Steve Bannon's lawyers went to court this week trying to get a judge, actually the New York,
uh, uh, Supreme Court to delay the investigation into Steve Bannon. They don't want to have to go
to trial. They don't wanna have to put any briefs out. They said they needed 10 months.
And the reasoning these lawyers gave, the two lawyers that Bannon has hired, listen to this,
we're both solo practitioners. There's no possible way we can review the materials in three months,
which is how long of course they had been given. You got three months to go through four
terabytes of discovery that prosecutors have put together, basically four months to review all of
the documents that we've already gone through to basically show that your client is guilty as hell.
They said, Well, look, we're just a single, I'm a single lawyer in my firm. This guy's
a single lawyer in his firm. We're just so swamped we can't do this. We need 10 months.
and Supreme Court Justice won merchant on Tuesday, rejected the claim by Bannon's attorneys
that they need 10 months to review. The more than four terabytes of data that prosecutors
have produced in discovery 10 months is just not within the realm of reality. He said, giving the
defense four months instead 10 months, totally outta the realm of reality. If it takes you 10
months to go through that much data, then you're just horrible at your job. And let's talk for a
minute about this argument of, Oh, we're just solo practitioners. We don't have the time. Um, y'all
know who goes through the documents first, right? It's the staff, right? It's the paralegals, it's
the other legal employees at the firm. The lawyers aren't sitting there going through 100% of it. The
second it comes in, there is a process. Now, most lawyers will go through almost all of it, but they
have their other people, the other employees, cuz you have to have those in a law firm.
It's not just one guy with a desk in a building. They go through it and weed out the.
That's their job. Like, get rid of anything that we know is just stupid and we don't need,
find me what they call the hot docs, right? The big ones, the damning quotes,
the damning evidence, all of that kind of thing. Highlight it and then bring it to me, the lawyer.
That's how these things work. So these lawyers are absolutely, you know, not being forthright
with the judge when they're like, Well, it's just me and it's just him. And what do we do?
You do what every other law firm in the country does, and you have your staff do it,
and then you go through the stuff that is deemed important.
Now for the record, all of this, of course, is involving the, we build the
wall fraud scam where the group raised $25 million, built three miles a border wall,
and then used the rest of the money to, uh, buy a boat, a 2018 Land Rover, Range Rover, a
Golf cart, jewelry, cosmetic surgery, and other items. I didn't know the cosmetic surgery was on
there. And it's not just Bannon who did that. It's also the, uh, co-founder Brian Colage,
who pleaded guilty to this back in April. So because he pleaded guilty, he, of course,
um, I believe he does not have his Fifth Amendment rights. Bannon has pleaded not guilty, but he did
accept a pardon on the federal level for this fraud. And the pardon on the federal level is
the same of his as an admission of guilt, which means he didn't have his Fifth Amendment rights.
I don't know how that'll play in this one, but I also know that accepting a pardon for something,
being an admission of guilt, and then pleading not guilty to the same stuff on the state level.
Not exactly sure how you reconcile that, right?
Because you're gonna go in front of a jury and the jury's gonna be like, Well, hold up. Wait,
didn't you already get a pardon for this? And now you're saying you didn't do it, so why'd you need
the pardon? That's gonna play a big role, by the way, in this trial when it eventually happens.
And unfortunately for Bannon's lawyers, it's gonna happen a lot sooner than they had hoped.