Outside court, the pro-Trump defendant, strategist and podcaster denounced the House Jan. 6 committee and the criminal contempt charges against him.
After Tuesday’s trial testimony ended, Bannon erupted outside the courthouse, blasting the head of the Jan. 6 committee, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson and repeating false claims that Trump, not Biden, was the true winner of the 2020 election.“They’re charging me with a crime?” Bannon fumed. “Have the guts and the courage to show up here and say exactly why it’s a crime.”
In her opening statement, Vaughn told the jury that Bannon’s refusal to answer the committee’s questions, or provide lawmakers with any documents, was a serious violation. The committee had sought to get answers from Bannon about his conversations with Trump and others before and during Jan. 6. One question will be Bannon’s claim he thought the committee would have to negotiate with him and that its deadlines were flexible once he asserted that
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