Zac Anderson: Like many things that Trump does, bringing back into the fold a group of political operatives that he pardoned has no modern historical precedent. ... "With Lincoln, they had a team of rivals," [Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley] said. "With Trump, you have a team of felons." Presidents normally try not to be associated with criminals, Brinkley noted.
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Why Steve Bannon's Contempt Prosecution Revolves Around His Attorney, Robert J. Costello (2022)
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... Criminal defense attorney Robert J. Costello claims that prosecutors are doing grave injustices to his client, Stephen K. Bannon. Bannon, 68, is the right-wing media entrepreneur turned podcast host who, for a period of seven months in 2017, served as chief strategist and senior counselor to President Trump.
In the days leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, Bannon was reportedly a member of a "war room" command center at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C."which consisted of a group of pro-Trump operatives, including Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani and Professor John Eastman, who were trying to overturn the 2020 election. The night before the attack on the Capitol, Bannon predicted on his podcast"titled, coincidentally, War Room: "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It's gonna be moving. It's gonna be quick. And all I can say is, strap in, the War Room, a posse. You have made this happen and tomorrow is game day."
Citing these circumstances, among others, the Select House Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol issued Bannon a subpoena on Sept. 23. It ordered him to produce 17 categories of documents and communications on Oct. 7 and to appear for a deposition on Oct. 14.
Following Costello's legal advice, Bannon did neither. Instead, he told the committee, through Costello, that former President Trump had instructed him to invoke executive privilege and that he was therefore "legally unable to comply with [the] subpoena requests." ...
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