Tag Archives: Steve Bannon

Politico reports: A federal appeals court has denied a last-minute bid by Steve Bannon, a longtime Donald Trump adviser and prominent conservative podcaster, to stave off a four-month jail sentence for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee three years ago. A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Thursday night that Bannon’s bid …

“By the way, MSNBC producers, you got to do better when you put up a TikTok that’s got me in there? I’m not a convicted felon. It’s a misdemeanor. Learn what actually happened. It’s a misdemeanor. It’s a misdemeanor. You guys spent all that money? You ought to get a staff that could do some checking for accuracy. “You people …

CNN reports: When former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon goes to prison, he won’t be serving time at what’s known as a “Club Fed,” the most comfortable type of facility in the federal system, as he had wanted, according to people familiar with the arrangements. Instead of a minimum-security prison camp, where many nonviolent offenders serve their time, Bannon – …

Newsweek reports: While appearing at Turning Point Action’s (TPA) convention on Saturday, conservative media personality Steve Bannon issued a Make America Great Again (MAGA) battle cry to a cheering audience when he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s very simple: Victory or Death!” Bannon outlined what America would look like if former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican 2024 presidential nominee, …

Vanity Fair reports: Days after being ordered to surrender by July 1 for a four-month prison sentence, longtime Trump adviser Stephen Bannon told Tucker Carlson: “In my 20s I served my country on a Navy destroyer, and in my 70s I’ll serve my country in a federal prison. It doesn’t make any difference to me. It won’t change my life …

Law & Crime reports: Former Donald Trump White House senior strategist Steve Bannon has asked an appellate court in Washington, D.C., to keep him out of prison while he continues to appeal his contempt of Congress conviction. In a 36-page emergency motion filed late Tuesday, Bannon asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a …

“Ali Velshi, everybody. Democrats are fascist. They’re fascist. Look at how they’ve used the tools of the state, this is why they want the warrantless FISA, you’re fascist. “And we’re taking this apparatus that you’ve used against the American people, and you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to turn it back on you. Legally. Constitutionally. Inside the …

“McCabe. You should be worried. You should be very worried. But also understand this, brother. We have extradition treaties with virtually every country in the world. And you go ahead and run and run as far as you want. “The guys out there, you know why they fear – these are smart people. They know the law. How is the …

“Not one time has he ever asked for anything other than this: that you fight. That you stand up and fight back. No more time for the weak, spineless, feckless Republicans. Steve Bannon is being marched off to the gulag. Donald Trump faces sentencing in one month’s time. “If you don’t understand what time it is — if you don’t …

“All of this is about one thing. This is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump. “Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail in every number, and every poll shows that there’s nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up. “There’s not a prison built …

NBC News reports: A federal judge on Thursday ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 Committee after a higher court rejected his appeal. Bannon was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying the committee’s …

CBS News reports: Trump ally Steve Bannon is set to appear in a Washington, D.C. federal courtroom on Thursday as a judge weighs whether to clear the way for Bannon to serve out a four-month prison sentence. Prosecutors pushed last month for the former White House chief strategist to be sent to prison after an appeals court denied a request …

Axios reports: If former President Trump wins in November, top supporters will push him to investigate, prosecute — and even try to imprison — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who won Trump’s conviction in the hush-money case. “Of course [Bragg] should be — and will be — jailed,” Steve Bannon, one of the top voices of the MAGA movement, …

The Daily Beast reports: Two weeks after abruptly leaving pro-Trump streaming channel Right Side Broadcasting Network, MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s paramour Brian Glenn has resurfaced at yet another fringe outlet. This time, he is the national campaign correspondent for far-right cable network Real America’s Voice. Besides covering Trump’s campaign rallies for RAV, Glenn will host a show featuring Trump …

“Are these progressive women, these feminists – are they saying we should have Handmaid’s Tale? Did they just say can’t you muzzle your own wife? I think that was the quote. What is going on? Are they that unhinged? Because Justice Alito’s wife, right, is now on my short list to be VP. She’s a hammer. She’s not Handmaid’s Tale. …

“We are on the march. We are taking over institutions and we are going to purge those institutions. We are going to purge it of the weaklings and pencil necks like you. This is coming, this is going to happen. We are the march. We are ascendant. This is not a cult.” – Steve Bannon, yesterday on his podcast. Also …

Law & Crime reports: Former Donald Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon — who is currently issuing a call for a purge within the Justice Department and FBI should the former president win the 2024 election — has been scheduled to appear in federal court next week where he may learn whether he will be sent to prison now that …

Courthouse News reports: Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui scammed supporters out of more than $1 billion under the guise of launching a movement against the Chinese Communist Party, prosecutors said during opening arguments Friday in Manhattan federal court. Guo — also known as Miles Guo and Ho Wan Kwok — is accused of lying to prospective investors and promising them …

“We mock you. We mock your fear. We want your fear. It’s going to be accountability. We are taking apart the administrative state. We’re going to destroy the deep state, and we’re going to hold everybody responsible that put this republic in the situation its in today. Accountability, responsibility. And that will come with authority. The authority of Donald J. …

The Daily Beast reports: The judge overseeing Steve Bannon’s case has given him until Thursday to respond to federal prosecutors who are pushing for the MAGA mastermind to finally begin his four-month prison sentence. In a new filing Tuesday, prosecutors wrote, “there is no longer a ‘substantial question of law that is likely to result in a reversal or an …