Steve Bannon, ex-Trump adviser and China hawk, pleads not guilty after arrest over funds raised online to build border wall

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Trump immediately distanced himself from Bannon and the funding drive, called We Build the Wall, by telling reporters that he had not “been dealing with him for a very long period of time”.

Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser and one of Washington’s most strident China hawks, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges that he and three others defrauded donors to an online fund meant to support the construction of a wall along the US border with Mexico.

“The defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalising on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretence that all of that money would be spent on construction,” the US Justice Department said in an announcement. Trumpiest person wins: how Trump is reshaping Congress from ground upAs recently as late July, Navarro was a guest on Bannon’s War Room podcast, a conservative show in which speakers rail against perceived enemies including the Chinese government, the Democratic Party and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Story continuesSpeaking last year at a Washington event organised by the Committee on the Present Danger: China – which also featured Senator Ted Cruz and former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich – Bannon excoriated groups that have promoted business and cultural ties with China, including McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs and the Committee of 100, an advocacy group representing some of the most prominent Chinese Americans.

 

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