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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Thank you VP Pence.
Thank you Mitch and the others in senate who supported Biden.
Thank you to Liz and the others in house who supported Biden.
These people have no boundaries.
They have bipartisan top cover. Why should they? The GOP has greenlit every bit of this op.
The posse
Every sitting GOP Congressperson is still caucusing with Lizard Cheney. Let that sink in. Not a one has walked out.
Which Red State will be the first to offer Bannon asylum, and tells the Feds to kiss off or come and get him, if they dare?
Why should Bannon participate in a Marxist show trial? It doesn’t matter what he says.They’re running the impeachment hoax game plan here. The Dems will just make stuff up and leak it.
Yeah. I know. That’s why I made the comment.
That’s what’s known as “contemptuous irony”.
Welcome to the American Stasi. I have nothing BUT contempt for the RINOs you mentioned, the FBI, the DOJ, and all current members of the executive branch, judicial branch, and Congress (with the exception of a few outstanding patriots there).
Steve Bannon should beat the Corrupt FBI at their own game by going to the nearest Office and turning himself in so that those FBI Idiots don’t break into his home at 0500 hours and disturb his neighbors.
I’m sure that CNN will be there ahead of time with cameras and klieg lights otherwise.
“All hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” he said on the program.......
This statement is the basis for the house subpoena? I’ve heard similar from sports announcers.
I don’t know how Trump can extend exec privilege to someone who got fired 3 years before Jan 6.
Bannon’s a smart guy. He should have testified and made the house committee look like the idiots they are.
Just us department just issued a warrant for Bannon’s arrest!!!! This is going to get ugly real fast!! Bannon has THOUSANDS of followers! This is getting to be ridiculous these people are tyrants FULL COMMIE!!
They can subjugate all of us
I think he was talking about Holder.
“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.”
This is what the ChiComs do.
It’s called killing the chicken to scare the monkey.
This illegitimate cartel is full on despotic.
Testimony would be behind closed doors like the impeachment hoax. The Marxists will leak and shape the narrative. Nothing to be gained here. Bannon is doing the correct thing.
The masks are off - they don’t care what we think.
Who was in charge as president when Holder was in charge? Same asshole who is in charge now, Obama!
No. “They” cannot.
Frankly, I’m surprised they haven’t been waiting outside his house or wherever he is (along with their press buddies) for this moment.
Yes he did, and if he gets an Dem judge, he will be in jail for a few months. He should have shown up and given a belligerent and generally unpleasant deposition. Simply refusing to show up both makes you look guilty, and makes for an easy prosecution.
2 U.S. Code § 192 - Refusal of witness to testify or produce papers
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
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