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Bannon is acceptable to beryllium sentenced for contempt of Congress.
Last Updated: October 21, 2022, 10:57 AM ET
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is scheduled to beryllium sentenced contiguous pursuing his condemnation connected 2 counts of transgression contempt of Congress, aft helium defied a subpoena from the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol. He was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 sheet for records and grounds successful September of past year. He refused to comply and was found blameworthy of contempt successful July.
Bannon lawyer David Schoen took objection to the proposition that Bannon did not person a morganatic assertion of enforcement privilege erstwhile helium rejected the committee's subpoena.
In particular, Schoen went aft Trump lawyer Justin Clark, who told DOJ investigators successful July that astatine nary constituent did erstwhile President Donald Trump ever invoke enforcement privilege implicit Bannon's testimony.
"You wouldn't judge a happening helium says," Schoen said of Clark, who besides contradicted different claims made by Bannon's defence squad successful their case.
Federal authoritative J.P. Cooney argued that Bannon is not supra the instrumentality and should beryllium sentenced and treated similar immoderate different citizen.
"It indispensable beryllium made wide to the nationalist and the expansive assemblage ... that nary 1 is supra the law," Cooney said. "He hid down a fabricated assertion of enforcement privilege, to thumb his chemoreceptor astatine Congress."
"He had an involvement successful making a nationalist spectacle of the committee's hearings," Cooney told the judge, saying that Bannon "has tried to marque it astir thing but authorities and retribution."
The proceeding got underway with Judge Carl Nichols saying helium tended to hold with the authorities connected the sentencing guidelines.
The justice said that Bannon "has expressed nary remorse for his actions" and hasn’t demonstrated that helium has immoderate volition of complying with the subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee.
Bannon lawyer David Schoen argued that determination should not beryllium a 30-day mandatory minimum of jailhouse clip for the offense.
Nichols, however, rejected that argument, saying the statute is wide connected the constituent that determination is simply a mandatory minimum of 30 days and a mandatory maximum of 12 months.
Bannon arrived astatine the courthouse earlier 9 a.m. He thanked the TV quality cameras for being determination and called the Biden medication illegitimate.
He besides thanked a pistillate who was chanting "traitor."
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