Was it by design or was it just stupidity on Bannon's part? Only time will tell.
Keep in mind also that if Mueller ends up clearing Trump in his investigation, which I think he will, in order for it to hold water with the rabid Left, he has to explore every blind alley and check off every box. So I'm not surprised the Bannon has been subpoenaed and yes, I think it's because of the Wolff book.
Right. Keep in mind that the release of the Wolff book has an understandable tendency to muddy the timeline of what has transpired over the last 12+ months. The Bannon quotes in the book may seem like recent developments because the book was only released very recently, but I understand all of the quotes in it date back to Bannon’s tenure in the White House — which ended more than five months ago.
These idiots think that 1) what Bannon said was accurate, and 2) he’s gonna attack Trump, Jared, Ivanka, and that he’s gonna give info on Russia (he can’t. He had absolutely no contact whatsoever with anything Russian, and was proud of that.
What will happen is an Ollie North moment where he rips them a new one, explains what economic nationalism is all about, and praises Trump in front of the whirring TV cameras. They may not recover.