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Steve Bannon Sentenced to Four Months in Prison

October 21, 2022 at 11:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon was sentenced Friday to four months in jail for defying a subpoena from the congressional probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, CNBC reports.

Washington Post: “Bannon is set to become the first person incarcerated for defying a congressional subpoena in more than half a century under a statute that is rarely prosecuted. The judge said he would stay imposition of the penalty pending Bannon’s expected appeal.”

The New York Times reports Bannon told reporters that he viewed President Biden as “illegitimate” and went on to claim that Democrats would face their “judgment day” in the coming midterm elections.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Bannon Says He Has ‘Shock Troops’ on Standby

October 4, 2021 at 11:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon told his podcast listeners he will have 20,000 “shock troops” on standby.

Said Bannon: “We control this country. We have to start acting like it.”

Filed Under: Trump Legacy Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Bannon’s Use of Private Jet Could Be Illegal

February 26, 2020 at 9:13 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Steve Bannon used a private jet apparently owned by a wealthy Chinese businessman to fly to events to promote Republican congressional candidates in 2018,” ProPublica reports.

“The previously unreported flights could run afoul of a campaign finance law that bars foreign money from U.S. elections.”

Filed Under: Campaign Finance Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Trump Praises Bannon’s Analysis of the 2020 Election

August 2, 2019 at 5:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump embraced analysis of the 2020 Democratic field from former strategist Stephen Bannon, whom he previously derided as “sloppy” and a leaker, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “Nice to see that one of my best pupils is still a giant Trump fan. Steve joined me after I won the primaries, but I loved working with him!”

Trump shared a clip from Bannon on CNBC in which he dismissed the chances of the current field of Democrats against Trump in 2020.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Italy to Evict Steve Bannon’s Academy

June 2, 2019 at 7:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Steve Bannon’s training academy for nationalists is set to lose its spiritual home,” Politico reports.

“Italy’s Culture Ministry announced it will revoke the lease on a state-owned monastery given to Dignitatis Humanae Institute, a right-wing Roman Catholic institute affiliated with Bannon, the former Breitbart executive and ex-chief strategist to Donald Trump.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Documentary Paints Damaging Portrait of Steve Bannon

March 11, 2019 at 12:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“After Steve Bannon left the White House in 2017, he tried to turn his bombastic nationalism into a global movement and let a progressive documentarian follow him for more than a year — Arizona to Italy, Texas to France. The result is The Brink, a fly-on-the-wall, cinéma vérité film coming to theaters March 29, and being screened in D.C. on Tuesday,” Axios reports.

Despite Bannon’s extensive cooperation, the Washington Post says the film is ultimately a damaging portrait: “A number of moments seem to make the argument that Bannon’s populism is a pose.”

Filed Under: Media Buzz Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

January 30, 2019 at 6:46 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Donald Trump will be in your personal life 30 years from now, whether you like it or not.”

— Stephen Bannon, quoted by USA Today.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Bonus Quote of the Day

January 30, 2019 at 4:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“There’s no glamour to the job. I hated every second I was there. The West Wing has bad karma to it. They say, ‘Because you were doing bad stuff!’ But I was doing the Lord’s work.”

— Stephen Bannon, quoted by USA Today, on working in the Trump White House.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Bannon Grilled Again About Cambridge Analytica

December 6, 2018 at 11:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Steve Bannon found himself back in the hot seat last month as the former White House adviser answered questions from Senate intelligence committee investigators behind closed doors,” the Daily Beast reports.

“The sources said investigators asked about Cambridge Analytica, the controversial and now defunct data firm he co-founded.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Bannon Pulls Out of Conference on Sex Robots

December 4, 2018 at 3:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Steve Bannon will no longer be speaking at a UM, the latest and third event to be canceled following the announcement he would be a keynote speaker at a joint conference on sex robots this month,” the Montana Kaiman reports.

