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How many times does Trump need to betray his supporters before they finally realize they're being taken advantage of?
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If you know anything about the pardon of Steve Bannon that outgoing president Donald Trump just issued, you know that Bannon was allegedly involved in a scam that Trump would have been proud of (right up to the moment the former CEO of the 2016 Trump campaign was indicted for it): taking money from Trump voters to “build the wall”—that would be Trump’s xenophobic and purposeless vanity wall on America’s southern border—and pocketing it. Advisers to the scam included other major Trumpworld figures, like Erik Prince.

(As of 1AM on January 20, we don’t know if Trump will be pardoning Prince as well. Prince is the subject of a criminal referral to the DOJ for shamelessly and repeatedly lying to Congress during the Mueller investigation.)

If you know a second thing about the Trump pardon of Steve Bannon, it’s that Trump only entertained the idea of pardoning Bannon in the first instance because, unlike so many other Republicans, Bannon was—in Trump’s view—“loyal” to him post-election.

Forget those two things.

Bannon wasn’t pardoned because Trump admired his grift or was tickled that the grift involved Trump’s pet project on the U.S.-Mexico border. And he wasn’t pardoned as a reward for his loyalty. I wrote a book (Proof of Corruption, Macmillan, 2020) about Trump’s history of bribery, and I can tell you that the man is instinctively transactional rather than sentimental: he doesn’t reward past loyalty, he rewards the promise of future benefit. Even sometimes Trump apologist Maggie Haberman of the New York Times writes that Trump pardoned Bannon because he decided that Bannon “could be useful to him in some way.”

That “some way” is a bit of a dodge, however, as we know exactly how Bannon can help Trump: by keeping his mouth shut about Trump’s affairs whenever possible, and lying about those affairs if compelled to participate in any ongoing federal investigations of Trump himself.

So what does Bannon know about Trump’s illicit activities post-2015? A lot.

Bannon was a witness in the Roger Stone trial, which focused tangentially on how much Trump knew about his adviser corps being in touch with a Kremlin cutout during the 2016 presidential election. The idea was that Bannon had the goods on what Trump knew about WikiLeaks being in contact with his campaign and, as importantly, when and how he found out what he knew. Bannon was also involved, in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, in a series of secret meetings with Saudi and Emirati agent George Nader, who funded a joint Saudi-Emirati-Israeli pro-Trump interference operation in the 2016 general election, and is now serving time in federal prison on child pornography-related charges. Bannon, Kushner, and several others met with Nader in the final weeks before election day in 2016, when Nader associate Joel Zamel was working feverishly on Trump’s behalf on a cyber-intelligence campaign designed to dovetail with the Kremlin’s attack on America’s electoral infrastructure.

After the 2016 election, Bannon was again involved in a series of secret meetings that involved Kushner and shady figures from the Middle East, including “MBZ”—Mohammed bin Zayed, the ruler of the UAE, who had slipped into the United States to meet Trump without telling the U.S. government, a breach of diplomatic protocol—and the head of Saudi intelligence, who would later be involved in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The history of Bannon being present for major Trump-Sunni Arab meetings is actually quite a long one; when now-disgraced Trump national security adviser George Papadopoulos coordinated a meeting between Trump and “Red Sea conspiracy” figure Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi—the autocratic Egyptian president—in the late summer of 2016, Bannon was one of the few Trump aides in the room.

Throughout the 2016 presidential transition, Bannon was in touch with Trump adviser Erik Prince, including during the period that Prince secretly went to the Seychelles on Trump’s behalf to meet with the very Russians and Emiratis who had illegally aided Trump’s campaign months earlier. By the time Special Counsel Robert Mueller got to Bannon and Prince in 2017, however, both their phones had been wiped of any and all correspondence between them. Their explanations for their synchronized wipes, and the improbably convenient date-range of those wipes, were obvious lies that Mueller all but admitted were such on page 10 of Volume I of his now-famous 2019 report.

Following the 2020 election, Bannon returned to his prior role as a top Trump adviser, and was in contact with both Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Trump himself as the two men—it now appears—plotted an armed insurrection against the U.S. government with several Congressional and far-right-activist accomplices.

Trump has a history of buying or seeking to buy the silence of federal witnesses with official government actions—conduct that qualifies as the impeachable federal crime of bribery. He also has a history of being open to payment for official government actions, and in this case we know from recent major-media reporting that Giuliani is alleged to have been brokering Trump pardons for around $2 million a pop. Given that Bannon was in regular contact with Giuliani in December 2020, the concern about a pardon being sold or otherwise traded by Trump in a way that violates federal law is a serious one.

So don’t be confused about the Bannon pardon: it’s corrupt. And that’s exactly why, according to the Daily Beast, every White House attorney told the president not to issue it. But the promise of Bannon becoming a pliable witness in the future federal investigations Trump is now almost certain to face may have been too much for the venal about-to-be former president to pass up. Expect this Bannon pardon to be the subject of at least one federal investigation in the months ahead.

