STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump distanced himself Thursday from Steve Bannon’s efforts to crowdsource private funds for a border wall, saying it was ‘done for showboating reasons’ and ‘inappropriate.’
Trump made the remarks after Bannon, his former senior adviser, was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly swindling donors on the project, run by the non-profit group ‘We Build the Wall.’ A federal grand jury in New York indicted Bannon on charges of money laundering and wire fraud, alleging he and his partners diverted $1 million away from the group and that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his personal expenses.”
-Matthew Choi, “Trump distances himself from Bannon after arrest, calls private wall efforts ‘inappropriate’,” politico.com, Aug. 20, 2020