Steve Bannon acquired a double whammy on Wednesday.
First, a federal decide declined to dismiss the contempt of Congress charges filed in opposition to Donald Trump’s former White Home adviser after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Which means that Bannon’s trial might start July 18, though one member of his crew informed NBC News they could search to have it delayed.
The second blow hit Bannon throughout a post-hearing press convention the place he dubiously attacked the Jan. 6 committee as a result of “their scores stink and so they can’t compete with the trial of Bannon.”
However the bombastic Bannon’s try to regulate the narrative was thwarted, partly, by a protester whose strategically positioned protest signal tried to remind folks of Bannon’s alleged role within the Jan. 6 rebel.
Activist Bill Christeson managed to get his two-word check in the identical body as Bannon in quite a few photographs taken at his press convention.
Christeson has made a reputation for himself from his pithy protests.
He as soon as held a “Traitor” signal behind Trump’s short-lived marketing campaign supervisor Paul Manafort, a “Soiled Traitor” signal behind political advisor Roger Stone and an indication studying “Putin’s Puppet” behind former Trump nationwide safety adviser and Michael Flynn.
The 67-year-old informed HuffPost in April that getting in the fitting place on the proper time may be “difficult.”
“It’s difficult. You need to determine the place they’re going to be — what entrance they’re getting in,” he defined. “You need to place your self the place the signal can simply be learn subsequent to them — and the place the media can {photograph} it.”
This video of Bannon exhibits Christeson in motion.