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Supreme Court rejects Trump ally Steve Bannon’s bid to delay prison sentence

June 28, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid to delay a prison sentence for longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon as he appeals his conviction for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

Bannon filed an emergency appeal after a judge ordered him to report to prison July 1 for a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The court previously denied a similar request from another Trump aide.

The appeal was originally directed to Chief Justice John Roberts, who oversees such requests from Washington. He referred it to the full court.

The court rejected it without explanation, as is typical. There were no noted dissents.

Defense attorneys have argued the case raises issues that should be examined by the Supreme Court, including Bannon’s previous lawyer’s belief that the subpoena was invalid because former President Donald Trump had asserted executive privilege. Prosecutors, though, say Bannon had left the White House years before and Trump had never invoked executive privilege in front of the committee.

A jury found Bannon guilty nearly two years ago of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and a second for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in the Republican ex-president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols allowed Bannon to stay free while he appealed but recently ordered him to report to prison after an appeals court panel upheld his contempt of Congress convictions. The panel later rejected Bannon’s bid to avoid reporting to prison.

Bannon is expected to appeal his conviction to the full appeals court, and Republican House leaders have put their support behind stepping in to assert the Jan. 6 committee was improperly created, effectively trying to deem the subpoena Bannon received as illegitimate.

Another Trump aide, trade adviser Peter Navarro, has also been convicted of contempt of Congress. He reported to prison in March to serve his four-month sentence after the Supreme Court refused his bid to delay the sentence.

Bannon is also facing criminal charges in New York state court alleging he duped donors who gave money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bannon has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges, and that trial has been postponed until at least the end of September.

https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-contempt-jan-6-supreme-court-510b9a485168d227a6ffd6ca6602d5cb

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

June 28, 2024

Bannon, a former Trump adviser, was convicted of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee and sentenced to four months.

WASHINGTON — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute bid to stave off his four-month sentence for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee.

Bannon was convicted in Washington on two counts of contempt of Congress nearly two full years ago, in July 2022, and sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols had put his sentence on hold as he pursued an appeal of his conviction, which was rejected in May. Nichols then ordered Bannon to report to prison by July 1, saying there was no basis to continue to delay the sentence. An appeals court then rejected Bannon’s appeal of the decision, leaving only the Supreme Court to help him avoid incarceration.

Bannon was held in contempt of Congress after he blew off the Jan. 6 committee's request for documents and testimony as part of its investigation into former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and remain in power in the lead-up to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Bannon's lawyer told the Supreme Court that he was relying upon the advice of counsel, saying he was waiting for issues of executive privilege to be settled. But as federal prosecutors noted in their 2022 sentencing memo, there was no operational claim of executive privilege, as Bannon had been a part of the Trump administration years earlier, not during the time frame being examined by the Jan. 6 committee.

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was sentenced to four months in federal prison on the same charges, is finishing up his sentence after he reported to prison in March.

Bannon, who is 70, has already been assigned an inmate number by the federal Bureau of Prisons:05635-509.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/steve-bannon-must-report-prison-monday-supreme-court-rejects-last-minu-rcna158584

Steve Bannon to report to prison Monday after Supreme Court declines to give him a reprieve

The decision means the influential right-wing podcaster will head to prison on July 1, with his release date just days before the November election.

06/28/2024 02:59 PM EDT

Steve Bannon is going to prison.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a last-ditch bid by the longtime Donald Trump ally to stave off a four-month sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 select committee three years ago.

The high court’s decision — a one-sentence denial without explanation — means the influential right-wing podcaster will head to prison on July 1, with his release date just days before the November 2024 election.

Bannon had sought an emergency order from Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles such requests if they originate in Washington, D.C. Roberts referred the request to the full court, which rejected it without any public dissents.

Bannon will become the second former Trump aide to serve prison time for blowing off a subpoena from the House panel, established by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election and the pro-Trump riot that threatened Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. Peter Navarro is nearing the end of his own four-month sentence in a federal prison in Miami.

The court’s decision came despite last-minute efforts by congressional Republicans — including Speaker Mike Johnson — to intervene on Bannon’s behalf. Johnson and other House GOP leaders agreed Tuesday to submit a legal brief supporting Bannon’s bid to overturn his criminal conviction. And Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) submitted his own brief to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon.

Bannon had argued that his decision to blow off the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena was rooted in the advice of his lawyer at the time, Robert Costello, as well as a belief that Trump wanted him to assert executive privilege. However, the Jan. 6 committee repeatedly warned Bannon that most of the topics it intended to query him about were not related to his conversations with Trump and therefore could not be privileged. They urged him to submit a list of documents he believed were privileged and to appear for a deposition to answer questions on topics that were unquestionably unprivileged. Bannon refused to do either.

