A federal grand jury indicted Trump adviser Steve Bannon on two counts of contempt of Congress on Friday.
Bannon’s indictment comes in response to his decision to not comply with the Jan. 6 Committee, citing a claim of executive privilege relating to Trump as a reason not to appear.
The DOJ’s decision to charge Bannon after Congress referred him for contempt shows both that the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to enforce the law in support of Congress’s Jan. 6 investigation and that it regards Trump’s assertion of executive privilege as unsound.
Read the indictment here:
A federal grand jury indicted Trump adviser Steve Bannon on two counts of contempt of Congress on Friday.
Bannon’s indictment comes in response to his decision to not comply with the Jan. 6 Committee, citing a claim of executive privilege relating to Trump as a reason not to appear.
The DOJ’s decision to charge Bannon after Congress referred him for contempt shows both that the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to enforce the law in support of Congress’s Jan. 6 investigation and that it regards Trump’s assertion of executive privilege as unsound.
This illustrates how slow the process will be. Everyone knows they’re trying to run out the clock, maybe they’re hoping some Trumpy judge rules their way on some things, but no serious lawyer on their side can really think the Executive Privilege argument will hold up. They’ll all clam up, game the system until it is as slow as possible and then watch the clock tick away until they take over the House and turn the investigation against Antifa or whatever. Garland needs to keep this grand jury open and run these characters through as soon as they fail to show up, get indictments out asap and push for quick resolutions. I’m not optimistic.
And not a minute too soon. Why not today? Let him spend the weekend in jail – he has long deserved it.
Let’s see whether any of the other dead-enders see the light.
(I would prefer a raid instead of letting him surrender himself, but that’s just me thinking he should be treated like people without a national platform and multiple expensive lawyers.)
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And a newly minted and approved US Attorney to prosecute the case. How interesting.
YES!