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Does Steve Bannon’s arrest hurt the Trump re-election effort?

21 August 2020

2:21 AM

21 August 2020

2:21 AM

Oops. Not only did the wall that Donald Trump promised to build never get built, but it turns out that some of his closest former confederates are now accused of deploying the slogan in the interests of building up nothing other than their own fortunes. A grizzled Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign adviser, wearing a green Barbour jacket was arrested this morning on charges of fraud by New York federal prosecutors.

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