Man, it’s almost enough to restore your faith in America.
The happiness I felt when a jury ordered defamer extraordinaire Alex Jones to pay a billion dollars to the Connecticut parents he’d tormented for years had barely ebbed when the Justice Department did something that made my heart sing.
It recommended that Stephen K. Bannon, the white nationalist chaos agent who defied the Jan. 6 select committee’s subpoena, be jailed for six months and pay a $200,000 fine. In July, a jury found President Trump’s former strategist guilty of criminal contempt of Congress.
“The rioters who overran the Capitol on January 6 did not just attack a building, they assaulted the rule of law upon which this country was built and through which it endures,” concluded prosecutors in their sentencing memo. “By flouting the Select Committee’s subpoena and its authority, the Defendant exacerbated that assault.”
The Jan. 6 committee wanted to ask Bannon about his role in meetings at the Willard Hotel in Washington on the eve of the insurrection, where allies of Trump, including attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, and former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn were working feverishly to derail the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
I’m sure the members would love to have asked Bannon why he gleefully predicted on his Jan. 5 podcast that “all hell” was…
