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Politics
Griffin Eckstein

Johnson plots to free Bannon

House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed to defend Steve Bannon from an impending prison term by filing a brief in support of the former Trump adviser via the House of Representatives.

“We’re working on filing an amicus brief,” Johnson said on Fox News after a House vote allowed the chamber to take such an action. “The January 6th committee was, we think, wrongfully constituted. We think the work was tainted.”

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