Bannon Calls for Republicans to Launch Jan. 6 Investigation After Midterm Elections

Republicans need to launch a congressional committee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol and how the events of that day were handled, Steve Bannon said on July 22.

The panel should also probe the House of Representatives special panel currently probing Jan. 6, he said.

If Republicans flip the House in the midterm elections, then “we have to really govern, govern on offense,” Bannon said on Fox News, speaking hours after he was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress.

“Every committee in the House has to be an oversight committee,” he added later. “And we have to have a real Jan. 6 committee, including to get to the staffers now, and see about the lies and misrepresentations they put on national television to defame people. I would tell the Jan. 6 staff right now preserve your documents, because there’s going to be a real committee and this is going to be backed by Republican grassroots voters and MAGA who are going to say, ‘we want to get to the bottom of this for the good of the nation.’”

Pressing questions include whether Ray Epps, a man seen urging people to enter the Capitol, was an FBI asset, and the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead by a police officer, Bannon said.

Conviction

Jurors earlier Friday convicted Bannon, placing him in jeopardy of serving prison time. The charges stemmed from his refusal to comply with a subpoena issued in 2021 by the House Jan. 6 panel.

Each count carries up to one year in prison.

Bannon’s lawyers have said they plan to appeal.

“When a former president or a current president invokes executive privilege. It’s presumptively valid period. It’s not for Congress to decide that is not valid,” David Schoen,

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