Steve Bannon Could Be Getting A Cellmate As 1/6 Committee Signals Mark Meadows Is Next

1/6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson and Vice-Chair Liz Cheney signaled that Mark Meadows is adjacent to look a transgression contempt referral.

The 1/6 Committee Leadership said successful a statement:

Mr. Meadows’s actions today—choosing to defy the law—will unit the Select Committee to see pursuing contempt oregon different proceedings to enforce the subpoena. If his defiance persists and that process moves ahead, the grounds volition uncover the wide scope of matters the Select Committee wished to sermon with Mr. Meadows until his determination to fell down the erstwhile President’s spurious claims of privilege. Many of those matters are not adjacent conceivably taxable to immoderate privilege claim, adjacent if determination were one.

It’s unfortunate that Mr. Meadows has chosen to articulation a precise tiny radical of witnesses who judge they are supra the instrumentality and are defying a Select Committee subpoena outright.

The Select Committee has talked with much than 150 individuals who are engaging and cooperating with our probe and providing captious details. And portion we’re determined to get each the accusation we’re seeking, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Bannon, and others who spell down this way won’t prevail successful stopping the Select Committee’s effort getting answers for the American radical astir January 6th, making legislative recommendations to assistance support our democracy, and helping guarantee thing similar that time ever happens again.”

The 1/6 Committee and the Justice Department aren’t playing games. The committee isn’t going to beryllium stopped. The courts aren’t allowing Trump to discarded clip and necktie up papers requests.

If Mark Meadows doesn’t person a governmental travel to Jesus infinitesimal soon, helium is going to extremity up sharing a compartment with Steve Bannon.