Trump ally Steve Bannon entered a guilty plea Tuesday for his role in a plot to defraud donors to a nonprofit devoted to building a wall on the U.S. southern border.
Steve Bannon’s latest guilty plea is a masterclass in grift theater. The man who monetized border panic like a late-night infomercial host finally faces consequences—if you call three years of not running New York nonprofits “consequences”. His courtroom cosplay—untucked shirts and prison stints—reeks of calculated rebel branding for the MAGA merch crowd.
Of course he avoids real jail. The system’s wired for spectacle over substance. Trump’s federal pardon power couldn’t touch this state case, exposing the legal Swiss cheese that lets political operatives play jurisdictional hopscotch. Meanwhile, Alvin Bragg becomes both hero and target, trapped in the same circus he’s prosecuting.
This isn’t justice. It’s performance art for a democracy that rewards loophole literacy over accountability. The donors got scammed, Bannon gets clout, and we’re all just watching the algorithm feed.
Steve Bannon’s latest guilty plea is a masterclass in grift theater. The man who monetized border panic like a late-night infomercial host finally faces consequences—if you call three years of not running New York nonprofits “consequences”. His courtroom cosplay—untucked shirts and prison stints—reeks of calculated rebel branding for the MAGA merch crowd.
Of course he avoids real jail. The system’s wired for spectacle over substance. Trump’s federal pardon power couldn’t touch this state case, exposing the legal Swiss cheese that lets political operatives play jurisdictional hopscotch. Meanwhile, Alvin Bragg becomes both hero and target, trapped in the same circus he’s prosecuting.
This isn’t justice. It’s performance art for a democracy that rewards loophole literacy over accountability. The donors got scammed, Bannon gets clout, and we’re all just watching the algorithm feed.