A federal grand jury indicted former Trump adviser and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon for ignoring a congressional subpoena regarding the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
The select committee convened by the House of Representatives to investigate the attempted insurrection had demanded Bannon’s appearance before the panel and for him to provide documents as evidence in early October. Bannon never complied.
“Since my first day in office, I have promised Justice Department employees that together we would show the American people by word and deed that the Department adheres to the rule of law, follows the facts and the law, and pursues equal justice under the law,” the attorney general said Friday in a statement. “Today’s charges reflect the Department’s steadfast commitment to these principles.”
The Justice Department charged the 67-year-old with contempt of Congress.
Bannon has cited former President Trump’s overreaching claim of executive privilege, which one judge has already rejected. The Biden administration also refused to apply executive privilege to withhold documents related to the attack on the Capitol.
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