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muriel_volestrangler

(101,368 posts)
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 03:29 PM Aug 2020

LOL. Kolfage tried to create an anti-BLM GoFundMe. They were stopped. This week.

Bannon’s 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
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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
Don't understand this reasoning.... OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2020 #1
That's delicious. Nevilledog Aug 2020 #2
Sounds like he deliberately set up a fund he knew would get shut down, so he could feign RockRaven Aug 2020 #3
"threatening to dispose of an adversary in a wood chipper" muriel_volestrangler Aug 2020 #4

OAITW r.2.0

(24,637 posts)
1. Don't understand this reasoning....
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 03:32 PM
Aug 2020
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.....

RockRaven

(15,012 posts)
3. Sounds like he deliberately set up a fund he knew would get shut down, so he could feign
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 04:04 PM
Aug 2020

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"
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 04:38 PM
Aug 2020

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.

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