Sources close to Russia probe just revealed Bannon surprised Mueller in his interview

Former Trump campaign manager and chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, has been stonewalling the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation against Donald Trump.

However, according to a source close to Robert Mueller’s investigation, Bannon was much more forthcoming in his interview with the Special Prosecutor.

Mueller questioned Bannon for 20 hours over the course of two days this week.  The slovenly white nationalist answered every question Mueller’s team asked, said the source.

Bannon, who was recently fired from the chairman position at the Rebranded White Nationalism blog Breitbart for spilling the beans on the president in Michael Wolff’s expose Fire and Fury, has tried to make nice with Trump by refusing to answer congress’ questions, even under subpoena.

But he would be jailed for contempt if he resisted Mueller, who is investigating a likely conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin to swing the 2016 election to Trump in exchange for lifting Obama-era sanctions against Russia.

Bannon may possess high-level knowledge of Trump’s dealings with convicted former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump has admitted on-air he fired in order to obstruct the Russia investigation.

With one of his closest former confidantes, who has a habit of saying too much, answering every question in Mueller’s interrogation, Trump must be quaking in his boots.

In Fire and Fury, Bannon admitted that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between First Son Donald Trump Jr., First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign chief, now-indicted Paul Manafort and Kremlin agents was “treasonous” and that there was “no way” the treacherous trio didn’t walk the spies upstairs to Daddy’s office.

Mueller is likely to have plenty of leverage to force Bannon to reveal even more about the Trump inner circle.

With Trump’s lawyers doing somersaults to get their client out of testifying under oath to Mueller, Bannon may be the missing piece of the puzzle the Special Prosecutor needs to make Trump talk or to close his case without him.

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Lucia Brawley

Lucia Brawley is a Harvard- and Yale-educated writer, producer, actor, and political organizer. She runs the progressive political Facebook group Consenting to Lead. To learn more, please go to luciabrawley.com. Follow her on Twitter: @luciabrawley