Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon managed to catch a break in his ongoing criminal trial for defying a January 6 committee subpoena on Wednesday, when the presiding judge allowed his legal team to use a letter from his old boss as evidence.District Judge Carl Nichols allowed Bannon to inform jurors about Trump's dispatch to him earlier this month, where the ex-president wrote he was waiving his claim to executive privilege over Bannon's testimony to Congress.The right-wing activist's legal effort got off to a shaky start before the trial even began, when Nichols last week barred the Trump confidante from asserting several potential defenses - prompting his exasperated lawyer to ask 'what is the point of going to trial here' under those circumstances.
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