The butterfly sanctuary impacted by Steve Bannon's border wall scam is having a good day
Steve Bannon, the melting candle that once advised Donald Trump, was arrested on Thursday alongside three others for bilking a gaggle of MAGA chuds out of whatever money they hadn’t already blown on Iraqi dinars. The scam? A crowdfunded border wall spearheaded by veteran and noted grifter Brian Kolfage, who soon pivoted the GoFundMe into an organization called We Build the Wall. Kolfage’s fundraiser netted more than $25 million, all of which was supposed to go toward wall construction. But according to documents unsealed by the Department of Justice on Thursday, a considerable portion of it was used to line the pockets of Kolfage, Bannon, and their collaborators. We know. You’re shocked.
Sure, Trump will probably pardon them all by next week and everyone will just be fine with that, but we’re nevertheless enjoying this brief window where it seems like some rich pieces of shit might actually pay for defrauding poor people. Nobody, however, is enjoying it more than Mission, TX’s National Butterfly Center, which was nearly destroyed by the damage their shitty, three-mile portion of wall would do to the area’s vegetation.
As legal battles raged between Kolfage and the center, the pair engaged in bouts of online sparring in which Kolfage baselessly accused the refuge of being in league with Mexican drug cartels and participating in a “rampant sex trade.” Today, after news of the arrests hit social media, the center took a moment to issue a well-earned laugh.