Months after he was charged with contempt of Congress for stonewalling the Jan. 6 Select Committee, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon appears to have reversed course by telling the panel that he is “willing” to testify publicly after receiving a letter from former President Trump waiving executive privilege, according to CNN and NBC News.
leftcoaster posted this on another thread.
Trumpf can’t waive anything except good bye. Bannon just wants to be on the teevee.
Bannon Says He’s Open To Testifying Before Jan. 6 Panel
On the other hand, the commmittee is open to the three-shirt hobo testifying to the hand.
What the heck with this ‘story’? The headline is a whopper. There is NO executive privilege for Trump to give, thus a letter is meaningless, a fake story of the worst kind. Please stop spreading this BS story.
He really is a disgusting pig and I don’t mean just hygienically.
Why doesn’t this story mention that Bannon IS NOT COVERED BY EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE because (among many other reasons) he wasn’t a White House employee during the time in question.
And even if Executive Privilege applied, IT IS NOT TRUMP’S DECISION TO WAIVE EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE. That decision rests with the current President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
LOL at Trump waiving something that never existed to begin with.
I don’t trust Bannon one bit. He asked for the public hearing because he was gonna perjure himself to the moon and back in order to make a spectacle of it all. The committee sure as hell isn’t falling for that.
As I said in another thread Bannon can go pound sand.
“…a letter from former President Trump waiving executive privilege…”
It’s so cute that Trump thinks he’s still President.
Which party will be providing the dumpster from which he speaks…?
That TFG wrote a letter “waiving” his currently non-existent privilege is not BS. That Bannon, who does go on trial in 8 days is getting all squirmy and squishy, is not BS. It is news.
Bannon and Trump trying to create a distraction. Tuesday’s hearing will proceed on schedule and Trump will whine.
Needs repeating. Then repeat again.
Brannon has NO claim to executive privilege.
If Bannon can drop 100 pounds, complete an alcoholism treatment program, get a haircut, get those weird things on his face lasered off, and agree to wear one (1) shirt, all by Thursday, then maybe the committee will agree to let him testify in public.
Expect a barrage of lies, oath or no oath. Bannon is counting on Trump (or some wannabe neo-Trumper) regaining the White House and pardoning him for whatever lies he tells under oath, as well as for his participation in the January 6 Putsch. Or else he’s planning to flee into exile with Trump to a place like Hungary or the UAE.
Just let his fat keister spend a week in jail, without his bottle of vodka he will fold like a ironed sheet.
Carole King wrote a song that describes Bannon’s position, except that no one would refer to him as “baby” or “darling.” I just listened to it on vinyl from our local Habitat for Humanity Restore.
It’s too late.
Ding, Ding, Ding, you win the serving of hot buttered gloat custard!!