The House voted Thursday to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
The vote was 229-202 with most GOP lawmakers voting “no,” despite the potential consequences for Congress if witnesses are allowed to ignore its demands.
The House vote sends the matter to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, where it will now be up to prosecutors in that office to decide whether to present the case to a grand jury for possible criminal charges.
The partisan split over Bannon’s subpoena — and over the committee’s investigation in general — is emblematic of the raw tensions that still grip Congress nine months after the Capitol attack. Democrats have vowed to comprehensively probe the assault in which hundreds of Trump’s supporters battered their way past police, injured dozens of officers and interrupted the electoral count certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.
Lawmakers on the investigating committee say they will move swiftly and forcefully to punish anyone who won’t cooperate with the probe.
(AP)
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Republicans vote against the constitution and rule of law.
Bannon was a PRIVATE citizen at the time and his conversations are not for public consumption. Neither is yours or mine. There is no way some reprobate democrat pervert politician can force him to disclose his PRIVATE conversation. This will eventually, because of the arrogance of the DNC, reach the supreme court and they will throw out this frivolous charge. This is all a ruse to distract the average American shlub from the terrible reckless job the incompetent Joe Biden is doing. It won’t work.
To Not Getting: My gang’s plans to rob a bank are private conversations. If I decide to rat out my wanna-be bank robber gang members, can they stop me (legally, not by whacking me)?
And another thing: If Bannon showed up to Congress, could he be held in contempt for that?
To call a spade a spade, the Bannon subpoena has nothing to do with preventing events like January 6th from happening again and every thing to do a kangaroo commission going after political opponents.
I was listening to CBS (Certified Baloney Station) and they were saying how Bannon said the day before January 6th… and I was thinking… Whoa… The commission claims to believe that Bannon PUBLICLY called for violence the day BEFORE the January 6th rally but is not investigating how the police ignored that public call but they still claim to be motivated to make sure such things don’t happen again?
Hate is blinding. I doubt the people on the commission realize how biased they are but even those with blind hate should pick up this hypocrisy and at least pay lip service to caring about the police failure to prepare or put up resistance.
PS I am NOT a Trump supporter. I just oppose government kangaroo courts and commissions