After flailing & failing with numerous delay tactics ... Bannon's GUILTY OF 2 COUNTS OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS.... lolol

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Two dress shirts wearing, dusty Unabomber looking fool has run out of get out of jail free cards

Steve Bannon’s Contempt Of Congress Trial Will Begin Next Week, Judge Rules

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon must face trial next week for contempt charges over his refusal to testify to the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol, a judge ruled Monday, even after Bannon's abrupt about-face Sunday in which he agreed to testify after all.

KEY FACTS
U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols said in a ruling he saw “no reason for extending this case any further,” and that the voir dire process for screening jurors would be enough to prevent potential prejudice in the jury, according to multiple reporters in the courtroom.

An attorney for Bannon, David Schoen, had previously asked Nichols to delay the trial due to the ongoing January 6 committee hearings.
Nichols issued a series of rulings on what could be discussed at at the trial, which excluded previous opinions from the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel on executive privilege

Nichols also ruled on several possible defenses Bannon’s team would not be allowed to use in the trial, leaving his attorneys with few options for defenses a week before the trial begins.
At the end of Nichols’ ruling, Schoen asked, “What is the point of going to trial if there are no defenses?”
Schoen did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Forbes.

Bannon refused to comply with a subpoena from the January 6 committee for months, arguing he could not produce documents or sit for an interview due to Trump’s claim of executive privilege, a legal doctrine which allows presidents to keep some internal communications secret. The House of Representatives voted to hold him in contempt in October, and he was indicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress charges in November. Bannon revealed in a stunning reversal Sunday he “is willing to, and indeed prefers,” to testify before the committee in a public hearing. Another attorney for Bannon, Robert J. Costello, cited a letter from former President Donald Trump that said he would waive his claim of executive privilege for Bannon to testify. However, in a motion filed early Monday morning, the DOJ revealed Trump’s attorney, Justin Clark, said in an interview with the FBI last month that Trump had never invoked executive privilege for Bannon.

Bannon’s attorneys submitted motions to subpoena House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the January 6 committee to testify in the trial, but Nichols rejected the efforts in his ruling Monday, citing the speech and debate clause of the U.S. Constitution.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Bannon’s trial is set to begin July 18. If Bannon is convicted, he faces up to two years in prison and a maximum fine of $2,000.



Steve Bannon’s Contempt Of Congress Trial Will Begin Next Week, Judge Rules (forbes.com)

 

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How many threads you gon make on this topic Billy?

Jesus Christ you're pathetic

Go bump your shitty Jussy July thread..
Better yet,
Bump your head against a brick wall and end your shit faggot

 

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How many threads you gon make on this topic Billy?

Jesus Christ you're pathetic

Go bump your shitty Jussy July thread..
Better yet,
Bump your head against a brick wall and end your shit faggot

It's the only one that I made on this topic ...you ride a dick harder than a rodeo fag.... ya just hate.... to see it

sidebar: kinda like the way your first wife rides me with my gun up her ass... but she's waaay more passionate with it

 

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Jury has now been sworn in.... 14 including two alternates, mostly white, nine men, five women

Steve Bannon's trial begins


What we're covering

• Day 1 of the trial of Steve Bannon, an aide to former President Donald Trump, has ended after the jury heard opening statements and testimony from the first witness, a House staff member of the Jan. 6 committee.
• Bannon is on trial on contempt of Congress charges for failing to comply with subpoenas from the House committee investigating the insurrection.
• The committee said it wanted to obtain Bannon's documents and ask him questions because he had contact with Trump as the riot unfolded.
• Bannon has pleaded not guilty to the contempt charges. The two charges he faces are misdemeanors, but if found guilty, each carries a mandatory minimum of 30 days in jail.

Steve Bannon's trial now has a jury. Here's what we know about them.
From CNN's Katelyn Polantz

Steve Bannon's trial on contempt of Congress charges now has a jury.
Fourteen jurors — 9 men and 5 women — will be sworn in shortly at the federal district courthouse in Washington, DC, now.
The jury includes a State Department employee, an art salesman, a NASA contractor, a doctor, an architect and a handful of DC government employees.
Some of the jurors have extensive previous experience serving on juries, according to their statements in court yesterday.
The jury has 14 people because two alternates are in the pool, and won't be disclosed publicly until deliberations.

