Fox News Helped Steve Bannon Raise Money

The news came down that yet another of those that is in Donald Trump’s inner circle was arrested.

Former Trump senior advisor Steve Bannon was arrested for fraud and using the money that he was supposedly raising to build the wall along the U.S. southern border, to help fund his lavish lifestyle.

Bannon and others set up a GoFundMe page in which according to authorities they siphoned money from.

When Bannon was “raising the wall money”, there were those at Fox News that helped in greatly in that effort.

The Daily Beast writes that Bannon and the fund’s founder Brian Kolfage appeared on Fox News a number of times to pitch their money making project.

The Beast writes that Bannon received a particularly big boost for his allegedly fraudulent scheme in an August 2019 interview with Fox host Maria Bartiromo, who fawned over the project.

“This private group is ‘We Build the Wall,’ that the triple-amputee hero Brian Kolfage, the Air Force veteran, has founded,” Bannon said from the border area. “We have raised about $25 million. I’m down in Arizona. We’re in the Rio Grande Valley. We have had about 30 different private landowners approach us now.”

“A story of the can-do American spirit in action,” Fox News primetime host Laura Ingraham beamed about the fundraiser before interviewing Kolfage during her Dec. 20, 2018 broadcast.

The left leaning Media Matters put together a supercut of Fox News and the help they gave Bannon and Kolage’s effort to raise money.