Prosecutors Slam Bannon for Trying to Make His Case a Trial by Media “Rather Than in Court”

Prosecutors criticized erstwhile White House strategist Steve Bannon, saying that helium is trying to marque his lawsuit connected contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from the House Select Committee tasked with investigating the January 6 insurrection a proceedings by media “rather than successful court.”

The prosecution’s comments came aft Bannon’s defence requested that the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s bureau unseal each grounds successful the case, including expansive assemblage testimony.

“The defense’s misleading claims, nonaccomplishment to confer, unexplained wholesale opposition, and extrajudicial statements marque wide the defense’s existent purpose: to maltreatment transgression find to effort this lawsuit successful the media alternatively than successful court,” the prosecutors wrote successful a tribunal filing, arguing that unsealing the grounds would undermine the privateness of immoderate witnesses who whitethorn person testified to the expansive assemblage and undermine their grounds during trial.

“The defendant’s menace of ‘going connected offense’ and making this lawsuit ‘hell’ cannot beryllium ignored erstwhile considering these witnesses’ privateness interests successful their idiosyncratic inheritance information,” the filing reads.

Bannon was indicted by a national expansive assemblage connected 2 transgression contempt charges connected November 12  and surrendered to authorities 3 days later.  The House of Representatives had voted to clasp him successful transgression contempt of Congress and to notation him to the Justice Department aft Bannon’s defence gave the House Select Committee beforehand announcement that helium would not comply.