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Or is the arrest of Steve Bannon just the Deep State attempting to apply pressure on President Trump?

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested on Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through his “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign.

Bannon, along with three of his associates were indicted by investigators for the Southern District of New York on Thursday. They allege that the group of conservative leaders defrauded donors and that led to raising “more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States,” according to the press release.

Starting in approximately December 2018, BRIAN KOLFAGE, STEPHEN BANNON, ANDREW BADOLATO, and TIMOTHY SHEA, and others, orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors, including donors in the Southern District of New York, in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign ultimately known as “We Build The Wall” that raised more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States.  In particular, to induce donors to donate to the campaign, KOLFAGE repeatedly and falsely assured the public that he would “not take a penny in salary or compensation” and that “100{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d} of the funds raised . . . will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose” because, as BANNON publicly stated, “we’re a volunteer organization.”

Those representations were false.  In truth, KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall, which they each used in a manner inconsistent with the organization’s public representations.  In particular, KOLFAGE covertly took for his personal use more than $350,000 in funds that donors had given to We Build the Wall, while BANNON, through a non-profit organization under his control (“Non-Profit-1”), received over $1 million from We Build the Wall, at least some of which BANNON used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in BANNON’s personal expenses.  To conceal the payments to KOLFAGE from We Build the Wall, KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA devised a scheme to route those payments from We Build the Wall to KOLFAGE indirectly through Non-Profit-1 and a shell company under SHEA’s control, among other avenues.  They did so by using fake invoices and sham “vendor” arrangements, among other ways, to ensure, as KOLFAGE noted in a text message to BADOLATO, that his pay arrangement remained “confidential” and kept on a “need to know”

It does sound more than a little bit shady.

At least they’re not trying to fool anyone anymore:

Several former Republican leaders are slated to speak on the first night of this year’s Democratic National Convention, including former New York Rep. Susan Molinari, who once spoke at the Republican National Convention, and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a frequent Trump critic who ran for president in 2016. Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman are also on the list of GOP speakers expected to give remarks virtually on Monday night.

Bill Kristol, Ben Shapiro, and Mitt Romney might as well speak at the DNC too. It’s not as if they hate America and Americans any less than AOC and Omar.

And if you ever wondered why the Republican Party was never able to accomplish anything meaningful for the American people, just note that these were all “former Republican leaders”.

Nate Silver attempts to explain that although Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump is even bigger than Hillary Clinton’s was, he’s giving Creepy Joe a much lower percentage chance of winning the U.S. Presidential election than the 89.2 percent chance he gave Hillary on August 15, 2016.

Joe Biden currently has a robust lead in polls. If the election were held today, he might even win in a landslide, carrying not only traditional swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania but potentially adding new states such as Georgia and Texas to the Democratic coalition.

But the election is not being held today. While the polls have been stable so far this year, it’s still only August. The debates and the conventions have yet to occur. Biden only named his running mate yesterday. And the campaign is being conducted amidst a pandemic the likes of which the United States has not seen in more than 100 years, which is also causing an unprecedented and volatile economy.

Nor has it been that uncommon, historically, for polls to shift fairly radically from mid-August until Election Day. Furthermore, there are some reasons to think the election will tighten, and President Trump is likely to have an advantage in a close election because of the Electoral College.

That, in a nutshell, is why the FiveThirtyEight presidential election forecast, which we launched today, still has Trump with a 29 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, despite his current deficit in the polls. This is considerably higher than some other forecasts, which put Trump’s chances at around 10 percent. Biden’s chances are 71 percent in the FiveThirtyEight forecast, conversely.

Except, of course, the difference is that Biden is going to be beaten even more decisively than Clinton was. Let’s just enjoy this little meltdown from Election Night 2016. “Look, this election is over. Trump cannot win! I think Hillary will have 320 electoral votes when all is said and done.”

The Republican Establishment’s control of the grass roots is being broken by nothing more than a rhetorical message of hope:

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a GOP candidate with a track record of incendiary rhetoric and ties to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, prevailed in a Georgia primary runoff, CNN projected Tuesday, a victory that puts her in a strong position to win a congressional seat in the fall representing a solidly Republican district.

The victory will also put national Republicans in the difficult position of how to respond to a conspiracy theory touting nominee who’s also made comments using Islamophobic and anti-Semitic tropes.

Greene faced off against GOP opponent John Cowan in the runoff. The two candidates previously competed against one another in a June primary election where Greene won roughly 40{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d} of the vote, while Cowan received only 21{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}. A runoff was triggered after none of the candidates received over 50{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d} of the vote in the initial primary.

