Well, we've now been through two days, not really two full days, of course, of the Steve
Bannon criminal contempt trial.
So if you're wondering how things are going for Steve Bannon, the answer is pretty frigging
bad.
His lawyers have fumbled at every possible opportunity in just two days.
And one of those days was spent solely on jury selection.
so yesterday, Tuesday Bannon's lawyers go into court and they tell the judge, they file
a motion.
They say, Hey, we want a month.
We wanna postpone all this crap.
You gotta give us a month because you've destroyed all of our Def defense strategies.
Like we don't even know how to defend this dude anymore.
So give us a month judge.
So we can regroup.
And judge coral Nichol said, I'm not gonna happen guys.
Mm-hmm Nope, you've known this was coming.
You know, you've, you've had plenty of time with the motions.
I've told you, you can't do this.
You can't do that.
That's the rules of the court.
Like it or not, you gotta live with it and you've just kind of failed on every front.
So I'm not gonna give you another month.
And then of course, that sparked his lawyers to start whining to the judge whining and
saying, quote, Mr. Bannon is handcuffed and can't tell jurors what he believed, what he
believed, cuz he's handcuffed metaphorically.
Of course he's not actually handcuffed in the court.
I'd love to see that.
But you know, you don't actually do that in court.
Most of the time, unless the person, you know, could become dangerous because obviously that
actually could sway a jury, but that's neither here nor there he's metaphorically handcuffed
because he can't tell the jury, jury what he believed.
What, what did he believe?
Because you've actually come at the judge with multiple different defenses, all of which
are completely different.
So if he believed all three of them, they would kind of be contradictory, which would
mean that he would be lying to the court.
So see, that's, that's kind of the third fumble that you guys did because you're clearly not
smart enough to understand what you just said with that single statement.
So what are the things that Steve Bannon may or may not have believed?
Well, first and foremost, they tried to argue that, Hey, no, he has executive privilege
cuz Trump did that.
And the judge said, no, Trump didn't.
And even if Trump did Trump wouldn't have had the authority to do it.
So it wouldn't stand anyway.
So no you can't use that.
Bannon of course, prior to the trial, even beginning had tried to make it seem like he
was confused about whether or not he had to comply with the subpoena.
Maybe the lawyer had screwed it up and that's the lawyer that's now off the case because
he might end up being called as a witness.
and then of course they can't come up there with the public authority defense
saying
That, Hey Donald, Trump's a public figure in authority, you know?
And therefore we gotta protect.
I don't even know how that argument actually works.
It's kind of similar to executive privilege, but it's not the same.
But the judge also said you can't do that either.
But that's the thing is like you can't believe all of those different things.
So you can't sit there as a lawyer and tell the judge like, well, my guy can't even say
what he believed right now.
Okay.
But you've already presented three conflicting things that your guy allegedly believed, which
again, I kind of take that as lying to the court.
Eh, so when I tell you that his lawyers have repeatedly fumbled in just two days, trust
me, these lawyers are failing and they're failing hard.
Steve Bannon, I know you've got money.
You, you may wanna consider hiring better legal counsel in the future because these
yahoos that you have representing you are really bad.
Although to be fair here, they don't have much to work with.
They know they're fighting a losing battle, you know, on Steve Bannon's podcast on Monday's
got a guest host, uh, that that's been on for him this week.
But the guest host brings on a regular guest who happens to be an attorney who said that
Bannon's gonna be found guilty like that because there is no defense of it.
Did you get the subpoena?
Yes.
Did you comply with it?
No.
Okay.
Case closed.
That's literally what that guest said on Steve Bannon's own podcast this past Monday and
the lawyers somehow have to try to defend that and you can't defend it because the question
of yes or no.
Did you comply with the subpoena?
No, we did not.
Great.
You're you're in contempt.
That's it?
That's ballgame.
That is case closed game over.
Thank you.
And goodnight.
And that's what these lawyers have to work with.
So to be fair to them, I think it is a little bit of incompetence, but a lot of not being
able to defend what is clearly indefensible.