Former White House strategist Steve Bannon — who was facing criminal charges after months of defying a congressional subpoena over the Capitol riot — has relented and will now testify.
Steve Bannon — a former White House strategist and ally of Donald Trump who faces criminal charges after months of defying a congressional subpoena over the Capitol riot — has told the committee investigating the attack that he is now willing to testify.
"I expect that we will be hearing from him and there are many questions that we have for him," said Democratic congresswoman Zoe Lofgren on CNN's State of the Union. Mr Bannon had been one of the highest-profile Trump-allied holdouts in refusing to testify before the committee, leading to two criminal counts of contempt of Congress last year for resisting the committee's subpoena.The committee says such a claim is dubious because Mr Trump had fired Mr Bannon from the White House in 2017 and Mr Bannon was, thus, a private citizen when he was consulting with the then-president in the run-up to the riot on January 6, 2021.
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