put himself above the law. the defense suggesting that to contempt of congress charges against him were politically motivated. proceedings began today after the judge in the case, carl nichols, who is a trump appointee, denied a defense request for a month long delay. you will recall that last week he rejected the number of defenses, including bannon s claim of executive privilege, leaving one ban a defense attorney to ask and these are his words what s the point of going to trial if there are no defenses? to which the judge replied, agreed. remember, this is the same c van who promised, as he made his first court appearance to make his, quote, the misdemeanor from. it s the same stephen and who, even as he recently offered to appear live before the select committee, express contempt for its members and continued his tough guy routine, conditions for his testimony here s what i need. give me a date, a time, a room number, a microphone and a wholly bible i can take the
put himself above the law. the defense suggesting that to contempt of congress charges against him were politically motivated. proceedings began today after the judge in the case, carl nichols, who is a trump appointee, denied a defense request for a month long delay. you will recall that last week he rejected the number of defenses, including bannon s claim of executive privilege, leaving one ban a defense attorney to ask and these are his words what s the point of going to trial if there are no defenses? to which the judge replied, agreed. remember, this is the same c van who promised, as he made his first court appearance to make his, quote, the misdemeanor from. it s the same stephen and who, even as he recently offered to appear live before the select committee, express contempt for its members and continued his tough guy routine, conditions for his testimony here s what i need. give me a date, a time, a room number, a microphone and a wholly bible i can take the oath on.
you know what? sticky? is it closer for me to say sticky or stinky in this context? i don t. no slippery year. while trump was still president in august 2020 you might reverse the ban it was arrested. he was hiding out in the yacht of a chinese billionaire and he was arrested and charged with carrying out a multi million -dollar fraud scheme. which stole more than $20 million from gullible trump supporters. i love that this doesn t even bother trump folks at all. dude was literally hiding on chinese billionaires yacht. he was arrested for stealing millions of dollars specifically from trump supporters so he could spend their money on himself. just before he left office former president trump pardoned steve bannon for those federal charges. it wasn t just bannon, it was four guys, including bannon, who got charged with a fraud back in 2020. it was only bannon who got pardoned. but today, of the three other guys, the three other codefendants got charging that same scheme two of them pled
bother the trump folks at all. he was literally hiding out on a chinese billionaire s yacht and arrested for stealing millions of dollars, specifically from trump supporters so he could spend their money on himself. just before he left office, former president trump pardoned steve bannon for those federal charges, but it wasn t just bannon, it was four guys, including bannon, who got charged with that fraud back in 2020, it was only bannon who got pardoned, well today, of the three other guys, three other codefendants who got charged in that same scheme, two of them pled guilty. they pled guilty. they admitted stealing millions of dollars in owe dations from trump supporters who thought they were paying for one of trump s border wall schemes, when in fact these guys were stealing the money for themselves. you would think that trump supporters might hold it against trump, right? you would think they would hold it against bannon. you would think they would particularly hold it against tr
trump s attorneys, which is not surprising. as jim and i discussed many times, this is a well-worn page out of his playbook. that said, steve bannon seems to be following his lead as well, muck things up as much as i can, let s delay, delay, delay. and there s some sense, even some concern that maybe this might work especially given what democrats are facing next year when it comes to midterm elections. i think that s exactly right. essentially the pressure you hear from the committee and from democrats is their attempt to try to get bannon to play by congress rules. bannon s spurning of this subpoena is his rebuttal, his way of saying no, i m not going to do that. part of bannon s bet is there are enough open legal questions that he can delay these proceedings until next year when a lot of people, including bannon, expect republicans will win back the house of representatives and shut down the committee. kevin mccarthy just said this