Bannon indicted

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I don't see any longer stories yet but it's being talked about on CNN

https://go.cnn.com/?stream=cnn

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CNN has a stub article up now - good SEO, CNN - where they'll be posting updates

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/politics/steve-bannon-indicted/index.html

[Anonymous]

I have no problem with this indictment, and by way of background - I thought Trump was the worst President we've ever had with no redeeming qualities. So, that said, I never quite got the intensity of the Bannon-hate from my leftie type friends. I find him disagreeable and he was clearly working for political goals I disagree with. But I've never been able to work up too much emotion about him one way or the other.

Am I missing something? Is he a uniquely bad person? Like head and shoulders above the other miscreants in the Trump administration? For example, my friends dislike Michael Flynn, but they never seemed as worked up about him as Bannon.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with this indictment, and by way of background - I thought Trump was the worst President we've ever had with no redeeming qualities. So, that said, I never quite got the intensity of the Bannon-hate from my leftie type friends. I find him disagreeable and he was clearly working for political goals I disagree with. But I've never been able to work up too much emotion about him one way or the other.

Am I missing something? Is he a uniquely bad person? Like head and shoulders above the other miscreants in the Trump administration? For example, my friends dislike Michael Flynn, but they never seemed as worked up about him as Bannon.

Steve Bannon’s role was to stir up as much awful racist, anti-immigrant, etc. sentiment as possible so Trump could win on a campaign of addressing all of the fury Bannon stoked. Michael Flynn broke the law, but his conduct did not attack the fabric of our society the way Bannon’s did.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with this indictment, and by way of background - I thought Trump was the worst President we've ever had with no redeeming qualities. So, that said, I never quite got the intensity of the Bannon-hate from my leftie type friends. I find him disagreeable and he was clearly working for political goals I disagree with. But I've never been able to work up too much emotion about him one way or the other.

Am I missing something? Is he a uniquely bad person? Like head and shoulders above the other miscreants in the Trump administration? For example, my friends dislike Michael Flynn, but they never seemed as worked up about him as Bannon.

Steve Bannon’s role was to stir up as much awful racist, anti-immigrant, etc. sentiment as possible so Trump could win on a campaign of addressing all of the fury Bannon stoked. Michael Flynn broke the law, but his conduct did not attack the fabric of our society the way Bannon’s did.

I find them both repugnant and equally scumbags. Flynn is a QAnon believer, which is really bad.

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So what does an indictment mean? He goes to jail? He pays a fine? He gets a news headline?

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Anonymous wrote:So what does an indictment mean? He goes to jail? He pays a fine? He gets a news headline?

Arrested, then trial

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Anonymous wrote:So what does an indictment mean? He goes to jail? He pays a fine? He gets a news headline?

Arrested, then trial

^ Me again: this is for the contempt of Congress charge. It's not a big jail term he's facing. Who knows if he'll get a jail term. But it is SOMETHING.

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Anonymous wrote:So what does an indictment mean? He goes to jail? He pays a fine? He gets a news headline?

He will go to trial or plead guilty. Contempt of Congress is misdemeanor and can be punished with up to 1 year in prison and $1,000 fine. Hopefully DOJ pushes for a speedy trial. I am sure if republicans win the house next year, they will try to use that to muck this up.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what does an indictment mean? He goes to jail? He pays a fine? He gets a news headline?

Arrested, then trial

^ Me again: this is for the contempt of Congress charge. It's not a big jail term he's facing. Who knows if he'll get a jail term. But it is SOMETHING.

So basically nothing but it keeps him in the news. Winner: Steve Bannon.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with this indictment, and by way of background - I thought Trump was the worst President we've ever had with no redeeming qualities. So, that said, I never quite got the intensity of the Bannon-hate from my leftie type friends. I find him disagreeable and he was clearly working for political goals I disagree with. But I've never been able to work up too much emotion about him one way or the other.

Am I missing something? Is he a uniquely bad person? Like head and shoulders above the other miscreants in the Trump administration? For example, my friends dislike Michael Flynn, but they never seemed as worked up about him as Bannon.

Yes. He was abusive to his wife and daughter. He's a highly intelligent and resourceful character but his hate for certain groups is very real, and he tried to leverage his thorough understanding of politics and international economic forces to make his vision of a White, non-Jewish-dominated world come true. Not that he's Christian or particularly religious. But the nationalist Old Order suits him, and plenty of others in Europe are of like mind. It's dangerous. The attempts to make money are secondary for him.

Micheal Flynn is only in it for the money, and he has no international world order aspirations. He's a nonentity in the long run. Just another grifter.

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^ to continue, Bannon was welcomed with open arms in certain European nationalist circles and attempted to orchestrate nationalist strategies in Europe with the help of powerful people who work behind the scenes in various countries. As a European, I follow those news. At one point, there was a real and present danger of a nationalist sweep across all of Europe. Americans who focus merely on domestic news may have missed it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what does an indictment mean? He goes to jail? He pays a fine? He gets a news headline?

Arrested, then trial

^ Me again: this is for the contempt of Congress charge. It's not a big jail term he's facing. Who knows if he'll get a jail term. But it is SOMETHING.

So basically nothing but it keeps him in the news. Winner: Steve Bannon.

I guess that's one way to look at it?

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Anonymous wrote:^ to continue, Bannon was welcomed with open arms in certain European nationalist circles and attempted to orchestrate nationalist strategies in Europe with the help of powerful people who work behind the scenes in various countries. As a European, I follow those news. At one point, there was a real and present danger of a nationalist sweep across all of Europe. Americans who focus merely on domestic news may have missed it.

he could escape to Belarus along with the other traitor.

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I find them both repugnant and equally scumbags. Flynn is a QAnon believer, which is really bad.

It isn't that he is a believer - he is part of the cabal that created it and propagated it.