Steve Bannon’s trial on contempt charges for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 panel got underway in federal court with jury selection, and a new defense effort to bar evidence unless committee Chair Bennie Thompson testifies.
Bannon, 68, faces two counts of criminal contempt of Congress relating to the committee probe of the Capitol riot in what promises to be a circus of accusations, brash pronouncements and politics playing out daily in front of the media.
