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By the end of the day, the Trump camp’s favorite tactic was looking less like hardball and more like a paper trail headed for a prosecutor’s desk. The immediate fallout was legal, but the larger cost was political: it reinforced the picture of a movement that treats accountability as optional until the subpoenas say otherwise.
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Steve Bannon missed his Oct. 14, 2021 deposition before the House Jan. 6 committee after a subpoena ordered him to appear and produce records. The no-show pushed the committee toward a contempt referral later that month.
On October 14, 2021, Trump’s effort to hide Jan. 6-related records behind executive privilege was looking increasingly shaky. The legal and political problem was that his move depended on a claim the sitting White House would not embrace, while the committee was already moving to pry the records loose.
The October 14 no-show was more than one guy refusing a subpoena. It signaled that Trump allies were prepared to turn the Jan. 6 investigation into a broad contempt fight, with real legal exposure and growing institutional blowback.