First, an admission: I had trouble understanding when I first heard about it why Donald Trump waived any claims of executive privilege that sought to keep former White House senior adviser Steve Bannon from testifying before the House 1/6 select committee.
Then I heard the story behind the story. Trump wants his attack dog Bannon to go toe-to-toe with the committee, that he was angry that others on the White House staff testified already, only to tighten the screws around Trump’s involvement in inciting the 1/6 insurrection.
Bannon, according to reports, might sing a different tune when he speaks to the panel. Oh, I hope so. I also hope the committee is ready for the lies, the bob-and-weave, the obfuscation that is likely to come from Bannon’s pie hole.
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Bannon is a bad dude. He is on record declaring in advance of the 1/6 attack on the Capitol that something “big” was going to happen. He knew in advance … the son of a bitch. He didn’t counsel Trump to call it off, unlike Trump’s children and others close to him in the White House and even some of his lapdogs in the House of Representatives.
I believe we’ll get to see just how prepared the House committee, chaired by Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is in preparing for this showdown.
My hunch is that they’ll be ready to rumble.