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The House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. 6 has been issuing subpoenas to officials from the Trump administration. …
Good afternoon, OnPolitics readers! The House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack on Jan.6 has been issuing subpoenas to officials from the Trump administration. The committee will now begin criminal contempt proceedings against Steve Bannon, citing the former Trump strategist’s refusal to cooperate with the panel’s subpoena requests at the direction of the former president. „Mr. Bannon has declined to cooperate with the Select Committee and is instead hiding behind the former President’s insufficient, blanket, and vague statements regarding privileges he has purported to invoke,“ committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Thursday. „We reject his position entirely… so we must move forward with proceedings to refer Mr. Bannon for criminal contempt.“ Trump’s lawyers have directed witnesses not to cooperate with congressional investigators, invoking executive privilege. But the Biden administration has rejected the former president’s attempt to withhold documents from the investigating panel.
