The Department of Justice is recommending that former Trump advisor and War Room host Steve Bannon be sentenced to six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for defying the January 6 Committee.
In July, Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the committee.
The DOJ claimed in the recommendation that Bannon “has pursued a bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt” and “flouted the Committee’s authority and ignored the subpoena’s demands.”
Now: Justice Department recommends six months in prison + $200k fine for Trump ally Steve Bannon. pic.twitter.com/zLliA6xifW
— Ryan Barber (@cryanbarber) October 17, 2022
BREAKING: DOJ asks judge to sentence Steve Bannon to six months in prison, $200,000 fine for his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. https://t.co/ksuopGfZdE
— ABC News (@ABC) October 17, 2022
Corrupt DOJ is trying to fine Steve Bannon $200,000 and throw him in prison. We aren’t a serious country with these people having any kind of power. https://t.co/2ocEKZil6o
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) October 17, 2022
The Gateway Pundit reported:
The recommendation continued, “to this day the Defendant has not produced a single document to the Committee or appeared for testimony. For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment—the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines’ range—and fined $200,000—based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperate with the Probation Office’s routine pre-sentencing financial investigation.”
Part of the committee’s reason for subpoenaing Bannon was that he had predicted on his podcast that “All Hell is going to break loose tomorrow” — something almost everyone was saying at the time.
Anti-Trump neocon Liz Cheney and Democrat Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chairs of the committee, had celebrated Bannon’s conviction in a joint statement after he was found guilty.
“The conviction of Steve Bannon is a victory for the rule of law and an important affirmation of the Select Committee’s work,” Thompson and Cheney said in a joint statement at the time. “Just as there must be accountability for all those responsible for the events of January 6th, anyone who obstructs our investigation into these matters should face consequences.”
Bannon is scheduled to be sentenced on October 21, 2022—one year to the day after he was held in contempt by the House.
ABC News added:
On his way out of the courtroom after being found guilty, Bannon again blasted members of the Jan. 6 committee for not appearing as witnesses at his trial.
“I only have one disappointment, and that is the gutless members of that show-trial committee, that [Jan. 6] committee, didn’t have the guts to come down here and testify,” Bannon said.
“We may have lost a battle here today, but we’re not going to lose this war,” he said. “[The jury] came to their conclusion about what was put on in the in that courtroom. But listen, in the closing argument, the prosecutor missed one very important phrase, right? ‘I stand with Trump and the Constitution, and I will never back off that, ever.'”
Bannon’s attorney, David Schoen, said that Bannon’s defense team will appeal the case, saying, “This is just Round One.”
Read the full DOJ recommendation HERE.
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