Former Donald Trump advisor is continued for refusing to testify and transmit documents to the Special Commission of the House of Representatives, which investigates the assault on 6 January by the proponents of the former president. Republican.
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Hunter pocket jacket and smile in the lips, Steve Bannon cared for arrival, Monday, November 15, at the time of going to the federal police officers (FBI). The former councilor of Donald Trump, charged for hindering the work of the parliamentary commission on the attack on the Capitol, on January 6, stopped in front of the journalists to send a message to his followers.
Taking advantage of a maximum media exhibition, he wanted to call them to look at his podcast, “War Room”, lucarne conspiracyist surpassing the conservative Fox News channel by his outrages. “We drop the biden regime,” he says. “I want you to stay focused on the message, not on the noise. All that is noise,” added Steve Bannon, showing thumb the FBI building, in his back.
His appearance in the face of a federal judge – before his release in the afternoon – is the consequence of his refusal to testify before the commission of inquiry of the House of Representatives, as well as to transmit the documents claimed .
This obstruction strategy has been adopted at the request of Donald Trump and recommended to all its former counsel, of which twenty have already been summoned to appear. The former Chief of Cabinet, Mark Meadows, so despised his own convocation, on November 12th. It risks similar judicial treatment, whose rare severity is warning to other witnesses that the Commission wishes to audit.
Race against the watch
For each offense retained against Steve Bannon is planned for a maximum sentence of one year in prison, and a minimum of thirty days behind the bars. In early October, his lawyer had brandished the argument of the executive privilege, invoked by Donald Trump, to justify his refusal to cooperate. This privilege, a simple principle undefined by law, protects with confidentiality the exchanges between the president and his relatives. Problem: At the time of the facts, in January, Steve Bannon was no longer advisor to the President – Post left in 2017 – but Podcast Facilitator. “War Room” is an immensely popular conspiracy program, obsessed with the invented fraud of all parts during the last presidential election.
In the convocation sent on September 23 to Steve Bannon, the Commission explained that it was suspected of having important information on January 6th. “For example, you have been identified as present at the Willard Hotel on January 5th, during an effort to persuade the members of the Congress to block the certification of the election the next day, as well as in relation to Other activities on January 6th … more, you are quoted as having said, on January 5, that “Hell will be unleashed tomorrow,” wrote the commission.
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