Former Trump campaign CEO and scorned ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon is expected to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee as part of its Russia probe next Tuesday, Reuters reported Thursday.
Bannon will be interviewed about his time on the campaign, rather than the transition or his seven-month stint White House, according to the report.
Bannon departed the White House in August, amid a shakeup ushered by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who had replaced Reince Priebus as chief of staff a few weeks prior.
Bannon was said to have kept in touch with Trump after leaving the White House, but Trump last week publicly rebuked Bannon for comments he made in Michael Wolff’s new book “Fire and Fury.”
In the book, Bannon called the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting that Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign chairman at the time Paul Manafort had with Russian figures “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”
Earlier Thursday, it was reported that Bannon had hired Bill Burck — who is also representing Priebus and White House Counsel Don McGahn — to represent him in the various investigations into Russia election meddling. Sources told the Daily Beast that Bannon intends to “fully cooperate” with the probes.
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trump is a goddamned racist
He prefers Norway to Haiti and Africa. 'He said it word for fucking word
And now he says he has a great relationship with Kim Jong Un
This man is fucking delusional. Nuts, INSANE!
From the linked article, without comment:
“Bannon is expected to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee”
B.F.D! Down the Nunes hole. Means nothing till Mueller does the interviewing.
Any bets on whether this will be pubic testimony, or behind closed doors?
No, no, no…Nunes’s job is to rush the transcripts over to the White House as soon as Bannon is done. He still has his backdoor key, and I don’t think they’ve changed the locks on him yet. As far as I can tell, they’re still putting out the welcome mat.