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Prosecutors say Bannon seeking to 'try this case in the media rather than in court
The Hill ^ | 11/29/2021 | HARPER NEIDIG

Posted on 11/29/2021 7:47:51 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Federal prosecutors accused Steve Bannon and his lawyers of attempting to try in the media the contempt of Congress charges the former White House strategist faces for defying subpoenas from the House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack on the Capitol.

In a court filing submitted Sunday night, the D.C. U.S. Attorney's office pushed back on the defense's effort to unseal all evidence in the case, including grand jury testimony. The prosecutors argued that the move would be unusual and extreme in a criminal case.

"The defense’s misleading claims, failure to confer, unexplained wholesale opposition, and extrajudicial statements make clear the defense’s real purpose: to abuse criminal discovery to try this case in the media rather than in court," the prosecutors wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bannon; court; media; prosecutors
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1 posted on 11/29/2021 7:47:51 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Its a Soviet show-trial


2 posted on 11/29/2021 7:48:58 AM PST by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Never allow the enemy to pick the battle ground.


3 posted on 11/29/2021 7:50:20 AM PST by PTBAA
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Imagine that! Hahaha. Go Steve Go!


4 posted on 11/29/2021 7:51:00 AM PST by bigfootbob (ALL Biden VOTERS have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS….Ann Archy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Accusing Bannon of what the idiotic Fed “prosecutors” a la
Roland Friesler (late of the Nazi German judicial purges)-— are themselves doing.

Trying the completely fedgov infiltrated and organized “invasion” of the Capitol building to PLACE THE BLAME on Donald Trump who did NOT organize this... what so ever.
Numbers tell all, the numbers who came to hear his speech vs. the miniscule number of agent provocateurs who roped in bystanders and idiots into the OPENED DOORS of the Capitol, and even instigated a moron Capitol policeman wannabee to MURDER one of these swept in naifs.


5 posted on 11/29/2021 7:51:37 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well that hardly ever happens. Or “rare”. 😊


6 posted on 11/29/2021 7:51:42 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"...misleading claims, failure to confer, unexplained wholesale opposition, and extrajudicial statements..."

Ya, only the Feds get to do these things with impunity!

7 posted on 11/29/2021 7:52:45 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That pesky Free Speech again?


8 posted on 11/29/2021 7:54:49 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
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Funny, that’s exactly what the Hollywood 10 did during the House Un-American Activities Commission trials of the 1940s. Of course, our intellectual elites honor them for it today because they were all America-hating commies.


9 posted on 11/29/2021 7:54:51 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“consent of the governed”

If they withdraw consent - and many are - than, yeah, contempt is a byproduct of the ruling bodies own stupidity.


10 posted on 11/29/2021 7:57:31 AM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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Asymmetric warfare sucks, doesn’t it Dems?


11 posted on 11/29/2021 7:59:29 AM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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Are they also gonna hold their breath and stamp their feet because they are not getting their way?


12 posted on 11/29/2021 8:00:04 AM PST by V_TWIN
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re: “Prosecutors say Bannon seeking to ‘try this case in the media rather than in court”

Like, Kenosha?


13 posted on 11/29/2021 8:02:37 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And the mediavomits didn’t to Rittenhouse? These evil people think we are effin stupid!


14 posted on 11/29/2021 8:02:42 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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re: “House committee investigating the Jan.6”

Illegitimate committee.


15 posted on 11/29/2021 8:04:02 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ha! This is what the Govt does every single time. Trial by press.


16 posted on 11/29/2021 8:07:08 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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LOL. It's only okay when the Dems do it?
17 posted on 11/29/2021 8:14:43 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When you charge rich people with a crime, they can afford to fight back.

DNA is handled very carefully after the O.J. Simpson case.


18 posted on 11/29/2021 8:17:33 AM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too bad..... lets expose it all!!


19 posted on 11/29/2021 8:21:23 AM PST by high info voter
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The whole Jan 6 farce is being tried in the democrat press by the government.

What’s fair is fair.


20 posted on 11/29/2021 8:26:22 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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