WorldNetDaily has long been fans of far-right Trump fan Steve Bannon. For instance, it whined that he got busted in 2021 that he got busted for selling a purported COVID vitamin treatment; Bob Unruh insisted that “the government” said that the supplement’s ingredients can be “an important measure to improve the immune system and to prevent the development of severe symptoms” (though that claim is actually in an outside study that was merely published on a government website, which does not necessarily constitute an endorsement, and doesn’t actually evaluate the supplement Bannon was peddling).
After that, Bannon got himself in more legal hot water when he deliberately blew off a subpoena to appear before the House committee investigating the Capitol riot, which earned him a sentence of four months in prison. WND editor Joseph Farah — who had a mind-meld with Bannon about a convoluted scheme to get Donald Trump back into the presidency — ranted in an October 2022 column headlined “Free Steve Bannon NOW!” (never mind that Bannon did not go immediately to prison pending appeal):
They want to put Steve Bannon in prison for the next SIX MONTHS for two counts of contempt of Congress in the infamous House Un-Select Committee on January 6.
Bannon, one of the leaders of the MAGA political movement and the head of the War Room Posse, is wanted for not participating in the sham hearings by defeated Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, soon-to-be former Rep. Adam Kinzinger and a host of Democrats. It could otherwise be characterized as a political witch hunt.
One of the goals of the committee is to make Bannon’s important voice scarce while Republicans are breaking through in the midterm elections.
Farah also whined that “Earlier this month Bannon appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he is on trial for allegedly defrauding donors as part of a ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme – another ploy by those opposed to Trump and all his actions as president.” No, Joe, Bannon was not prosecuted because people were “opposed to Trump” — he was prosecuted because law enforcement is opposed to people who defraud others. Trump pardoned Bannon on federal charges related to the case on his way out the door in 2021, but a state trial is set for December.
Since then, WND has promoted more right-wing rants from Bannon (along with other outside articles):
- Steve Bannon: Americans are right to deliver judgment on ‘illegitimate Biden regime’
- WATCH: Steve Bannon goes fiery, explains how ‘we know Trump won’
- Bannon: House Republicans secretly want Trump to lose
- WATCH: Tucker Carlson: Tyranny is here as Biden jails Steve Bannon
Meanwhile, Bannon’s appeals failed, and he was on his way to prison after all. Bob Unruh wrote about it in a June 6 article, laughably claiming that he was being “persecuted”:
A federal judge has ordered longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to jail July 1 for a four-month sentence for refusing to testify to ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s partisan Jan. 6 investigating committee.
That now-defunct group, partisan because only Pelosi was allowed to pick its members, orchestrated witnesses and testimony to try to portray President Donald Trump as guilty of something for the rioting that happened amid a protest Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol of Congress’ decision to adopt the Joe Biden election victory.
Bannon was ordered by Democrats to testify about Trump, and he declined, based on Trump’s decision to invoke executive privilege over the information – a move that Democrats refused to accept.
The court in his case claimed he could not show that Trump indeed invoked that privilege.
WND called on far-right hack Alicia Powe to portray Bannon as a victim he reported to prison in a June 30 article:
In a few hours, conservative firebrand Steve Bannon will join hundreds of political prisoners who have been wrongfully incarcerated during the Biden administration when he turns himself into the Federal Correctional Institution Danbury, a low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.
Some suspect the former White House chief strategist will be housed in protective custody of the Sentencing Handling Unit, or SHU, of the Danbury prison as have been other high-profile celebrity inmates.
But FCI Danbury, which houses over 1,000 inmates, most of whom are sex offenders, doesn’t have individual cells. Instead, inmates are housed in open pods.
A Jan. 6 political prisoner, who has been transferred to 26 correctional facilities while in pretrial detention, described what life will look like for Bannon behind the gates of the Connecticut prison.
“If Bannon were to be sent to a U.S. penitentiary, he would be killed, but the low security prison in Danbury is where most prisoners would prefer to do their time,” political prisoner Ryan Samsel told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview on a surveilled call from MDC Brooklyn, a prison where inmates are regularly stabbed to death.
“Danbury and Fort Dix are the two best places to do your time. Bannon will be in the best of the best facilities, besides a camp.”
Powe has been pushing Samsel’s sob story for months now, which always seems to omit that Samsel assaulted a police officer that day, that he was on parole for brutally assaulting his pregnant girlfriend and reportedly wrote a letter talking about getting rid of politicians with a woodchipper. So he’s not exactly a reliable source — he’s just out to save himself from the consequences of his actions.
Powe whined further about this in a July 3 article:
As conservative firebrand Steve Bannon surrendered to authorities at Connecticut’s Federal Correctional Institution Danbury to serve four months for contempt of Congress, WorldNetDaily examined the Justice Department’s history of prosecutions for contempt of Congress and discovered a blatantly two-tiered justice system.
Indeed, Bannon and Peter Navarro, both former high-level Trump advisers, are the only former officials of the executive office to be prosecuted and imprisoned for contempt of Congress in history, although it has become the norm as the Biden administration continues to target its political opposition.
The two Trump allies are among just a handful of offenders in decades to ever see a day in prison for the crime. Before Bannon and Navarro, no one had been incarcerated for contempt of Congress in over 60 years.
[…]Indeed, Bannon and Navarro have joined the company of nearly 1,500 other Americans targeted by the Biden administration for their alleged role in the “insurrection” that ensued on Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress certified an obviously tainted election, and police bombed, gassed, shot at and killed Trump supporters.
Which still doesn’t explain why Powe is so determined to be a dishonest reporter to the point that she whitewashes and lies about the rioters. It’s as if she believes criminals should not face the consequences of their actions if they hold the same far-right political views she does — and it makes you wonder what she’s hiding about Bannon.