For nine months, Steve Bannon has refused to testify before the Jan. 6th Committee claiming Trump had invoked ‘executive privilege on his behalf.
Hold it right there, Steve.
In a new filing, the Justice Department says that Trump attorney Justin Clark confirmed in an FBI interview that Trump “never invoked executive privilege over any particular information or materials’ relating to Bannon.
As a close operative of Trump’s, Bannon is expected to know key facts about the Jan. 6th riot at the Capitol…and may have been one of the insurrectionists.
In fact, the day before Jan. 6th Bannon told his podcast listeners :
“All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. Just understand this: All hell is going to break loose tomorrow…. [A]ll I can say is: Strap in. You have made this happen, and tomorrow it’s game day.”
Now the DOJ scoffs that Steve Bannon’s ‘eleventh-hour’ reversal on Jan. 6 testimony is a stunt, calling it a “last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability.”
The Justice Department says a Trump lawyer told the FBI that the former president never actually invoked executive privilege.
Coincidentally, jury selection for the criminal trial against Bannon for contempt of Congress was to start next week.