When Steve Bannon last week took a 180-degree turn and agreed to testify in his contempt of Congress trial beginning Monday, he promised a “misdemeanor from hell” for the Biden administration, confirming that the Trump confidant-turned-podcaster had indeed planned to represent for the former president. After all, Donald J. Trump was now lamenting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) refusal to appoint any MAGA-leaning Republicans to the U.S. Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
But U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols late last week put the kibosh on the legal defense Bannon’s attorney had planned, The Washington Post reports. This was the judge’s “lawyerly way” of recommending Bannon take a plea deal rather than “face long odds at a short trial,” a law professor told WaPo.
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