MSNBC’s Glenn Kirschner Mocks Steve Bannon Over His ‘Especially Hot’ Summer In Sweltering Jail

Former federal prosecutor and current MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner told SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah that ex-Trump adviser-turned-inmate Steve Bannon will have an “especially hot” summer in jail.

Bannon reported to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut last week to serve a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with a subpoena.

On Monday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, Kirschner spoke to Obeidallah about Bannon’s time in jail, saying he doesn’t celebrate it — but also then joking about it:

DEAN OBEIDALLAH: But look on the bright side. Steve Bannon is in prison right now and it’s really hot in Washington, D.C. So there was a little bit of accountability there.

And I mean, what’s your reaction to him finally going and the Supreme Court not protecting him? And I guess he’s never been president. So they didn’t care.

GLENN KIRSCHNER: Yeah, a little bit of accountability is a beautiful thing. And, you know, listen, it is no fun serving time. I have been in more confinement facilities as a former career prosecutor, both civilian facilities and military facilities, than I can count. They’re not pleasant places to be. And I don’t celebrate anybody going into one of them.

What I will say is that it’s got to be especially hot for Steve Bannon because he’s got a — I assume he’s wearing three jumpsuits. So, you know, it’s not going to be a fun four months for him.

But he has so richly earned this prison term. And let’s not forget the — when he gets out, he gets prosecuted in New York. (Yep.) For stealing money from Donald Trump supporters, pretending like Steve Bannon is going to build a wall when instead he was just building his bank account.

And that’s, those are crimes for which he accepted a pardon. A federal pardon, of course, now he’s being prosecuted by the New York state authorities because he also committed crimes in violation of New York state law.

Boy, if I’m a prosecutor, one of the issues I’m litigating is, is his decision to accept the pardon, which the Supreme Court in 1915 said carries with it an imputation of guilt and is some confession of guilt when you accept it. Is that relevant to his guilty state of mind? You’re darn right it is, and I hope a judge will rule that way.

Watch above via SiriusXM’s The Dean Obeidallah Show.