After nine months of refusing to answer the House Jan. 6 Committee’s questions, Steve Bannon is suddenly dangling an offer to finally testify. The gambit is supposed to make the Justice Department look bad. But it may end up a spectacular self-own.
have already said the ex-president doesn’t have any executive privilege to assert or waive anyway.)
When Bannon’s lawyers argued that the politicians on the Jan. 6 committee must be forced to testify at trial, the judge questioned why Bannon’s lawyers couldn’t just ask committee staffers. When his lawyers asked for permission to tell a future jury that Bannon was just following his lawyer’s advice when he didn’t show up to Congress, the judge said no. And when they argued that the trial should be delayed, the judge told them to come back prepared for the final showdown next week.
It’s unclear if the nine-member House Select committee led by Rep. Bennie Thompson and Rep. Liz Cheney has any appetite for putting Bannon on the stand—much less on live TV, as he apparently demands. Committee staff did not answer The Daily Beast’s questions about the offer on Monday.If the committee accepts his tenuous offer, Bannon is in the awkward position of putting himself in one hot seat just days before he’s in yet another.
He reiterated his argument that Bannon truly operated on the belief that Trump retained some kind of executive power after leaving the White House—and the committee should have sued Bannon in civil court and have a judge officially declare Trump’s executive privilege claims as invalid and force Bannon to testify instead of having the DOJ pursue criminal charges.
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