Bannon’s arrest perfectly captures the cynicism and self-dealing among leaders of the American right at this moment. As the president seeks reelection, the moral rot of Trump and his retinue has spread to the core. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
At the NRA, chief exec Wayne LaPierre and other leaders have drained millions of dollars from the organization, the New York attorney general alleged this month, much of it for private jets, security, yachts in the Bahamas and personal payouts.
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On Tuesday, Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as president of Liberty U, which he used to vouch for Trump’s moral integrity & religious bona fides. Falwell acknowledged a multiyear affair in which he is accused of watching his wife have sex with a pool boy.
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On Monday, the NYS AG Letitia James reported that the Trump Organization has refused to hand over some documents & Eric Trump canceled an interview with prosecutors looking into whether the company paid proper taxes.
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Separately, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., continues to seek Trump’s financial records as part of an investigation into payoffs made in 2016 to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump — and potentially into Trump business dealings.
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Last week a bipartisan Senate Intelligence report concluded Trump’s ‘16 campaign chairman Paul Manafort was a “grave counterintelligence threat” whose Russian outreach made the campaign vulnerable to “malign Russian influence.”
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All this on top of former advisers Roger Stone’s conviction (which Trump commuted); Michael Flynn’s guilty plea (which Trump’s DOJ wants dismissed); upcoming trial of 2 Giuliani associates, & Michael Cohen’s prison sentence for his “duty to cover up [Trump’s] dirty deeds.” 
And then there’s good old Steve Bannon ⤵️
The same day as Bannon’s yacht-deck arrest last week, We Build the Wall posted a picture of Trump on Facebook. Written across the photo: “The Most Honest Man in Washington!”
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