After refusing to appear before the
January 6th congressional committee
investigating what happened on
January 6th, former Trump official
Steve Bannon was indicted for
criminal contempt of Congress.
But he of course,
is still resisting any attempt to
actually hold him accountable for
breaking the law.
He did end up turning himself in
today though.
And he decided to live stream
the whole situation on GITER.
So here's a little taste of that.
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>> So Bannon was taken into custody
today, Monday morning.
The 67 year old was indicted on
Friday on two counts of criminal
contempt.
One for refusing to appear for
a congressional deposition.
And the other for
refusing to provide documents in
response to the committee Subpoena.
Now Bannon threatened to make
the charges against him
the misdemeanor from hell.
He says this,
I'm telling you right now,
this is going to be the misdemeanor
from hell from Merrick garland,
Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.
We're going on the offense.
They took on the wrong guy
this time.
They took on the wrong guys.
Though a misdemeanor, if convicted,
Bannon faces serious penalties,
kind of, he's not going to face any
jail time, let's just keep it real.
Each charge
carries a minimum of 30 days and
a maximum of one year in jail as
well as a fine of 100 to $100,000.
Meaning Bannon could be fined up
to $200,000 and spend as much as
two years in prison.
But it is, in my opinion,
unlikely that it will come to that.
>> So all this is doing is giving
publicity to Steve Bannon.
Look, if we had actual
rule of law in this country,
Steve Bannon would be subject to
the same way as you guys are.
And if you violated a subpoena or
you didn't listen to a subpoena,
you'd be in a world of trouble.
And but Bannon is making
a joke out of it.
Because he knows he's a rich white
right winger.
He thinks there's almost no chance
I'm ever going to be held
accountable, not in America,
we'll just intimidate
the democrats and their weak.
And well hell, he can hire all
the lawyers in the world,
remember he has all the money
from ripping off right wingers.
He said he's going to help build
the wall, he just pocketed
the money and he was indicted for
that and then Trump pardoned him.
He's like ripping off my
supporters, it's like that's what I
do all the time.
I don't want you to go to jail
for that.
Is that criminal?
Just right wing followers are the
biggest rubes in America, they're
the biggest idiots in America.
Donald Trump and
Steve Bannon ripped him off for
a living.
So and
they always get away with it.
And so Bannon thinks you guys are a
joke and I'm going to turn this
into a spectacle and the circus.
And I'm going to get a bigger
following full well knowing you're
all way too weak to actually apply
the law to a right winger.
>> That's exactly right.
So we'll see how it plays out.
I mean honestly I
got on the DOJ for refusing to even
do an indictment and then finally
they did the indictment, which was
actually pretty shocking, right?
But it is again fascinating to see
the response from right wingers who
on one hand justify the shooting of
unarmed individuals by cops if they
even like talk back to a cop right?
Like for them,
that's totally justified for
execution.
On the other hand,
people like Steve Bannon can just
completely break the law,
refused to respond to subpoenas and
he becomes some sort of martyr.
>> Yeah, and it's even more than
that because remember, what is he
ignoring the subpoena about January
6th, 140 cops got hurt.
Now, all of a sudden the right wing
they're like cops,
who cares about cops,
their lives don't matter as long as
our boys that are killing them or
our boys that are hurting them,
tasting them, beating them,
we're doing all those things.
Then Blue lives don't matter
at all.
Go Steve Bannon hate the cops,
don't cooperate with law
enforcement who's trying to
protect cops.
Their hypocrisy is endless and
endless.
>> The reason why the panel has
decided to subpoena him is because
of comments that he made out in
the open prior to the riots taking
place on January 6th.
Here's an example he had said
on his podcast.
Just understand this,
this is on January 5th,
one day before the riots.
Just understand this all hell
is going to break loose tomorrow.
It's going to be moving,
it's going to be quick.
It's all converging and now we're
on the point of attack tomorrow.
And all I can say is this strap in,
you have made this happen and
tomorrow, it's game day.
>> He just told me.
>> Just told you.
But remember there are certain
people in this country who are just
above the law, right?
So he has his defenders regardless
of how transparent he was
regardless of how he ignored those
subpoenas.
And we'll see how it plays out.
But one other thing I wanted to
mention is Bannon claimed that
executive privilege shielded him
from having to respond
to the subpoenas.
But that I mean to say it's
a flimsy defense or flimsy argument
just doesn't go far enough, okay?
He was fired from the Trump
administration in 2017.
There is no executive privilege,
because his offenses here happened
after he had been fired
from the White House, okay?
So to claim executive privilege by
a president who is not even
a sitting president right now, but
more importantly, who weren't even
working for when you made these
statements is ridiculous.
It doesn't make any sense, which is
why he is now being indicted.
>> So guys, and
the worst part of it is his
calculation is not that wrong.
So even though he clearly
said the day before, we're on
the care the quote again, we're on
the point of attack tomorrow, okay?
And what who did they attack?
They attack the cops,
they heard 140 of them, right?
So now the right wing says we don't
care about the cops,
we just want to be above the law.
And by the rule of law they always
meant just keep black people down.
Just keep minorities that keep
the left down, okay?
We don't actually mean rule of law,
we mean rule of oppression.
So it should never apply to us if
we're white right wingers.
So, but why is it going to work?
Because he knows that in this
country the right wing has
a history of crying and
the crying works?
So when they go,
this is a bridge in,
I shouldn't have to follow the law,
then the media goes, let's debate.
It should right wingers be allowed
to flout the law, or should they
have to follow the rules.
They won't even say it like that.
They're like, well,
is it freedom of speech?
Is that we can't tell?
Let's call it 50 50 right?
And and so
he knows that that crying works.
And then Ted Cruz will call
a hearing on it, and you know what,
all he's gotta do is wait
till the next election.
If the republicans get control of
either house, which is very likely.
They'll then do hearings about what
a martyr he is and what a victim he
is, and how he shouldn't have to
follow the law, right?
And then they'll threaten to arrest
Democrats for no reason, and
the Democrats will panic.
My God, this isn't even
about the commoners, we don't
care about about us, elites.
Okay, let him go,
let him go, right?
That's what's going to happen.
And you know what,
even appealing it will take years
by that time, we could
easily have a republican president,
who just pardon Steve Bannon again.
So that's how the right wing in
this country is above the law.
And I'm challenging the justice
system, are you ever going
to bring actual justice?
And we'll see, here's the case.
We'll see, but very unlikely.
And and that is how this country
gets turned into a joke where
there's no justice,
there's no quality.
And this is how the right wing has
oppressed the rest of us,
literally, for centuries here.