An attorney for Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist for former President Donald Trump, issued a statement in response to an appeals court upholding a contempt conviction for defying a subpoena from the January 6 Select Committee.
David Schoen, Stephen K. Bannon’s lawyer, said the January 6 select committee “never wanted Steve Bannon’s testimony.”
“The judge has made his rulings and we have to respect his decision,” Schoen told Breitbart News, “but there are more important constitutional issues for appeal here than virtually any other case I’ve handled.”
Veteran radio host and political commentator Steve Malzberg ripped into Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che and CNN’s Jake Tapper on his weekly Sunday commentary show “Eat the Press,” accusing both of reprehensible rhetoric — Che for taking “gratuitous, bigoted shots at Jews and Israel” and Tapper for “obsessive hatred” and “attempting to use the cancel culture to cancel [former President Donald Trump’s attorney] as a Jew.”
Trump lawyer David Schoen told an interviewer that he had believed the Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax until the day he prepared his argument.
They defeated what Trump defense attorney Michael van der Veen mocked as the “Raskin Doctrine”: the idea that only Democrats are entitled to free speech.
CNN’s Jake Tapper mocked David Schoen, one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, for his Orthodox Jewish faith on Friday afternoon.
Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump demolished the Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax on Friday in his Senate impeachment trial, playing the full video in which Trump said neo-Nazis should be “condemned totally.”
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Mike Lee (R-UT) met on Thursday with former President Donald Trump’s lawyers ahead of the team’s defense argument on the Senate floor Friday.
Former President Donald Trump named a new legal team Sunday to present his defense at the Senate impeachment trial currently under way, after several members of the team were reported to have left the team on Saturday.
