{"id":1562455,"date":"2022-07-20T08:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562455"},"modified":"2022-07-20T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:35:05","slug":"bannon-defense-tells-jury-that-government-cant-prove-defendant-committed-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bannon-defense-tells-jury-that-government-cant-prove-defendant-committed-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannon Defense Tells Jury That Government Can\u2019t Prove Defendant Committed a Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fbannon-defense-tells-jury-that-government-cant-prove-defendant-committed-a-crime%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=1562455&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--><p>WASHINGTON\u2014The contempt of Congress charge levied against former White House aide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-steve-bannon\">Steve Bannon<\/a> cannot be proven, lawyers for the defendant told a jury in federal court on July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon is on trial for defying subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives committee investigating the breach of the U.S. Capitol, which occurred on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon ignored warnings that he could face criminal prosecution if he did not comply with the subpoena, prosecutor Amanda Vaughn said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you ignore a subpoena, that\u2019s a crime,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is why we are here today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Evan Corcoran, a lawyer for Bannon, challenged that narrative, saying that the subpoena was not ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence will show there was \u201cdirect engagement\u201d and prolonged negotiations between lawyers for Bannon and the government because of questions about what materials and testimony Bannon could give, Corcoran said.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be no evidence that shows Bannon \u201cwillfully defaulted when he didn\u2019t appear in a congressional office on Oct. 14,\u201d Corcoran said. \u201cThe date was the subject of ongoing discussion and negotiation, so the government can\u2019t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Steve Bannon committed a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Bannon did not appear before Congress in October 2021, the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/house-votes-to-hold-steve-bannon-in-contempt-of-congress_4062095.html\">voted to hold Bannon in contempt<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-adviser-steve-bannon-indicted-for-contempt-of-congress-doj_4101644.html\">a grand jury indicted Bannon<\/a> several weeks later on two counts of contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the panel, said a day after the failure to appear that Bannon had \u201cwillfully failed to both produce a single document and to appear for his scheduled deposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bannon has said he could not hand over materials or testify because the subpoena sought records protected by executive privilege, which had been asserted by former President Donald Trump. His lawyers said that Bannon would not testify until the panel reached an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014The contempt of Congress charge levied against former White House aide Steve Bannon cannot be proven, lawyers for the defendant told a jury in federal court on July 19. Bannon is on trial for defying subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives committee investigating the breach of the U.S. Capitol, which occurred on Jan. 6, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":791,"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-1562455","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\/1562455","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\/791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562455\/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=1562455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}