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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Bannon partners had history of cashing in on Trump movement
By BERNARD CONDON and JIM MUSTIAN NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
News sites stoking right-wing rage, pushing exaggerated stories. Bannon and Breitbart. There are so many other far right media outlets in the US and around the globe doing similar things.
The far right and their Trump attack something they call 'the media' while their own favored outlets push exaggerated stories. That's to be expected in states with bits of democracies remaining that allow a free, for-profit press.
To get truth through any media outlet has always required a full range of critical thinking skills. When the far right resorts to using channelled voices like Ramtha the 35,000 year old man it's obvious they're trying to reach an audience with no critical thinking skkkills.
SuperLib
What's amazing is that Trump fans will still support a man like Bannon who defrauded them out of their supporters' money
That's some obedience there
garymalmgren
Another partner charged Thursday, 49-year-old Timothy Shea of Castle Rock, Colorado, owns an energy drink company called Winning Energy whose cans bear a cartoon superhero image of Trump and claim to contain 12 ounces of “liberal tears.
https://winning-energy.com/
Looks really appealing.
Gary
Goodlucktoyou
as trumps Covid-19 strategy is killing 4 times as many, poor, black and latinos, looks like they are winning the new civil war.
bass4funk
So ban them and read more far left leaning sites is what you're implying? Mother Jones, MoveOn.org, the Nation are better?
Which really doesn't exist because the far left are trying to silence any opposing point of view....
Which is why liberal new sites both on cable and in print are trying to pull up their sagging numbers and if Trump loses expect a lot of layoffs because there won't be anyone else to attack, maybe these people should try and go back to telling the news like they did in the old days.
And yet, CNN has NO shame with their smart pundits. LOL
plasticmonkey
Yes.
plasticmonkey
= “Be my friend, Godfather?”
Bannon knows he’s screwed. He’s angling for a pardon.
bass4funk
Good, you can read them all you like and I'll stick to Breitbart and other conservative websites. Kudos.
lincolnman
Well, as a Trump supporter, I think this is really unfair - they're picking on good 'ole Steve because of his appearance - they're discriminating against people who look homeless...
Yes, discrimination as blatant as that against the disabled - discrimination against the disheveled...
So Bannon grifted millions from us Trump supporters to help fund the border wall, all while he and his cohort hit the beaches in France and drove Lamborghinis...
We don't care - we like being conned and scammed...Trump told us 62 times he would build the wall and Mexico would pay for it...and we believed him too...
That's just living in Trump-world - where you get scammed and conned, and you just smile about it...
stormcrow
And who's gonna pay for that wall?
Vanessa Carlisle
When you have learned to live in a fantasy world, its easy to just alter it a bit and keep living in it. Most of the country is guilty of this but Trump fans are afficinados of the practice.
This loon is a prime example. He needlessly lost two and a half limbs in a needless war because of the stone cold killer types he supports but he still won't turn on them. He wants a revolution FOR them rather than AGAINST them. One has to wonder if he envied Saddam Hussein but only joined in attacking his regime for the chance stone-cold kill some people.
The left might harbor some lazy ineffectual people but I tell you, I FAR prefer them to violent lunatics like the right harbors.
Zaphod
The smear campaign is in full swing. Even before anything about the accusations has been clariefied by a court, the swamp press has passed judgement and is slandering all parties involved, including a triple amputee. Mainly with the crime of supporting Trump. Selling pro-Trump merchandise? High treason! Writing for Breitbart? Deplorable.
What passes for journalism today is beyond parody.
bass4funk
I disagree, I think more it’s liberals that believe someone like Biden or Internet socialist like Bernie Sanders could bring prosperity and fairness to the country it’s just utterly laughable.
After looking at what these radical thugs have been doing to the country and to these cities for the last three months and to even imply they are better than any conservative it’s just mind-boggling
ClippetyClop
Trump and his elite swamp chums ooze criminality. I hope that they are guilty and found such. Bannon in particular is a wretched slice of drunken filth who preys un the un-educated and ignorant with lies. They all deserve to be disgraced and removed from having any sort of influence.
Some minds need a bit of boggling from time to time.
Toasted Heretic
The amount of Bannon supporters seems a bit diminished today.
Surprised that Trump/Bannon supporters can find the time to read such garbage sites. They seem to spend all their time 24/7 making up stuff on sites like this...
bass4funk
What? Huh?
Liberals have their sites and their so called.....leaders they follow.
