Earlier today Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in jail for refusing to appear and be questioned by the congressional J6 committee. However, Judge Carl Nichols has temporarily deferred the sentence pending an appeal by Bannon which will likely go into next year.
More than half the country holds contempt for congress, and the targeting of Bannon is transparently political. A defiant Steve Bannon spoke outside the courthouse after his sentence was delivered. WATCH (prompted):
WASHINGTON DC – A federal judge has sentenced longtime Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to four months in jail for defying a subpoena from lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. He will also be required to pay a $6,500 fine if his convictions stand.
U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, said Bannon inappropriately defied the House’s select committee on a matter of significant national interest, and even after roadblocks to his testimony had been removed.
“Flaunting a Congressional subpoena betrays a lack of respect for the legislative branch which represents the will of the people of the United States,” Nichols said during a sentencing hearing at the federal courthouse a few blocks from the Capitol. “In my view, Mr. Bannon has not taken responsibility for his actions.”
Nichols cushioned the blow of the four-month jail term by opting to allow Bannon, 68, to remain free pending appeal, which is likely to push the issue well into next year and perhaps longer.
A jury convicted Bannon in July on two charges of contempt of Congress — one for refusing to testify to the Jan. 6 select committee, another for refusing to provide relevant documents to the panel.
The select committee subpoenaed Bannon in September 2021 as it sought testimony from close Trump aides involved in efforts to help him subvert the 2020 election. Prosecutors charged him in November 2021, three weeks after the House voted to hold him in contempt.
[…] Under federal law, the two misdemeanor counts Bannon was found guilty of each carried a minimum term of one month’s incarceration and a maximum of a year in prison. The Justice Department had asked Nichols to sentence Bannon to a six-month prison term. Prosecutors contended that the minimum sentence is mandatory, but Bannon’s lawyers argued that he could be sentenced to probation or to home confinement, rather than prison.
Nichols said several favors weighed in favor of a “substantial” sentence for Bannon — from the seriousness and significance of the Jan. 6 select committee probe to Bannon’s continued defiance of the select committee even after Trump purported in July to “waive” any assertion of executive privilege over his cooperation.
While many legal commentators have insisted that Bannon could not have had privileged conversations with Trump after Bannon left the White House staff in 2017, Nichols pointedly said Friday that such discussions might be covered by executive privilege.
However, the judge also seemed troubled that Bannon never produced any documents to the committee, even those that seemed certain not to be covered by any privilege Trump was asserting.
Nichols did acknowledge that Bannon appeared to rely on his lawyer’s advice, and he noted that the Jan. 6 select committee opted against a civil lawsuit to enforce its subpoena. (read more)
If I sit on a jury again, I will not convict unless they are a serial killer, child abuser or Democrat politician/government employee (which is probably redundant with child abuser).
I will send no one to prison in this corrupt system. There is no rule of law or justice in this country.
Jury Nullification works. You just have to find an excuse, any at all, to refrain from saying Guilty. Just don’t use the words “Jury Nullification” anywhere in the courthouse, lol. Contempt of court will likely be thrown at you if you’re already enpanelled. Judges do be that way.
Good to know, thank you.
The reaction to tyranny by patriots on January 6th, benign of extremism, magnified many times to be an insurrection by venomous investigators anxious to attach the false label and bury its raison d’etre—the stolen election—will leave an indelible mark on the pursuit of Liberty if our Constitutional Republic manages to survive. God Bless Steve Bannon for leading the fight.
i think we should call him The General……the man has guts, may he also have glory!
I have nothing but contempt for the Joke6
Hope your right but, DC is festering with corruption
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Benny Johnson and Jack Posobiec discuss the Bannon ruling…..
House rules clearly outline how committees are to be formed on a bipartisan basis, and Pelosi has barred the republican appointments the House Minoriy leader chose, from participating in any of the proceedings. So, the ommittee is illegitimate, period.
A House inquiry committee’s authority to compel tesitomony (subpoena) is extremely limited in scope to begin with. An illegitimate committee has zero authority to issue a subpoena, and this fraud they are perpetrating is downright criminal.
God bless Steve Bannon for never giving in and never backing down, no matter what the cost.
I wonder who actually signed the subpoena? Was it the J6 commission, or Pelosi? That would make a difference.
This is essentially done. This judge verbally allocated the time for the appeal. Based on what he said he knew this was the natural next step. Though he’d never publically state as much he likly feels Bannon will appeal and it will wind up in Scumtus where even there he’ll probably win. The outcome in the appeals section in the Mordorian circuit is a virtual denial anyway. Either way, there’s a lot of trouble ahead for this country. The worst is yet to come which any “red wave” will likely buy nothing but lip service, fierce looks during hearings from Jordan et al, and “criminal referrals”not even worth the paper they’re conveyed on – to a Biden Dept. of Just-Us at that. It’s been 247 years coming and this time again will probably engage roughly 3% of the population to stand up if this feminized culture which was not even dreamed about back then. Those men endured not even a FRACTION of the BS that flies against the Heartland now. It is truly sickening we’ve allowed it this far.
Tea Party 2.0… that’s what I call it.
We have too few conservatives and too many Republicans floating around and no one will take about the massive chasm or even admit it exists.
Beginning to feel like Jim Jordan is another Trey Gowdy. All talk and no cattle.
I can’t even stand to look at Trey Gowdy now.
Steve Bannon is the modern-day Samuel Crowley– First Casualty of the Revolutionary War
Gen Flynn gets that honor.
But I get your point
Steve Bannon’s first interview after getting sentenced to 4 months in prison.
https://rumble.com/v1p4r0k-steve-bannons-first-interview-after-getting-sentenced-to-4-months-in-prison.html
Why am I having Visions of Eric Holder?
Try adding to your favorites “Stephen Bannon warroom rumble” and you can enjoy Bannon’s profound wisdom 3-4 hours a day. Bannon is the fearless MAGA leader who will go to prison for you and me.
I don’t think Bannon will spend a day behind bars. The dirty laundry, anti-American, anti-constitution, political bs of the entire J6 scam will be broadcast far and wide by the time his scam conviction makes its way to SCOTUS before its overturned.
He got the stay pending appeal. You might want to finish reading the Politico article Sundance posted
If I understood Poso correctly, there are 2 appeals courts he will have to go through to get to SCOTUS.
Trump will be back in the White House to pardon him before the court stuff is finished
Yet Alec Baldwin, who unintentionally murdered someone , walks free exactly one year later.
Maybe unintentionally. Without all the facts known, who knows.
Somebody loaded live rounds in that pistol. It reads like an episode of Murder She Wrote. Or maybe Monk.
Could you imagine what they would do to someone who was actually trying to lead a rebellion?
Bannon to me isn’t at all a revolutionary or even trying to change anything. His only answer is like most of the rights more popular commentators…
We must vote Republican to replace the Republicans to have more Republicans.
That’s not asking for anything to change, it’s just leading the fringe back to doing what the government needs it to do… Keep believing!!
Silence the messenger, intermittent all others. Does any one really believe this country conservatives / rinos will stop the destruction of our country might want to think again. Trump will not be allowed to run the uniparty will still be in charge no to matter who is elected.