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Bannon Teams with Wealthy Chinese Critic

November 21, 2018 at 6:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Steve Bannon “is teaming up with one of the Chinese government’s fiercest critics on a $100 million effort to investigate what they view as abuses of power by President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui … said he would provide the funding for the so-called ‘Rule of Law Fund’ to investigate deaths and disappearances of Chinese executives, politicians and other public figures. Mr. Bannon said he would volunteer to serve as the fund’s chairman and oversee its operations, which he said would include hiring a professional staff.”

Filed Under: Advocacy Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

New Evidence Highlights Bannon’s Role In Brexit

November 17, 2018 at 8:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jane Mayer: “For two years, observers have speculated that the June, 2016, Brexit campaign in the U.K. served as a petri dish for Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign in the United States. Now there is new evidence that it did.”

“Newly surfaced e-mails show that the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, and Cambridge Analytica, the Big Data company that he worked for at the time, were simultaneously incubating both nationalist political movements in 2015.”

Filed Under: Foreign Elections Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Where Was Steve Bannon?

November 5, 2018 at 9:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “Can anyone point us to any money that Steve Bannon spent on this election? He told various new outlets that he was going to spend many millions of dollars on digital ads supporting House Republicans. We cannot find evidence he spent one dollar.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Stone Sold Himself to Trump as a WikiLeaks Pipeline

November 1, 2018 at 2:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The New York Times has an email exchange between Stephen Bannon and Roger Stone: “The email exchange, not previously reported, underscores how Mr. Stone presented himself to Trump campaign officials: as a conduit of inside information from WikiLeaks, Russia’s chosen repository for documents hacked from Democratic computers.”

“Mr. Bannon and two other former senior campaign officials have detailed to prosecutors for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, how Mr. Stone created that impression… One of them told investigators that Mr. Stone not only seemed to predict WikiLeaks’s actions, but that he also took credit afterward for the timing of its disclosures that damaged Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Roger Stone, Stephen Bannon

Senate Launches Investigation Into Steve Bannon

October 31, 2018 at 5:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is pursuing a wide-ranging investigation into former White House adviser Steve Bannon’s activities during the 2016 presidential campaign,” Reuters reports.

“The committee is looking into what Bannon might know about any contacts during the campaign between Moscow and two advisers to the campaign, George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Bannon Holds Rally But No Candidates Show Up

October 25, 2018 at 7:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As Donald Trump held midterm rallies this week in front of thousands, his one-time chief strategist Steve Bannon made his own, rather more low-key return to the campaign trail,” the Guardian reports.

“Bannon appeared in front of 200 people at a firehouse outside Buffalo, New York, ostensibly to campaign for Republicans based in the area. But in a visceral demonstration of just how far Bannon’s stock has fallen since leaving the White House 14 months ago, none of those Republicans running for office turned up.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Bannon Says Kavanaugh Fight Could Save House

October 10, 2018 at 1:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Steve Bannon told Bloomberg that next month’s congressional elections will be a referendum on the president and that Republicans can still hang on to a slender House majority with the GOP base energized by the bitter confirmation fight over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Said Bannon: “I’ve called this now for many months to be his first re-elect. There’s a very narrow gate you have to go through but it’s doable. The Kavanaugh hearings gave us traction for the first time to try to, against all odds just like in ’16, to try to close strong and try to save it by a seat or two.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

Kavanaugh Fight Unified the Republican Party

October 6, 2018 at 10:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Steve Bannon texts Jonathan Swan: “The fight for Judge Kavanaugh became a proxy fight for Trump’s presidency. Senator McConnell showed real leadership and the rest of the Senators real spine. This should stand as a lesson for the future — when Republican band together, stand up for the grassroots and take the fight to the Democrats and the opposition party media, America wins.”

Adds Swan: “You know something rare has happened in the Republican Party when Steve Bannon is gushing over Mitch McConnell — the man he spent months trying to destroy.”

Filed Under: Republicans Tagged With: Stephen Bannon

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