Former President Donald Trump’s former advisor, Steve Bannon, was sentenced to four months in prison and a $6,500 fine for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee’s group investigating January 6th. Bannon in widely credited with helping Donald Trump win his 2016 Presidential campaign.
US District Judge Carl J. Nichols sentenced Bannon after he was found guilty in July of two counts of contempt of Congress. This is due to Bannon’s refusal to testify, along with refusing to hand over documents related to January 6th.
According to Fox News:
Bannon claimed executive privilege precluded him from appearing before the committee to talk about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, though prosecutors noted that he left the White House in 2017.
The Justice Department began closing arguments Friday morning with prosecutor Molly Gaston telling jurors, “This is a man who didn’t show up.”
“He didn’t want to recognize Congress’ authority or play by the government’s rules,” Gaston said. “Our government only works if people show up and play by the rules and are held accountable when they do not.”
“When he chose to defy a congressional subpoena, that was a crime,” Gaston continued. “The defendant chose allegiance to Donald Trump over compliance with the law.”
The January 6th committee is widely criticized for being biased against Donald Trump and his political allies. While the government likely chose to not look at the Black Lives Matter riots, which caused far more damage and resulted in the deaths of many innocent people, they also choose to look at the media portrayal of January 6th – which exaggerates the situation. For a situation that was over within a few hours, nearly 2 years later the government is choosing to look into every nook and cranny in an attempt to see who they can bring down next.
Jail time vs Prison time
He should’ve showed up and did a Lois Lerner and plead the 5th to every question.
Who is this judge who thinks congress has the power to supena? They can request. That’s it. This isn’t even congress. It’s a committee made up of few power hungry goons who claim to know more than anyone else. Our Government has become so corrupt it’s not even recognizable as a free country. Trump didn’t incite anything and these morons know it. We need true representation as called for in article 1, section 2
I think that republicans need to start holding democrats and rhinos accountable also. Two tier justice can not keep happing. No one has been held accountable on the left and US Supreme Court justices seem to also be in democrats pockets. This has to stop.
What a joke. Testing the waters to see if any outrage in this biased political act. Bc they are moving up the ladder
Democrat Social Communist SHOULD BE VERY VERY PROUD!
“GOD BLASS AMERICA” not so much for the democrat social communist Party!
Hopefully serve time in white collar Jail Center??
at least president trump has one person that has his back or seems to anyway. he didn’t abey congress or the sham j6 committee because it is not legal and is bias.