(14) Steve Bannon's trial now has a jury. Here's what we know about them. (cnn.com)


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Prosecutors rest their case against Bannon after two witnesses testify

Federal prosecutors rested their case against Stephen Bannon on Wednesday after calling just two witnesses in the former White House strategist’s contempt of Congress trial for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee.

The prosecutors took just over a day to lay out their case. Jurors have so far heard testimony from Kristin Amerling, the committee’s chief counsel, who began testifying Tuesday afternoon, and FBI Special Agent Stephen Hart.

Over the objections of the prosecutors, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols allowed Bannon’s defense team to show the jury its client’s belated offer earlier this month to testify before the select committee.

But Amanda Vaughn, an assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case, emphasized in an exchange with Amerling that the offer, which came about nine months after the deadline the select committee set in the subpoena, could not be considered as full compliance, partly because Bannon has not provided any records that the panel demanded.

The jury was presented with a timeline of Bannon’s communications with the select committee, starting with him receiving the subpoena through his attorney Robert Costello on September 23, 2021.

The subpoena ordered Bannon to provide relevant documents to the committee by Oct. 7, 2021, and to appear for a deposition by Oct. 14. After both deadlines passed without Bannon’s compliance, the select committee advanced a resolution to hold him in contempt.

Bannon’s defense team worked to complicate what prosecutors were painting as a straightforward case of failing to comply with a lawful subpoena.

Evan Corcoran, one of the defense attorneys, sought to work in a political angle multiple times on Wednesday, despite a warning from Nichols earlier in the day that the trial would not be allowed to turn into a “political circus.”


Through his cross-examination of Amerling, Corcoran revealed that the committee staffer had briefly worked on a congressional staff with one of the prosecutors in the case, Molly Gaston, and that the two had been part of the same book club for years.

Amerling said that she hasn’t attended a meeting of the book club in about a year and that she and Gaston are not close. According to her testimony, the club is mainly composed of people who had previously worked for former Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman (Calif.).

“To the best of my recollection … it’s not unusual that we would talk about politics in one way or another,” Amerling said of the book club.

But she said that she had rarely spoken with Gaston and that their association had no impact on the committee’s work or the case against Bannon.

After Bannon was issued the subpoena last year, Costello told the committee that former President Trump had invoked executive privilege.

But Nichols has been adamant in recent months that the supposed assertion of privilege was not a valid defense for refusing to comply with the subpoena’s demands, and he has precluded Bannon’s legal team from making that argument at trial.

The judge informed the jury of that caveat when he allowed the defense team to introduce the recent communications between Bannon and the committee.

“Mr. Bannon’s belief that questions about executive privilege excused him from complying with the subpoena are irrelevant in this this case,” Nichols told the jurors.

The defense will begin its case Thursday morning. It’s unclear how many witnesses the defense intends to call or whether Bannon will take the stand in his own defense.




Prosecutors rest their case against Bannon after two witnesses testify | The Hill

 

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Peter Navarro fills in for Bannon on his podcast..... I guarantee this idiot put his foot farther into his mouth, like he did with Ari Melber, but this time he'll end up going shin deep with it



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The way this justice department drags it's ass, ain't shit gonna happen to none of these pieces of shit. This country is in clown mode right now.

 

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Faggot ass windbag rants on the court steps every day about going on the offense .... then this happens


Steve Bannon's Defense Seeks Acquittal Then Rests Case
Trump ally Steve Bannon declined to testify and his lawyers did not call any witnesses in his contempt of Congress trial on Thursday, instead arguing the judge should just acquit him.

Steve Bannon accompanied by his attorney M. Evan Corcoran, speaks to the media as he departs the federal court in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Bannon was brought to trial on a pair of federal charges for criminal contempt of Congress after refusing to cooperate with the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump ally Steve Bannon declined to testify and his lawyers did not call any witnesses in his contempt of Congress trial on Thursday, instead arguing the judge should just acquit him, saying prosecutors hadn’t proven their case.
The decision to forego calling any witnesses in Bannon's defense cleared the way for closing arguments to begin Friday. The judge didn’t immediately rule on the motion for an acquittal and the case is likely to end up in the jury's hands by midday Friday.
One of Bannon's lawyers, David Schoen, contended they should able to call Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee which had subpoenaed Bannon's testimony, to question him under oath instead of the congressional lawyer who testified during the trial. The judge had previously ruled against that request.
In court, Bannon nodded and smiled as another of his lawyers, Evan Corcoran, argued that the timing of when Bannon could comply with the congressional subpoena was flexible and said testimony from the House panel’s chief lawyer, Kristin Amerling, had made clear “that the dates were in flux.”

