{"id":52233,"date":"2022-07-11T12:53:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52233"},"modified":"2022-07-11T12:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:53:57","slug":"bannon-set-for-grilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52233","title":{"rendered":"Bannon set for grilling?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/download-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20268\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/download-8-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/download-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/download-8.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s involvement in inciting the 1\/6 insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s pie hole.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/morning-report\/3552153-the-hills-morning-report-can-the-jan-6-panel-connect-the-dots\/\">The Hill\u2019s Morning Report \u2014 Can the Jan. 6 panel connect the dots? | The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bannon is a bad dude. He is on record declaring in advance of the 1\/6 attack on the Capitol that something &#8220;big&#8221; was going to happen. He knew in advance &#8230; the son of a bitch. He didn&#8217;t counsel Trump to call it off, unlike Trump&#8217;s children and others close to him in the White House and even some of his lapdogs in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>I believe we&#8217;ll get to see just how prepared the House committee, chaired by Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is in preparing for this showdown.<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that they&#8217;ll be ready to rumble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bannon set for grilling?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52234,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52233\/revisions\/52234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}