N.Y. Times: Mueller Subpoenas Bannon
The New York Times, citing only an unidentified source close to the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, is reporting that Stephen Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury.
The paper said it was the first time Mueller is “known to have used a grand jury subpoena to seek information from a member of Mr. Trump’s inner circle.”
Bannon, who before and after his service to the president was executive chairman of Breitbart News, became a flashpoint with the recent release of journalist Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” where he was quoted calling a meeting Donald Trump Jr. attended in 2016 with Russians as “treasonous.”
Bannon left the Trump administration last August, then stepped away from his post as executive chairman of Breitbart last week.
But Bannon apparently was not directly involved in two of the key concerns reportedly being investigated by Mueller, who for the last year has failed to produce any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians, his stated assignment when appointed. (Read more from “N.Y. Times: Mueller Subpoenas Bannon” HERE)
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