The US Justice Department has charged Steve Bannon on two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena issued by a House of Representatives panel investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection.Bannon, a former top adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, was charged with one count of contempt of Congress involving his refusal to appear for a deposition and another involving his refusal to produce documents, the Justice Department said on Friday.The 67 year old had cited Trump’s insistence that his communications are protected by the legal doctrine of executive privilege – an argument that President Joe Biden’s administration rejected last month as “not warranted”.
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