The panel intended to query Bannon about his efforts, along with Navarro, to strategize with Republican members of Congress to challenge the election results on Jan. 6. They also wanted to ask him about comments he made on his “War Room” podcast the day before the riot, warning that “all hell was going to break loose” on Jan. 6.

The House held Bannon in contempt for his defiance in October 2021, and the Justice Department indicted him several weeks later. A jury convicted Bannon of the two misdemeanor charges the following July, but the judge in his trial agreed to permit Bannon to remain out of prison while he pursued his appeal, agreeing that the appellate courts might want to reconsider some of the standards for contempt of Congress charges.

But the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals roundly rejected Bannon’s appeal, so Judge Carl Nichols opted last month to rescind Bannon’s release, ordering him to prison on July 1 unless the appeals court or Supreme Court intervened.

Bannon recently got an extension from the appeals court allowing him to ask for the court’s full bench to take up his appeal. But the Supreme Court’s action Friday means Bannon will be in prison before the appeals court decides that request. He could also ask the Supreme Court to review his conviction and sentence, but he will likely have completed his prison term before that petition would be acted on by the justices.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/28/steve-bannon-going-to-prison-scotus-00165826

Bannon Is ‘Quite Concerned’ About His New Prison Digs

DO NOT PASS GO Jun. 28, 2024

He was ordered to report to jail on Monday after his last-minute plea to the Supreme Court was rejected.

MAGA loyalist Steve Bannon is dreading his soon-to-be-reality of being housed alongside sex offenders and violent criminals when he reports to prison in Connecticut on Monday, a source close to him told The Daily Beast on Friday.

Bannon, 70, was told to face the music on Friday when the nation’s highest court declined to indulge his pleas for a last-minute reprieve. With a one-sentence ruling, the Supreme Court ordered that he could no longer delay his sentence while he appeals the conviction.

Bannon is set to spend four months at FCI Danbury—a low-level prison in Connecticut where he’ll be housed alongside criminals convicted of sexual and violent crimes. The source said that’s something Bannon is “quite concerned with.”

His charges stem from him blowing off a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Capitol riot. He has spent two years since then trying every avenue of appeal, arguing that he was only following the advice of his lawyer, who told him then-President Donald Trump had evoked executive privilege. (Multiple courts ruled that there was no executive privilege since Trump had already left office.)

He’s expected to surrender to prison on Monday with the help of his prison consultant, Sam Mangel, who also counts Trump’s locked up pal Peter Navarro as a client.

NBC News reported that Bannon has already been assigned an inmate number by the federal Bureau of Prisons: 05635-509.

His sentence will overlap with that of Navarro, who started his four-month jail stint in March after being convicted on the same charges.

Unlike Navarro, however, Bannon has a separate criminal detainer placed on him related to his pending trial in Manhattan for defrauding supporters of the “We Build the Wall” movement. That means he must report to a low-level federal facility instead of a camp, which is must less strict on inmates and is where Navarro has been since the spring.

While Navarro’s biggest pain behind bars is likely sheer boredom and slow communications, a source said Bannon will be on a more rigid day-to-day schedule that has less freedom of movement, stricter check-ins, and will be surrounded by more dangerous criminals.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-is-quite-concerned-about-his-new-prison-digs

Steve Bannon says he has no regrets as he heads to prison

Ex-Trump White House adviser spoke with ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. June 28, 2024

On Monday, Steve Bannon will be behind bars in federal prison, but the ex-Trump White House adviser said Friday he's feeling great and has no regrets about defying Congress to avoid talking about his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.

In fact, Bannon told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl that he considers himself a "political prisoner" and that his four-month sentence will only make his influence grow.

"I'm a political prisoner … It won't change me. It will not suppress my voice. My voice will not be suppressed when I'm there," he told Karl.

MORE: Steve Bannon to report to prison after Supreme Court denies his request to delay sentence

Bannon is set to report to federal prison on Monday after the Supreme Court denied a request Friday to remain out of prison while he continues to appeal his contempt of Congress conviction.

Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022 after being found guilty of defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

After Bannon was sentenced, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols agreed to postpone the jail term while Bannon appealed the conviction. Last month the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction and Nichols ordered Bannon on June 6 to report to prison on July 1.

Watch more of Jonathan Karl's interview with Steve Bannon on Sunday's episode of "This Week."

Bannon told Karl he still has no regrets about defying the House Jan. 6 committee's subpoena and is looking to appeal the court decision.

MORE: Judge orders ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1

"If it took me going to prison to finally get the House to start to move, to start to delegitimize the illegitimate J6 committee, then, hey, guess what, my going to prison is worth it," he said.

