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Dem Lawfare Campaign Takes Aim At Conservative Media Before Election
The Federalist ^ | June 07, 2024 | Tristan Justice

Posted on 06/07/2024 10:18:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Democrats’ unprecedented lawfare campaign is extending beyond former President Donald Trump to target conservative media ahead of the November election.

On Thursday, a federal judge upheld a four-month prison sentence handed down to former Trump White House adviser and the host of the “War Room” podcast, Steve Bannon. The conservative podcaster was ordered to report to prison on July 1, just two weeks before the Republican National Convention (RNC) and four months before Election Day.

“There’s not a prison built or jail built that will ever shut me up,” Bannon told reporters outside of the courthouse Thursday, stating that he plans to appeal “all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to.”

Bannon was convicted two years ago for refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the illegally established House Select Committee on Jan. 6 as part of lawmakers’ Soviet-style inquisition last Congress. A federal appeals court rejected an appeal last month, and now Bannon is expected to join former Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro behind bars. Navarro was similarly convicted of contempt of Congress last year and began a four-month sentence in March at a detention facility in Miami.

Bannon’s indictment was the first act for U.S. District Attorney Matthew Graves, who, according to court documents posted on X by Julie Kelly, complained about Bannon mocking members of the Jan. 6 Committee “through offensive name calling.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bannon; lawfare; media; trump
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So much for the "social media are private businesses and can ban anybody they want" and "if you don't like it, build your own platform" crowd.

Alex Jones did just that, and now they want to shut that down.

Jones is always the proof-of-concept. If they succeed in taking him down, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, et al will be next.

Only state-controlled media can be allowed to exist.

1 posted on 06/07/2024 10:18:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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There’s not a prison built or jail built that will ever shut me up,

He better hope that he doesn't get Jeffrey Epstein's cell

2 posted on 06/07/2024 10:26:59 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

and now we know how the nazis came to power


3 posted on 06/07/2024 10:27:07 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A year from now, Graves will himself be in prison (or in the grave). It is going to be one of those two. No other option will be available to those who enabled the coup. /spit


4 posted on 06/07/2024 10:29:06 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Epoch CIO just got clipped by the DOJ.


5 posted on 06/07/2024 10:33:01 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Welcome to North Korea.


6 posted on 06/07/2024 10:39:11 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do not report


7 posted on 06/07/2024 10:43:10 AM PDT by Chengdu54 (This is a time for which the 2nd Amendment was intended. )
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To: blackdog

Any further details assuming you’re talking about Epoch Times?


8 posted on 06/07/2024 10:48:55 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Dem Lawfare Campaign Takes Aim At Conservative Media Before Election
At least Fox/Murdoch/Dominion News is safe.
9 posted on 06/07/2024 10:59:08 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for Americans in a 4 year term than any President in your lifetime.)
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To: Gene Eric

https://apnews.com/article/epoch-times-cfo-indictment-money-laundering-caad358778bb6b73e32e9f989f3b9665


10 posted on 06/07/2024 11:01:07 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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Bkmk


11 posted on 06/07/2024 11:05:23 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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Bkmk


12 posted on 06/07/2024 11:05:23 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Chengdu54

That would just give the US Marshal fugitive task force an excuse to shoot him.


13 posted on 06/07/2024 11:06:28 AM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart)
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used cryptocurrency to “knowingly purchase tens of millions of dollars in crime proceeds,” including funds from fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits that were loaded onto prepaid debit cards, according to federal prosecutors.

Pretty much the same thing the Obama campaign did.

14 posted on 06/07/2024 11:07:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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Beginning in or about early 2020, individuals affiliated with the Media Entitiesincluding members of the MMO Team-began purchasing tens of thousands of prepaid debit cards below cost on a cryptocurrency platform ("Cryptocurrency Platform-I"). The prepaid debit cards were issued by different debit card companies and loaded with U.S. dollars that had been unlawfully obtained through various frauds (i.e. , the crime proceeds). For example, certain of the prepaid debit cards were loaded with fraudulently procured unemployment insurance benefits obtained using stolen personal identification information of U.S. residents. The crime proceeds were sold on Cryptocurrency Platform-I to affiliates of the Media Company's Foreign Office at discounted rates of approximately 70 to 80 cents per dollar and in exchange for cryptocurrency. Once purchased, the crime proceeds were transferred to bank accounts of the Media Entities (the "Media Entities' Bank Accounts"), including through multiple layered transactions designed to conceal the unlawful origins of the funds. 

From the indictment, so it's only one side, but it does seem a little fishy.

15 posted on 06/07/2024 11:08:14 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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These traitorous democrats will face justice one day. We’re coming for you loser liberal Marxists. Trump might not want revenge but I sure as hell do for the destruction you’ve done to my country. Burning at the stake seems justified.


16 posted on 06/07/2024 11:20:36 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: joshua c

Yep, it’s history that will not be forgotten, no matter how many statues are crushed.


17 posted on 06/07/2024 11:33:23 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And, exactly, how do all of the non-cheaters get around all of the cheating that will happen, this November? The Left continues to behave this way, because the fix is in, already, this November!


18 posted on 06/07/2024 11:45:06 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!

19 posted on 06/07/2024 11:53:37 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: absalom01

quite an elaborate scheme
thanks


20 posted on 06/07/2024 12:25:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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