Bannon Offers Absurd Legal Argument for Executive Privilege

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Steve Bannon had at least one private conversation with then-President Donald Trump that he wants to keep secret from the Jan. 6 Committee, his lawyer disclosed in federal court on Wednesday.

That’s the reason Bannon believes he can invoke executive privilege to prevent him from testifying before the panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

David Schoen, one of Bannon’s lawyers, who also happened to represent Trump at his second impeachment trial, twice referenced this interaction before a federal judge as the reason why his client should not be prosecuted now for contempt of Congress.

“He’s a former senior adviser who the president then calls in,” Schoen said when describing why the interaction should be barred from congressional inquiry, adding that anyone in Bannon’s position who had previously served in the White House and “was later called in to have a conversation with the president” would not anticipate being prosecuted for keeping that interaction private.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bannon-offers-absurd-legal-argument-for-executive-privilege/ar-AAYvlkc

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1. I don't believe criminal acts are covered by executive privilege.

[emulatorloo]

3. +1

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Bannon can't invoke executive privilege at all

[getagrip_already]

4. haven't courts already rules exec privilege is only the purview of the current potus??

I thought this came up already when biden issued a statement that he wasn't extending exec priv to trump era doc's.

That would make this a specious argument at best if it has already been decided.

[IjustDontlikeRepugs]

5. Bahahahaha

My legal expertise comes from binge watching Boston Legal and Night Court and even I know that shit’s not gonna work.

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6. K&R