Department of Justice will press charges against him. The contempt vote sets up the possibility that the U.S. (Bannon, said to predict that “all hell would break loose” on Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.Ĭommittee members say Bannon, who at that time was a former official in the Trump administration, was deeply advising the then-President in the waning days of his term, when the Republican refused to concede that he lost the election to Joe Biden. The debate has unleashed important legal disputes about how much authority a president has over divulging White House decision makingĬongress voted earlier this month to hold Bannon in contempt for refusing to testify before a select committee investigating the Jan.