Posted on 07/21/2022 5:53:52 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Several journalists erroneously tweeted that Stephen K. Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress in federal court in Washington, DC, on Thursday afternoon — before closing arguments in the trial.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tweeted: “BANNON GUILTY.” His colleague Chris Hayes tweeted “Bannon found guilty,” citing a tweet by CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane, who was covering a different case.
Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace warned others that they were getting the facts wrong:
So, too, did Bannon biographer Joshua Green:
O’Donnell apologized for spreading the misinformation about the verdict, as did Hayes, taking down their mistaken tweets:
Others also apologized:
Some, like the CBC’s Tom Harrington, Alex Salvi of Newsmax, and Carl Quintanilla of CNBC, simply deleted their tweets about the Bannon verdict without apparent further explanation (as of this writing).
Matt Ford of the New Republic tweeted that his “sources” claimed Bannon would be found guilty; he later explained that he had been making fun of a tweet by “Russia collusion” blogger Louise Mensch speculating that Bannon would be sentenced to death for espionage in 2017.
The defense rested on Thursday without presenting witnesses, moving for an acquittal and arguing the prosecution had failed to prove that Bannon, a former White House and Trump campaign aide, had willfully committed contempt of Congress.
Defense attorney David Schoen told reporters his client had been prevented from putting on a full defense by the judge, who barred the defense from questioning the legality of the subpoena Bannon is accused of defying.
Bannon added his own commentary, noting that he had always testified before Congress, once executive privilege had been waived — which he said it had not been, in this case, until recently.
He closed: “I stand with Trump and the Constitution.”
Bannon is the former executive chairman of Breitbart News.
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Actually nothing erroneous about it, these “mistakes”
are just to prime the narrative.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tweeted: “BANNON GUILTY.”
Either O’Donnell kills himself, or Bannon challenges him to a duel. I assume that Chris Hayes would just take the coward’s way out.
I hope Bannon sues Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Hayes. They’re not sorry........they were announcing what THEY wanted the verdict to be.
There’s no shortage of Americans who have contempt for Congress.
“You are fake news!”
I Heard on Bannon’s Warrom, that they told the judge they would not be presenting a defense.
Either O’Donnell kills himself, or Bannon challenges him to a duel.
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I’d be all for bringing back dueling between members of the political class. It would both provide entertainment and would potentially whittle down their numbers.
That’s confidence or chutzpah to not even put up a defense.
Most of America has more than contempt of Congress. It is loathing and nausea and disgust over this gathering of filth pretending to be a national legislature.
They are like the Mafia demanding respect by the public when they are organized criminals who violate laws and moral decency on a non-stop basis and no gutter too low for them to do battle in.
We’ll he WILL be found guilty, he has no chance of a fair trial.
They are such TDS afflicted harlots. It is laughable. Now all of the Anchors will be deadly serious when Bannon is found “guilty” by this Kangaroo Court.
Sue them Steve!!
Code?
These left wing hacks are disgusting.
DISGUSTING !!!
he was guilty as soon as he was indited...
Legacy news lost any credibility it had long ago. Why should we be surprised by their lies.
J6 kabuki theater is about taking out trumps men moving forward into the 2024 election
100% chance he will be guilty
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