Prosecutors asked earlier this month that a protective order be issued that would limit what Bannon and his lawyers can release from the ‘discovery’ process to the public or media. This would include grand jury transcripts that led to the actual indictment. The material is essential for a defense to …
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The indictment was released on Friday, just over three weeks after Bannon was held in contempt by Congress for failing to answer a subpoena to testify to the Democrat-run committee investigating the January 6 pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill. Bannon claimed at the time that he did not have to …
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Bannon’s lawyer had previously announced that his client was not going to comply with the order, one of a handful sent to top Trump allies over the January 6 Capitol riot. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) announced the pursuit of a criminal contempt charge on Thursday morning, adding that the …
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Bannon reportedly met with Trump political appointees this week and discussed both the president’s and the party’s future, insisting “shock troops” would be needed to secure conservative victories. “If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take …
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Will this one small step for Steve end with a big drop to the prison time his haters crave? Bannon was pardoned on federal charges of money laundering and wire fraud as part of his work on fundraising campaign We Build the Wall, a private-sector effort to finish Trump’s long-touted …
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The public campaign to convince President Trump to stop the prosecution of the two whistleblowers – even merely as a snub to his political opponents – has ultimately failed. Neither the jailed founder of WikiLeaks nor the fugitive NSA contractor were on the list of clemencies released on Tuesday. Trump …
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Speaking remotely at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the Connecticut Democrat referred to a Nov. 5 podcast in which Bannon, formerly President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, said he would like to put the heads of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray “on pikes” as a warning for other …
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On an episode of ‘Bannon’s War Room’ on Thursday, the conservative political strategist and commentator remarked that as a first matter of business in a hypothetical second Trump term, both Anthony Fauci, a senior health official, and FBI Director Christopher Wray should lose their heads. Bannon, however, indicated that he …
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Bannon was arrested on Thursday and charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. The charges, which carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years, stemmed from his alleged misuse of funds donated to build a wall on the US border with Mexico. …
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