In making the argument, Corcoran said that “no reasonable juror could conclude that Mr. Bannon refused to comply.”
Bannon's team also told the judge that Bannon saw no point in testifying since the previous rulings had gutted his planned avenues of defense. Schoen said Bannon “understands that he would be barred from telling the true facts.”
Corcoran then rested the defense case. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said he would rule later on the motion for an acquittal.
Throughout the trial, Corcoran has tried to establish that the deadline for the onetime strategist to former President Donald Trump to appear before the House committee investigating the Capitol riot was flexible, as long as the two sides were on negotiating terms.
In opening statements, Corcoran argued that the charges against Bannon were politically motivated and that the former adviser was engaged in good-faith negotiations with the congressional committee when he was charged. “No one ignored the subpoena,” Corcoran told the jury.
In reality, Corcoran said, one of Bannon’s previous lawyers, Robert Costello, contacted an attorney for the House committee to express some of Bannon’s concerns about testifying.
“They did what two lawyers do. They negotiated,” Corcoran said, adding that Bannon and his legal team believed “the dates of the subpoena were not fixed; they were flexible.”
At other times in the courtroom on Thursday, Bannon, wearing two collared shirts, a T-shirt and a black jacket, fiddled with his telephone and rocked back and forth on his chair.
Bannon was in an unofficial capacity to Trump at the time of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and is charged with defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election and the events leading up to the deadly riot.
Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, a month after the Justice Department received the House panel's referral. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars upon conviction.
The Justice Department rested its case Wednesday after calling just two witnesses: Amerling, and FBI special agent Stephen Hart. The prosecution's case was dominated by testimony from Amerling, who explained the extent to which the committee tried to engage Bannon and the timeline leading up to the missed deadline.
During cross examination Corcoran asked Amerling whether it was common for witnesses to appear before a congressional committee several weeks after the deadline date on a subpoena. Amerling answered “yes,” but added only “when witnesses are cooperating with the committee.”
Amerling said Bannon was uncooperative from the start, so there was no such leeway.
The committee heard nothing from Bannon until after the first deadline had passed, at which point his lawyer sent a letter to the committee stating that Bannon was protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege and would not be providing documents or appearing. The committee responded in writing that Trump’s claim was invalid — Trump was no longer president, and Bannon was not employed at the White House at the time of the riot.
The panel gave Bannon a hard deadline of Oct. 14 to come before the committee. When that deadline passed, Thompson the committee chairman, wrote Bannon’s lawyer on Oct. 15 threatening criminal prosecution.
The committee, which is holding a prime time hearing Thursday, wanted to speak with Bannon because it had information that Bannon was actively involved in planning, logistics and fundraising for efforts by Trump, a Republican, to overturn the 2020 election and stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. The subpoena demanded any documents or communications relating to Trump and other people in his orbit, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani and extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
The emphasis on the subpoena timeline is one of the few avenues of defense that Nichols left Bannon’s legal team after a hearing last week. Nichols ruled that major elements of Bannon’s planned defense were irrelevant and could not be introduced in court. The judge said Bannon could not claim he believed he was covered by executive privilege, which allows presidents to withhold confidential information from the courts and the legislative branch, or that he was acting on the advice of his lawyers.


Steve Bannon's Defense Seeks Acquittal Then Rests Case (usnews.com)

 

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Steve Bannon found guilty in Jan. 6 contempt of Congress trial
"The defendant chose allegiance to Donald Trump over compliance with the law," a Justice Department attorney told jurors

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WASHINGTON — A jury on Friday found former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress for blowing off the Jan. 6 select committee.

Bannon's sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 21 when he will face a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 30 days and up to one year behind bars. He could also be fined $100 to $100,000. He is expected to appeal.


“This case is not complicated, but it is important,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston told jurors during closing arguments on Friday.

Bannon, Gaston argued, “did not want to recognize Congress’ authority” or play by the government’s rules.

The Justice Department sought to simplify the case, telling jurors that Bannon didn't turn over documents and testify before the Jan. 6 committee when he was required to do so in October 2021 because he thought he was "above the law." The prosecution called two witnesses — a Jan. 6 committee staff member and a FBI special agent — and rested their case on Wednesday.



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Steve Bannon found guilty in Jan. 6 contempt of Congress trial (nbcnews.com)