[FONT=&]Rightwing media personality Steve Bannon, on trial for ghosting Congress, was a no-show on the witness stand Thursday and passed on even putting up a defense—a lame end for the guy who promised to make his criminal case the “misdemeanor from hell” for the U.S. government.
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[FONT=&]On Thursday morning, Bannon’s defense lawyers told a federal judge they would present no defense—nothing at all—to try to convince jurors that he wasn’t somehow guilty of ignoring a congressional subpoena.
The Jan. 6 Committee subpoenaed Bannon last fall demanding that he turn over documents and testify about his role in trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election results as well as the part he played in beating the proverbial war drums in the run-up to the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol building.
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[FONT=&]“You are not intending to put on any evidence to the jury?” asked U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols.
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[FONT=&]“Correct,” said David Schoen, an attorney on Bannon’s team. “We're not putting on a defense case.”
What the Justice Department insisted would be a remarkably short trial has instead stretched nearly all this week, as prosecutors charged forward while Bannon’s defense lawyers used every opportunity to slow it down.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-bannon-promised-hell-trial-182356171.html
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Because the fascist DC judge wouldn't allow him to mount a defense or face his accusers, it's going to the SCOTUS you dumb fuck.