Steve Bannon.Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The 67-year-old former top aide to former PresidentDonald Trumparrived at the FBI Washington field office shortly after 9:30 a.m., where he addressed reporters outside.
“We’re taking down the Biden regime,” Bannon claimed to reporters, just before he was taken into FBI custody.
He added a message to his supporters: “I want you guys to stay focused, stay on message. Remember, signal not noise. This is all noise.”
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Prior to turning himself in on Monday, Bannon alsoaddressed his own followerson social media, going live to say, ““I don’t want anybody to take their eye off the ball from what we do every day, OK,” CNN reports.
TheJustice Department announcedtwo counts against Bannon last Friday — one for refusing to sit for a deposition and another for refusing to provide the committee with relevant documents.
Each count of contempt of Congress carries a minimum of 30 days and a maximum of one year in jail, as well as a fine of $100 to $1,000, the Justice Department said.
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Prosecutors presented the indictment and an arrest warrant to a federal magistrate last Friday,CNN reports.
Trump hassued to block the committeefrom receiving documents from the National Archive as part of its investigation and the committee’s demands for information from other high-profile aides of the former president have also been ignored.
Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, also appeared to miss a recent deadline with the committee.
Speaking to NBC’sMeet the PressSunday, Rep. Adam Schiff said the committee would “move quickly” torefer Meadows for criminal contempt.
“We have been moving very quickly to make these decisions and I’m confident we’ll move very quickly with respect to Mr. Meadows also,” Schiff said. “But when ultimately witnesses decide, as Meadows has, that they’re not even going to bother showing up, that they have that much contempt for the law, then it pretty much forces our hand, and we’ll move quickly.”
source: people.com