The January 6th committee was established by a House resolution that passed along party lines in 2021 by a vote of 222-190. Two Republicans, Illinois' Adam Kinzinger and Wyoming's Liz Cheney, joined Democrats in supporting the measure and later served on the committee.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/steve-bannon-regrets-heads-prison/story?id=111519252

US supreme court rejects Steve Bannon attempt to avoid prison

Trump ally, convicted of contempt of Congress, fails in bid for emergency delay and must report to prison by Monday

Fri 28 Jun 2024

The supreme court has rejected Steve Bannon’s attempt to avoid prison time following his contempt of Congress convictions.

In a brief ruling issued on Friday, the supreme court ordered Donald Trump’s former adviser, who has been challenging convictions over his defiance of subpoenas surrounding the House’s January 6 insurrection investigation, to report to prison by Monday.

Two side-by-side photos, one of a close-up of a man speaking into a microphone and pointing at the camera, and the other of a woman wearing a black robe and smiling at the camera

Judge grants Trump lawyers hearing on excluding key evidence in Mar-a-Lago case

“The application for release pending appeal presented to the chief justice and by him referred to the court is denied,” the order said.

In July 2022, Bannon was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress and was later sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022.

Federal prosecutors say Bannon believed that he was “above the law” when he refused a deposition with the January 6 House select committee, in addition to refusing to turn over documents on his efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election results.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/28/supreme-court-steve-bannon-prison

Supreme Court says Trump ally Steve Bannon must begin prison sentence

Bannon wanted to remain free while appealing his contempt of Congress conviction to the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON − Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is headed to prison after Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday rejected his emergency request to postpone a four-month sentence while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.

Bannon is scheduled to report to prison on July 1.

Bannon was convicted in 2022 for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-steve-bannon-prison-sentence/74207784007/

"President Donald Trump savaged his former chief strategist Steve Bannon on Wednesday, contending that “he not only lost his job” but also “lost his mind” when he left the White House."

“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency,”Trump said in a statement.

"Earlier Wednesday, excerpts from an upcoming Michael Wolff book quoted Bannon, who did not join the Trump campaign until August 2016, also was quoted as saying."

In his statement, the president said Bannon — the nationalist firebrand —“had very little to do” with his electoral victory in 2016. Trump added that “Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look.”

“Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was,” Trump said.

“It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books,”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGlz9tY0pqg Trump comments on arrest of former strategist Steve Bannon | ABC News

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/trump-disavows-steve-bannon-he-not-only-lost-his-job-he-lost-his-mind.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sloppy-steve-bannon-trumps-latest-calling/story?id=52161329

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/05/trump-sloppy-steve-bannon-michael-wolff-326365

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/new-book-alleges-trump-doodles-about-sloppy-steve-bannon.html

https://rumble.com/embed/v2if110/?pub=4

Jeffrey Epstein Interview w/ Steve Bannon Teaser (4K)

"Epstein was sharing clips of the training footage with friends and that is probably how Wolff got the audiorecording. Maybe he did not receive it himself but knew someone that did and was allowed to see it and then (secretly) record it.

Epstein's brother Mark also received a clip in which Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realised Trump was a crook."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNEDia5y-TU

Steve Bannon Coached Jeffrey Epstein to Appear ‘Friendly’ and ‘Sympathetic’ on TV

Bannon says he prepped the convicted sex offender in hopes of him appearing on “60 Minutes”

https://www.thewrap.com/steve-bannon-jeffrey-epstein-michael-wolff/

Steve Bannon Media-Coached Jeffrey Epstein Prior to Arrest: Report

https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-was-media-trainer-to-jeffrey-epstein-prior-to-arrest-according-to-michael-wolff-report-says

Steve Bannon prepped Jeffrey Epstein for CBS interview, Michael Wolff claims

Ex-Trump strategist told financier to ‘stick to his message, which is that he is not a paedophile’, New York Times reports

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/13/steve-bannon-jeffrey-epstein-cbs-interview-michael-wolff-book

New video shows Epstein before arrest, ‘I’m a supporter of Time’s Up’

https://nypost.com/2021/10/19/jeffrey-epstein-told-steve-bannon-im-a-supporter-of-times-up/

Anonymous ID: 6d1a67 June 28, 2024, 6:45 p.m. No.21107694 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>7701

Mar 25, 2019 1:43:27 PM EDT 3178

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 129d90 No. 5883120

THE ONLY WAY TO REGAIN THE TRUST (RE: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW RE: WH RE: INTEL RE: FBI RE: DOJ RE: SENATE RE: CONGRESS RE: FVEY RE: OUR GOV'T) OF THE 'MAJORITY' OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS TO PROVIDE TRUTH, TRANSPARENCY, AND PROSECUTION OF ALL THOSE WHO 'KNOWINGLY' TOOK PART IN THIS ILLEGAL MANUFACTURED EFFORT [ATTEMPTED COUP] TO TAKE DOWN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES [1].

[1] OPENS THE DOOR.

