{"id":1638244,"date":"2022-09-10T04:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T08:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638244"},"modified":"2022-09-10T04:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T08:35:46","slug":"exclusive-theyre-trying-to-take-me-out-of-this-election-bannon-responds-to-new-indictment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-theyre-trying-to-take-me-out-of-this-election-bannon-responds-to-new-indictment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: \u2018They\u2019re Trying to Take Me out of This Election\u2019: Bannon Responds to New Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-theyre-trying-to-take-me-out-of-this-election-bannon-responds-to-new-indictment-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Trump administration strategist Steve Bannon said fresh New York state charges against him over a scheme to raise money to build border barriers on private land are an attempt to silence him ahead of the November midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got a populist revolt that\u2019s out of control, and they\u2019re trying to take me out of this election,\u201d Bannon, host of the \u201cWar Room\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/warroom.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were trying to de-platform me and shut me down. It\u2019s not gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bannon made the comments one day after he appeared in a New York state courtroom in Manhattan on Sept. 8 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/steve-bannon-pleads-not-guilty-to-ny-charges-released-on-bail_4719416.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded<\/a> not guilty to charges of money laundering, fraud, and conspiracy relating to a private crowdfunding campaign, known as \u201cWe Build the Wall\u201d that sought to create a privately-owned section of the U.S.-Mexico border. He was released without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege that Bannon defrauded donors of the fundraising drive that raised more than $15 million by diverting more than $100,000 to the campaign\u2019s chief executive, who had pledged not to take a salary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a crime to profit off the backs of donors by making false pretenses,\u201d Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a Sept. 8 joint press conference with\u00a0New York\u00a0Attorney General Letitia James. Both are Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon was hit with similar charges by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2020, but he was pardoned by President Donald Trump on his last night before leaving office in January 2021. Presidential pardons, however, do not prohibit state prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>Two other men who were charged by the DOJ pleaded guilty. The men, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, are awaiting sentencing for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They each face up to 20 years in prison. The trial of a third man, Timothy Shea, ended in a mistrial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump administration strategist Steve Bannon said fresh New York state charges against him over a scheme to raise money to build border barriers on private land are an attempt to silence him ahead of the November midterms. \u201cThey\u2019ve got a populist revolt that\u2019s out of control, and they\u2019re trying to take me out of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":1894807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/exclusive-theyre-trying-to-take-me-out-of-this-election-bannon-responds-to-new-indictment_4722035.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}