The former Donald Trump aide was expected to face new state charges related to a fundraising scheme to build a private border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
to an online fundraising campaign called “We Build the Wall,” which raised $25 million dollars to fund construction of a wall along the southern U.S. border.Bannon pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges in that earlier case, before receiving a last-minute pardon from Trump on his way out of the White House.
“The SDNY did the exact same thing in August 2020 to try to take me out of the election,” Bannon said.arrested him on a luxury yacht While on the campaign trail in 2016, Trump frequently stoked anti-immigrant sentiments with his pledge to build a wall between the United States and Mexico and make Mexico pay for it. But once in office, Trump found that neither Mexico nor Congress would agree to foot the bill for his project.collection of now defunct right-wing websites
According to the indictment, and confirmed by a GoFundMe spokesperson in a statement to Yahoo News at the time, the crowdfunding site informed Kolfage he would have to identify a legitimate nonprofit to which he would transfer the funds he’d raised for the wall campaign, or the money would have to be refunded to the donors.
Kolfage remained the face of the campaign, and messaging and donor outreach efforts centered on the promise that he would “not take a penny of compensation,” ensuring that all of the money raised would go to funding border wall construction.
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