Trump Ally Bannon Must Surrender to Prison by July 1 to Start 4-Month Sentence

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Trump Ally Bannon Must Surrender to Prison by July 1 to Start 4-Month Sentence

Steve Bannon was convicted in 2022 of contempt of Congress for defying subpoena from House committee that investigated 2021 attack on US Capitol

Steve Bannon, a long-time ally of former US president Donald Trump, must report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the attack on the US Capitol, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington granted prosecutors’ request to make Bannon begin serving his prison term after a three-judge panel of a federal appeal court last month upheld his contempt of Congress conviction. But Nichols also made clear on Thursday in his ruling that Bannon could seek a stay of his order, which could delay his surrender date.

Nichols, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, a Republican, had initially allowed Bannon to remain free while he fought his conviction. But the panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit said all of Bannon’s challenges lack merit.
Political strategist Bannon was convicted in 2022 of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition with the January 6 House Committee and the other for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump ally Steve Bannon to start prison sentence on July 1

The former top Trump adviser was ordered by a federal judge to report to prison to begin serving his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.

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[Brihaha]

Good. It's about time! I believe Bannon still has a trial looming for his role in the "build the wall" scam as well. It's good for other deplorable folks to see punishment being meted out. It might deter a couple of them from similar behavior.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Good.

When is his trial for trying to overthrow our government?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Good. It's about time! I believe Bannon still has a trial looming for his role in the "build the wall" scam as well.

Bannon will next appear in court in connection to the fraud case on September 23.

 

[Bradskii]

Is someone keeping a list of all the Trump supporters who have been fined and/or jailed or are still waiting to hear what the sentences will be?

 

[A2SG]

Is someone keeping a list of all the Trump supporters who have been fined and/or jailed or are still waiting to hear what the sentences will be?

Who has that kind of time?

-- A2SG, not like most of us don't have actual jobs or anything....

 

[essentialsaltes]

Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal​

 

[essentialsaltes]

Bannon's replacement gets metaphorically medieval on her enemies.

 

[Richard T]

Is someone keeping a list of all the Trump supporters who have been fined and/or jailed or are still waiting to hear what the sentences will be?

No list here but it is enough to think that there is some political prosecution going on.

Of course the list is quite long of all the democrats who broke laws but never got prosecuted. (Yet).

 

[Bradskii]

No list here but it is enough to think that there is some political prosecution going on.

Of course the list is quite long of all the democrats who broke laws but never got prosecuted. (Yet).

Well, I dunno about you...but I'll go convictions versus 'Hey, I think some of them did something wrong sometime about something!'

But keep the hope up.

 

[NxNW]

No list here but it is enough to think that there is some political prosecution going on.

Of course the list is quite long of all the democrats who broke laws but never got prosecuted. (Yet).

Those are some mighty big claims considering you don't have anything to back them up.

 

[Richard T]

Well, I dunno about you...but I'll go convictions versus 'Hey, I think some of them did something wrong sometime about something!'

But keep the hope up.

I don't hope that anyone gets unfair or selective prosecution. Sadly though I think that is the case. Here are three examples of democrats getting a pass from being prosecuted and one example of Trump being found guilty.

Lois Lerner head of the IRS likely skirted a contempt of Congress charge because the DOJ did not move the case forward. https://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/lois-lerner-no-contempt-charges-justice-department-116577

Hillary likely violates the laws by installing her own server. What Law Did Hillary Clinton Actually Break? – Penn State Law Review

Biden too has classified documents but no prosecution there. https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...-biden-classified-documents-probe-no-charges/

Somehow they just never found the will to prosecute those "alleged crimes."

Meanwhile Trump's sole guilty verdict rests on a creative use of the law, to turn misdemeanor payments that were beyond the statute of limitations into felonies based on a New York law that has never been used this way ever before. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...pe-prosecutor-alvin-braggs-legacy-2024-05-23/

The best — and worst — criticisms of Trump’s conviction

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A Trump economist, Peter Navarro too was singled out not just for prosecution, but for poor treatment in the arrest.
"At a hearing in Navarro’s case Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta signaled that he agrees that the treatment of the longtime White House trade adviser at the outset of the criminal case was unreasonably harsh.

“It is curious...at a minimum why the government treated Mr. Navarro’s arrest in the way it did,” Mehta said at the session, which Navarro attended along with his two defense attorneys. “It is a federal crime, but it is not a violent crime.”

