Steve Bannon

Steve Bannon, a former chief White House strategist to President Donald Trump, called on Republicans not to spend time defending him but instead ensure ...

"You have the Republicans and the MAGA forces on one side, you have these radical Democrats and the other – this is not rule of law, it's like a banana republic. We have to win massively on the 8th." "I think the only way you're going to do it is you got to start at the top. Graves – who prosecuted Bannon – appeared to be a "partisan Democrat." Graves also served on the advance-team for the Clinton-Gore 1996 campaign. James Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pulled his full slate of appointees after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to seat two of them – Reps. "The whole Justice Department under Merrick Garland has become radically partisan. "There's no substitute for victory. "To me, elected officials right now should just focus on winning – and winning with the biggest wave we can. What I want Republicans to do is in the new Congress focus on cleaning at the rat's nest at DOJ and clean out the rat's nest at the FBI." I don't need Republicans having my back.

The former Trump special advisor was sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress, but remains a free man for now.

At the time Bannon argued that he was unable to testify until the courts had resolved an issues related to former President Trump’s supposed invocation of executive privilege. This remained the line, despite the fact the Clark had repeatedly told Bannon that he was not blocked from testifying by executive privilege. However prosecutors have dismissed the move as “a hollow gesture” which spoke of Bannon’s desperation to avoid trial. Bannon refused to give evidence before the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. But presiding Judge Carl Nichols ruled that Bannon should remain a free man until he has exhausted his right to appeal. If Republicans take flip the House in January then it is unlikely that the committee’s business will continue.

Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, was ordered to spend four months in prison and pay a $6500 fine for refusing to comply ...

Instead, Bannon insisted he would be able to pay any fine imposed, the memo shows. In their sentencing memo, prosecutors referenced several examples from the 1960s, including a six-month sentence given to organized crime boss Peter Licavoli, who was convicted for refusing to testify in response to a congressional subpoena. Criminal contempt of Congress, while rarely prosecuted, has usually resulted in prison sentences, according to the government. The government asked that Bannon be sentenced to six months in prison and pay a $200,000 fine. “That’s not a man who thinks he is above the law,” Schoen said. Bannon chose to hide behind a claim of executive privilege and advice of counsel, and thumbed his nose at requests from the Jan.