Steve Bannon defied a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol.
Steve Bannon, a key associate of former president Donald Trump and an influential figure on the American right, has been convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol, a major victory for the Democratic-led panel.
Bannon was a key adviser to the Republican Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, then served as his chief White House strategist in 2017 before a falling out between the two that was later patched up. Bannon has also played an instrumental role in right-wing media.His defence team in closing arguments suggested to jurors that Bannon was a political target and painted the main prosecution witness as a politically motivated Democrat with ties to one of the prosecutors.
The conviction may strengthen the committee’s position as it seeks to secure testimony and documents from others in Trump’s orbit. Trump last year asked his associates not to cooperate with the committee, accusing it of trying to hurt him politically, and several of them rebuffed the panel.Another former Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, was separately charged with contempt of Congress in June for refusing to appear for a committee deposition. Navarro’s trial is scheduled for November.
The Justice Department charged Bannon last November after the Democratic-led House voted the prior month to hold him in contempt. Bannon separately was charged in 2020 with defrauding donors to a private fundraising effort to boost Trump’s project to build a wall along the US-Mexican border. Trump pardoned Bannon before that case went to trial.
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