Steve Bannon: Former Trump aide strikes deal to avoid grand jury appearance in Russia probe

[DonViejo]

Source: Yahoo News




Clark Mindock, The Independent•January 17, 2018

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has struck a deal to speak with special counsel Robert Mueller and his team investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

Mr Bannon, who was recently disavowed by President Donald Trump, will discuss his time with the Trump campaign and White House directly with the investigators, and will bypass questioning in front of a grand jury.

Mr Mueller's team had secured a subpoena to compel Mr Bannon to testify, which could have forced him to speak with the grand jury.

FBI agents reportedly showed up at Mr Bannon's home in Washington, DC last week with the subpoena, only to find out that the former White House employee had secured the legal representation of William Burck hours earlier, according to reports.


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[Botany]

1. This means Bannon is now a:

[FreepFryer]

2. ++++++ LOL :) :) :)

[NCjack]

5. Trump will change Steve's nickname from "sloppy" to "songbird".

[L. Coyote]

28. Or "Rat Face Bannon"

[MLAA]

36. Or rat face Bannon with a lovely singing voice 😬

[L. Coyote]

27. YES! Bannon Plans To Cooperate With Mueller

Jan 17, 2018 ---- Steve Bannon told lawmakers investigating Russian interference that the White House instructed him not to answer questions about his time in the WH. Hallie Jackson and Michael Schmidt discuss.

[Sophia4]

34. I'm not so certain. Let's wait and see.

[iluvtennis]

3. I liked the subpoena better...but Mueller knows what he's doing.

[eggplant]

8. The subpoena still exists.

I would imagine that the deal included the stipulation that if he isn't forthcoming with what he knows, then he can tell it to the grand jury.

[mcar]

4. The only way to go is up

Bannon is going to roll on Jr, Kushie, the Dotard. There would be no reason for a deal otherwise.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. THIS

[cstanleytech]

7. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Why do I say that? Because we have no real way of knowing what Bannon knows thus its to early to say if anything he says to Mueller will go anywhere just yet.
Even if it does lead to Sr the problem is still the Repugnants in Congress only with their support can he be removed and knowing the types of games they play I would not be surprised if they did a big political theater event where they rig it so it comes down to only needing one or two more Repugnants to vote to remove him from office and they will not get those final votes.
They will then play the whole "Oh look at how we tried, sorry folks" and then they will go back to the business of working behind the scenes to enlist the aid of hostile governments to win more elections.

[oswaldactedalone]

10. Nostradamus

lives among us. Very likely scenario.

[KPN]

19. And the assholes who vote No will be

the ones who probably won't retain their seats anyway. That is good enough reason to wait until the new Congress is seated in 2019 to impeach. Another whole fucking year -- can we survive that?!

[cstanleytech]

23. Impeachment is unlikely even in 2019 because even if we won ever Senate race in 2018

that will not get us anywhere near the number of votes we would need to remove him and bar the Repugnants from playing their usual games.
Best we can hope for is to get a good candidate that can kick his ass to the curb in 2020.

[rockfordfile]

39. Americans will expect impeachment if the Democrats take back the House

[cstanleytech]

41. The House is not the problem it's the Senate where the problem is located as

we simply will not be able to win enough seats there to remove him on our own.
Best we can hope for is to retake the majority to blunt him.

[Dopers_Greed]

25. I'd bet he knows quite a bit

He's much smarter than Herr Shithole and was in a high level position in the administration.

I'm expecting he'll have enough to help Mueller nail Javanka.

[cstanleytech]

26. He very well could know more however the question is will Mueller

be able to roll him.

[DeminPennswoods]

29. John Dean recently said that Nixon et al

didn't realize how much he knew from just absorbing everything that went on around him. I'll bet Bannon's the same way.

[WhiteTara]

22. I hope there is room for Ivanka under that bus too.

[mcar]

31. Me too!

[not fooled]

32. Yes

so that plagiarizing shoe designs will no longer be her greatest crime.

[FakeNoose]

40. I believe that too

The lawyer who represents Bannon also has McGahn and Priebus. They're all going to rat out the kiddies and that will be their defense. Of course the kiddies are going to point fingers at the 3 big ol' bad guys too. Whether anybody will actually give up Cheeto remains to be seen. From what I've seen and read on DU, only Kushner and Junior could actually give up Papa, and I don't believe either would do that.

This will be an interesting next few months.

[jimmil]

9. Why does anyone believe Bannon will tell the truth...

regardless of deal, no deal, grand jury, subpoena or not?

[Auggie]

15. If he lies to the Grand Jury and is caught he'd be in deep shit and he knows that

So you have a good point -- he can lie or hide info from the Mueller team because he won't be under oath. As posted upthread he can always be be questioned by the Grand Jury later. Also as posted upthread, believe the Mueller team knows exactly what they are doing.

[shraby]

17. When testifying to the FBI and if he lies it is an automatic felony with up to 5 years for each

lie. They are told this upfront before questioning begins.

[Auggie]

37. Thanks for the info!

[Kaleva]

24. If the FBI is present, that would be a problem for Bannon.

[not fooled]

33. Plus

he just might want to settle a few scores, especially with jarvanka.

Positively Shakespearean.

[Sophia4]

35. Right. What makes people think he will talk at all?

He wants a lawyer sitting next to him.

This is just a step toward getting him alone in the room with the grand jury. If he insists on executive privilege, it will probably go to a court. This is stalling for time.

Mueller probably already has enough on Trump and the Trump family with regard to money laundering.

I don't trust Bannon for one minute. He despises law and order. He despises the rule of law, thinks it is all some kind of conspiracy. He will do everything he can to throw a wrench into the system. Because he hates system itself.

[oswaldactedalone]

11. Bannon realizes who he would be sharing prison with

and wants no part of it. There aren't many Norwegians in the US prison population. With that knowledge in hand he'll be the squeal pigeon that stools on Dump.

[blueseas]

13. LOL

You really made me laugh at that one!

[BigmanPigman]

12. MSNBC just reported that he doesn't have to discuss

his time while he was the "CEO and Political Strategist" serving in the WH after the campaign and transition.
He won't be asked about what happened after the inauguration.

[shraby]

18. That must be for the committee investigation, because NO one knows what Mueller is going

to ask about.

[KPN]

20. The committee appearance already

happened -- yesterday. Maybe MSNBC had inside info.

[PRETZEL]

21. For the time being, I'm ok with that

I don't believe he had an "official" Administration position. It's not like he was Chief of Staff or White House Counsel. Those are "official" White House positions.

And it's not like he's "Communications Director" ?

He's more Karl Rove than anything else.

[DeminPennswoods]

30. They have Flynn for that

nt

[Princess Turandot]

14. Other articles are sourcing this to CNN...

..here's most of their very brief article. (The article on Yahoo doesn't appear to say where the info came from.)

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/politics/bannon-mueller-strike-deal/index.html

Steve Bannon has struck a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller's team and will be interviewed by prosecutors instead of testifying before the grand jury, two people familiar with the process told CNN. He is expected to cooperate with the special counsel, the sources said.

The sources did not say when the interview will take place or if the subpoena would be withdrawn....
...

CNN's Jim Acosta, Dana Bash, Jeremy Herb, and Manu Raju contributed to this report.

[jimmil]

16. They need to investigate Bannon

and any connections he had with groups on 4Chan prior and post election. They will find a lot there. However, it would take a special kind of investigator to uncover information there.

[topnotch62907]

38. Even worse

Steve Bannon might be even worse than Trump. So Sleazy.