wooooohooooo .... Prosecutors rest their case against Steve Bannon after just 2 witnesses ... might be a record. Trump & his minions best be getting their stories right 'cause Santa Claus is coming to town with a boat load of subpoenas very soon.
www.nytimes.com
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Prosecutors Rest in Contempt Case Against Steve Bannon (Published 2022)
The government, seeking to hold Mr. Bannon to account for defying a subpoena from Congress, wrapped up its case after calling just two witnesses.
The government, seeking to hold Mr. Bannon to account for defying a subpoena from Congress, wrapped up its case after calling just two witnesses.
Mr. Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of contempt of Congress after he refused to provide information to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. The trial on Wednesday largely centered on the testimony of Kristin Amerling, the deputy staff director and chief counsel to the Jan. 6 committee, who offered a detailed accounting of the committee’s attempts to compel Mr. Bannon to testify last year.
“There had been a number of public reports stating that Mr. Bannon had been in communication with White House officials, including former President Trump in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 events,” Ms. Amerling said. “We wanted to understand what he could tell us about the connection between any of these events.”
Prosecutors continued to describe Mr. Bannon’s decision to stonewall the committee as a straightforward case of contempt. By declining to testify, Mr. Bannon not only “thumbed his nose” at the law, but he also may have withheld significant information about the coordinated effort to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election, Amanda Vaughn, a prosecutor, said.
The trial on Wednesday largely centered on the testimony of Kristin Amerling, the deputy staff director and chief counsel to the Jan. 6 committee, who offered a detailed accounting of the committee’s attempts to compel Mr. Bannon to testify last year. During questioning, Ms. Amerling told the court that Mr. Bannon would not acquiesce to the committee’s requests for emails and other documents even after receiving a letter threatening legal action.
Mr. Bannon never asked that the deadline for the subpoena be extended, nor did the committee consider his claim of executive privilege to be valid, Ms. Amerling added. The committee has repeatedly identified Mr. Bannon as the architect of a plan to sow doubt that either Mr. Trump or Joseph R. Biden Jr. had amassed enough electoral votes to win the election, creating a scenario in which the House would then have had to decide the outcome.
Poster's Comment: Hope it goes as well for Donald Trump & Rudy Giuliano.
Bannon acted like the "showman" that he is, defying prosecution and smiling often. He knows his nuts are in a sling and his only hope is that the mid-terms and general elections go in his favor for an early release. I say, "may the sleaze ball rot in hell".
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