![]() ![]() ![]() Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert. Thursday's strikes were added to another one issued in November, after Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Bannon couldn't immediately be reached for comment. YouTube said it issued two strikes against Bannon's channels on Thursday for a pair of videos that violated the platform's rules, though the company didn't specify which videos were taken down. 20 but that deadline was moved up after the attack on the Capitol. The grace period was set to expire on Inauguration Day on Jan. The company first announced the policy update against election fraud claims last month but allowed a grace period before offenders were penalized with strikes. The platform said it would now issue a strike on any account that posts videos making false claims about election fraud. He is also accused of attending a gathering at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on January 5, 2021, where Trump allies allegedly planned efforts to block Biden's Electoral College victory.YouTube said Bannon's violations were related to a policy tweak the company announced Thursday. Investigators have said that Bannon allegedly communicated with Trump on December 30, 2020, and urged him to focus his efforts on January 6. ![]() ![]() On Tuesday, the 22 potential jurors identified on Monday will be narrowed down before the trial begins, the Associated Press reported.īannon was among the first ex-White House officials to be called to testify before the January 6 committee. Congress, in October, voted to hold him in contempt, and a grand jury indicted him in November on two counts of contempt of Congress charges, each carrying a penalty of up to one year behind bars. Posobiec's remarks came as jury selection for the trial enters its second day on Tuesday. Above, Bannon is seen in Washington, D.C., on July 19. Steve Bannon’s "war room" has pushed a theory that Democrats are using his trial to "take him off the playing field for 2024." He faces contempt of Congress charges for refusing to testify before the January 6 committee. He said that Democrats are "trying to take him off the playing field for 2024." "Both sides know that the only reason he's there is because of the effectiveness of the war room posse, the effectiveness of the national populist movement and the fact that he was the architect of so much of the MAGA movement, the 2016 victory," said Posobiec. Jack Posobiec made the claim on Monday while filling in for Bannon on the War Room podcast, saying the "show trial" is proof of "the regime going after the opposition." But his allies are now floating a theory that Democrats are using the trial to eliminate Bannon, instrumental in Trump's success, from helping Republicans win in the 2024 presidential election. Capitol-when a mob of Trump supporters, motivated by unfounded claims of election fraud, rioted in a failed attempt to force Congress to block President Joe Biden's win-but he has refused to comply.īannon's trial kicked off this week, as investigations into the Capitol riot continue heating up. As ex-Trump strategist Steve Bannon goes to trial for refusing to comply with the January 6 congressional committee, his "war room" is floating a theory that his contempt of Congress charges are part of a political hit job.īannon, who served as former President Donald Trump's chief strategist in 2017, was subpoenaed last year by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. ![]()
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