Bannon's associate in the 'We Build The Wall' scheme was found guilty and sentenced to 4.25 years in prison. He wasn't pardoned by Trump. Bannon was pardoned by Trump before his federal criminal case could go to trial. https://www.reuters.com/legal/banno...ced-fraud-over-trumps-border-wall-2023-04-26/
Bannon's criminal trial in NY for the 'We Build The Wall' scheme was set for May 2024. https://www.reuters.com/legal/banno...ced-fraud-over-trumps-border-wall-2023-04-26/
Another associate of Bannon, Shea, in the We Build The Wall scheme was sentenced to 5.25 years in prison. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ba...14-years-over-we-build-wall-fraud-2023-07-25/
So much winning. Trump keeps defending people like Bannon and convicted associates. Trump can be expected to bring people like Bannon into a second administration if he's reelected. Trump could pardon Bannon's associates. Trump could pardon Bannon again who has been stated by the DOJ as being a co-conspirator in another fraud scheme.
Trump would need to do an array of prospective, all-encompassing pardons of his associates, like what Ford did to Nixon after Watergate.
A third associate of Bannon, Kolfage, pleaded guilty. Article from April 2023. We Build The Wall founder sentenced to 4 years in prison
As Trump battles for 'absolute immunity,' question resurfaces about assassinating rivals excerpt: "Sauer, attempting to avoid a straight yes or no, said his answer was a "qualified yes" as he maintained a House impeachment and Senate conviction needed to occur before criminal liability can come into play. He also predicted that if a president did order an assassination, he would be "speedily" impeached. Special counsel attorney James Pearce, arguing for the government, called such a theory "frightening." "I mean, what kind of world are we living in?" Pearce argued. "If, as I understood my friend on the other side to say here, a president orders SEAL team to assassinate a political rival and resigned, for example before an impeachment, it's not a criminal act ... I think that is extraordinarily frightening future.""
Also indicted in AZ are Trump's allies Giuliani, Meadows, and Epshsteyn. Their names are redacted. Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/...n-indictments-giuliani-meadows-trump-00154241 excerpt: “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” the 58-page indictment reads.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/...n-indictments-giuliani-meadows-trump-00154241 excerpt: "The names of seven of the defendants, including Meadows, Giuliani and Epshteyn, are redacted, but the document makes clear who they are by describing their roles. Others include attorneys John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Christina Bobb, as well as Trump 2020 campaign operative Mike Roman. Ken Chesebro, an attorney who helped devise Trump’s post-election strategy, is described as “unindicted coconspirator 4.” The other three unindicted co-conspirators are state Sen. Kelly Townsend, former state Rep. Mark Finchem, and former Arizona GOP lawyer Jack Wilenchik."
AZ has become the fourth state where fake electors and other people involved in the scheme have been indicted. The other three are GA , MI, and NV.
Meadows now has to go through the same routine in AZ as he's been doing in GA where he also indicted. Meadows has been trying and losing at a bid to move his GA case to DC. Meadows was Trump's chief of staff near the end of Trump's term.
Kelli Ward has been indicted in AZ for election subversion. Kelli Ward lost her quest to not turn over her phone records to the Jan. 6 committee. She appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. After the 2020 election, Kelli Ward was talking so proudly of how she was going to overthrow Biden's win. Supreme Court allows Jan. 6 committee to subpoena Kelli Ward’s phone records
Kelli Ward lost in the U.S. Supreme Court after refusing to turn over.her phone records to the Jan. 6 committee. YouTube video:
In March 2024, Bobb was appointed to be the RNC senior counsel for 'election integrity'. She has now been indicted in AZ for trying to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. https://www.americanoversight.org/c...onal-committee-counsel-for-election-integrity excerpt: "Christina Bobb, a former Trump attorney and far-right television presenter who was a fervent supporter of efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is now the Republican National Committee’s senior counsel for “election integrity.” Bobb’s RNC appointment came shortly after Trump secured the party’s 2024 nomination, and signals the RNC’s focus on continuing to push lies about voter fraud and election security. Bobb played a major role in the fake-electors scheme and, as public reporting and documents obtained by American Oversight detail, supported partisan and baseless post-2020 election investigations in Arizona and Wisconsin."
Finchem has been indicted in AZ for trying to overthrow the 2020 election. Finchem was illegally on the Capitol lawn during the riot on Jan. 6. After the riot, Finchem ran for secretary of state of AZ and lost. Mark Finchem was much closer to the Jan. 6 insurrection than he claimed
Trump leaves bodies of loyalists in his wake. Trump's own favorite phrase 'American carnage' is a good description of it. Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson sees Trump loyalists becoming 'bodies all around him' excerpt: "Look at how Mr. Trump has conducted himself through his business career and also his political career," she said. "I almost relate it to bodies around him, but he takes out everybody who is loyal to him because it's all about his personal gain and what he can gain from those people." The comment struck Collins, who recalled interviewing Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr, who a year prior made a similar macabre comparison. Collins recalled: "He was sitting in that same seat that you are now and he said, 'But Trump kinda like leaves this path of carnage in his wake of people who sign up to go work for him and then end up with their names in an indictment.'"
Trump has the attributes of a cult leader. How Trump can be so good at it is worthy of psychiatric study, particularly because he has been president and has an immense effect on people at the national level. The dangers of him can't be brushed aside.
Kelli Ward was the AZ state GOP chair. She was replaced by DeWitt in 2023. Ward news clip: YouTube video: