US President Donald Trump says he feels very badly about the indictment of his former campaign manager Steve Bannon
WASHINGTON, DC – U. S. President Donald Trump says he feels very badly about the indictment of his former campaign manager Steve Bannon. Bannon and 3 others were charged with fraud on Thursday and later appeared before the courts where he was freed on bail. Bannon who headed the right-wing Breitbart news service, and was a major architect of Mr Trump’s 2016 victory was aboard a yacht owned by a Chinese tycoon in Connecticut on Thursday when he was arrested. He is one of four people who set up and promoted a fundraising project « We Build the Wall, » designed to provide funds to help build Mr Trump’s controversial border wall. Bannon and the others are charged with defrauding donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The project promised all funds raised, every penny would go to the wall. However a not-for-profit allegedly set up by Bannon was used to siphon off more than $1 million for ‘expenses’ incurred by Mr Bannon and others. Asked what his reaction was to the indictment of his former campaign aid, Steve Bannon, the U. S. president replied: « Well, I feel very badly. I haven’t been dealing with him for a long period of time, as most of the people in this room know. He was involved in our campaign. He worked for Goldman Sachs. He worked for a lot of companies. But he was involved, likewise, in our campaign, and for a small part of the administration, very early on. I haven’t been dealing with him at all. » « I know nothing about the project, other than I didn’t like – when I read about it, I didn’t like it. I said, « This is for government. This isn’t for private people.