Two others not charged, yet Navarro was placed in leg irons,
"Navarro attorney John Rowley told the judge Friday that the FBI’s treatment of Navarro and the government’s decision not to charge two other Trump White House aides who failed to comply with subpoenas, former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, suggested “animus” toward Navarro on the part of the prosecution team. He also said the decisions may have been influenced by President Joe Biden’s statement that those who defied the committee should be prosecuted." https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/15/judge-questions-feds-tactics-in-navarro-arrest-00046085

Decisions to prosecute, sentencing and all the court motions in between leave room for lots of bias. OJ. Simpson is a perfect example. Why did he get 33 years and two of his accomplices got probation? Likely because he was tried for murder twice. The robbery and kidnapping gave them an excuse to throw the book at him. It was payback.
"Hall-of-Fame football player O.J. Simpson is currently serving a 33-year prison sentence in Nevada for a 2008 conviction for armed robbery and kidnapping — a sentence legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin calls "totally bogus."
"It's the perfect perversity of the O.J. Simpson case that he was acquitted of the crime he was guilty of and convicted of a crime he's innocent of," Source: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/14/4819...he-perfect-perversity-of-the-o-j-simpson-case

The justice on Trump and some friends is perverse as well. His Presidency is so bad to many democrats that the plan was to make sure he was charged in every way possible, so that he will lose the election.

 

[Richard T]

Those are some mighty big claims considering you don't have anything to back them up.

Read the latest post. I backed them up pretty well. Three examples of failure to prosecute and three examples of unfair or unusual treatment. Sadly that is the way you court system works. I once talked to a lawyer who told me that he would never take a federal case because the government simply is too vindictive. A lawyer can win the case, but if he does the payback will be far worse.

 

[Yttrium]

Biden too has classified documents but no prosecution there. https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...-biden-classified-documents-probe-no-charges/

Somehow they just never found the will to prosecute those "alleged crimes."

Although I hold it against Biden and wouldn't mind seeing him prosecuted for it, they're not going to prosecute him for anything while he's still in office. You'll have to wait until he leaves office.

But there's also the fact that he gave the documents back when they were found. They wouldn't be prosecuting Trump for the documents at all if he had given them back in a timely manner.

 

[Richard T]

So if I rob the bank and return the money all is forgiven? Seems there is an even bigger problem if so.

 

[Yttrium]

So if I rob the bank and return the money all is forgiven? Seems there is an even bigger problem if so.

It's not covered under theft law, it's possession of classified information. Completely different situations.

 

[Richard T]

Yes, I was kidding but it does set a bad precedence. I bet the rank and file Federal worker that takes home classified documents gets some stiff penalties. Here is the link Who goes to jail over classified docs – and who doesn’t?

 

[NxNW]

Read the latest post. I backed them up pretty well. Three examples of failure to prosecute and three examples of unfair or unusual treatment.

It's not failure to prosecute when there is insufficient reason to prosecute.

Sadly that is the way you court system works. I once talked to a lawyer who told me that he would never take a federal case because the government simply is too vindictive. A lawyer can win the case, but if he does the payback will be far worse.

Well, your random anecdote is certainly convincing.

 

[Bradskii]

I don't hope that anyone gets unfair or selective prosecution. Sadly though I think that is the case. Here are three examples...

Excellent. You should have contacted Trumps lawyers: 'Here's a great defence...other people might have got away with other offences. Therefore Trump is innocent!'

Do you work in the law? You could make a fortune with that concept.

 

[christian-surfer]

Although I hold it against Biden and wouldn't mind seeing him prosecuted for it, they're not going to prosecute him for anything while he's still in office. You'll have to wait until he leaves office.

But there's also the fact that he gave the documents back when they were found. They wouldn't be prosecuting Trump for the documents at all if he had given them back in a timely manner.

Trump was president which is a high elected office. The FBI are not elected. It seems like the president should have access to classified information more so than unelected spooks. I believe there are other examples of that. Biden was a congressman when he had classified documents. I am really not a fan of government secrecy anyway, I think it’s horrible if you ask me so I am not impressed by any of that regardless.

These secret agencies have also committed numerous crimes much worse than having documents were lives where destroyed etc. I regard many of them as the criminals and they have lied constantly. When I hear people say no one is above the law, it seems like a bit of a joke because the intelligence agencies get away with murder.

The president needs some degree of immunity if anyone does and if the intelligence agencies and military are allowed to operate the way they do, otherwise an infinite amount of frivolous lawsuits can be hurled at the president for everything and anything just to gum up the works which is what we have been seeing

The law that applies to the president is impeachment. That’s the way the constitution was written. That’s the law that we have. It may not be perfect but it was all thought out and worked out by the founders