Bannon told reporters “They will never shut me up, they’ll have to kill me first” before being charged with numerous crimes on Thursday.
him with two felony counts of money laundering, two felony counts of conspiracy, one felony count of scheming to defraud, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy. His corporation, “We Build the Wall Inc.,” was also charged.
According to the indictment, Bannon and his coconspirators secretly siphoned off donations to We Build the Wall’s president,who had said he wouldn’t take a salary. “All the money you give goes to building the wall,” Bannon told donors at a fundraising event in 2019, the indictment alleges. In the federal case, prosecutors also accused Bannon of using $1 million of donations for personal expenses.
In a statement issued this week, Bannon called the state charges “phony,” and claimed: “This is nothing more than a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system.” On Thursday, he told reporters waiting outside the courtroom: “This is what happens in the last days of a dying regime. They will never shut me up, they’ll have to kill me first. I have not yet begun to fight.”The wall business, of course, isn’t the only legal issue facing Bannon.
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