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Trump ex advisor Bannon convicted of contempt of U.S. Congress

Mycroft said:
He won't go to jail. He'll appeal. It'll go to the Supremes. If they take the case, they will rightfully toss this conviction.


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Bullshit... The supreme court isn't going to touch this case..
 
Taylor said:
Don't be silly. The expiration date on this committee is fast approaching.
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lol if you think Bannon is going to sit in jail until January
 
Taylor said:
I don't know that he's going to sit in jail at all.
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Yes it's entirely likely that he cracks like an egg immediately.
 
Taylor said:
Misdemeanor. Clean record. Six month suspended sentence sounds fair.

If there's now a 30 day minimum for each charge, maybe he'll get that.
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He might have gotten 30 days if he had shown just a bit of humility, but since he felt it necessary to do his tough guy routine I suspect the sentence will be a bit
higher. Who goes to court promising that he would deliver "the misdemeanor from hell"? I have never been arrested, but if I were, I think I would appear in court
looking properly chastised.
 
911Sparky said:
He might have gotten 30 days if he had shown just a bit of humility, but since he felt it necessary to do his tough guy routine I suspect the sentence will be a bit
higher. Who goes to court promising that he would deliver "the misdemeanor from hell"? I have never been arrested, but if I were, I think I would appear in court
looking properly chastised.
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Yes. I suppose it will depend on whether or not the judge is the vindictive type.
 
lemmiwinx said:
Why all the one sidedness in these political trials? When is Hillary going to get called out for wiping and physically destroying her and her minions' subpoenaed devices? Never that's when.
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She ordered her server manager to delete emails 2 weeks prior to the subpoena, which was the reason the FBI could not refer her to the DOJ because there was no proof she intended to delete emails after the subpoena. Even if she were guilty, her transgressions amount to what? It was widely known long before the 'investigation' and Repubs making a stink about it that she was using a private server for convenience, and no repub made a stink about it until AFTER she declared her candidacy. Numerous Trump staffers used private emails for gov biz, and repubs didn't mind.


Same reason that after 4 years and 8 investigations they couldn't find squat to pin on her in Benghazi. No crime was committed, and we won't mention the 13 attacks on AMerican Embassies and 60 deaths which occurred therefrom that occurred during GW Bush, but Republicans didn't mind.

www.politifact.com

Prior to Benghazi, were there 13 attacks on embassies and 60 deaths under President George W. Bush?

As the U.S. House of Representatives was readying a new special committee to investigate the terrorist attack in Benghaz
www.politifact.com www.politifact.com

It's only when it's a democrat to they seem to be bothered by such things. And there you sit, having the gall to accuse dems of 'politics' and one-sidedness when the other side of the arguments throws repubs accusations right back at them.

lemmiwinx said:
*loud mic drop*
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Oh yes, you're a legend in your own mind.
I'll file that one in the wishful thinking file.
 
Deuce said:
Does he look like the sort of guy who is gonna handle jail time?
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He looks like a guy that has two appeals and nothing to gain from "cracking like an egg."
 
Mycroft said:
Then it'll go to the Supremes.
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You think SCOTUS will take a case that

1. Was open and shut; he didn't appear for the subpoena, a crime which he openly committed under public observance for which there is NO defense.
2. The jury deliberated in a very short period of time.
3. It's a misdemeanor and no issues of constitutional violations exist in the conviction.

?

I sincerely doubt it.
 
lemmiwinx said:
Why all the one sidedness in these political trials? When is Hillary going to get called out for wiping and physically destroying her and her minions' subpoenaed devices? Never that's when.

*loud mic drop*
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She's been vetted clean.

Get over it.
 
Taylor said:
Yes. I suppose it will depend on whether or not the judge is the vindictive type.
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He's a Trump appointee. He'll just follow the law, circumstances and the context of his crime. His posting and boasting of his crime and 'going medieval' and overall attempts to turn the trial into a circus I hope will be factored in in the sentencing.
 
noonereal said:
No less than 4 months. This is not a first offense.
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Interesting.

But Trump pardoned him pre-emptively there, so I suspect in legal terms his record is technically 'clean'.
 
Taylor said:
Misdemeanor. Clean record. Six month suspended sentence sounds fair.

If there's now a 30 day minimum for each charge, maybe he'll get that.
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Well, I do hope the judge will consider in his posting and boasting he was 'going to go medieval' and thus his overall attempts to turn the trial into a circus, factor it in in the sentencing.
 
Meanwhile Bannon is doing his best to get in the sentencing judge’s good graces…..

 
jpevans said:
The Judge has the power to make it what they call in the jail community "on & after" i.e. consecutive sentence.
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I know that. The sentences will run concurrently.
 
Mycroft said:
He won't go to jail. He'll appeal. It'll go to the Supremes. If they take the case, they will rightfully toss this conviction.

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the tweeter doesn't understand the law. Even if Bannon were to claim 'exec privilege', he'd still have to appear before congress in order to do claim it, for each question put to him.

He didn't appear, and no claims are 'exec privilege', even if such existed ( though it didn't ) would exonerate the crime.

You think SCOTUS will take a case that

1. Was open and shut; he didn't appear for the subpoena, a crime which he openly committed under public observance for which there is NO defense, NONE.
2. The jury deliberated in a very short period of time.
3. It's a misdemeanor and no issues of constitutional violations exist in the conviction.

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I sincerely doubt it.

Exec privilege, if litigated, will not be honored because:

1. Trump didn't claim it, no record of it contemporaneously being granted exists
2. Bannon was not staff at the time, he was a private citizen so even if it were claimed by the Prez, this fact renders it moot.


As always, CAVEAT: "IANAL" these are my layman's understanding of the law.
 
Rexedgar said:
Meanwhile Bannon is doing his best to get in the sentencing judge’s good graces…..

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Typical! Absolutely no mention of the fact he ignored a legitimate subpoena. That is breaking the law yet Tucker ignores that and says he was convicted for his political views. No, he was convicted for his failure to comply with a subpoena. Once again we see the " law and order " gang picking and choosing the laws they like and ignoring the ones they don't like.
 
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