Convicted felon Steve Bannon, who gave a Nazi salute at CPAC on 2/21, is set to headline the Colorado Republican Party’s 2025 annual fundraising dinner in Denver

Convicted felon and former Trump aide Steve Bannon will headline Colorado’s Republican fundraising Centennial Dinner on March 28, 2025 in Denver.

Bannon plead guilty February 11, 2025 to defrauding donors to his “We Build the Wall” nonprofit organization, which told donors it was carrying out a private effort to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Charges against Bannon included money laundering, conspiracy and fraud. Bannon was also convicted in another similar federal case in 2020, but escaped prosecution in that case after Trump pardoned Bannon at the end of his first term. Bannon has also been banned from serving as an officer or director of any charitable organizations or nonprofits that has assets in New York, and is banned from accessing the names of people who donated to “We Build the Wall.”

Bannon was also convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 for defying a subpoena related to a Congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, and was fined $6,500 and sentenced to four months in federal prison on that charge.

Bannon spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland on February 21 and during his speech gave a Nazi salute, echoing co-president Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at Trump’s inaugural celebration in January. Bannon denied making the gesture, saying it was “just a wave,” but his hand was obviously in the wrong position for a wave, and the gesture has a longstanding and very clear meaning globally.

Members of the Hitler Youth in Berlin performing the Nazi salute at a rally in 1933 (Photo: Wikipedia)

A far-right protester gives a Nazi salute at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville during 2017. (Photo: Wikipedia)