Steve Bannon, “a close adviser to former President Donald Trump who helped attempt to overturn the 2020 election”, was sentenced on Friday (October 21) by a US federal court to four months in prison for refusing to appear before the Congressional Commission of Inquiry into the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol, reports the New York Times.
$6,500 fine
Populist figure, Steve Bannon, 68, found guilty “contempt of Congress this summer”, emerged free from the court, pending appeal of the judgment, continues the American daily. The former editor of the far-right site Breitbart has been sanctioned “one year later” his refusal to testify before Congresss. Judge Carl Nichols, “nominated by Donald Trump”his a “also imposed a $6,500 fine.”
Steve Bannon, “who mounts daily provocations on his Internet radio show to mock the government that is suing him, approached his conviction with the same defiance characteristic of his attitude towards his summons to Congress”notes the New York daily.
He said as he entered court in Washington on Friday ‘that he viewed President Biden as’illegitimate’” and “the Democrats would face the ‘last judgement‘ during the mid-term elections”, next November 8.