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Where Things Stand: Let’s Check In On Steve

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US president's former strategist Steve Bannon attends a debate on Europe at the headquarters of strategic consultancy Comin & Partners in Rome on March 25, 2019. - Bannon, Italian Democratic Party (PD) politician... US president's former strategist Steve Bannon attends a debate on Europe at the headquarters of strategic consultancy Comin & Partners in Rome on March 25, 2019. - Bannon, Italian Democratic Party (PD) politician and former Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda attend on March 25 a debate entitled "Sovereignism vs Europeanism" on the future of Europe and on how western democracies are transforming. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS

March 3, 2021 2:04 p.m.

Steve Bannon was, of course, among the 100-plus people Trump pardoned during his last months and days and minutes in office. But there’s been speculation since the pardon was issued about how much weight it would actually hold — Bannon had only been charged, but not convicted, of allegedly taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a border wall crowd-funding campaign for personal use.

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