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Hey everyone. Happy Friday.

Ellie here with my weekly note to the cafe community.

Thanks for checking these out, as always,

and please send me any thoughts, questions, or of bummed out by the experience, not so much because he got himself indicted and convicted for contempt of Congress, and soon,

barring an appellate miracle, will be heading to federal lockup. More because it just wasn't as

much of a joyride as he had hoped. Leading up to the trial, Bannon went Hogg Wild,

using his indictment as a launching pad for all manner of disjointed rants against Democrats and

DOJ and the January 6th committee.

He pronounced that his case would be the, quote, misdemeanor from hell for Merrick Garland,

Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden, end quote. I'll hand it to ban in here. Misdemeanor from hell

is a punchy turn of phrase, though what the heck do Pelosi or Biden have to do with anything?

I won't do ban in the favor of reprinting his predictable stemwinders on his podcast and on the

courthouse steps. He plainly relished the attention. One almost got the sense he was enjoying

his status as a criminal defendant. Hey, it's all about relevance, right? Inside the courtroom,

though, it was a different story.

Bannon had hoped to raise all manner of legally irrelevant defenses.

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