THE GREAT AWAKENING.

Q

THE GREAT AWAKENING

Alex Jones, Kent Heckenlively

Skyhorse, Oct 24, 2023 - Political Science - 408 pages

In The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance, the most persecuted man on Earth, Alex Jones, gives you the good news about the failing plans of the globalists to control humanity.

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The good news is that these plans are destined to fail, if we wake up to the anti-human future the globalists have planned for us. The globalists hate freedom, and what they hate the most is the greatest freedom document in human history, the United States Constitution. Jones does not shy away from the darker parts of American history—the way we have been systematically deceived by the intelligence agencies since their assassination of President John F. Kennedy—but he provides example after example of people who have broken free from the matrix of lies to tell the truth.

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https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Great_Awakening.html?id=c07vzwEACAAJ

Who is Kent Heckenlively?

https://www.amazon whore com/stores/author/B00J08DNE8/about

https://glose.com/author/kent-heckenlively

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wilson

The Alex Jones Drops

Qmap.pub titled Q drops. Q used these drops with Titles in new drops. The drop Titles were very revealing.

The Info War against Q (Jones and Corsi)

May 11, 2018 1:42:48 PM EDT 1340

Q !4pRcUA0lBE ID: 9b1a97 No. 1373162

This is why we are here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/8ia0vu/the_long_and_secret_info_wars_against_q_and_how/

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Alex Jones a Larp. Time to move on

May 12, 2018 11:50:47 AM EDT 1341

Q !4pRcUA0lBE ID: 904c6f No. 1384036

May 12, 2018 11:25:41 AM EDT

Anonymous ID: 4296e0 No. 1383888

May 12, 2018 11:23:17 AM EDT

Anonymous ID: a7c5c9 No. 1383873

>>1383841

Don't forget Q's plan:

1. Divide the right (left loves this)

2. Attack the alternative media (the only alt media that supported POTUS during election)

3. Stop all organic conservative media from making money and going mainstream.

4. Heard the alt right Nazi’s into the deepest, darkest, dank corner of the Internet

5. Smear them

>>1383873

We've all been blinded for too long. Alex JONES is NOT alt media, he is a traitor. He makes us all look crazy. Fuck him

>>1383888

Time to move on.

Big week ahead!

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/17/alex-JONES-performance-artist-attorney-says-texas-child-custody-case

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Misinformation attacks on Q to get worse (Jones, Corsi, Others)

May 12, 2018 6:16:10 PM EDT 1343

Q !4pRcUA0lBE ID: 3b3f44 No. 1388185

They attempted to infiltrate, repackage & rebrand as their own.

Profit-vehicle.

Destroy through [misinformation].

Absorb the 'confused'.

Re-route traffic to other platforms.

Action was needed [2].

Prevent false decodes/misinformation
Kill [targeted] infection prior to expansion

Simple 'non-direct' statements made.

"Be careful who you follow."

"Some are profiting off this movement."

Message sent.

Message received.

Those guilty immediately reacted (predictably).

Timetable accelerated (misinformation-attack).

Exposed.

Attempts to divide.

We responded.

House cleaning.

Heal [core].

Important to clean prior to next events.

The choice has always been yours.

The choice will always be yours.

This is not a game.

This is not a popularity contest.

This is LIFE.

FREEDOM.

TOGETHER.

We, the PEOPLE.

WWG1WGA.

[Time to move on]

Dark to LIGHT.

Attacks will only get worse.

Truth is Freedom.

Truth is logic.

Stay the course.

Q

Alex Jones and Jerome Corsi tried to usupr Q

May 14, 2018 10:18:27 PM EDT 1366

Q !4pRcUA0lBE ID: 1ab4eb No. 1413374

May 14, 2018 10:01:07 PM EDT

Anonymous ID: c57186 No. 1413137

May 14, 2018 9:57:12 PM EDT

Anonymous ID: 6d88a4 No. 1413056

>>1412866

So if she talks about Q on her show,

is she a "paytriot"?

>>1413056

I don't think it would be fair to say that a journalist can't make money when covering Q. But that's the difference. A journalist covering Q isn't necessarily usurping Q. The paytriots in question were trying to usurp Q. This video explains what happened very well. It certainly cleared my head about it all.

https://youtu.be/gi9CQHVDg8E

>>1413137

Alex Jones an Actor

Aug 14, 2018 5:42:13 PM EDT 1865

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: d2c0b2 No. 2599748

Aug 14, 2018 4:43:22 PM EDT

Anonymous ID: 810ecf No. 2599082

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Note to AJ shills. Nobody hacks a site and brings it down, but publishes a useful and informative redirect page… it’s fucking obvious this is a staged attack. Why am I not surprised?

>>2599082

Actors will act.

We target NBC.

NBC targets Q.

Strategic?

We are in control.

Q