{"id":907342,"date":"2021-10-21T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=907342"},"modified":"2021-10-21T19:44:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T23:44:44","slug":"house-votes-to-hold-bannon-in-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-votes-to-hold-bannon-in-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes to hold Bannon in contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fhouse-votes-to-hold-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=907342&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--><div id=\"attachment_2555805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2555805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, N.Y. \u2013 AUGUST 20: Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon exits the Manhattan Federal Court on August 20, 2020 in the Manhattan borough of New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:32 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, October 21, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The House of Representatives voted to hold former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee.<\/p>\n<p>The lower chamber voted to refer criminal contempt charges against Bannon to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Washington on Thursday. Bannon has declined to cooperate with the subpoena until executive privilege concerns raised by 45th President Trump are resolved by the courts.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice will now determine whether to prosecute Bannon for contempt. Speaking on the matter, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the agency will be following \u201cthe facts and the law,\u201d but didn\u2019t say if he planned to prosecute Bannon.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously to prosecute Bannon after he refused to appear and produce records for the panel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe Mr. Bannon has information relevant to our probe, and we\u2019ll use the tools at our disposal to get that information,\u201d said Chairman Bennie Thompson prior to the vote. \u201cI expect that the House will quickly adopt this referral to the Justice Department and that the U.S. Attorney will do his duty and prosecute Mr. Bannon for criminal contempt of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bannon was ordered to appear before the committee, but Trump had advised his former staffers to defy Democrat subpoenas amid his ongoing litigation against the politically-motivated probe. Bannon\u2019s lawyers said he was following the direction of the 45th president\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Matt Gaetz RIPS J6-Obsessed Dems Targeting Steve Bannon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you really think your constituents are hoping you guys are here sharing your hot takes on Steve Bannon\u2019s podcast rather than dealing with crushing inflation, the border crisis, or problems America faces abroad?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v1NfBvoVV7\">pic.twitter.com\/v1NfBvoVV7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMattGaetz\/status\/1450895119536857088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/suspected-parkland-shooter-pleads-guilty-to-jail-battery-charges-will-also-plead-guilty-to-murder\/\">Parkland Shooter Pleads Guilty To 17 Counts Of Murder<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, N.Y. \u2013 AUGUST 20: Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon exits the Manhattan Federal Court on August 20, 2020 in the Manhattan borough of New York City. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907342","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=907342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}