STeve Bannon, 70, was sentenced in October 2022 to four months in prison for obstructing the investigative powers of Congress due to his refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary investigation into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Another former adviser to Donald Trump at the White House, Peter Navarro, also sentenced to four months in prison for the same facts, began serving his sentence in March 2024.
Steve Bannon can still appeal this decision from the federal appeals court in Washington.
On January 6, 2021, he spoke on the phone with Mr. Trump. That day, hundreds of supporters of the outgoing Republican president stormed the Capitol, seat of the US Congress, in an attempt to prevent the certification of the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden in the November election. 2020.
It was in the final months of Donald Trump’s victorious campaign in 2016 that Steve Bannon began to make his mark, denouncing a world order controlled by political and financial elites.
He followed him to the White House in 2017 but was forced to leave the executive branch in August 2017 after the violence in Charlottesville in Virginia (east), where a gathering of radical right activists took place. A young woman was killed after a neo-Nazi sympathizer drove his car into a group of anti-racist demonstrators.
