Biden DOJ accused of political persecutions

 Streiff:

Friday, a federal judge sentenced former adviser to President Trump to four months in prison for the high crime of refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the grotesque collection of lackwits that is the so-called January 6 Committee.

“Others must be deterred from committing similar crimes,” said Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee, who also imposed a fine of $6,500 on Mr. Bannon. He will remain free pending his appeal.

In a contentious exchange with the defense team before announcing a sentence, Judge Nichols said Mr. Bannon had shown “no remorse for his actions” and had yet to “demonstrate he has any intention of complying with the subpoena.”

Mr. Bannon served briefly as Mr. Trump’s top political adviser in the White House five years ago, yet he claimed that his interactions with Mr. Trump after the 2020 election were protected by executive privilege.

Although Judge Nichols rejected Mr. Bannon’s expansive interpretation of executive privilege, he cited several reasons for not giving Mr. Bannon the maximum six-month sentence the government had requested, including Mr. Bannon’s belated effort to reach an agreement with the committee, his service in the Navy, his lack of a criminal history and the unsettled judicial status of executive privilege.

I’m not a Steve Bannon fan. If they’d sent him to jail for four months for misdemeanor mopery with the intent to loiter, I might be able to support the decision. But that isn’t what happened.

Bannon was subpoenaed to testify before the January 6 Committee with the intent to paint a legitimate campaign to contest election results in a few areas that were obviously riddled with vote fraud as “insurrection.” Instead, Bannon communicated with the lynch mob via his attorney and declined to testify.

Historically, that should have been the end of it. When Lois Lerner refused to testify on her leadership role in organizing a partisan vendetta against conservative non-profits, the investigating committee issued a criminal referral to the Department of Justice. Nothing happened. When Attorney General Eric Holder refused to testify about his role in green-lighting a gun-running scheme organized by the ATF that resulted in the murders of hundreds of Mexican nationals and US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, a criminal referral was issued by the committee. Again, nothing happened.

But when a vindictive committee empaneled as part of a personal and political vendetta against President Trump sends a criminal referral on what is, at best, a chickensh** charge, it literally becomes a federal case. And just to ensure things stay on track, the man prosecuting the case is a former member of Joe Biden’s campaign — I use the term “man” very loosely,

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The Biden DOJ is taking political prisoners.   They no good and well that they cannot compel his testimony and even if he did testify it is unlikely that they would learn anything that would make him prosecutable.  It is a bad-faith operation by Democrats against a political opponent.

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