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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSteve Bannon owned Cambridge Analytica and used it to spy on the United States
It is obvious. Steve Bannon committed propaganda warfare against the United States. There ought to be a law against this!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Until they divested from CA with the feds snapping at their heels, fired Bannon from Breitbart, and withdrew other funding from Bannon.
Bannon still has the power of his name, but he went from Mercer's Breitbart, to being placed in the Trump campaign by them, to the WH, to major outside Mercer power broker, and then to basically out on the streets when he lost his billionaire.
There are laws "against this," of course. Just hope whatever firewalls the Mercers and their agents thought they built between themselves and their treasonous activities don't hold.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Are digital, I think Mueller is bring a tank or twenty.
With built in flamethrowers.
This is going to be so fun to watch.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)a door open at Breitart and CA that prosecutors are now exploiting?
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)They may be vulnerable for prosecution for RICO crimes: a Conspiracy to damage the United States for profit. If so, they could, with so much sorrow, lose their assets. All of them. But I'm sure that Rebekah and Robert's massive foreheads can concoct a way to make a buck in the aftermath of forfeiture. They can franchise sidewalk lemonade stands and take a 20% cut off the proceeds.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)should have them cowering, if they're finally smart enough. One amazing thing about all this is the astonishing sloppiness of these extremists and criminals, in spite of having every asset except good personal judgement.
Apparently they all suffer from trumpian-level hubris. They're revolutionaries, not criminals.
They've used their money to avoid legal consequences for so long that they never stopped to wonder if anything they did could conceivably turn the full power of our justice system on them. And just... stop them.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Has any power left. Last I heard he was overseas trying to meddle.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Sequel, perhaps?
KPN
(15,650 posts)the whole thing -- the Mercers, Bannon, Russia -- strikes me as not very much different than what got the Rosenbergs executed in 1953.
ananda
(28,876 posts)I've never seen anything like it.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Interesting
Nitram
(22,879 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Our country has been taken over by unfriendly forces lead by a hostile country with the aid and abettance of international, and "American" billionaires and the Republican Party who now look the other way.
Is that about right?
Fla Dem
(23,743 posts)magicarpet
(14,167 posts)* Conspire to meddle in our fair election
* Clandestinely use foreign agents, operatives, companies, universities and governments to toss a national election
* Conspire to over throw our government
* Constantly lie about involvement in a conspiracy to seize control of our government
* The tRdump crime syndicate is a continuing criminal operation and enterprise and should be subject to RICO prosecution guidelines.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Bannon revealed his intentions out loud, unvarnished and proudly.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...The Mercers* also brought their belief that oodles of money gave them the privilege to fuck with democracy as they saw fit. I'd love to see Robert Mercer* having to pay the IRS BILLIONS and see Ms. Ree-Beh-Kah* have to get a real job to survive.
Even if Republicans do it, IT'S STILL TREASON!