Bannon's lawyers move to withdraw from criminal case following comments about Fauci

Source: The Hill | November 6, 2020 | Harper Neidig and Kaelan Deese

Defense lawyers for former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon have moved to withdraw from his criminal case after he appeared to suggest beheading FBI Director Christopher Wray and Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert.

Bannon’s lawyers from the law firm Quinn Emanuel submitted a court filing on Friday asking a judge to delay the proceedings in his fraud trial so that he can find new lawyers.

A federal judge on Friday afternoon agreed to hold over a hearing scheduled for Monday until early December.

“Mr. Bannon is in the process of retaining new counsel, and Quinn Emanuel intends to move to withdraw. As a result, Mr. Bannon respectfully requests that the status conference in this matter be adjourned for three weeks so that he may formally retain new counsel,” William Burck, a former federal prosecutor and veteran of the George W. Bush administration, wrote in the filing.

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The filing gave no reason for the sudden withdrawal, but it comes less than a day after the ex-Trump adviser discussed beheading Wray and Fauci in a video posted on social media, which resulted in a permanent suspension of his Twitter account and a strike on his YouTube podcast “War Room.”

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