Posted on 11/12/2021 1:02:43 PM PST by Coronal
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday, charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions from the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The indictment is a first. No one has ever been prosecuted before for contempt of Congress when executive privilege was asserted. The past cases involved defendants whose testimony was sought regarding their government service. Bannon, by contrast, left his White House job in 2017, well before the period of interest to the House committee.
If convicted, Bannon could face up to a year behind bars and a fine of up to $100,000.
The fact that the Justice Department was willing to charge him with criminal contempt, despite an assertion of executive privilege, may help persuade other reluctant witnesses to agree to cooperate with the committee's investigation.
The committee has subpoenaed 16 former Trump White House officials for testimony, documents or both.
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I am curious as to his reasoning for not appearing and claiming executive privilege.
The democrats own the DOJ. That much should be obvious now to anyone not living under a rock.
If contempt of Congress is a crime, better prepare 250 million more indictments. I cannot think of anyone in my circle of acquaintances who doesn’t hold Congress in contempt and cannot wait for a massive turnover in 2022.
Here is the letter Bannon’s lawyer sent. He is claiming executive privilege. It will probably be a long legal process, but I don’t think Bannon has solid claim. Trump clearly does.
I think Bannon is more effective outside the Trump inner circle.
Bammon, like Trump, actually has considerable filter. They just use it judiciously :-)
U.S. Code
Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or any committee of either House of Congress, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve
Looks unonstitutional. Where in the Constitution does Congress get the legal authority to subpoena The People?
That’s what I thought, unconstitutional. But even if SCOTUS ruled it so, Brandon and the lunatic gang don’t care.
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