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gristy

(10,667 posts)
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 04:50 PM Aug 2020

Each of the three people who led Trump's 2016 campaign has now faced criminal charges

The first time one of the people leading Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign faced criminal charges was in March of that year. It was not the last time.

Back then, it was Corey Lewandowski, who was running point on Trump’s electoral efforts. He was arrested on misdemeanor battery charges after he grabbed a Breitbart reporter’s arm after a speech at a Trump property in Florida. He and Trump vigorously denied that Lewandowski had touched reporter Michelle Fields at all, denials echoed and amplified by allies in the conservative media — including from Fields’s own outlet. Video produced by the Trump property, however, later showed that Fields’s allegations were accurate. The charges against Lewandowski were dropped.

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On Thursday, the third person to lead Trump’s campaign, Stephen K. Bannon, was arrested on federal fraud charges. He’s alleged to have been part of a scheme that redirected private donations intended for building a privately financed wall on the border with Mexico to himself and others. He’s charged, in other words, with having warped Trump’s 2016 calls for a wall on the border (paid for by Mexico) into a personal enrichment scheme.

These are allegations that will be tested in a court of law, and Bannon is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. That’s not the case for Paul Manafort, the second person to lead Trump’s campaign, who is under house arrest after being released from prison out of concern about the coronavirus pandemic.

more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/20/each-trumps-2016-campaign-managers-has-now-faced-criminal-charges

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Each of the three people who led Trump's 2016 campaign has now faced criminal charges (Original Post) gristy Aug 2020 OP
Brad Parscale should be sweating right now. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #1
Yup SheltieLover Aug 2020 #2
He's on his yacht agingdem Aug 2020 #4
No doubt SheltieLover Aug 2020 #5
so Bannon's out? agingdem Aug 2020 #6
Yup 🤬🤬🤬 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #7
+1 He's ripped off a hundred thousand gun nuts. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #9
I sure hope so JDC Aug 2020 #8
What a coincidence! Newest Reality Aug 2020 #3

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
5. No doubt
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 04:58 PM
Aug 2020

Already areaigned. Pleaded not guilty, of course.

Wtf would the judge let him out? Clearly a flight risk.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
3. What a coincidence!
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 04:55 PM
Aug 2020

What a coincidence!

Imagine having that many criminals at one time in your campaign, (not to mention the rest). That's unheard of!!!! What are the odds?

Oh, wait...

Well, there are plenty where that came from and they are probably heading the campaign now. I think of everyone who supports, (aids and abets) Trump as some form of Fascists whether they know what the word means or not. There is a long Wiki list of them that identifies the suspects.

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