Jan. 6 panel votes to hold Bannon in contempt
By Rebecca Beitsch - 10/19/21 07:57 PM EDT The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol voted Tuesday to refer former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon to the Justice Department for criminal charges, teeing up a full House vote to hold Bannon in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena.
The move comes after Bannon refused to provide documents to the committee or appear for a slated deposition following an assertion from former President Trump that he would challenge the committee on executive privilege grounds.
Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) opened the hearing by stressing that Bannon "stands alone in his complete defiance of our subpoena."
"It’s a shame that Mr. Bannon has put us in this position. But we won’t take 'no' for an answer. We believe Mr. Bannon has information relevant to our probe, and we’ll use the tools at our disposal to get that information," he said.
"I want to make it clear just how isolated Mr. Bannon is in his refusal to cooperate with the Select Committee. We have reached out to dozens of witnesses. We are taking in thousands of pages of records. We are conducting interviews on a steady basis. This is the shoe-leather work of conducting a serious, focused investigation," he added.
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