'I am not going to back down,' Bannon said on his War Room podcast, referring to the prosecution as 'a total political hit job.'
and Timothy Shea with"defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors" in the"We Build the Wall" GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign.
On Friday, a brash and defiant Bannon was back at work, doing what he has done for years: promoting Trump and the hard-line immigration enforcement that he helped shape while at the White House. As part of the alleged scheme, according to federal prosecutors, Kolfage, the founder of the campaign,"repeatedly and falsely assured the public that he would not take a penny in salary or compensation’ and that ‘100% of the funds raised ... will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose.’”
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