Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon said on Friday that the FBI served 35 high level supporters of the former president with subpoenas and warrants.
“35 members of MAGA, the Republican party, people close to Donald Trump, were rolled in on yesterday by the FBI with these intimidation tactics,” Bannon told host Charlie Kirk.
Bannon’s claim was corroborated by top Republican lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon of the Dhillon Law Group.
“The truth is that a few days ago, a political reporter called several people and said, ‘Hey, have you heard or been served yet? The FBI will be serving 50 approximately search warrants or subpoenas on Trump supporters,’ and then, you know, within 24 hours of that, two of our clients, three of our clients actually did either get search warrants or subpoenas, and the subpoenas are extremely broad,” she told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
🧵1/2 DOJ’s “Capitol Seige Section” has been busy these last few days: someone told a Politico reporter that 50 or so search warrants and grand jury subpoenas were being issued to Trump allies—before it happened. Clients, already being harassed by House J6 Committee investigators pic.twitter.com/dRybORWkUR
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) September 10, 2022
“They’re from the Capitol siege section of the Department of Justice D.C. office, and ask for broad categories of documents. They ask for all communications dating from a month before the election until a month – two months after the election,” Dhillon continued. “They ask for all communications regarding dozens of people, and the categories are alternate electors, fundraising around irregularities around the election, and also a rally that happened before the Jan. 6 situation at the Capitol.”
Dhillon said the Biden DOJ is trying to “instill fear” in Trump supporters.
“Most of this activity, if not all of it, is protected by the First Amendment and the United States Department of Justice is telling reporters about the search warrants and subpoenas before they’re executed. There’s no other explanation for this, and I think the reason for this is to instill fear into Donald Trump supporters and into those who would challenge election irregularities right before an upcoming election, Tucker. This is really outrageous abuse by the DOJ and it is illegal for the DOJ to leak this information to the media, Tucker,” she continued (h/t Daily Caller).
According to the New York Times, Trump advisers Brian Jack and Stephen Miller were among those served.
The legal intimidation campaign comes as Bannon faces fresh charges in New York state over a scheme to raise money to build border wall on private land. He told the Epoch Times that it’s an attempt to silence him ahead of the November midterms.
More via the Epoch Times:
“They’ve got a populist revolt that’s out of control, and they’re trying to take me out of this election,” Bannon, host of the “War Room” podcast, told The Epoch Times.
“They were trying to de-platform me and shut me down. It’s not gonna happen.”
Bannon made the comments one day after he appeared in a New York state courtroom in Manhattan on Sept. 8 and pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering, fraud, and conspiracy relating to a private crowdfunding campaign, known as “We Build the Wall” that sought to create a privately-owned section of the U.S.-Mexico border. He was released without bail.
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’s chief executive, who had pledged not to take a salary.
“It is a crime to profit off the backs of donors by making false pretenses,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a Sept. 8 joint press conference with New York Attorney General Letitia James. Both are Democrats.
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.
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.
‘Political Targeting’
Bannon said the latest charges were “clearly political targeting,” noting that none of the other three men were indicted in the New York case.
“I never had an official role with ‘We Build the Wall.’ It’s a separate company,” he said.
The former Breitbart News chief called the case a “total complete joke” and a “complete nothing burger.”
“None of our donors ever had a problem with any of this. ‘We Build the Wall’ is a fantastic project; one of the things I’m most honored to be in,” he said.
With about 60 days to go before the November midterm elections, authorities are singling out Bannon for targeting due to the success of his “War Room” podcast, the former Trump strategist alleged.
“They understand that the ‘War Room’ is a very dangerous apparatus because it gives a little guy a voice. It gives a platform to all the grassroots people,” he said.
“They understand that they need to shut that down. They can’t do it. It’s only getting bigger,” he added, noting that the audience jumped at least 10 percent in all shows on Sept. 9 in the wake of his court appearance.
Bannon, who faces up a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison on the money laundering charge, remains defiant in the face of the new prosecution.
“We’re never going to back down from Soros-backed, left-wing radicals that are in the New York administration,” he said.
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It’s time for the Injustice Department and the Feral Bureau of Incarceration to do their jobs for a change.
