The Columbia Bugle's Sunday Newsletter (2024)

Welcome back to the third installment of the Columbia Bugle’s Sunday Newsletter. This week we will focus on the persecution of the MAGA Movement, including the trial and conviction of Steve Bannon and the Swamp’s two-tier justice system.

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Table Of Contents

2. The Persecution Of The MAGA Movement

4. Other Stories We’re Tracking

5. Interesting Reads Of The Week

6. Trump’s Truth Of The Week

The Trial & Conviction Of Steve Bannon

The Biden Regime’s Crackdown on MAGA continued this week with the conviction of Steven K. Bannon.

Steve Bannon is the former Chief Strategist and Counselor to President Donald Trump and the host of the very popular podcast War Room.

On November 12, 2021 Bannon was indicted on two counts of “Contempt of Congress” for refusing a Congressional subpoena from the January 6th Committee.

These two charges were: “failing to appear for testimony” and “failure to produce documents.” Each charge carries with it a minimum of 1 month in prison and a maximum of 1 year in prison.

The January 6th Committee, which issued the subpoena, was formed and established under House Resolution 503. The vote passed with every single Democrat and two RINOs (Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney) voting yes.

Bannon’s arguments for not complying with the Congressional subpoena are as follows:

-Bannon Has Executive Privilege

-Committee Was Invalidly Formed

-Therefore Any Subpoena Is Also Invalid

Additionally, Bannon’s Defense pointed out the bias of January 6th Committee Staffer Kristen Amerling.

The defense argued that “the entire foundation of the government’s case” rested on the testimony of a biased January 6th Committee staffer named Kristen Amerling.

“You need to consider whether a witness has a friendship or hostility towards anybody connected with the case, that some something you need to consider,” Bannon lawyer Evan Corcoran said.

Corcoran told the jury that Amerling had a partisan interest in the outcome of the case. “She’s been doing committee work for Democrats for 20 years. She has a relationship with one of the prosecutors on the case, Mrs. Gaston. It goes back 15 years. She’s contributed her own money to Democratic causes.”

Earlier this month President Trump waived executive privilege for Steve Bannon and Bannon’s attorney notified the Committee that Bannon “is willing to, indeed prefers, to testify at your public hearing."

The January 6th Committee was unsatisfied and proceeded with their prosecution of Bannon.

The trial took place starting Monday of this week (July 18, 2022) in Washington DC, a city that voted over 92% for Joe Biden in 2020 and whose Left-Wing bias has made it very easy for DOJ to get convictions of Trump supporters.

The trial took less than a week, finishing up on Friday where the jury rendered a guilty verdict for Bannon on both charges.

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon was found guilty by a DC court of contempt of Congress after defying a subpoena from the House's January 6 committee. Bannon had pleaded not guilty to the charges. He faces a minimum sentence of 30 days in jail. Sentencing will take place on October 21.

Bannon's conviction sets new precedent for the House January 6 Committee's congressional power to subpoena documents.

Here Is The U.S. Attorney’s Office Announcing The Guilty Verdict

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2

I am particularly fond of lectures about rule of law from an FBI chief who ran the office primarily responsible for the Whitmer fednapping hoax, an FBI entrapment operation busted by defense lawyers and a Michigan jury in April:

2:35 PM ∙ Jul 23, 2022

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Steve Bannon’s Response To The Guilty Verdict

Some Reactions Online To Steve Bannon’s Guilty Verdict

Tucker Carlson’s Monologue On Steve Bannon’s Guilty Verdict

The hallmark of any authoritarian regime is politicized justice. Under that system, your opponents go to jail, your supporters can do whatever they want and this reveals that the state exists not to serve the people who live in it, but to preserve itself and to crush all dissent. Hate to think we've reached a point anywhere near that here in the United States because there's nothing worse than that or scarier or harder to fix, but in fact, we have reached that point. That's where we are.

Later That Night Steve Bannon Joined Tucker Carlson To Respond To His Guilty Verdict

Steve Bannon

I will never back off. I support Trump and the Constitution & I'm not backing off one inch. If I go to jail, so be it” "People have to understand, right now this is an ideological war & we can not lose. The fate of the country is over the next couple of years.

Here Are Some Links To Legal Analysis On The Trial And Conviction Of Steve Bannon

• Alan Dershowitz On Newsmax

  I think it’s very likely that this conviction will be reversed at some point.

• Mike Davis On War Room

  There is a major legal error that happened in this case and that is Steven Bannon was not allowed to present evidence that President Trump asserted Executive Privilege in this case, that precluded Bannon from cooperating with the January 6th Commission.

• Viva Frei’s The Post Millennial Series Called “The Trial Of Steve Bannon”

  • Apple Podcast Link

  • Rumble Link

Steve Bannon isn’t the only former Trump official being persecuted by the January 6th Committee. Many have been subpoenaed and harassed by that committee, here are a few of them.

Peter Navarro

John Eastman

Claremont Institute @ClaremontInst

Eastman filed a lawsuit today to challenge the seizure of his phone, which authorized not only the seizure of the phone but of "all information" contained in it. That would include communications w/clients that a fed court has already ruled are protected:

courtlistener.comDocket for Eastman v. United States, 1:22-mc-00023 - CourtListener.comDocket for Eastman v. United States, 1:22-mc-00023 — Brought to you by the RECAP Initiative and Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

12:57 AM ∙ Jun 28, 2022

See Also

Latest Twitter Threads by @ColumbiaBugle on Thread Reader App

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Jeff Clark

Republicans must never forget the humiliation and cruelty of the completely lawless show trial that is the January 6th Committee. There may be limited options until we take back the White House in 2025, but at the very least Republicans must pursue a real January 6th Committee to investigate and expose what really happened that day.

