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.
SCOOP: Trump has repeatedly spoken by phone with Steve Bannon in recent weeks to seek advice on his campaign to overturn his re-election defeat, reconciling with his once-estranged ex White House strategist, sources tell me. Story out soon.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 14, 2021
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.”
Steve Bannon, ex-Cambridge Analytica, ex-Breitbart, indicted on federal charges for money laundering, last seen calling for Fauci’s head on a pike on Facebook, is now advising the President in what, surely, is the last throw of the dicehttps://t.co/ULE6FvBmwA
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) January 14, 2021
Lest we forget, this is the same Steve Bannon who promised to primary every single GOP senator. Who then sent his “reporters” down to Alabama to get Roy Moore elected. https://t.co/5amph2Nudi
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 14, 2021