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Some notable names:

Paul Erickson - Boyfriend of convicted Russian spy Maria Butina and most direct link between Russia and the NRA. "Mr. Erickson's conviction was based off the Russian collusion hoax...This pardon helps right the wrongs of what has been revealed to be perhaps the greatest witch hunt in American history." LOL

Anthony Levandowski - pleaded guilty for theft of trade secrets from Google when he was a self driving car engineer there years ago. "This pardon is strongly supported by...[boardmember of Facebook and major funding contributor to Josh Hawley] Peter Thiel." Other members that strongly supported this pardon are all investors in his company lol.

Hillel Nahmad - One of Trump's mafia associates who was involved in running a gambling ring and money laundering operation out of Trump tower for Russian mob leader Tokhtakhunov (he also was VIP at Miss Universe), Trincher and Golubchik. "This pardon is supported by members of his community." Yeah they didn't want to be named.

Robert "Bob" Zangrillo - Miami real estate developer charged in the Varsity Blues investigation. "This pardon is supported by [post-Soviet oligarch] Len Blavatnik..."

Aviem Sella - Israeli Spy indicted in 1986 for espionage in relation to the Jonathan Pollard case.
Michael Harris - life sentence commuted for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. WOW LAW AND ORDER AMIRITE.

Kenneth Kurson - a Giuliani associate and Kushner associate. He worked with Kushner during 2016 election in the Observer where Russian intel was dumping hacked info by Guccifer.

Randall “Duke” Cunningham – accepted at least $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. Cunningham resigned from Congress in 2005 after having pleaded guilty to bribery, fraud, and tax evasion. Granted a conditional pardon. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich strongly supports this pardon. NEWWWWT...

David Tamman - Ponzi Scheme. Stole from his clients, lied to the SEC then lied during his trial. What a scumbag.

Many recommended by Rod Rosenstein...

Notably not on the list:

Al Pirro (FOX News host Jeanine Pirro's ex-husband)

Joe Exotic

Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater, Betsy DeVos's brother, widely considered to have perjured himself during the Senate hearings for the Mueller investigations)

Rudy Giuliani

Ross Ulbricht (created and operated the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013)

Julian Assange

Edward Snowden

Anyone with last name Trump


Trump also granted a pardon to GOP megadonor Elliott Broidy, 64, who pleaded guilty in October to acting as an unregistered foreign agent and lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Malaysian and Chinese interests.
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CaptQuint wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:44 pm Some notable names:

Paul Erickson - Boyfriend of convicted Russian spy Maria Butina and most direct link between Russia and the NRA. "Mr. Erickson's conviction was based off the Russian collusion hoax...This pardon helps right the wrongs of what has been revealed to be perhaps the greatest witch hunt in American history." LOL

Anthony Levandowski - pleaded guilty for theft of trade secrets from Google when he was a self driving car engineer there years ago. "This pardon is strongly supported by...[boardmember of Facebook and major funding contributor to Josh Hawley] Peter Thiel." Other members that strongly supported this pardon are all investors in his company lol.

Hillel Nahmad - One of Trump's mafia associates who was involved in running a gambling ring and money laundering operation out of Trump tower for Russian mob leader Tokhtakhunov (he also was VIP at Miss Universe), Trincher and Golubchik. "This pardon is supported by members of his community." Yeah they didn't want to be named.

Robert "Bob" Zangrillo - Miami real estate developer charged in the Varsity Blues investigation. "This pardon is supported by [post-Soviet oligarch] Len Blavatnik..."

Aviem Sella - Israeli Spy indicted in 1986 for espionage in relation to the Jonathan Pollard case.
Michael Harris - life sentence commuted for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. WOW LAW AND ORDER AMIRITE.

Kenneth Kurson - a Giuliani associate and Kushner associate. He worked with Kushner during 2016 election in the Observer where Russian intel was dumping hacked info by Guccifer.

Randall “Duke” Cunningham – accepted at least $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. Cunningham resigned from Congress in 2005 after having pleaded guilty to bribery, fraud, and tax evasion. Granted a conditional pardon. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich strongly supports this pardon. NEWWWWT...

David Tamman - Ponzi Scheme. Stole from his clients, lied to the SEC then lied during his trial. What a scumbag.

Many recommended by Rod Rosenstein...

Notably not on the list:

Al Pirro (FOX News host Jeanine Pirro's ex-husband)

Joe Exotic

Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater, Betsy DeVos's brother, widely considered to have perjured himself during the Senate hearings for the Mueller investigations)

Rudy Giuliani

Ross Ulbricht (created and operated the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013)

Julian Assange

Edward Snowden

Anyone with last name Trump


Trump also granted a pardon to GOP megadonor Elliott Broidy, 64, who pleaded guilty in October to acting as an unregistered foreign agent and lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Malaysian and Chinese interests.
Snowden shouldve been pardoned
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CaptQuint wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:30 pm How many times does Trump need to betray his supporters before they finally realize they're being taken advantage of?
You can't count that high in a lifetime.
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Lil Wayne and Kodak Black don't make your list? Both were pardoned of their gun related charges.
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