Watch: Steve Bannon Torches GOP Rep Nancy Mace for Trying to Send Him to Prison

Both were smiling — but in a teeth-gritting kind of way — as GOP Rep. Nancy Mace and Steve Bannon briefly sparred on Bannon’s War Room podcast. Appearing with Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Mace of South Carolina exchanged…

IJR SyndicatedOct 5, 20232 min read

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Countered Mace: “I like the Constitution. I’m a constitutionalist.”

“My fellow lawyer would disagree about that,” Bannon responded.

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Bannon currently is free on appeal after being sentenced to four months in federal prison following his 2022 conviction on two counts of contempt of Congress.

The January 6 committee was seeking information from Bannon about any role former President Donald Trump might have played in the Capitol event.

His defense has been executive privilege stemming from being chief strategist and counsel for Trump. The prosecution maintains Bannon is not shielded from testimony regarding Jan. 6 since at the time he was no longer at the White House.

Regarding the criminal contempt vote, Mace in 2021 said: “I want to preserve the subpoena power that Congress has,” according to South Carolina’s Post and Courier.

“We need to have the ability to uphold that authority and power in the Constitution. I’m going to have the same position for whoever is in power, Republican or Democrat,” she said.

Spearheaded by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, the grand jury indictment was considered by The Wall Street Journal to be unusual.

“The case against Mr. Bannon represents a rare kind of prosecution for the Justice Department, which has declined to act on other contempt-of-Congress referrals in recent years,” the Journal said at the time.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.