Adam Schiff Warns Steve Bannon And Mark Meadows They’ll Face Criminal Charges If They Don’t Testify

1/6 Committee member, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) warned 4 subpoenaed Trump associates that if they don’t testify, they volition beryllium taxable to transgression contempt charges.

Rep. Schiff tweeted:

Four of Donald Trump’s associates person been subpoenaed to attest astir January 6.

If they garbage to comply, they tin beryllium taxable to transgression contempt.

What are they hiding? What are they acrophobic of?

The information volition travel out. We volition marque definite of that.

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 6, 2021

Rep. Schiff was talking astir the subpoenas that were issued for Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon, Kashyap Patel, and Dan Scavino. 

1/6 Committee has made it clear. They aren’t messing around. Schiff’s connection echoes that of chap 1/6 Committee subordinate Jamie Raskin who warned Trump and each of his associates that the Committee volition prosecute transgression contempt charges against anyone who does comply with a subpoena. Raskin said that subpoenas are not optional and warned of superior consequences for those who effort to disregard them.

It is simply a antithetic satellite present for Trump and his associates. They person nary governmental power, and for those who were subpoenaed, Trump has offered them nary assistance oregon assistance.

Trump can’t disregard this investigation, and helium nary longer has the level to delegitimize it.

The 1/6 Committee is coming for Trump and his pals, and if they garbage to comply, they whitethorn find themselves down bars.