Just recently, we reported on the eyebrow-raising news from a bombshell Washington Post report that revealed former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, who’s been considered as a key witness by the January 6th House Select Committee for some time as they try to secure his under-oath testimony, may soon back down from his noncompliance and actually testify before the House Panel — all because former President Trump may soon be willing to waive “executive privilege” for Bannon.
Bannon has already been officially indicted on Contempt of Congress charges for his repeated refusal to cooperate with the House Select Committee’s subpoenas, continually using the “executive privilege” excuse as to why he will not comply. Now, suddenly, former President Donald Trump is reportedly considering waiving that privilege (that doesn’t even actually exist) and Bannon appears to have had a complete 180 change of heart… And we couldn’t figure out why.
But now, former prosecutor John Flannery has made an appearance on a segment of MSNBC’s The Beat, where he sounded the alarm on a possible motive behind the sudden, strange change of heart — and it’s frankly even worse than we were expecting.
Anchor Ari Melber kicked off the discussion, “I want to remind people, it doesn’t matter whether the committee still technically exists later … he could very likely end up in prison, which I think his lawyers warned him. How do you interpret what seems to me to be a pretty major Washington Post story tonight, Friday night, John, that basically suggests that as soon as tomorrow, Bannon might fold and try to cooperate?”
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Flannery’s theory, while certainly disturbing, made perfect sense:
Cooperate is where I stop, because I have to see it. Consider the fact that executive privilege is granted by Biden, the present president, and so it is irrelevant that Trump does this, so why does Trump do it? Trump does it because that is what Bannon has said already and he wants it to happen and why does he want it to happen since they both know what they did together?
So, my feeling as a prosecutor would be this is a Trojan horse, coming into spread nonsense and to try to come in from inside, blow up the investigation.”
Don’t think for a second that this man is suddenly, actually going to be cooperative or helpful in any conceivable way. We knew from the moment the news broke that something sketchy was going on.
Watch the MSNBC segment here:
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