see url:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/donald-trump-law-crime-steve-bannon
The answer seems obvious to me...They are all his old friends, workmates
and colleagues from the past. What one finds difficult to believe...is
how members of the Republican Party can't see through them all...I think
that they must be suffering from some kind of Republican Brainwashing...
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Apart from legal trouble, what Bannon, Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Stone,
Gates and Papadopoulos have in common is the president.
To live outside the law, Bob Dylan sang, you must be honest. It also
helps, apparently, to stay as clear as possible from Donald Trump, whose
inner circle of advisers has suffered steady attrition since 2017,
through a series of encounters with the criminal justice system.
Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to fraud after arrest on luxury yacht
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On Thursday, the former White House strategist Steve Bannon became the
latest Trump intimate to be taken into custody, when the Chinese-owned
yacht on which he was sunburning was boarded by agents of the US Postal
Service.
Bannon was accused of defrauding people who gave tens of millions to a
private fund which existed, Bannon claimed, to finance the construction
of a wall on the border with Mexico. The real purpose of that fund and
others, federal prosecutors say, was to cover the “luxury” lifestyle
expenses of Bannon and his fellow defendants.
“This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall,”
Bannon declared outside a Manhattan courthouse, proclaiming his innocence.
Depending on how – and whom – you count, Bannon was the seventh former
close Trump adviser to be arrested, face charges, plead guilty or to be
convicted of a crime since the 45th president took office.
Former campaign chairman Paul Manafort (convicted: tax fraud, bank
fraud) is in home confinement due to Covid-19; former adviser Roger
Stone (convicted: obstruction, false statements) received a presidential
commutation; former adviser Michael Cohen (guilty plea: campaign finance
crimes, lying to Congress) is in home confinement; former national
security adviser Michael Flynn (guilty plea: lying to the FBI) is
awaiting a ruling on a request to dismiss charges; former adviser Rick
Gates (guilty plea: lying to investigators) has completed a prison term;
and former adviser George Papadopoulos (guilty plea: lying) has
completed a prison term.
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