Stephen K. Bannon ripped House Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson as “gutless” for sending a staff member to testify as the prosecution’s first witness in the former Trump advisor’s criminal contempt of Congress trial in Washington.
Kristin Amerling, the Jan. 6 committee’s deputy staff director and chief counsel, began outlining the case against Mr. Bannon on Tuesday in federal court, as the long-delayed trial began in earnest after an arduous jury selection process and a spat over key evidence.
Mr. Bannon, speaking with a swarm of reporters and protesters later outside the courthouse, fired back at the Mississippi Democrat running the Jan.