I myself was wondering why the new D.C. indictments do not include Bannon as a co-conspirator in Trump’s attempted theft of the elections. The answer is Bannon, already pardoned once by Trump, was no longer officially a Trump White House employee in 2020. Bannon was however still closely connected to Giuliani and others. Bannon is still to face a state trial scheduled for May, 2024 for his grifting theft of funds contributed by thousands of ordinary working-class Trump supporters for “Building the Wall.” An old but good thread and link here on all that:
Steve Bannon’s ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme trial set for May 2024
There apparently were plenty of FBI and CIA investigators watching Bannon’s wheeling and dealing with the the notorious “double spy” Guo Wengui, but it seems there also is now embarrassment within these agencies — possibly because they themselves originally were fooled by Guo.
So besides possible ongoing but unannounced tax and business fraud investigations of this Trump-loving foreign billionaire, they seem just to be relying on private lawsuits against Guo (from his many cheated “investors” and “business partners” in a host of enterprises including crypto-currencies) to run their inevitable course.
This
may also be why Bannon’s ties to this extreme pro-Trump Chinese-intelligence-connected money “bag man” and one-time multi-billionaire provocateur and disruptor of America’s democracy … has received little coverage in the media recently.
Of course this case is also far too confusing and
embarrassing on many levels for typical Trump cultists to follow, or for their media to cover. I have followed the case more closely than most because of my particular interest in the Chinese-American diaspora, and I bring it up here for your delectation and edification.
For those interested in details of Guo’s adventurous life as the “born with nothing” gangster who became rich serving a corrupt Communist intelligence chief, and who was “reborn” as a pro-Trump “provocateur extraordinary” in the U.S., there is always Wikipedia & its links, or this mostly excellent
New Yorker article from October 2022:
How a Tycoon Linked to Chinese Intelligence Became a Darling of Trump Republicans