{"id":1570144,"date":"2022-07-25T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570144"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:08:18","slug":"bannon-trial-a-slam-dunk-conviction-a-bulletproof-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bannon-trial-a-slam-dunk-conviction-a-bulletproof-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannon Trial: A Slam-Dunk Conviction, a \u2018Bulletproof Appeal\u2019"},"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\">16<\/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-trial-a-slam-dunk-conviction-a-bulletproof-appeal%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=1570144&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-steve-bannon\">Steve Bannon<\/a>\u2019s five-day trial ended on July 22 with a jury finding the \u2018War Room\u2019 podcaster and former adviser to President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/steve-bannon-found-guilty-of-contempt-of-congress_4616123.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">guilty of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The jury unanimously agreed that Bannon failed to comply with a Sept. 23, 2021, subpoena to provide documents and testify before the House January 6 Committee last fall.<\/p>\n<p>The jury had little choice, Bannon himself acknowledged after the verdict was rendered and before leaving the E. Barrett Perryman U.S. District Courthouse in Washington on pre-sentencing probation.<\/p>\n<p>During a July 11 pretrial hearing, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said he would strictly adhere to a 61-year-old precedent that precludes \u201cadvice from counsel\u201d as a defense in contempt-of-Congress charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the point of going to trial here, if there is no defense?\u201d exasperated Bannon attorney David Schoen asked Nichols a week before the trial began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly,\u201d the judge responded.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys wanted to argue that Bannon was following then-attorney Robert Costello\u2019s advice in claiming his client was prohibited from complying with the subpoena because his interactions with Trump were shielded by executive privilege.<\/p>\n<p>That argument proved to be wrong, as ensuring court rulings determined, but Bannon\u2014and Costello\u2014maintained he would not comply last fall until those then-pending cases were resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys wanted to argue that Bannon should not be punished for \u201clistening to his lawyer,\u201d who held a legal opinion that was later rejected in court.<\/p>\n<p>But they could not say that, not in front on the jury, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>With that restriction on Bannon\u2019s defense, the outcome appeared predestined. Most expected the trial to be over within three days; a swift proceeding planted with tripwires for a certain appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Many believed jury selection would consume more time than testimony. Prosecutors had only two witnesses. The defense didn\u2019t have a defense;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bannon\u2019s five-day trial ended on July 22 with a jury finding the \u2018War Room\u2019 podcaster and former adviser to President Donald Trump guilty of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress. The jury unanimously agreed that Bannon failed to comply with a Sept. 23, 2021, subpoena to provide documents and testify before the House [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"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-1570144","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\/1570144","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570144\/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=1570144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}