Toasted Heretic
What's laughable is poorly educated conservatives not being able to distinguish between socialist and liberal.
Civil rights movements in your country were once described as communist and radicals. Such bluster and hyperbole can easily be dismissed. The real thugs are the cops.
Toasted Heretic
So, you fully support fraud, then?
bass4funk
But most are educated so what are you referring to? We do know the difference, that's like liberals claiming we don't know the difference between a lemon and a lime.
Please don't equate the civil right marches and leaders to the thuggery and sheer violence of these scum that are destroying our cities and mostly Democrat control cities
For upholding the law? Yeah, they're criminals, shame on them.
Toasted Heretic
I'm referring to time wasters who clog up sites spouting nonsense about how centerists like Biden are radical and are unable to tell the difference between political ideologies. They claim they can tell the difference but have never given any evidence that they can.
As I said, the scum are the cops and their collaborators, denigrating brave people standing up to the inherent racism that they have put up with for far too long.
Murdering black people, snatching people off the streets in unmarked dress/vehicles is hardly upholding the law. Shame on them and shame on them for gassing moms and veterans.
dagon
The icing on the cake for this story that at first made me think it was a satire from the Onion is that he was arrested by .... U.S. Postal Service Inspectors. Do not mess with USPS Inspectors.
Graham DeShazo
There’s a footnote in the Bi-partisan Senate investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election (Which by the way states unequivocally that it was NOT a hour, that the Russians DID interfere, and that Trump knew about it and welcomed it.)
I’m paraphrasing here , But Bannon said “Don Jr. is a good guy but I get the idea that he believes everything he reads on Brietbart.”
Even as editor, Bannon knew what he was writing was lies, exaggerations and conspiracy theories.
So yes, CNN, PBS, BBC, you know ACTUAL news organizations that deal in facts are far and away superior.
Graham DeShazo
And the distain with which Bannon holds his own supporters, as seen on camera in a documentary, is truly disgusting.
bass4funk
But the majority can and do. The bigger question is, do liberals know the difference between anarchy and the rule of law?
No, the majority of cops are good and decent, the thugs that are destroying the city are the cancer that needs to be cut out and their hands shouldn't be tied unless liberals want the country to look like Baltimore, Portland or Seattle,,,,,
Murdering black people, snatching people off the streets in unmarked dress/vehicles is hardly upholding the law.
If people attack and try and kill cops, they shouldn't be restrained from using the necessary force they need to gain control and snatching people is good. If the local law enforcement won't do their job and protect Federal buildings then the DOJ has the duty to protect them and they are doing a fantastic job and these people should go to prison and a lot are, thank God!
Why are they there in the first place? Shows you the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
ulysses
Bannon’s delusions of a pardon will remain just that.
trump will be too busy keeping himself out of prison to care about him.
ulysses
So how many of trump’s administration are convicted criminals or on their way to prison.
I’ve lost count!!!
bass4funk
In cheating, I think so, but when it comes to life overall, not really.
I know, he also points out he knows more about America than Americans themselves. Uh-huh....
I said, "most."
bass4funk
Yes and nothing will happen to Trump either.
bass4funk
Guess who's feeding all those rich people, conservatives. Even Bezos needs to eat and who has and makes most of the weapons, not liberals and that's dumb on their part.
I do
Nor any of you, so please relax.
Toasted Heretic
But they don't. They never do. Instead they avoid proving they know the difference and go on about "liberals".
Thus proving my point. I believe I have told you that I'm not a liberal. However, I can tell you that anrchism is a movement (a multi-faceted one, at that) which is about collectivisim, fairness and yes, order. See Catalonia before Franco's fascists and other players destroyed it. Or Britain's Levellers, the Diggers and Japan's own Burakumin movements.
Yes, we're in agreement. The thug cops who destroyed the cities and brutalized its peoples are a cancer.
People should fight against the racist establishment. Unfortunately, freedoms aren't won by just bending a knee or arguing with people on the internet.
Moms standing up for their kids, standing up against racism and brutality, veterans standing up to illegal snatch squads and getting shot at. You're clutching at straws here by going fully in favour of racist muderous cops and brutal authoritarianism.
Toasted Heretic
This is a blatant falsehood. There are many, many Americans who have an envious and honest knowledge of their country, it's history and transgressions. You're not one of them, though.
I don't think billionaire capitalists who show zero empathy to the working class, the poor, the marginalized can be accused of not cheating. That's how they make their wealth, on the backs of others, or inherited.