Tag: Stephen Bannon
Steve Bannon Spent $601,000 to Fight Congressional Subpoena
$601,000
Steve Bannon’s nihilist fight with the Jan. 6 Committee — in which the right-wing podcaster and one-time Donald Trump adviser ignored a congressional subpoena and ended up convicted of a crime — cost him more than half a million dollars, reports the Daily Beast. And that’s not to mention the four-month jail sentence he’ll start if his appeal fails or the $6,500 fine that goes along with it. Instead, Bannon’s $601,000 bill comes entirely in the form of legal bills—most of which remain unpaid to this day.
Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Spreader of Misinformation Among Conservative Media
20%
Former Trump White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon’s “War Room” podcast has been the top spreader of misinformation in the conservative media ecosystem, according to a new study.Bannon’s “War Room” shared the most unsubstantiated or false claims in the dataset included in a study published by the Brookings Institution this week. Close to 20 percent of all episodes of Bannon’s show that were assessed featured claims that Snopes and PolitiFact fact-checkers or the terms dictionary flagged as unsubstantiated or false, the study found.
Stone, Bannon and Flynn Supported ‘Stop the Steal’ Rally
“Three of the key advisers who helped engineer Donald Trump’s’ rise to the presidency in 2016, and who fell from grace under the weight of federal criminal charges, resurfaced during Trump’s final days in office to help engineer his ill-fated attempt to cling to power. … Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn all participated in efforts to promote the Jan. 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ event that ultimately devolved into a riotous and deadly melee at the United States Capitol.”
— ABC News
GOP Strategist: Bannon One of the ‘Creepier Freaks’
“I first encountered Steve Bannon in 2004 and if you told me he would be arrested in 2020, my reaction would have been, ‘You really think it will take that long?’ One of the creepier freaks you’re likely to encounter this side of a White House staff meeting.”
— Former Mitt Romney strategist Stuart Stevens, on Twitter.
Bannon Claims Arrest Part of Plot to Stop Border Wall
“This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall.”
— Steve Bannon claimed his arrest over a scheme to defraud donors to a campaign supposedly raising funds for a border wall was politically motivated, CNN reports.
Bannon Arrested in $25 Million Fraud Scheme
$25 million
Former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon was charged with fraud by federal prosecutors in New York and taken into custody, Axios reports. Bannon, along with three others, allegedly defrauded donors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars for their own profit with a crowdfunding campaign called “We Build the Wall” that raked in over $25 million.
Bannon: Pelosi Is ‘Brilliant’
“I disagree with her ideologically, but I think Nancy Pelosi is a master at political warfare. I think, strategically, what she has done from their perspective is actually quite brilliant.”
— Steve Bannon, in an interview with CBS News.
Bannon: ‘I Was Doing the Lord’s Work’ in Trump White House
“There’s no glamour to the job. I hated every second I was there. The West Wing has bad karma to it. They say, ‘Because you were doing bad stuff!’ But I was doing the Lord’s work.”
— Stephen Bannon, quoted by USA Today, on working in the Trump White House.
Bannon Banned (Again)
Steve Bannon’s no longer calling important shots,
And his invitations to speak usually end in boycotts.
His latest speaking brouhaha
Came from the University of Montana,
Which canceled Bannon’s keynote at a conference on sex robots.
