Filings posted in August show the IRS essentially rendered defunct Citizens of the American Republic, the MAGA-boosting group Bannon founded shortly after his unceremonious ouster as ex-President Donald Trump’s chief strategist in 2017. The move effectively cuts off the organization’s capacity to raise and spend unlimited funds from anonymous donors for political ends. “The group has been dormant since August 2020 after federal prosecutors’ unwarranted seizure,” a Bannon spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Daily Beast. However, Bannon's aide insisted to The Daily Beast that none of the money he got came from We Build the Wall. Read more at The Daily Beast.
