We may have lost a battle here today, but we're not gonna lose this war.
I stand with Trump and the constitution and I will never back off that ever.
>> He won't back off.
He might fall apart.
He looks like he's rotting right now.
But anyway, he says he's lost a battle, but not the war.
I can't speak to the war will have to stay tuned.
Let's focus today on the fact that Steve Bannon did lose that battle and
he is now officially guilty of a crime again.
We'll see if he gets another pardon.
But for right now, he was found guilty earlier today of two counts of contempt of
Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena issued by the January
6th select committee investigating the attack.
So, he had been called to come in.
He refused to do so.
I think understandably believing that they wouldn't do anything about it in some
cases, Subpoenas being defied have not led to these sorts of indictments.
But no, he's now been found guilty.
The trial lasted a week.
It actually only featured two witnesses in the end and
it tested a rarely used criminal statute meant to ensure that people comply with
congressional subpoenas.
Earlier this month as he prepared for the trial,
Bannon said that he was gonna go medieval on his enemies.
But most of his legal arguments were rejected by the trial judge and
he ended up calling no witnesses whatsoever.
His argument overall was just that he was following orders and
Trump something, something privilege.
And he believed that would work.
It didn't, maybe upon appeal at will will have to stay tuned to find out.
But I love this description of when it was actually announced.
As he waited for the verdict, Bannon did not show much emotion.
Fiddling with a black mask on the defense table.
His hand went still as guilty, was read twice.
After the judge dismissed the jury and left the courtroom bed and
lingered speaking to his attorneys seemingly lightheartedly
before walking into the hallway.
I just love the idea that he doesn't want to appear nervous but he's nervous,
his hands are moving and then it stops.
No, I've been found guilty and
this time my buddy isn't president to give me a pardon just yet.
Stay tuned October 21st the actual sentencing and
we'll get into what sort of time he might be facing.
But what do y'all think about Steve Bannon guilty man?
>> Yeah, I won't come back to his earlier part in a second, but there's so
many great and funny parts of this.
He thanked the jury at one point for convicting him.
[LAUGH] Well you know what?
It's the first time ever that I agree with Steve Bannon,
I'd also like to thank the jury for convicting him.
>> [LAUGH] >> So, don't get too excited.
It's 30 days, like that's the minimum.
They should okay, >> At maximum of one year and
a fine he could owe up to $100,000 that he will ask Trump fans to give to him and
they will readily provide to this con man.
Yeah, that'll lead back into the pardon in the second, the first one.
But yeah, I mean obviously throw the book at him and then subpoena him again and
if he doesn't respond, do this again and again and again, however long it takes.
And here's a sentence that has never been spoken to Steve Bannon.
You clean up well, [LAUGH] okay?
Cuz you'll hear that from time to time for folks, right?
Even after Steve Bannon cleans up there, like, no, that didn't work.
That's weird, okay?
And then he says, I'm gonna go medieval on them and doesn't present any witnesses.
Where's the medieval part?
He's like, well, I mean I did it.
>> [LAUGH] >> Kinda guilty.
Okay, if that's your definition of medieval, I'll take it.
So, which leads to the core hypocrisy here.
When things are not in a court of law where they are held
legally accountable, these guys are all tough guys.
There Josh, Hollywood, the fists raised, right?
When it comes to their words mattering and having legal consequences.
All of a sudden they're putting soft.
And by the way, that includes Trump, like Trump is part of the reason he's was
desperate not to lose and he's desperate to re run for election is because he's so
worried about being prosecuted criminally.
I don't know if Trump's got the memo yet.
The other side is Democrats.
They never do anything.
It took them a year and a half to put against Steve Bannon in jail for
30 days for telling them to f off for a congressional subpoena.
I like what the prosecutor did.
She made it personal to the jury.
She said, you guys if you live in DC, and they do obviously,
you get parking tickets, right?
And you know what happens if you don't pay your parking ticket?
People don't just go don't worry about it.
No there are consequences, right?
So, this is a congressional subpoena.
It's not optional.
You can't just go, nah forget about it, okay?
No, this is the consequences and the jury easily agreed.
>> Yeah, I think it is a good reminder to everybody
in Trump's inner circle that nobody is above the law.
And that's an important point that I think we all agree on at least we should
strive for.
But I really [LAUGH] what is with him and this like that whole part of Trump's
world Seb Gorkha is really into this but with really antiquated references.
I'm still hung up on that, I'm gonna go medieval thing.
What is that?
Your honor I'm about to go sicko mode in this court so
please listen to what I have to say and then doing nothing and follow through.
It shows kind of how hollow this is.
He was holed up in a castle I think in Europe for a little bit to try
to develop some group of men and Gorkha took some lifetime pledge
to some weird knights templar offshoot and wherever he came from.
I don't know what it is about them,
latching onto this antiquated old world European cultural heritage stuff.
There's a a white nationalist offshoot from it, but I'm so mystified by all
of it, but they seem to really love it and think it somehow holds power here.
>> Yeah, I actually have an answer for that.
It's Duganism, it's this insane Russian philosopher and who by the way,
believes in fascism, dictatorships, despises democracy.
And he literally wants to go medieval as in back to the medieval ages.
And you think like, no, he doesn't mean it literally.
No, no, no.
He says in his writings though, I mean it quite literally,
that progress is a bad thing.
Technology has been bad.
We have to go backwards about 800 years and
the world's dumbest people like Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson,
make significant references to Dugan and are fans of Dugan.
That's cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
I haven't read about Seb Gorkha,
but I'd be surprised if Gorkha wasn't another one of these fools.
But of course any time given an opportunity, it's always the cowards and
that bully others when they have the power, right?
When Trump was in charge, these guys are the biggest tough guys you've ever seen.
Now that he's not in charge, so I'm gonna go medieval.
Well, who's stopping you?
Congress wants you to testify, come in and testify.
Trump says the same thing.
Well, how come they're not talking about the stolen election?
One because it wasn't stolen, two, they did talk about it.
They talked about the 60 cases you lost and how you had no evidence.
Three, you know who could testify on your behalf?
You, so why don't you step on up Donald Trump, Steve Bannon?
Otherwise, here's a tall glass of shut up juice, okay?
Or too strong coffee either way, all right?
Check it out.
[LAUGH] Okay.
And but I wanna go back to the party cuz Bannon got a pardon from Trump
before he's leaving office.
Now, remember Trump did not give a partner Rudy Giuliani, Mo Brooks and
other congressmen that asked for pardons?
His own lawyer, John Eastman, they're like, we're all criminals who were
trying to do a coup can you give us a pardon before you leave?
And he's like no, cuz he thought that was too speculative, okay?
Bannon had ripped off Trump supporters and pretended he was gonna build a private
wall and instead laughed about it on a yacht that they purchased with the money.
His co-defendants are in jail now.
And Trump's like, you, you get a part, you know why?
Cuz he knows that Bannon did it.
There was no question, Bannon was guilty and
he had run the same scam that Trump runs ripping off his own supporters.
So that's why Trump was like, no, no of everyone,
Bannon's definitely getting a pardon, okay?
And they're lifelong criminals.
So, this is just the beginning of Bannon getting caught and even Fox News degrees.
Jonathan Turley there, legal analyst was like, yeah, he didn't even present a case.
It was embarrassing.