Steve Bannon Tells Trump To Skip Court Just To See What Happens

Steve Bannon is pushing Donald Trump to skip out on his daily court appearances just to "see where the chips fall." The judge has already made it clear to Trump that he WILL put him in jail if he doesn't show up for court, and Bannon is well aware of this. Bannon seems to believe that Trump being thrown in jail for a period of time will somehow help the former President in his campaign, but really it would have the opposite effect. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses what would happen.

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Steve Bannon considers himself to be a very staunch ally of Donald Trump, but nevertheless, he seems to be giving Donald Trump some really horrific advice right now that of course, would, if Trump follows it, end up with Donald Trump going to jail. As we all know, to start off this trial last week, judge Juan Marshan told Donald Trump specifically and explicitly, if you do not show up for court, you are required to be here every single day. And if you do not show up, I will put you in jail clear as day. That is the punishment. If Trump doesn't show up to court, he gets held in contempt, put in jail, and the trial continues with him in ab, in, in, in abs absentia, sorry. So Steve Bannon this week came out with a brilliant idea. Obviously Donald Trump's got a pretty significant hearing at the Supreme Court on Thursday about his immunity, and Steve Bannon says, skip court in New York, and just go to that hearing. Here's what Bannon said. Thursday is also on another topic, the immunity situation. One of the most important arguments in the history of the Supreme Court. Of course, president Trump won't be there. If I was President Trump. I'd go to the immunity thing and let the, let him put me in, in, in a jail cell. And I'd go, I'd go to Baron's graduation, I'd do both of them and say, come on dude, stand up to him. Just do it. See, see how the chips fall.

Um, the chips fall with him in a jail cell. The judge has already said that. The judge says, you can't go to the Supreme Court hearing, and if you do, I'm gonna put you in jail. And Bannon's like, just do it, man. Like, what's the worst that could happen? Well, the, the worst that could happen is that he goes to jail. And I know you are not worried about that because you're gonna end up going to jail too for, for your, you know, thing. Um, but, like we know where the chips will fall. But there's two reasons why Steve Bannon is doing this. First and foremost, he does want Donald Trump to show up at the Supreme Court because when those justices on that bench, including the three that he put there, see him in person, that's gonna be a pretty big, uh, big amount of, uh, intimidation.

And without Trump there, they're not gonna feel that intimidation. So Bannon wants him to go because of that. But the bigger reason why Bannon wants him to skip court and go to jail is 'cause Bannon seems to be laboring under the delusion, much like Trump and Alina Haba as well, that if he gets put in jail, he'll automatically win the election. 'cause people will feel sorry for him and vote for him. That's not true. I mean, the polls literally show us the opposite. If Trump goes behind bars, you have a huge portion of the Republican party that says, I won't vote for him. So if we get that image of Donald Trump sitting in a jail cell, millions of voters across this country are gonna be like, you know what? I can't.

That's a bridge too far. I'm not gonna do it. So Bannon and Trump and Alina Hobb, as I said, they're all thinking, oh, if that happens, I'll be the next Nelson Mandela. No. Like polls are telling you no, you will lose if you go into jail. That is a fact. Not to mention the fact that it's also likely gonna mean that you lose your case. 'cause it's gonna show to the jury that you're a guy that doesn't like to follow the rules and you can pretty much guarantee a conviction on that point. And then of course you will go to jail for real, real. So it's a lose, lose, lose situation for Donald Trump and Steve Bannon ever.