He knew what was going to happen
I hope they lock him up.
The House voted Thursday to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
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The House vote sends the matter to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, where it will now be up to prosecutors in that office to decide whether to present the case to a grand jury for possible criminal charges. It’s still uncertain whether they will pursue the case — Attorney General Merrick Garland would only say at a House hearing on Thursday that they plan to “make a decision consistent with the principles of prosecution.”
Lock him up.
“Mr. Bannon’s own public statements make clear he knew what was going to happen before it did, and thus he must have been aware of — and may well have been involved in — the planning of everything that played out on that day,” [Liz] Cheney said ahead of the vote. “The American people deserve to know what he knew and what he did.”
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The lingering acrimony over the insurrection, and the Bannon subpoena, flared Wednesday at a House Rules Committee hearing held to set the parameters of Thursday’s debate. Under intense questioning from Raskin, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Republican who defended Trump and opposed the Bannon contempt effort, said he accepted that Biden is the president but would not say that Biden won the election.
Yes the lingering acrimony over that incident where Trump goons were roaming the Capitol looking for Democrats to murder. How odd that there’s still acrimony eight whole months later.
But hey, look on the bright side. Trump and Bannon might finish up sharing the same cell! Wonderful opportunities to talk about old times, as those banged up for longish stretches incline to do. And even brighter still: at least the allegation is only that they conspired against the US Congress. Imagine if they were living in Ancient Rome and had done the same to its senate, or even to an emperor.! They could have found themselves sharing not the same cell, but the same arena, with a few lions for affectionate company.
Perhaps they should count their blessings.
But but but, the bumblies on the Capitol grounds on the 6th were no different from any everyday group of curious tourists. Didn’t Mitch McConnell tell us that? I reckon that is why one of them got shot in the face while attempting to break in, by Capitol police. It’s dangerous being a tourist in DC, anyone will tell you that.
I posted this comment on B&W when Trump fired Bannon in 2018. Here I updated my link with The Wayback Machine for The Washington Post graphics that showed where Bannon sat in the West Wing in 2017, so the Internet will remember, The Way We Were.
The Way We Were
The Beeb have a good documentary about the attack on the Capitol, interviewing the aggressors, the police, the politicians and a staffer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0010tff/four-hours-at-the-capitol
It is quite terrifying – it recalled those fearful days, and the aggressors are unbelievably self-righteous and deluded.
When the mob was surging against the Capitol police, I was saying, hey, I thought the USA was awash with guns. Why aren’t you shooting these terrorists?
Too pale?
Good question. They could easily have been Rooshans in disguise. Come to think of it, they probably were.
;-)
All tourists. But, I wonder why The Capitol closed down the wall-climbing attraction since then. I had planned a vacation. I also wanted to try my hand at pushing up against a phalanx of cops, smashing windows, and stealing podiums.
It’s not fair.
The District of Columbia has much stricter gun laws than most states. Several groups of conspirators were keeping stashes of weapons away from the Capitol, as they risked immediate arrest if they’d tried their open carry demonstrations there.
We may have been spared a pitched battle.
@JohntheDrunkard – I wouldn’t really recommending opening fire on rioters, and of course police should restrain and arrest rather than mowing them down. That was just my gut instinct – and state bodies exist so that the gut instincts of revenge/affray are not acted on. I daresay those of a different political stripe would feel the same if these were Antifa or whoever behaving riotously. When the Kent State shootings happened plenty of people thought the demonstrators deserved it.
They interviewed one guy from the Washington DC police. He was a tough bastard who had once been in the army in Afghanistan. He’d been caught and tasered by the rioters and was lucky not to have been killed. You could see he was burning to terminate with extreme prejudice.