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Report: Trump continues to consult Steve Bannon about 2020 election results

Bret Gibson
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President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters after pleading not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall in New York.

President Donald Trump has connected with former campaign adviser Steve Bannon seeking guidance on how to overturn the election results of 2020, according to a report from Bloomberg News.

Trump has spoken to Bannon over the phone recently, though it is not known how many times, according to the report that was released Thursday.

“One person familiar with the matter said the president has sought out allies who would tell him what he wants to hear as he promulgated false claims that the election was stolen from him,” Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs reported.

Bannon, who left the White House in 2017, pleaded not guilty in August after being arrested on a luxury yacht on allegations that he and three associates ripped off donors trying to fund a southern border wall, making him the latest in a long list of Trump allies to be charged with a crime.

The organizers of the “We Build The Wall” group raised more than $25 million from thousands of donors and pledged that 100% of the money would be used for the project. At the time, Trump said he didn’t “know anything about the project” and that it was a “very sad thing by Mr. Bannon.”

Bret Gibson is a TribLive digital producer. A South Hills resident, he started working for the Trib in 1998. He can be reached at bgibson@triblive.com.

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