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.
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Upon his arrival in front of the Danbury center where he must 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 sentence handed down in October 2022 for obstructing the investigative powers of Congress due to Steve Bannon’s refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary investigation into the assault on 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 courts have investigated these events, he has refused to answer the judges.
Steve Bannon, just 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 was not directly investigated 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 courts of the state of Georgia (southeast) for his allegedly illicit attempts to obtain the reversal of the results of the 2020 election. Since then, he has continued to do everything to delay the holding of these trials in the hope of being re-elected in November and of seeing these proceedings put an end to himself.
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