JUST IN: Judge Dismisses Indictment Against Steve Bannon
A judge on Tuesday dismissed an indictment against Steve Bannon.
Prosecutors previously objected and said the indictment against Bannon should stand despite President’s Trump decision to issue a pardon of his former advisor.
Federal prosecutors were angry over the presidential pardon and wanted the indictment to stand because dismissing it “could have a broader effect than the pardon itself, among other things potentially relieving Bannon of certain consequences not covered by the pardon.”
US District Judge Analisa Torres, an Obama appointee on Tuesday dismissed the indictment.
The Obama judge however didn’t miss this opportunity to smear Steve Bannon and said the pardon and dismissal does not mean he is innocent: “To the contrary, from the country’s earliest days,