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Old 08-21-2020, 10:38 AM   #11
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Did Barr sign off? I've read a lot of speculation that this particular investigation was the reason that Barr tried so hard to put a complete novice in the SDNY a few months ago.

There is a certain class of rich dude who never is rich enough. I imagine Bannon is one of those.
I heard Barr signed off from a reporter on MSNBC's satellite radio feed in the car, so that may be sketchy info. But as I recall, the reporter said Barr would have had to have signed off on it because high level prosecutions that involve national politics are vetted by the AG. Searching now for a source confirming Barr signed off, I cannot find one.

Re Bannon being a certain kind of rich dude, I initially thought the same thing. There are endless examples of well-heeled people who've gotten in trouble for skimming from foundations. (My state is filled with them.) They seem to share one thing in common: A desire to hang with people with hundreds of millions, or billions preferably, rather than their prole peers with tens of millions, or maybe only a single hundred million.

But Bannon didn't need to fluff his wealth. He could run in certain money circles the way many pundits, politicians, and entertainers do -- because the super-rich need "court entertainers" (my pet theory is the super-rich are often super-dull, but I can only confirm this through a few anecdotes). Peter Thiel is a supposedly insufferable dinner host, but he can command all sorts of famous and important guests because... money. Look at Andrew Ross Sorkin... He's a fixture at the toniest parties in the Hamptons and NY, and all he's had to do for it is act as chief apologist for Wall St. since 2008.

And the cast of Bannon co-conspirators here is truly low-rent: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/polit...hea/index.html If Bannon can hang with Chinese billionaires (he was arrested on one's 150 ft yacht), wtf is he doing with these used car salesmen? Is he that much of a populist that he must steal with the commoners?

It's hard not to laugh at the losers here, however. If you donated to build a private border wall, caveat emptor?
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