Adviser Bannon Trump handed over to FBI over allegations of Capitol riot investigation, Reuters

By Jan Wolfe and Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Aside from black-clad bodyguards and making malicious comments about President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser, Steve Bannon, turned himself in to the FBI on Monday for criminal charges over refusing to investigate the January murder. 6 US Capitol Uprising.

“We’re removing the Biden regime,” Bannon told a crowd of reporters as he arrived at an FBI office in the U.S. capital while a poster behind him was holding a sign that said “Coup Plotter.”

On Friday, a federal grand jury charged Congress with contempt for Bannon for refusing to appear before a U.S. House of Representatives Committee investigating the events of the January 6 bombing and for refusing to present documents for a second contempt.

Bannon, the first person to face criminal charges in a Congressional investigation, will make his first appearance in federal court on Monday before Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather.

In comments to his followers, Bannon looked directly at the camera that was being broadcast live on the GETTR social media website.

“I want you to be focused,” Bannon added, including an olive green coat over his black clothes and masks accompanied by black-clad bodyguards. “… This is all noise.”

Contempt for Congress is a felony that would result in a one-year prison sentence and a fine of up to $ 1,000, the Justice Department said.

Bannon is one of more than 30 people around Trump who have been ordered by the House committee to testify until Jan. 6, when a pro-Trump group attacked the Capitol in a failed attempt to prevent a formal congressional certificate. Trump lost the election against Biden.

Trump wanted to surprise the committee that is investigating actions related to the incident, and ordered his former members not to cooperate. To deny his citation, Bannon cited Trump’s insistence — already dismissed by a judge — that he has the right to keep the requested material confidential under a legal doctrine called executive privilege https://www.reuters.com/world/us/can- trump-use-executive -privilege-block-jan-6-attack-probe-2021-09-09.

Home investigators hope the allegations against Bannon will motivate other witnesses, including former White House President Mark Meadows.

Bannon, a prominent figure in right-wing media circles, was the architect of Trump’s 2016 presidential victory and later the White House chief strategist. First Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE 🙂 Banker and Army veteran has promoted the right causes and candidates in the United States and abroad.

GETTR Trump is an social media platform created by ally Jason Miller. In his comments, Bannon also expanded his podcast.

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Bannon was individually indicted last year for defrauding donors in a private effort to raise funds to promote a commitment to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump pardoned Bannon before the case went to trial.

Trump said in a statement Sunday that “this country may never have done to anyone what Steve Bannon has done and they are looking to do the same to others.”

Democrat Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of the Jan. 6 panel, said he believes Bannon’s accusation will cause others to remove their challenge. Schiff reiterated the threat of the select committee to pursue allegations of contempt against Meadows, but said the panel wants to be as strong a case as possible.

The commission said Bannon had made public statements suggesting he was aware in advance of the “extreme events” that would take place on January 6th. Bannon said in a Jan. 5 podcast that “tomorrow all hell will be released.”

Ahead of the Jan. 6 uprising, Trump gave a speech to supporters gathered near the White House to steal his election through widespread fraudulent ballots by repeating his false slogans and urging him to go to the Capitol and “stop the robbery” to “fight like hell.” . “