Agreed … they should terminate each other — ‘terminate, with extreme prejudice’ …
A bit off topic, but whoa, what happened to Charlie Kirk? He used to look, I don’t know, healthier? Notice how all these people in this biz eventually start to look unhealthy, with no soul or spark in their eyes anymore. Mark Rubio is a good example of this. Stay out of politics…for your own health.
Kirk’s wife just had their first baby…could be crying infant sleep deprivation.
Oh, ok. Is this what kids do to you?? Geez. He’s only 28!! Looks at least 10 years older.
Only had one…I was about the same age, she got the croup and I hardly slept for days.
Controlled opposition to keep you in the game, and keep you blind.
Seriously, one comped retard talking to another comped retard.
This whole “we’re winning!”Shtick has been and continues to be delusional. Either he is dangerously inept and naive, or he is in the game and isn’t worried since it’s all part of the script.
If being perp walked in front of enemy media in shackles is “winning” then we can scarcely afford Steve’s idea of losing.
Actually we’re all losing. Our Babylonian Monetary System is collapsing and nothing can save it. Soon you will learn of the people you know if they are good or very evil. There will be no middle ground in what is coming.
I expect to see Trump indicted before the mid-terms, maybe that’s the October surprise this year.
All part of the goal to elicit a ‘response’ from someone they can tie to MAGA. Hopefully no one will fall for it and give them their wish.
The weaponization of the federal government got a good start under 0bama with his wingman Holder and has now hit overdrive under the spurned Garland. In the third term of 0bama, the US has gone from a Constitutional Republic to a Banana Republic.
Actually, it went there in the first term … most folks never noticed it, that’s all …
I think the difference now is that they don’t even try to hide their corruption as Obama did.
For the Deep State, Trump Was Never President
If the military, the Justice Department, and the deep state would not treat Trump as president while he was in office, they certainly won’t give him deference as a former president today. The current persecution of Trump is designed to keep him from becoming president again. Like his persecution during his presidency, the process is distracting and expensive and staged to embarrass and humiliate him regardless of the outcome.
If Trump is arrested—which I think is increasingly likely after Biden’s speech last week—they hope to use the optics of an arrest as an additional basis to prevent his reelection in 2024. They will also use his supporters’ angry reaction, as well as any excesses, to further demonize and crack down upon “MAGA Republicans.”
The Philadelphia Address
Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan sends a European take on the notorious speech given by our Dear Leader in Philadelphia on September 1.
…it was the most divisive speech by any US president in history. An open invitation to please revolt, so we can finally arrest you all…
Real socialism comes almost always after a coup. Rarely after elections. In order to get that far, you need a soft coup. That’s the phase we’re in right now. Biden — or more specifically the DNC — controls everything already. All they have to do is survive those elections or make sure the elections are postponed. Postponed indefinitely, that is.
The great dictators all announced they had to temporarily suspend the rule of law, to save democracy (or their form of government). No exceptions. Mussolini did it, Hitler did it, Stalin did it, Mao and even Franco did it. The only thing Biden lacks is a valid excuse.
Don’t really believe The Normals are gonna “Revolt”….. Yet…..
Most likely happening is gonna be a “Repeat” of Dallas ’63, just before the midterms, with a “Right-Wing” patsy and subsequent mass arrests of Vocal “Ultra-MAGA” Supporters, including those in Congress. Hell, maybe even SCOTUS too….
Haven’t figured out how they’re gonna deal with the VEEP issue yet though, unless SHE’S the Target, and they put him out to pasture shortly afterwards……
Soon you will learn much about human character. You will find out who is your friend, and who your enemy is. And the sketchy people you have been associated with over the years, you will especially find out what side of the fence they are on. Also, Joe Stalin was absolutely right about one thing. When the trouble makers die, they can’t cause any more problems. This is all a basic summary of what our society and your existence are about to become.
Bannon has a contract specifying he and his organization were to be paid $1,000,000 for services provided to this wall project. I would love to see this low IQ race hustler Bragg even attempt to try this case himself.
It’s all theater and the play sucks.
The use of government agencies for political persecution is proof positive we have lost all semblance of a free and democratic society. We exist today under a evil dictatorship in which the government is our greatest threat.