The primary runoff for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, which is situated in the northwest corner of the state, drew national attention as a major flashpoint in the race has been Greene’s promotion of the wild and unsubstantiated conspiracy theory known as QAnon.

The Republican Establishment is desperate to preserve “racist” and “anti-semitic” as rhetorical disqualifiers for those who see and stand up for the observable truth. But more and more people are beginning to see through the lies, and realize that “anti-semitic” is merely a synonym for “anti-satanic”.

Christian conservatives are going to discover that they will soon have to choose between their professed love for Jesus Christ and their professed love for the Pharisees. Because both the Pharisees and their fellow Prometheans are working very hard to ban both Christianity and the New Testament as “hate speech”.

Jewish people running the world or controlling major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government

This means any reference to Israel, AIPAC, or Facebook itself is now a bannable offense on Facebook. Interesting. And remember, John of Patmos warned Christians that they would be subject to a deception that would be considered widely credible. So, ask yourself, what is the greatest deception to which Christians today are currently subject?

I think it was courageous of Joe Biden to pick a Spanish actor as his running mate. That, or the dementia. But constitutionality be damned, it’s not as if Javier Barden has any less pull in the swing states than Pocahontas or that weird Michigan governor.

Trumpslide 2020 confirmed….

I’m sure this “sweeping overhaul of the agency” has nothing with Democrats’ plans to subvert the election through mail fraud:

Government watchdogs, Democratic lawmakers, and pro-democracy advocates declared it a “Friday Night Massacre” for the U.S. Postal Service after news broke in a classic end-of-the-week dump that Louis DeJoy—a major GOP donor to President Donald Trump and the recently appointed Postmaster General—had issued a sweeping overhaul of the agency, including the ouster of top executives from key posts and the reshuffling of more than two dozen other officials and operational managers.

The Trumpslide beckons.

Joe Biden is having trouble finding anyone who wants to appear on the Democratic presidential ticket with him. AC chronicles the obvious problems:

Whitmer met with Biden as he nears VP decision. Three things are obvious to all of them. One, he will never win. Two he is up to his ass in criminality over Ukraine. And three, there is a good chance once Trump wins, and Biden is taken down hard, there will be child molestation shit tagged onto his legacy. So the rumors of people turning him down when asked may very well be right, and he cannot find someone willing to sign on to be his VP. If he cannot find a VP, either it is a show designed to make Michelle come out and sign on, out of a sense of duty, before he dies of a stroke and she slides into the Presidential candidacy as part of a show to justify the fraudulently close, or even Democrat-victory results, or it isn’t a show, and this will just be a standard, full on Trumpslide.

It’s not a show. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate was always going to be a sacrificial lamb, which is the only reason why the Color Party was willing to run a white candidate. They don’t want to permit any of their Color Revolutionaries to go down with the decrepit old guard.

The God-Emperor’s executive orders cannot be reversed by future presidents:

The President’s twitter is hilarious today, because most of the tweets point out his taking over implementing Coronavirus relief by Executive Order from Twitter would have been unconstitutional, but for the Robert’s ruling recently on DACA, which held Obama could pass an EO, and it could not be reversed by a subsequent President, just like a law. So now Trump has accidentally been coronated King of America, and he appears set to abuse the privileged for the good of Americans, until he forces the Supreme Court to rectify their own bad ruling. And in the interim, Democrats are just completely neutered. Of course, if we get a Democrat President, say good bye to any vestige of America.

Great. So let’s see an executive order banning all post-1965 immigrants and their descendants from voting. That would be a nice start to get the American Inquisition rolling.

The God-Emperor seems to be strangely disinterested in the campaign trail:

Remarks made by President Trump during a speech have prompted speculation after he referred to having a lot of rich enemies and told the audience, “This may be the last time you’ll see me for a while.”

“So I have a lot of enemies out there. This may be the last time you’ll see me for a while. A lot of very, very rich enemies, but they are not happy with what I’m doing,” said Trump. “But I figure we have one chance to do it, and no other President is going to do what I do. No other President would do a favored nations, a rebate, a buy from other nations at much less cost. Nobody. And there are a lot of unhappy people, and they’re very rich people, and they’re very unhappy,” he added.

There are also hints and indications that something long-anticipated might be in the air. Stay tuned.

The Economist makes its predictions for November:

Chance of winning the electoral college:
Biden 91{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Trump 9{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}

Chance of winning the most votes:
Biden 98{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Trump 2{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}

Estimated electoral college votes:
Biden 357
Trump 181

Just wanted to make sure we preserved it for the record.