{"id":1025401,"date":"2021-11-17T21:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T02:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1025401"},"modified":"2021-11-17T21:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T02:58:31","slug":"report-steve-bannon-to-plead-not-guilty-to-criminal-contempt-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-steve-bannon-to-plead-not-guilty-to-criminal-contempt-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Steve Bannon to Plead Not Guilty to Criminal Contempt Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-steve-bannon-to-plead-not-guilty-to-criminal-contempt-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1025401&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1353472488-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Steve Bannon, former White House senior counselor to President Donald Trump and one-time executive chairman of Breitbart News, will reportedly plead not guilty to criminal contempt of Congress on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The court <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/581998-bannon-to-plead-not-guilty-to-contempt-charges\">filing<\/a> suggests a&nbsp;scheduled arraignment on Thursday, according to the <em>Hill.&nbsp;<\/em>Bannon has reportedly filed a Wednesday motion to \u201cskip the arraignment \u2014 a move that requires sign off from the judge.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bannon was indicted Friday on two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to turn over documents requested by congressional subpoena and for neglecting to appear before the partisan, January 6 House Select Committee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>If convicted, Bannon could face&nbsp;up to a $1,000 fine for each offense and a year in jail.<\/p>\n<p>After turning himself over to the FBI on Monday, Bannon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/15\/steve-bannon-released-from-custody-after-appearing-before-judge\/\">told<\/a> reporters he was going on offense to defend himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>I\u2019m telling you right now, this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p>Joe Biden ordered Merrick Garland to prosecute me from the White House lawn when he got off Marine One. And we\u2019re going to do, we\u2019re going to go on the offense. We\u2019re tired of playing defense. We\u2019re going to go on the offense on this and standby\u2026<\/p>\n<p>By the way, by the way, by the way, you should understand, Nancy Pelosi is taking on Donald Trump and Steve Bannon\u2026 she should ask Hillary Clinton how that turned out for them. Okay, we\u2019re going on the offense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNot just Trump people and not just conservatives \u2014 every progressive, every liberal in this country that likes freedom of speech and liberty should be fighting for this case. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here today: for everybody. I\u2019m never going to back down,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment against Bannon suggests Biden\u2019s readiness to prosecute political opponents. \u201cPrevious American presidential administrations have resisted investigating their former rivals, even after promising during an election to do so, on the merits of protecting executive privilege,\u201d Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/15\/steve-bannon-released-from-custody-after-appearing-before-judge\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bannon, former White House senior counselor to President Donald Trump and one-time executive chairman of Breitbart News, will reportedly plead not guilty to criminal contempt of Congress on Thursday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}