Tag Archives: Steve Bannon

The Washington Post reports: In Michigan, a right-wing group announced it had launched “Operation Overwatch” to hunt down election-related malfeasance, issuing a press release that repeated the warning “We are watching” 10 times. Supporters of former president Donald Trump who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen have summoned a swarm of poll watchers and workers in battleground states to …

Mediaite reports: “The whole Justice Department under Merrick Garland has become radically partisan,” Bannon told Tucker Carlson on Friday night. “I strongly believe you’ll see Merrick Garland impeached next year by the new Congress.” “What do you think this says about our system more broadly?” Carlson asked. “You are saying you’re being sent to prison because you advised Donald Trump, …

The Washington Post reports: Eleven allies of and advisers to former president Donald Trump have been convicted or pleaded guilty in recent years to various offenses, with their total sentences nearing 30 years of imprisonment. Those convicted include three top campaign officials, two top White House officials, two former business employees, several campaign and transition advisers, and Trump’s longest-serving informal …

Forbes reports: Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon will serve time in prison for contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the House January 6 Committee, a federal judge ruled Friday, imposing a harsher sentence than Bannon’s attorneys had asked for—but also letting the sentence stay paused until Bannon can appeal his case. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols sentenced …

NBC News reports: Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is likely facing at least a month behind bars when he’s sentenced Friday in a Washington, D.C., federal court for criminal contempt of Congress. Bannon, 68, was convicted in July on two contempt of Congress charges for ignoring subpoenas from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot. Prosecutors have asked Judge …

Mediaite reports: Steve Bannon shied away from the bombastic rhetoric for which he is so well known on Monday in a sentencing memo pleading with the court to give him probation after he was convicted over the summer of two criminal contempt charges after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House January 6 Committee. Apparently cowed by …

ABC News reports: The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence Steve Bannon, adviser to former President Donald Trump, to six months in prison and make him pay a $200,000 fine for his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, according to a new court filing. “From the moment that the Defendant, Stephen K. Bannon, accepted …

Media Matters has the transcript: This is the biggest inflection point in human history. In the lived experience of half of this room, or maybe more, we’re going to get to a point where you’re going to have human 2.0. Right? They’re telling you that. They’re funding that. This is not science fiction, this is fact. They talk about they’re …

The Guardian reports: In June 2020, less than five months before polling day, Donald Trump agreed to a “coup d’état” to remove his son-in-law Jared Kushner from control of his presidential re-election campaign and replace him with the far-right provocateur Steve Bannon. The coup had support from Donald Trump Jr but according to a new book by the former Trump …

“These things are all been in the works and so they declared war then they immediately go, they obviously can’t get to President Trump so they going to get to Alex Jones, they’re going to Steve Bannon. “They’re going to get to everybody that’s got a platform. They’re trying to shut our platforms down. And they’re trying to stop our …

Law & Crime reports: Ushered into a Manhattan criminal courtroom in handcuffs, a smirking Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to six criminal charges related to a scheme to defraud donors of We Build the Wall. The indictment broadly mirrors the federal allegations pardoned by former President Donald Trump. Officers removed Bannon’s handcuffs before the proceedings began, and from there, the …

The Washington Post reports: Stephen K. Bannon has been charged with money laundering, fraud and conspiracy in connection with the “We Build the Wall” fundraising scheme, for which he received a federal pardon during Donald Trump’s final days in the White House. Bannon, 68, was convicted this summer of contempt of Congress and is awaiting sentencing in that matter. He …

The New York Times reports: Stephen K. Bannon, who once served as top adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Thursday and was expected to face charges later in the day. The precise charges against Mr. Bannon were unknown, and the indictment against him is sealed. But they are expected to be …

The Washington Post reports: Stephen K. Bannon is expected to surrender to prosecutors Thursday morning to face a state-level criminal indictment, less than two months after being convicted of contempt of Congress and close to two years after former president Donald Trump pardoned him in a federal case involving defrauded contributors to a $25 million fundraising effort. Details of the …

The Washington Post reports: Stephen K. Bannon is expected to surrender to state prosecutors on Thursday to face a new criminal indictment, people familiar with the matter said, weeks after he was convicted of contempt of Congress and nearly two years after he received a federal pardon from President Donald Trump in a federal fraud case. The precise details of …

Fox News reports: A federal judge on Friday denied a request by Steve Bannon for a new trial, more than a month after jurors convicted him of contempt of Congress after he ignored a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. Bannon argued for a new trial based on perceived flawed instructions to the jury and that he was blocked …

Mediaite has the transcript: I think if you look at Steve – Steve was actually with us very early. He was great on the campaign. He was a great partner when it got to the White House. I think maybe the power got to his head a little bit or he just – it was being more of what he …

Mediaite reports: Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon went fully conspiratorial with Alex Jones by claiming the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was part of a “deep state” plot to have Donald Trump assassinated or found with incriminating evidence. “I do not think it’s beyond this administrative state and their deep state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE BANNON (HOST): What our folks want to know, is when we take back the House, is it going to be same-old-same-old, what’s going to be different? Are we going to go on the attack? REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL): You know what, the truth is like a lion, it doesn’t need to be protected, it …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE BANNON: I’m reading this thing that the RNC is working with this new group and it’s Cleta Mitchell – she’s been on the show many times talking about it – and they meant it as a hit piece. This thing was like a paid advertisement cause it shows you the quality of training they’re …