Steve Bannon
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Steve Bannon, a former top adviser and campaign chief for Donald Trump, has gone on trial for refusing to co-operate with the congressional committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol.
On Monday, jury selection began in the 68-year-old’s trial at a court in Washington DC.
The man once billed as the brains behind Trump’s 2016 presidential victory was charged in November with two counts of contempt of Congress.
He had rebuffed subpoenas requesting his testimony as well as relevant documents about his involvement in efforts to challenge Trump’s 2020 presidential defeat and organise the protests that culminated in the violent attack on the Capitol on 6 January 2021.
The committee has been particularly interested in Bannon’s communications with Trump in the days before the attack, and the “war room” meetings he held at a hotel near the White House with other key figures as part of the last-ditch attempt to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
Bannon, in his popular podcast, warned on 5 January that “all hell” was going to break loose the following day.
The committee first subpoenaed Bannon in September 2021. The following month, it voted to hold him in contempt of Congress for his refusal to co-operate, charges the full House of Representatives quickly affirmed in a vote.
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At the time, Bannon was defiant, saying: “We’re taking down the Biden regime.” As the trial date approached, he said on his podcast that his legal strategy would involve “going medieval” on his enemies.
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