Reports: Bannon Dismissed From ‘Build The Wall’ Case After Questions Over Trump Pardon | Talking Points Memo

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Bannon is absolutely aghast!

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Closest I can find for the text of the pardon is this:

I HEREBY GRANT full and unconditional pardons to the following named persons for those offenses against the Unisted States individually enumerated and set before me for my consideration:

(bunch of names, including Bannon, and a Harkonen (really))

I HEREBY DESIGNATE, direct, and empower the Acting Pardon Attorney, as my representative, to sign each grant of clemency to the persons named herein.

Maybe the piece of paper Bannon received was entered into the court case as an exhibit.

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I will kill him!

Thanks for the research. I thought somebody got a blanket pardon, maybe it was Stone or manafort… But when you think about it what up crazy thing that is a blanket pardon…maybe nobody got one of those

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But can they really argue that it was Bannon that used fraudulent assets to pay for Kolfage’s wife’s boob job?

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Hmmm, so I suppose he COULD plead the 5th…and also to avoid civil trial. BOOOOOOO!!!

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Flynn got a blanket pardon for anything that should arise from the Mueller investigation or from Flynn’s trials.

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Even the Pardon Attorney was “Acting.”

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Ah, but will Bannon have to take the 5th when he’s brought to testify in the case of the other defendants who are charged with fraud? Another interesting thing is how his lawyer tried to spin this as a blanket pardon… but that does not cover future crimes… such as perjury.

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Nice catch. The prior acting pardon attorney under TFG had some harsh words after resigning:

“Donald Trump conducted his presidency for his profit, making virtually every policy decision on a transactional basis — not what the Constitution required, not what benefited our country and our people, but only what increased his power, wealth and status,” said Larry Kupers, who served as acting pardon attorney and deputy pardon attorney during Trump’s first two years in office but quit in 2019 over how Trump was using the power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pardons/2021/01/20/7653bd12-59a2-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

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The judge clearly reached the right result,” Bannon’s attorney Robert Costello said in a statement. “An unconditional pardon should always result in the dismissal of the indictment. Finality should result in finality.”

Remember, my client is an admitted criminal, but made man…so naturally he should walk regardless of how many crimes are involved…

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Is that standard language for a pardon? As usual, Trump sounds like the Wizard of Oz bestowing medals and honorary degrees just before he is carried off in the balloon.

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He herebys the hereby. But most federal pardons I’ve seen have used a stentatorial royal tone of voice. Keep in mind, he doesn’t write the pardons. Would you want a pardon drafted by him?

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If I could frame it and put it up for sale. Some rich Trumpanzee would swoop in and buy it.

I’m dimly recalling a tweet that Trump made himself, issuing some bullshit decree in stilted sounding language. It was totally ridiculous, of course.

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Well, there is always tax evasion/fraud.

If there’s a will, there is a way.

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What a punchable face the man has.

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I guess they didn’t have a “mother lode” on him and no one “flipped” . Now the prosecutors that were on TeeVee telling us Bannon was going down can get back on the screen and tell us how wonderful the law is.

I imagine we’ll soon this in Rudy, Trump and the Jan. 6 traitor’s “indictments are coming” and “electronics were seized”…then they all walk.

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That order could be an interesting piece of evidence in the civil suits…if you’re criminally liable, you’re also civilly liable, no?

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“It is granted not of right but of grace.”

Bannon is definitely not right, but he has absolutely no grace.

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“You see, this guy, Bannon, hell of a guy, the thing he did, witchhunt, fake news, no one has ever suffered like me, he didn’t do it, that thing, so like, no prosecution, okay?”

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https://www.justice.gov/file/1358426/download

The pdf from DOJ.

Interestingly, though… I don’t see any offenses enumerated, and the language isn’t ‘whatever they did’, or anything even vaguely resembling that.

So how do we find that information?

Edit: found it on the DoJ site, in fact!

Conspiracy to commit wire fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering

So that’s all the pardon covers.

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