Trump seeks distance from Bannon, calls fundraising project 'inappropriate'
Source: The Hill
President Trump sought to distance himself from Stephen Bannon on Thursday following the former White House chief strategist's arrest, with Trump saying he hasn’t dealt with Bannon in a long time and calling a fundraising project for which Bannon and three others were indicted “inappropriate.”
“I feel very badly. I haven't been dealing with him for a very long period of time, as most of the people in this room know,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that Bannon only served for a small period of time in the administration after working on his 2016 campaign as CEO.
Trump said that he has no knowledge about the “We Build The Wall” fundraising campaign that Bannon was involved in but said that he disagreed with the project primarily because it purported to raise private funds in order to pay for the construction of the wall at the southern border with Mexico.
Bannon and three others were charged with fraud by federal prosecutors in New York in connection with their work for the project.
“I didn’t like it, it was showboating and maybe looking for funds. But you’ll have to see what happens,” Trump said when asked about the developments during a meeting with Iraq's prime minister just hours after the charges were revealed.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512919-trump-seeks-distance-from-bannon-calls-fundraising-project
There are not enough eye rolls for this!
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that was a mistake, huh?
That's why he stepped up real fast and put a stop to it, huh?
Yep, that swamp is looking really dry now!!!!
Or was that a different wall? So many fucked up walls I can't keep up.
