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FBI executed 35 raids against Trump supporters: Bannon
By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies, Today 15:04

Former presidential advisor, Steve Bannon, claims that US President Joe Biden is behind new FBI raids on Trump supporters for wanting to silence dissenting voices.

Former adviser to former US president Donald Trump Steve Bannon claimed that the FBI executed raids targeting dozens of Donald Trump supporters this week.

On the conservative Charlie Kirk Show on Friday, Bannon said: “there were 35 FBI raids yesterday” targeting “senior members of MAGA, Republican supporters of Donald Trump.” He commented that there was no need for the raids, as “these people have lawyers,” adding that the “jack-booted Gestapo” intentionally made a “big display of this.” - referring to US President Joe Biden.

According to Bannon, the Washington establishment is adamant about silencing any opposing voices and is resorting to “lawfare, financial terrorism, law—you know, everything legally — and quite frankly, up to assassinations.”

The prominent conservative figure expressed that “this is all about intimidation,” with the Biden administration acknowledging that “they are losing, after vowing not to give in, saying: “Screw them. I spit right in their eye, I can’t care less.”

Bannon's claims come just one day after he was indicted at a court in Manhattan on multiple charges, specifically conspiracy and money laundering, linked to a crowdfunding fraud scheme by allegedly swindling donors out of money meant to fund a wall on the border with Mexico. After being arrested on Thursday morning, Bannon pleaded not guilty to all counts and was reportedly released without bail later in the day.

The controversial figure was found guilty of contempt of Congress in July after a brief trial that featured only two government witnesses who detailed the longtime Donald Trump aide's defiance of a House committee's demand for records and testimony in its investigation of the Capitol attack.

Upon being asked by the host of the show to confirm the truth of the 35 FBI raids, adding that this has not this reported in any media outlet, the former Trump adviser replied: “I’m breaking that news right here.”

Newsweek magazine stated that it has reached out to the FBI to comment on Bannon’s allegations, but has received no response.

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A judge sentenced Steve Bannon to 4 months in prison but let him remain free while he appeals his conviction
C. Ryan Barber | Business Insider | Fri, October 21, 2022 at 9:03 AM

The House referred Steve Bannon for prosecution last year after he defied the January 6 committee.

Bannon argued ahead of sentencing that any jail term should be "suspended" pending his appeal.

The Justice Department had recommended a six-month sentence and a $200,000 fine for Bannon.

A federal judge on Friday sentenced Steve Bannon to four months in prison but allowed the Trump ally to remain free while he appeals his criminal conviction on charges he defied the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, handed down the sentence during a hearing in a Washington, DC, federal court, where a jury found Bannon guilty in July on a pair of contempt of Congress charges.

Ahead of Friday's sentencing, federal prosecutors recommended that Nichols sentence Bannon to six months in prison, and order him to pay a $200,000 fine. In a court filing, the prosecutors said Bannon "flouted the Committee's authority and ignored the subpoena's demands."

Bannon's defense lawyers argued that the former Trump advisor should avoid prison time and receive a probation-only sentence. But they urged Nichols to suspend — or put on hold — any sentence while Bannon brings a challenge to his criminal conviction.

Bannon had declined to testify in his own defense or call any witnesses during his trial. But after each day of the proceeding, he emerged from federal court to rail against the Justice Department and the House January 6 committee.

The jury found Bannon guilty after only a few hours of deliberations. That day, Bannon declared that he had lost the "battle" but not the "war," signaling that he would challenge his conviction before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

In the months leading to the trial, Nichols made a series of rulings that severely limited Bannon's potential arguments. For instance, Nichols barred Bannon's defense team from arguing that executive privilege excused his refusal to sit for questioning or turn over records subpoenaed by the House January 6 committee.

Citing decades-old DC Circuit precedent, Nichols also prevented Bannon from arguing that he was following the advice of his lawyer in declining to comply with the House January 6 panel's subpoena. But Nichols appeared to make the ruling reluctantly, emphasizing that he was bound by a 1961 appeals court ruling that took the so-called "advice of counsel" defense off the table in contempt of Congress cases.

After months of refusing the House panel's demands, Bannon attempted an about-face on the eve of trial and told the committee that Trump had waived executive privilege and freed him to cooperate with the panel's investigation.

Prosecutors cited the last-ditch offer in their sentencing recommendation this week, saying it "proved a hollow gesture."

"When he realized that his eleventh-hour stunt would not prevent his trial, the Defendant's cooperative spirit vanished," prosecutors said. "Despite the removal of the only purported barrier to his compliance, to this day the Defendant has not produced a single document to the Committee or appeared for testimony."

In their court filings, prosecutors revealed new details about the Bannon legal team's dealings with the House committee ahead of his trial.

Just days before the trial was set to begin, Bannon's defense lawyer Evan Corcoran, contacted the House January 6 committee to push the congressional panel to recommend that the Justice Department drop charges in exchange for Bannon's cooperation. The House committee's top investigator, Timothy Heaphy, took contemporaneous notes of the call and had a staff member join as a potential witness.

Later, while being interviewed by an FBI agent, Heaphy "described the overall 'vibe' of his conversation with Corcoran as defense counsel's attempt to solicit the Select Committee's assistance in their effort to delay Bannon's criminal trial and obtain a dismissal of the contempt of Congress charges pending against him," according to a summary of the October 7 interview.