(11 Feb 2025)
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New York – 11 February 2025
1. Steve Bannon walking down a court hallway
2. Bannon exiting the court building
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Bannon, Trump ally and conservative strategist:
"The existential threat to President Trump’s administration is not in federal court. What President Trump is doing is constitutional. The appellate courts will say that. The Supreme Court will say that. The existential threat to President Trump’s administration and I mean DOGE, Elon Musk, Secretary of Treasury Bessent, Russ Vought, Stephen Miller, all of his people. The existential threat is right here in this city. It is the queen of lawfare. It’s Letitia James. Right now, Soros has a D.A. that’s running unopposed. He can call a grand jury at any time. He can, he can set up criminal charges on the most bogus efforts. Letitia James runs the deal. She’s got a pliant media right here. Pliant left wing media. She’s got a jury pool of only left wing radicals in the Upper West Side of this city. And she’s got the judges. She’s got all of it, and I’m calling, hang on, I’m calling, I’m calling on right now the attorney general, Pam Bondi, to begin an immediate criminal investigation into Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, all of them for for what they did to President Trump."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Conservative strategist Steve Bannon has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge related to duping donors who gave money to a private effort to build a wall along the U.S. southern border.
Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, reached a plea agreement that spares him from jail time in the “We Build the Wall” scheme as long as he stays out of trouble. Bannon had decried the case as a “political persecution.”
Bannon spoke to reporters afterward and called on U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to begin an immediate criminal investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The deal on Tuesday comes just days after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the Justice Department to investigate what the president called the “weaponization of prosecutorial power.”
Two other men involved in the project pleaded guilty to federal charges and were sentenced to prison.
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