Steve Bannon's trial began yesterday with jury selection.
Of course he is on trial for the, uh, criminal contempt charges that were filed against him
by the department of justice.
After the criminal referral from the January 6th committee, after of course, Bannon failed
to comply with a subpoena issued to him by the committee.
But that doesn't mean that his podcast is not airing every day.
Nope.
He's got a guest host out there and yesterday, while Steve Bannon is sitting in that courthouse,
the guest host on his podcast brought on one of Bannon's regulars, a, uh, uh, man
by the name of David, uh, fright.
He's an attorney and Mr. Fright, I may or may not be pronouncing that correctly.
He actually already declared Steve Bannon guilty before jury selection had even finished
a guest on Bannon's podcast already said Bannon's guilty, but not necessarily for the reasons
that you would think here is what Mr. Fried had to say.
I mean, the question is whether or not it's going to be able to fill 25 minutes because
what's going to go on with the ban in trial, jury selection, federal court, it goes exceedingly
quickly.
It's going to be 95 plus if not, 100% Democrat anti-Trump and anti Steve Bannon.
And then what's left of Bannon's defenses.
What's left to prove from the prosecution.
Did you receive the subpoena?
Did you respect the subpoena?
Yes.
And no case closed.
Wow.
If only the trial would go that fast.
Right?
I would love to see that, but actually here's the crazy part is Mr. Fright is actually right
about the second part.
I don't know about the a hundred percent Democrat.
You know, we don't know what these jurors believe will probably find that out after
the trial is over, but either way, he is right about the legal defenses.
And we know he is right, because that's already what the judges said last week before the
trial even began.
The judge, once again, struck down another motion by Bannon's attorneys.
And he also effectively struck down all of their legal defenses because Bannon's team
was trying to claim that Bannon of course had executive privilege from Trump.
The judge says, no, you don't Trump.
Didn't give you executive privilege.
Not to mention the fact that Trump is the former president.
He has no claim of executive privilege.
The current president, Joe Biden is the only one who can do that.
And he said, he's not gonna do it.
So your executive privilege defense is out the window.
Bannon's attorneys then asked them, what's even the point of a trial to which the judge
responded one simple word.
He said, agreed, because there is no defense as this lawyer on Bannon's own podcast pointed
out, like, did you get the subpoena?
Yes I did.
Did you comply with it?
No, I didn't.
Okay.
Then you're guilty.
it really is that simple folks.
The judge has made it that simple by throwing out all of these other defenses
That Bannon's lawyers could possibly use.
But I love the fact that this guy, Mr. Fright came on Bannon's own podcast and told his
audience that yeah, guys get prepared, cuz this guy's going down.
It's not gonna end well for him.
Here's the fun part.
The two misdemeanor charges that Steve Bannon is facing, uh, each come with possible prison
sentences anywhere from 30 days to one year in jail for both of them.
So it could be 60 days to two years.
So if Bannon is found guilty, if he does not just, you know, immediately try to work out
a deal and say, all right, let's get out of this.
I give you my stuff.
Um, he could be going to jail.
Like that could be a very real thing that happens at the end of this trial because Steve,
Bannon's not getting out of this.
He's either gonna have to turn over his documents or face the likelihood of jail.
That's how this ends for Bannon.
He is not going to win.
I know he said he was gonna go medieval on everybody, but it seems like you're in a rock
and a hard place kind of situation here.
Steve, you may want to think about turning over your documents cause you don't look like
the kind of guy that's gonna fare too well in prison.