this episode of internet today is brought to you by honey we are barely into this week and it's already been a very wild ride for conservative grifters and former members of the trump administration starting in the early hours of monday morning when former world of warcraft gold farming magnate and chief strategist to the donald trump white house steve bannon turned himself in and was arrested by federal authorities he was charged with criminal contempt because he failed to comply with a house committee subpoena related to their investigation into the january NUMBER_TOKENth capital riots as well as just refusing to supply documents for that subpoena just ignoring it yeah that's a great way to get yourself arrested if you want to speed run that yes and as a way to apparently make himself out to be some kind of martyr here and keep his base highly engaged and angered mr bannon of course live streamed his arrest on the conservative social media app get her here's a description of the scene as well as some quotes from the daily dot the live stream shows bannon arriving to turn himself into federal authorities in a black suv he makes his way into a crowd of reporters then turns to address the camera is this us he asked bannon then took the opportunity to promote both getter and his podcast which also live streamed the arrest we're here today i don't want anybody to take their eye off the ball of what we do every day he continued in apparently good spirits we've got the hispanics coming on our side african americans coming on our side we're taking down the biden regime in conclusion bannon said i want you guys to stay focused stay on message signal not noise this is noise he said referring to his arrest as for what happened after he turned himself in uh here's the associated press with more bannon did not enter a plea and is due back in court on thursday for the next phase of what could be the first high-level trial in connection with january's insurrection at the u.s capitol federal magistrate judge robin merriweather released him without bail but required him to check in weekly with court officials and ordered him to surrender his passport if convicted bannon faces a minimum of NUMBER_TOKEN days and a maximum of one year behind bars on each count prosecutors said and this is all while multiple indictments have come down on former trump officials including uh most recently former trump adviser stephen miller as as well as former white house press secretary kaylee mackinnon among many many others yeah in a joint statement regarding this latest group of indictments relating to january NUMBER_TOKEN the committee's chairman benny thompson said the following the select committee wants to learn every detail of what went on in the white house on january NUMBER_TOKENth and in the days beforehand we need to know precisely what role the former president and his aides played in efforts to stop the counting of the electoral votes and if they were in touch with anyone outside the white house attempting to overturn the outcome of the election we believe the witnesses subpoenaed today have relevant information and we expect them to comply fully with the select committee's investigation as we work to get answers for the american people make recommendations on changes
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