“Disgrace!”: Enraged MTG Loses It Over Steve Bannon Incarceration
Marjorie Taylor Greene is furious that former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon is reporting to prison Monday.
On Sunday night, Greene posted an interview with Bannon for his War Room podcast on X (formerly Twitter) in support of the MAGA gadfly, calling his imprisonment “a DISGRACE to our country, and an affront to the principles of justice it was founded upon,” repeating conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection.
“I want to talk about the January 6 committee, Steve, because people need to understand how it was set up, why it’s illegitimate, and why it has been a complete failure in our Republican-controlled Congress not to have voted that the January 6 committee is completely illegitimate and completely wipe out these contempt of Congress charges that you’re going to prison for tomorrow,” Greene ranted.
While Republicans want to turn on cruise control and coast to November, the Biden regime is putting patriotic Americans in prison, and turning a blind eye to government weaponization.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ???????? (@mtgreenee) July 1, 2024
Tomorrow, Steve Bannon will report to federal prison. This is a DISGRACE to our country, and… pic.twitter.com/p7r1elHaDR
Bannon has been trying to avoid prison ever since he was convicted in 2022 for contempt by a federal jury for refusing the House January 6 committee’s subpoena to testify regarding the Capitol insurrection. Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered him to report to prison after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld his conviction.
While Greene lamented inaction by Congress, she didn’t mention that last week, Speaker Mike Johnson held a secret vote with other Republican leaders to formally disavow the January 6 committee with the hope of allowing lawmakers to file a legal brief in support of Bannon with Congress’s backing. Greene also didn’t mention that Representative Barry Loudermilk then filed a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that witnesses in congressional investigations are allowed to ignore subpoenas that they feel are invalid, probably because that attempt failed when the Supreme Court denied Bannon’s application for release Friday.
The Supreme Court was essentially Bannon’s last shot at avoiding prison, and since he’s also awaiting charges from the state of New York about a fraudulent border wall charity scheme, Bannon will not be serving his time in a minimum security “Club Fed” prison camp. Instead, he’ll be in a low-security prison for nonviolent offenders.
Bannon was fortunate to escape prison over federal charges for the border wall scheme thanks to a pardon from Trump. Now, his political activities will have to be conducted from behind bars.