The Justice Department said that Steve Bannon should serve six months in prison and pay a $200,000 fine for defying a congressional subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection
. It’s unclear how Trump will respond to the summons, but a refusal to comply could open up a similar path in court — though holding a former president in contempt would be an unprecedented and fraught process.
Bannon initially argued that his testimony was protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege, but the committee was skeptical because the adviser hadfrom the White House in 2017 and was thus a private citizen when he was consulting with the then-president in the run-up to the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
The committee’s rules didn’t allow an outside lawyer in a witness deposition, and many other former White House aides testified with only their own counsel.
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