{"id":55337,"date":"2024-06-16T07:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55337"},"modified":"2024-06-16T07:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T11:02:34","slug":"as-steve-bannon-prepares-for-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55337","title":{"rendered":"As Steve Bannon Prepares For Jail&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bannon is preparing to go to jail on July 1st on charges that he <span class=\"kY2IgmnCmOGjharHErah\">defied a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Peter Navarro is currently in jail on contempt of Congress charges. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has stated that it will not press charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland for defying a subpoena from a Congressional Committee. I guess contempt of Congress only matters if you are a Republican.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/06\/breaking-doj-wont-prosecute-merrick-garland-contempt-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Justice Department won\u2019t prosecute Merrick Garland for contempt of Congress over the Biden audio tapes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to hold Merrick Garland in criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Last month two GOP-led House committees\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/05\/just-house-oversight-committee-passes-resolution-recommending-merrick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed resolutions<\/a>\u00a0recommending US Attorney General Merrick Garland be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio of Biden\u2019s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Merrick Garland has reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/06\/ag-merrick-garland-classifies-embarrassing-audio-recordings-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cclassified at the highest level\u201d the audio tapes<\/a>\u00a0of Joe Biden\u2019s embarrassing interview with Special Counsel Hur. The tapes have been locked away in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), according to investigative journalist Paul Sperry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The White House has already admitted that the transcripts of the tapes were slightly altered, and the transcripts have already been released, so what are they hiding?<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/02\/breaking-special-counsel-report-shows-joe-biden-couldnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed <\/a>that during interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur, Joe Biden struggled to answer even basic questions, such as when he served as Vice President or the year his son Beau passed away from brain cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Justice Department said Merrick Garland did not commit a crime when he defied a congressional subpoena and refuse to hand over the Biden audio tapes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/justice-department-contempt-biden-classified-documents-8f38c7178fb0c996442781243f65ab97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Attorney General Merrick Garland will not be prosecuted for contempt of Congress because his refusal to turn over audio of President Joe Biden\u2019s interview in his classified documents case \u201cdid not constitute a crime,\u201d the Justice Department said Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Justice Department official cited the department\u2019s longstanding policy not to prosecute officials who don\u2019t comply with subpoenas because of a president\u2019s claim of executive privilege.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So why is Peter Navarro in jail and why is Steve Bannon headed for jail?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bannon is preparing to go to jail on July 1st on charges that he defied a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Peter Navarro is currently in jail on contempt of Congress charges. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1554,13767,16159,3294,69,8350,2340,451,118,16911,269,9824,17129,5043,14351,16170,11559,11234,11716,211],"class_list":["post-55337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attorney-general","tag-attorney-general-merrick-garland","tag-classified-documents","tag-contempt-of-congress","tag-department-of-justice","tag-executive-privilege","tag-gateway-pundit","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-joe-biden","tag-justice","tag-justice-department","tag-merrick-garland","tag-mike-johnson","tag-paul-sperry","tag-president-joe-biden","tag-robert-hur","tag-special-counsel","tag-steve-bannon","tag-the-gateway-pundit","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55338,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55337\/revisions\/55338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}