The federal court ruled that former President Trump adviserWar RoomHost Stephen K. Bannon is scheduled to report to prison by July 1.
Bannon
Said “This is all for one purpose: This is to shut down the MAGA movement, this is to shut down grassroots conservatives and this is to shut down President Trump,” said reporters outside the courthouse on Thursday.
“Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, the entire Department of Justice, they’re not going to silence Trump. They’re not going to silence Navarro. They’re not going to silence Bannon. And they’re definitely not going to silence MAGA!” Bannon added.
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While it appears acceptable for some Democrats and Biden’s Justice Department to ignore subpoenas issued by House Republicans, that tolerance is clearly not universal.
Bannon was convicted in July 2022 of two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from a Democratic-controlled House select committee investigating the January 6 protests. He was subsequently sentenced to four months in prison.
“May I ask what exactly do you mean by American justice?”
Following the ruling, Bannon said:
Said“We’re going to win in the Supreme Court.” report National Pulse. “No jail or prison can be built that can silence me.”
Around the time of Bannon’s sentencing, Blaze Media co-founder and national radio host Glenn BeckSaid “Do you recognise your country yet? We were once a country with fundamental rights given to us by God, and we lived under a legal system that promised justice. Not social justice,” she said in the special. justice Justice. May I ask what exactly does justice mean in America?”
“Was it fair that Steve Bannon got four months in prison for contempt of Congress? I’ve seen people defying Congress for decades and no one went to prison,” Beck continued. “The last time someone went to prison for this was in 1961. And before that… 1948! I’ve seen people openly defying Congress, but this is rare.”
“Selectively deciding whether to enforce the law is not justice,” Beck added.[Bannon will do] Although he was sentenced to four months in prison, a former FBI lawyer who was arrested in January 2021 for falsifying evidence to spy on President Trump’s staff avoided prison time and received a lighter punishment.”
Bannon is not the only Trump adviser to be subject to selective justice.
The following September, Peter Navarro, former White House trade adviser to President Trump,
He was also convicted for contempt of parliament.
Navarro’s lawyer
I wrote to The Supreme Court stated that “the assertion of executive privilege by a senior presidential adviser to bring a prosecution is inconsistent with the constitutional independence required by the principle of separation of powers.”
“Prior to the prosecution of Dr. Navarro, the Department of Justice has never concluded that a senior advisor to the President could assert executive privilege and be prosecuted for contempt of Congress,” his lawyers added.
Navarro, whose appeal failed,
report Went to prison in March.
Bannon goes to jail
Carl NicholsThe Trump-appointed judge over Bannon’s case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia initially suspended the sentence while the “War Room” host appealed his guilty conviction. report CNN.
But a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overruled Mr. Bannon, and partisan prosecutors urged Mr. Nichols to send Mr. Bannon to prison.
The judge indicated Thursday that he saw no reason to suspend Bannon’s sentence “any further.”
“Biden and his aides are seeking to remove two of President Trump’s most powerful surrogates from the political battlefield ahead of the 2024 presidential election.”
Ahead of Thursday’s hearing, Bannon’s lawyers reportedly argued that the judge did not have the authority to send him to prison before he had exhausted his appeal options, including an en banc bench of the D.C. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, as Navarro has attempted to do.
Outside the court, one of Bannon’s lawyers said, “This case raises dynamic issues about the separation of powers. We know from years of case law, decades of history, that presidents and former presidents have the authority to exercise executive privilege. … It is a presidential prerogative to exercise it, and when it is exercised it is presumptively valid. It is not for Congress to decide whether it was a proper exercise, and Congress cannot be the arbiter of how to respond to it. Only the courts can do that.”
reaction
“While Steve Bannon is actually going to jail for contempt of Congress, many
Others passed by”
“I would say this sets a precedent that Republicans should use in their own investigations. For example, the Republican leaders of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Ways and Means Committee.
Mentioned Hunter Biden “He could be held in contempt for lying to Congress, but it wouldn’t be enforced,” Bedford said, “and unfortunately it wouldn’t set a precedent because Republicans don’t take the same line as Democrats.”
Article III Project Mike Davis
I got it. “For 250 years, dating back to the time of George Washington, we have had constitutional executive privilege, which allows the President of the United States to receive candid and confidential advice from his advisors without fear that the advice will be made public in a court or before Congress,” the statement said.
“President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland have shamefully destroyed the Biden Justice Department in a partisan attempt to politicize it and weaponize it to attack President Trump and his top aides,” Davis said. “Biden and his aides are seeking to remove two of President Trump’s top aides from the political battlefield ahead of the 2024 presidential election.”
Davis added that this is all part of a “broader criminal conspiracy by Biden, his aides and his allies to politicize and weaponize law enforcement and intelligence agencies for the purposes of a partisan legal war and election interference, and to violate the constitutional rights of Trump, his aides and his allies.”
Jack Posobiec, a senior editor at Human Events and a frequent guest on Mr. Bannon’s “War Room,” highlighted the nominal Republicans who sued Mr. Bannon for contempt and essentially sealed his fate.
Natalie Winters, co-host of “War Room”
Tweeted“Fuck Merrick Garland,” and “‘War Room’ isn’t going anywhere.”
Darren Beatty, former Trump White House staffer
I got it. “Now that Democrats can no longer force social media companies to censor, they have resorted to simply jailing critics, which is the second stage of deplatforming.”
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