A jury has begun deliberating in the contempt of Congress case against Steve Bannon over his defiance of the Jan. 6 panel subpoena. Prosecutors closed with a simple statement: “The defendant chose allegiance to Donald Trump over compliance with the law.”
“You might ask yourself why did Ms. Amerling want to make an example of Steve Bannon?” the defense lawyer asked. “He has a show, a podcast on political topics and that has a very large following and it’s an election year.”
“The only person who is making this case about politics is the defendant,” Gaston said. “There is nothing political about finding out how Jan. 6 happened and making sure that it never happens again.” It’s unclear whether this case — which came together after a series of hard-fought and complex legal rulings by Nichols — has any ramifications for another contempt of Congress prosecution against Peter Navarro, a former Trump White House trade adviser who similarly defied a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
The House panel contended that Trump never properly asserted any such privilege and that in any event it would not have justified Bannon’s wholesale defiance by failing to show up for a deposition and completely rebuffing the document request.a similar contempt-of-Congress case decided 61 years ago In the end, the jury did hear testimony and see exhibits detailing the arguments Bannon lawyer Robert Costello made to the House panel last year that Bannon was actually legally prohibited from complying with the subpoena until Trump’s privilege concerns were resolved by the courts or sorted out with the committee.
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