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Right-wing podcast host and former White House adviser to Donald Trump Steve Bannon was subpoenaed to present documents and testimony to an investigating federal grand jury on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Bannon was subpoenaed about a month ago. Neither Bannon nor his attorney responded to a request for comment. The subpoena was first reported by NBC news.
Bannon was one of Trump’s allies who spread falsehoods about stealing the 2020 presidential election and fattened the GOP base.
“All hell will break loose tomorrow,” Bannon predicted to his podcast listeners on January 5, 2021, the day before the attack on the US Capitol.
Bannon also urged Trump in December 2020 to focus his attention on Jan. 6, the date of the Electoral College certification vote in Congress, according to the book “Peril,” by authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. The authors also reported that Trump called Bannon after a contentious Jan. 5 meeting with then-Vice President Mike Pence, in which Pence told Trump he did not have the authority to block the certification of election results of 2020.
Bannon defied a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol. A jury found him guilty of criminal contempt of Congress in July 2022. He was sentenced to four months in prison, but his sentence was suspended while he appealed his guilty verdict.
This story has been updated with additional information.
