{"id":2272865,"date":"2024-06-20T17:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/list-of-republicans-who-voted-to-hold-steve-bannon-in-contempt\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:52:14","slug":"list-of-republicans-who-voted-to-hold-steve-bannon-in-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/list-of-republicans-who-voted-to-hold-steve-bannon-in-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Republicans who supported holding Steve Bannon in contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flist-of-republicans-who-voted-to-hold-steve-bannon-in-contempt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2272865&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On October 21, 2021, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack voted\u2064 to\u200d hold Steve Bannon, a former advisor to then-President\u2062 Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress\u200d for not complying with a subpoena to testify. \u200cSurprisingly, this \u2063decision garnered support \u200dfrom both Democrats and\u200b key Republicans, including\u200b nine GOP\u200d members: Adam\u200b Kinzinger, Anthony Gonzalez, Liz Cheney, Jaime Herrera Beutler, \u200bJohn Katko, Tom Rice, Fred Upton, Peter Meijer, and David Valadao. Notably, except for Herrera Beutler, all of\u200c these Republicans had previously\u200b voted to impeach Trump for his role in instigating the\u2064 January\u2064 6th insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan vote to hold Bannon in \u2062contempt marks \u2062a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-calls-candace-owens-absolutely-disgraceful-for-israel-rhetoric\/\" title=\"Ben Shapiro slams Candace Owens for her Israel rhetoric, calls it disgraceful.\">significant \u200brift<\/a> within the Republican Party. While \u200bsome Republican\u200d figures like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have criticized \u200cBannon&#8217;s defiance, others have minimized the \u200dgravity of the\u200c January 6th events or defended Trump and his collaborators. This division\u200d shows that some GOP members are prepared \u200cto dissociate from party lines to pursue \u200daccountability for those implicated in the Capitol attack.   <\/p>\n<p>On October\u200d 21, 2021, the House\u2064 Select Committee investigating the January 6th\u2063 Capitol attack voted to \u2063hold Steve\u2062 Bannon, former advisor to former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress \u200bfor defying a subpoena to testify. But\u2062 what was perhaps even more \u2064surprising was the number of key Republicans who joined\u2063 Democrats in voting\u2062 to hold Bannon in\u200c contempt.<\/p>\n<p>In total, nine Republicans joined Democrats in voting to hold Bannon in contempt.\u2062 These nine Republicans were\u200d <strong>Adam Kinzinger, Anthony \u2064Gonzalez, Liz Cheney,\u2063 Jaime \u2062Herrera Beutler, John Katko, Tom Rice, Fred \u2063Upton, Peter Meijer,<\/strong> \u200b and <strong>David Valadao.<\/strong> It is \u200bworth noting that all of these Republicans, \u2063with \u2063the \u200dexception of Herrera\u200c Beutler,\u2062 had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/six-gop-senators-vote-second-trump-impeachment-trial-is-constitutional\/\" title=\"Six GOP senators vote second Trump impeachment trial is constitutional\">previously voted<\/a> to \u200dimpeach former President\u2064 Trump for his\u200d role in \u2063inciting the January 6th \u2063insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063decision \u2063by \u2062these key Republicans to hold Bannon in contempt is significant \u2064because it signals a fracture within the GOP. While some Republican leaders like Senate \u200bMinority\u200d Leader Mitch McConnell have condemned Bannon&#8217;s actions, many others\u2064 have downplayed the seriousness\u200c of the January 6th attack and have \u2062defended the former \u2064president\u2063 and \u200cthose associated with him. This vote shows that there are at least some members of the GOP who are willing \u2062to\u200c break ranks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/head-of-mexican-megachurch-charged-with-child-pornography\/\" title=\"Mexican Megachurch Leader Faces Child Pornography Charges\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/head-of-mexican-megachurch-charged-with-child-pornography\/\" title=\"Mexican Megachurch Leader Faces Child Pornography Charges\">hold individuals \u200baccountable<\/a><\/a> for their role in the Capitol attack.<\/p>\n<p>The divide within the Republican party on this vote also has significant\u2064 implications for future \u2064congressional \u200cinvestigations. With the January 6th \u200dselect\u2063 committee still working to uncover the \u2063truth about what happened\u2062 that day, it is likely that more subpoenas\u2064 will be issued and more\u2062 individuals will be called to testify. The decision \u2064by these nine Republicans to hold\u200c Bannon\u2063 in contempt sends a message \u2063that defiance of congressional subpoenas will not be tolerated, which could \u2063potentially encourage other witnesses to comply with\u200b the committee&#8217;s requests\u200d for testimony and documents.<\/p>\n<p>This fracture could \u2064also have potential repercussions for GOP unity \u200cmoving\u200d forward. With the 2022 midterm \u200celections quickly approaching, \u200cthe Republican party is already facing internal divisions between\u200b those who remain loyal to\u2063 former President Trump and those who \u2064want to distance themselves from him. The\u2062 vote to hold Bannon in contempt may further deepen these \u2062divisions,\u2064 making it \u2063more difficult for \u2062the party to present a unified front in the \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-owens-gop-can-win-big-in-2022-2024\/\" title=\"Rep. Owens: GOP can win big in 2022, 2024\">upcoming elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is also worth noting that the majority \u200dof Republicans in the House, 182 to be exact, voted against \u200bholding\u200b Bannon in contempt. \u2062This \u200cshows that the divide within the GOP \u200bis not \u200ba clear-cut line, \u200cand there are still many members who\u2063 are \u2062aligned with former President Trump and are \u200bunwilling \u200cto hold him or his associates accountable\u200c for their actions. It will be interesting\u2064 to see how this \u200bdivide plays out in the months leading up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-repeats-itself-democrats-are-using-tactics-of-the-marxists-of-1917-in-russia-to-steal-2020-election\/\" title=\"History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia to Steal 2020 Election\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-repeats-itself-democrats-are-using-tactics-of-the-marxists-of-1917-in-russia-to-steal-2020-election\/\" title=\"History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia to Steal 2020 Election\">midterm elections<\/a><\/a> and\u200c what impact it\u2063 will have on the \u200cfuture of the Republican party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Republicans, including Reps. Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Peter Meijer, voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress, crossing party lines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2272866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/06\/imYZE-253D.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/06\/imYZE-253D.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}