Trump calls the US 'a radicalized mess' in a statement defending Steve Bannon
- Former President Donald Trump on Sunday gave a statement defending his former advisor Steve Bannon.
- Bannon, a former White House chief strategist, has defied a congressional subpoena.
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday defended Steve Bannon, his former White House chief strategist whom Congress recently voted to hold in criminal contempt for defying a subpeona.
"This Country has perhaps never done to anyone what they have done to Steve Bannon and they are looking to do it to others, also," Trump said in a statement.
Bannon defied a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection. The committee wants him to hand over documents and give testimony about what happened the day of the deadly riot.
The House voted last month to hold Bannon in criminal contempt, and a grand jury on Friday indicted him on two counts.
Trump added that if the country was as tough on "China, Russia, and the world" as it was on Bannon, it wouldn't be "failing at a level at which we have never seen before."
Trump has sought to block the January 6 committee from obtaining White House records from around the time of the insurrection.
The former president has also said he'd back primary challengers to Republican lawmakers who voted either in favor of President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill or in support of Bannon's indictment.
In his statement Sunday, Trump went on to criticize the direction the US was headed, pointing to various controversial issues of recent months.
"The USA is a radicalized mess!" he concluded.