The Persecution Of The MAGA Movement

The Biden Regime is wielding every weapon at their disposal to crush the MAGA Movement that had the audacity to challenge their rule and vote Donald Trump into the Presidency in 2016. The Regime has never forgiven Americans for that insolence and they are pursuing a merciless vendetta against them.

Tucker Carlson Highlighted Some Examples In His Monologue In Late June

The Prosecution Of Douglas Mackey Over Memes From 2016

Tucker Carlson highlighted the Regime’s Crackdown on Trump supporters in his documentary series Patriot Purge (Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3).

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Released A Report On The Brutal Treatment Of The January 6th Political Prisoners: "Unusually Cruel: An Eyewitness Report From The DC Jail."

Julie Kelly’s Testimony Before The House Judiciary Committee

Several January 6th Political Prisoners have even committed suicide, including Mark Aungst this week.

Kyle Becker @kylenabecker

Breaking: January 6 political prisoner Mark R. Aungst, 47, of South Williamsport, PA, has died in an apparent suicide. He had plead guilty to demonstrating or parading in a restricted building.

12:39 AM ∙ Jul 23, 2022

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Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2

DOJ describing what Mark Aungst, who apparently committed suicide a few days ago, did on Jan 6.Aungst was arrested in Feb 2021 and accepted a plea on “parading,” a petty offense, in May. No doubt he would face jail time and endure a humiliating rant by Judge Reggie Walton:

2:04 PM ∙ Jul 23, 2022

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Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2

Looks like suicide reporting is accurate.This should enrage every American—lives destroyed and ended in a vengeful, evil act of government retribution

pennlive.comPa. man awaiting sentencing for entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has diedMark Aungst had pleaded guilty in District of Columbia federal court and was scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 27.

2:07 PM ∙ Jul 23, 2022

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Matthew Perna also committed suicide earlier this year.

Julie Kelly summed it up in her piece in American Greatness.

Matthew Perna was failed by the country he loved.

We must never forget the January 6th Political Prisoners.

The Swamp’s Leniency For The Colbert 9 & Michael Sussman

While Trump Officials and Trump Supporters are having the book thrown at them, allies of the Regime are let off.

This was on full display with the release of the “Colbert 9.”

These 9 staffers for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” were arrested on June 16th for illegally entering House office building after hours.

Julie Kelly joined Tucker Carlson that week to react to the Colbert Insurrection

Julie discussed in her piece in American Greatness how the “Colbert 9” were let into the building and what they were doing.

News reports indicate the crew had the run of the place with the blessing of none other than Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the January 6 select committee. Capitol Police finally arrested the interlopers around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday night near the office of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a frequent target of the Left, in the Longworth building and charged them with illegal entry. (Colbert’s thugs the day before harassed the family members and lawyers for January 6 detainees during a press conference on Capitol Hill.)

Colbert’s gang has already been far luckier than those ensnared in the government’s abusive prosecution of Capitol trespassers. None has been subjected to predawn raids by dozens of armed FBI agents using SWAT vehicles to bash down the front doors of political dissidents. By all appearances, they were booked and released early Friday morning.

But in a surprise to nobody, the “Colbert 9” had all of their charges dropped.

Statement From The U.S. Attorney’s Office

After a comprehensive review of all of the evidence and the relevant legal authority, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has determined that it cannot move forward with misdemeanor charges of unlawful entry against the nine individuals who were arrested on June 16, 2022 at the Longworth Office Building. The individuals, who entered the building on two separate occasions, were invited by Congressional staffers to enter the building in each instance and were never asked to leave by the staffers who invited them, though, members of the group had been told at various points by the U.S. Capitol Police that they were supposed to have an escort. The Office would be required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these invited guests were guilty of the crime of unlawful entry because their escort chose to leave them unattended. We do not believe it is probable that the Office would be able to obtain and sustain convictions on these charges. The defendants no longer will be required to appear for a scheduled hearing in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on July 20, 2022.

Ned Ryun Joined Jesse Watters To Discuss

Julie Kelly Provided A Recap

Colbert’s thugs unlawfully entered not one but three Capitol buildings on June 16. Members of the group lied to law enforcement, defied police orders, attempted to obstruct an official proceeding of Congress, intended to harass and intimidate lawmakers, and frightened congressional staffers. As I explained here, those offenses are much worse than the overwhelming majority of charges leveled against January 6 protesters by the same office that not only dropped the sole count against the Colbert Nine but declined to bring additional charges.

Another example is the acquittal of Michael Sussman. Techno Fog does an excellent breakdown of this case in their substack.

After the verdict was announced, the jury’s forewoman held court before the media and expressed her displeasure that the Special Counsel prosecute a false statement case: “There are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the FBI.”

This juror was never impartial - despite her assurance to the judge.

On the facts, the evidence was more than sufficient to prove Sussmann’s guilt. Sussmann lied to then-FBI general counsel James Baker via text message in order to get a meeting to pass the Alfa Bank hoax materials to the FBI.

Sussmann lied again during the meeting – stating he was not there on behalf of a client – in order to get the FBI to open an investigation into the Trump Organization’s purported ties with Alfa Bank.

Sussmann’s lies helped trigger the FBI’s investigation into the Trump/Alfa hoax.

What’s happening to Steve Bannon and the MAGA Movement is disgraceful and a bitter reminder that the Swamp protects their own. They have returned to power with a vengeance seeking to crush the Americans responsible for denying them complete power over America during the Trump Presidency.

We must not waver and we must never forget.