via Associated Press
Steve Bannon charged in Capitol assault investigation (photo from January 31, 2017)
UNITED STATES – He was convicted after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The justice system accused him of obstructing the parliamentary investigation following the assault by pro-Trump activists. Steve Bannon, a former close associate of Donald Trump, finally agreed on Monday, July 1, to go to a federal prison in Connecticut where he will serve his sentence.
Upon his arrival at the Danbury center where he is to serve four months in prison, the former Donald Trump strategist expressed his “pride” at going to prison. If that’s what it takes to stand up to Joe Biden,” smiled this influential figure of the ultra-conservative movement.
The October 2022 sentence for obstructing Congress’s investigative powers due to Steve Bannon’s refusal to cooperate with the congressional inquiry into the storming of the Capitol was upheld on appeal on May 10, 2024. On January 6, 2021, Steve Bannon spoke on the phone with Donald Trump. But since the justice system has been investigating these events, he has refused to answer the judges.
Steve Bannon, only a few months in the White House
Steve Bannon became Donald Trump’s éminence grise in the final months of his victorious 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. He made his mark and denounced a world order controlled by political and financial elites. But he only stayed a few months in the White House, forced to leave his post as advisor after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Donald Trump, for his part, has not been directly troubled by the courts for the assault on the Capitol. He was nevertheless indicted in August 2023 by a federal court in Washington and then by the justice system in the state of Georgia (southeast) for his alleged illicit attempts to obtain the reversal of the results of the 2020 election. Since then, he has continued to do everything he can to delay the holding of these trials in the hope of being re-elected in November and seeing these prosecutions put an end himself.
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