Saturday, July 09, 2022

Since I’m On A Roll With My Predictions

First, he means “Trojan Horse.” Second: Yeah, I don’t think Bannon is that clever or that good. In a recent primary all of the candidates he endorsed, lost. His podcast is important on Raw Story, (for all the wrong reasons), but nowhere else. Yeah, I think that’s much more likely. Because Jeffrey Toobin seems to have found an acorn:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this whole thing is a joke," Toobin replied. "I mean, Steve Bannon is under criminal contempt prosecution for failing to answer subpoenas that he did not answer. That's a criminal charge from the Justice Department. That is done. If he wants to testify now, God bless, but his criminal case is about failure to testify in the past." 
"This sounds like a last-ditch effort for Bannon to throw sand in the gears and say maybe I will testify, maybe there will be a waiver of privilege," he continued. "The whole thing seems like Steve Bannon trying to yank the committee's chain and it's not even up to the committee anymore, this is a charge from the Justice Department and they are the ones that have to decide whether to go forward with this case. There's a trial date, he's going to court, I think some letter that Donald Trump may or may not write is utterly irrelevant."
Does Bannon imagine he can play a Trojan Horse before the committee? Does he think this is his “Get.Out Of Jail Free” card? No clue, but he’s getting terrible legal advice if he does. Especially if he tries to play arrogant prick with the committee. The court might say Bannon “cured” his violation of the subpoena by testifying. But that “maybe” depends on his full cooperation. Fuck around and Toobin’s analysis is pretty much Bannon’s future.

So my guess is Bannon (and Trump with him) thinks he’s being clever. He’s going to find out he isn’t.
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