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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLOL. Kolfage tried to create an anti-BLM GoFundMe. They were stopped. This week.
Bannons internet show War Room andemic had a special guest yesterday: Brian Kolfage.
Appearing from the yacht of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, Bannon interviewed Kolfage about We Build The Wall and how Kolfage got in the face of GoFundMe, the online fundraising platform on which the campaign began.
We created a fund on Monday for the victims of Black Lives Matter and GoFundMe deleted it, Kolfage said. Since they deleted this GoFundMe, we felt we had to delete the We Build The Wall GoFundMe.
Kolfage was arrested the next day.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/developing-steve-bannon-arrested-in-alleged-we-build-the-wall-fundraising-scheme
Appearing from the yacht of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, Bannon interviewed Kolfage about We Build The Wall and how Kolfage got in the face of GoFundMe, the online fundraising platform on which the campaign began.
We created a fund on Monday for the victims of Black Lives Matter and GoFundMe deleted it, Kolfage said. Since they deleted this GoFundMe, we felt we had to delete the We Build The Wall GoFundMe.
Kolfage was arrested the next day.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/developing-steve-bannon-arrested-in-alleged-we-build-the-wall-fundraising-scheme
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LOL. Kolfage tried to create an anti-BLM GoFundMe. They were stopped. This week. (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2020
OP
Sounds like he deliberately set up a fund he knew would get shut down, so he could feign
RockRaven
Aug 2020
#3
OAITW r.2.0
(24,637 posts)1. Don't understand this reasoning....
I left them with the thought that Trump would either be remembered as the worst President in the history of the nation, or the last president in the history of the nation.
More likely, he was made aware that his scam was being investigated.....
Nevilledog
(51,201 posts)2. That's delicious.
RockRaven
(15,012 posts)3. Sounds like he deliberately set up a fund he knew would get shut down, so he could feign
outrage and rage-quit/delete the scam he almost certainly knew was being investigated. Federal criminal investigations are not lightning fast not are they always unknown to their subjects/targets.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)4. "threatening to dispose of an adversary in a wood chipper"
My, what lovely company they keep:
Before Bannon was in the wall-funding business with co-defendant Andrew Badolato, the two served together on the board of a nasal spray firm that was also a penny stock.
That venture went awry amid convoluted fraud allegations. Bannon and Badolato also reportedly formed a company together in Sarasota in 2010, along with an Oklahoma attorney who was later disbarred for allegedly impersonating a cop and threatening to dispose of an adversary in a wood chipper.
That venture went awry amid convoluted fraud allegations. Bannon and Badolato also reportedly formed a company together in Sarasota in 2010, along with an Oklahoma attorney who was later disbarred for allegedly impersonating a cop and threatening to dispose of an adversary in a wood chipper.
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