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Added on the 20/10/2021 07:01:21 - Copyright : Euronews EN
US lawmakers have voted to hold Steven Bannon, a key ally of ex-president Donald Trump, in criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to testify before a panel investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The House of Representatives has voted to refer him to federal prosecutors to make a decision on whether to press charges, although the ensuing legal battle would likely play out over several months, potentially frustrating the probe. IMAGES
Former top Trump strategist Steve Bannon exits Manhattan Federal Court after he was arrested and charged along with three others for defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in a Mexico border wall fundraising campaign. IMAGES
Grave concern is growing among senior White House advisers about the people President Donald Trump has been listening to lately. CNN reports Trump has turned to a fringe group of advisers peddling increasingly dubious tactics to overturn the results of the election. That's generated new levels of uncertainty at how Trump will resist the coming end of his tenure. The coterie includes conspiracist lawyer Sidney Powell, disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and onetime chief strategist Steve Bannon. Other voices in Trump's ear are those from hawkish trade adviser Peter Navarro and the eccentric founder of the retail website Overstock. Sources close to the President say his advisers are particularly worried about what Powell may convince him to do in the coming days. Through it all, Trump has mostly abandoned the day-to-day running of government.
The Defense Business Board is a Pentagon advisory group that has recently undergone a purge at the hands of the Trump administration. Now, one of the survivors of that purge has resigned in protest. Business Insider reports Steve Blank wrote in his resignation letter that President Donald Trump's administration has endangered the nation. My service to the Department of Defense was a service to the country not to a party. I hereby tender my resignation. Steve Blank Former Member, US Defense Business Board Business Insider reports the purge of the Defense Business Board last week followed the removal of most of the Defense Policy Board late last month. The Trump administration has also purged much of the Pentagon's civilian leadership, clearing the way for loyalists to fill top posts. All the vacancies created by the purge are to be filled by Trump loyalists.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Presidential campaign was thrown into a frenzy. The excitement is over a New York Post article about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. The Post published "smoking-gun email" featuring Hunter communicating with a Ukrainian official about meeting with his father. Business Insider reports that the Post's story had a number of red flags and loopholes that raise questions about its authenticity. The most glaring question is whether the emails described in the story are legitimate, how they were uncovered, and how the Post obtained them.
Chinese virologists linked to former Trump strategist Steve Bannon released another paper Thursday on COVID-19. According to Business Insider, the group claims the novel coronavirus is 'an unrestricted bioweapon.' One of the authors, Li-Meng Yan, told Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson that the virus was 'intentionally' released by the Chinese government. The authors accuse scientists of depositing fake coronavirus sequences in GenBank, a genetic sequence database run by the National Institutes of Health. Experts quickly debunked the claim, calling it 'bizarre and unfounded.' Most think the virus originated in bats before jumping to people. In fact, one study found that it shared 96% of its genetic code with coronaviruses sampled from Chinese bat populations.
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