words. There’s nothing about equality in that act. If anything, it’s the supremacy of gays, and lesbians, and, um — transexites. “I mean, that’s what this is about, it’s about putting them higher than anyone else. It’s not about equality. “If you look …

CNN reports: Prosecutors sent the subpoenas after Trump pardoned Bannon in late January for federal conspiracy crimes tied to the southern border-wall project, making Bannon among the Trump world figures — including the former president — subjects of criminal investigations by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance. The grand jury subpoenas were sent to Wells Fargo, one of the financial institutions …

Mediaite reports: Veteran 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen claimed on Tuesday that while working for the White House, Steve Bannon concluded that Donald Trump was suffering from “early stage dementia.” Rosen made the allegations while appearing as guest on the podcast Skullduggery. The two allegedly exchanged pages worth of text messages before Bannon finally agreed to an interview once he …

The New York Times reports: Stephen K. Bannon, who received a last-minute pardon from former President Donald J. Trump after being indicted on federal charges of defrauding donors to a border wall, may yet face state charges in connection with the same scheme. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has begun investigating Mr. Bannon’s role in the fund-raising project for the …

The Daily Beast reports: Saying that the Capitol riot was planned by antifa and “even some right-wing groups that were enemies” of Trump, the ex-mayor wildly claimed that anti-Trump political action committee The Lincoln Project was involved in this supposed scheme. “Hang on! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa—what are you saying ‘working for The Lincoln Project?’ Right-wing groups, like who?” Bannon …

The New York Times reports: President Trump has granted clemency to Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who was charged with defrauding political donors who supported building a border wall that Mr. Trump advocated, and Elliott Broidy, one of his top fund-raisers in 2016, among other people. Mr. Bannon was indicted and arrested in August by federal …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump is considering granting a pardon to Steve Bannon, his former White House chief strategist and top campaign aide, who was charged with swindling donors to a private crowdsourcing effort to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The potential pardon would follow a wave of reprieves the …

CNET reports: YouTube on Friday said it banned the channel of Steve Bannon’s popular War Room podcast, after it repeatedly violated the Google-owned platform’s rules. The ban came hours after the former White House chief strategist had Rudy Guiliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, on the program following the violent insurgency at the US Capitol earlier this week. “In accordance …

“No, Laura, they’re not that stupid. What they want is focus on the here and now. We must sort out exactly what happened on November 3rd and the days after. We’re about one month after the alleged crimes happen. “And Laura Ingraham, this is called a sine qua non — this, before that. OK?  “This is essential. No, they’re not …

Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood, who this week engineered the Kenosha killer’s release on bail and who sued election officials in Georgia, appeared to call for civil war in an appearance today on Steve Bannon’s webcast. Media Matters has the transcript: LIN WOOD: I think the audience has to do what the people that were our Founding Fathers did in 1776. …

Media Matters reports: On Veterans Day, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon referred to a 19th century poem to surreptitiously call for Americans to fight and die for a second Trump term. For years, Bannon has cloaked his extremist positions with obscure and pretentious references. In this case, his co-host Jack Maxey read an excerpt from “Lays of Ancient …

Reuters reports: Facebook chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company’s policies to justify his suspension when he urged beheading two senior U.S. officials, according to a recording heard by Reuters. “We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate …

ABC News reports: During an interview Wednesday on Australian TV, Anthony Fauci talked about the stressful nature of his job and said, “To deny that would be to deny reality.” “When you have public figures like Bannon calling for your beheading, that’s really kind unusual, I think,” he said. “That’s not the kind of thing you think about when you’re …

CNBC reports: Facebook on Monday removed a network of pages tied to former Trump advisor Steve Bannon for using tricks to increase their reach. Facebook routinely removes networks of pages set up to mislead users with disinformation. “We’ve removed several clusters of activity for using inauthentic behavior tactics to artificially boost how many people saw their content,” a spokesman for …