“I’m not going back. This is a political hit,” Bannon said Friday on his conservative podcast, “War Room.” “Everyone knows I love a fight.”
Bannon claimed his arrest was “to stop and intimidate people” who support Trump in building the walls on the U.S. southern border.
“I’m sitting here for a long time. I’m fighting here. I’m going to continue fighting,” Bannon said.
Instead, he used, according to prosecutors, more than $ 1 million from We Build the Wall to pay Kolfage “in secret” and cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bannon’s personal expenses.
The former adviser to the president was also accused of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to launder money. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and on Friday he told his listeners of the podcast that the charges against him were “nonsense.”
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