Thread by @YossiGestetner

Per SDNY, the 4 people behind “Build the Wall” kept saying in public that they are not getting paid but that they did get paid a total of over a million dollars by giving the million dollars to a non-profit run by Bannon.

This is the crime here.

justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/l…

Basically, if #BuildTheWall leaders said up front that “we raised $25 million and $1 million of it - way less than most non profits - goes to those who run/promote the fund,” there would be no story here. This is a reminder of how easy it is for Feds to prosecute if they want.

Mueller prosecuted Manafort’s Associate’s Attorney (Zwan) for lying about a legal thing not related to collusion. Such are the acts of the Feds when they want to crush someone. Meanwhile, people who obstructed justice by destroying evidence (Clinton emails) got a pass on it.

I am saying this becasue Trump Fans live in lala land as to what Durham will do. Well, he is 16 months on the job and there are no unrelated crimes or process crimes prosecuted as is most often the case with the Feds. Remember congressman Michael Grimm? He was investigated for

political corruption related to the 2012 election. The Feds had nothing so they went back a few years and saw that as a store owner pre his political life, Grimm paid employees $1 million in cash which saved the company payroll tax. Boom. Arrested. Charged. Imprisoned.

Don’t tell me that FBI Comey/DOJ Lynch (and @SallyQYates) were legit when the underlying crime of obstruction got a pass and don’t tell me that Durham is major when after 16 months on the job he has no unrelated/process cases; a tactic that Mueller had and what Feds often have.

It’s amazing how the propagandists have set the stage: If the Trump Admin investigates/prosecutes Biden’s family and/or the 2016 Power Abusers, then it’s banana republic stuff. If Trump people get prosecuted by a DOJ office, then it’s great. The same goes for a Dem DA who is

going after 8 years tax records of a president from an opposing political party based mainly on “published reports” that maybe he did something wrong. It’s cheered on as no-one-is-above-the-law stuff by the same people who claim a reversed situation is Banana Republic stuff.

In summary: In recent years, people on the Obama/Biden/Clinton side got a pass on underlying crimes and thinking of prosecuting it is Banana Republic stuff.

People on the Trump side however got crushed for unrelated and/or process crimes because no-one-is-above-the-law.

The #BuildTheWall bust came today because SDNY wanted to arrest Bannon off of a yacht to help create the image that he is living the good life off of the back of wall donors. Nice theatrics there. Bannon & Co got way less proportionally from BTW than do Lincoln Project leaders,

but the amount does not matter. If companies from TLP leaders bill the PAC for services, then it’s legit unlike the wall guys who allegedly created misleading invoices to conceal the purpose of the funds. My point is that SDNY is trying to create an image of Bannon loving large

off of the wall fund when neither being being on a yacht nor the total sums that he got prove that. The violation is the crooked books. Had he been up front about the billing, then he could have legally gotten way more and be on a nicer yacht with no story for SDNY. Anyway.

BTW the DNC “defrauded” their donors by pretending from the outside that the process is fair but they sandbagged Bernie Sanders in 2016. Bernie donors filed a case in FL but it eas dismissed. Were it the RNC, Feds would lead the charge I guess.

In essense, Bannon and Co took a potion of money that they are eligible to have but they took it in a crooked way. It does not make it legal; it just tells you the facts in a way that SDNY does not tell it because they need to kick up a cloud of scandal so the public buys it.