his children in michael wolff's book "fire and fury." barn was in a interesting situation. he needed a favor. he was in legal trouble at the time. when he was arrested on a chinese billionaire's yacht by the postal service policemen, bannon was charged with federal crimes, with wire fraud and conspiracy and money-laundering conspiracy. those are serious criminal offenses stemming from an alleged grift whereas he and his associates allegedly conned die hard trump supporters out of millions of dollars of bogus promises to use the money to privately fund the border wall and to use some of the funds on lavish personal expenses. if you are saying that's not the steve bannon i know, who knows? we'll never really know. he is not going to go to trial for it. bannon was in trouble. perhaps he wanted to be back in the good graces with the man with unequivocal pardon power. he began telling trump the things trump wanted to hear.