Photo: Andrew Harnik Getty Images via Agence France-Presse The sentence handed down in October 2022 for obstructing the investigative powers of Congress due to the refusal of Steve Bannon (right) to cooperate with the parliamentary investigation into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was confirmed on appeal on the 10 May 2024.
France Media Agency in Washington
Published at 1:45 p.m.
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A US federal judge ordered Thursday that right-wing populist ideologue Steve Bannon, formerly influential adviser to Donald Trump at the White House, begin serving his four-month prison sentence at the latest on July 1.
The October 2022 sentence for obstructing the investigative powers of Congress due to Steve Bannon's refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary investigation into the The assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was confirmed on appeal on May 10, 2024.
His application had been suspended due to a defense appeal, but Judge Carl Nichols lifted the suspension at the request of the prosecution and ordered that the defendant, 70, report to prison no later than July 1 .
Another former adviser to Donald Trump at the White House, Peter Navarro, also sentenced to four months in prison for the same facts, has begun serving his sentence in March 2024.
On January 6, 2021, Steve Bannon 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.
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Donald Trump was not directly concerned by the courts for the assault on the Capitol, although the parliamentary commission of inquiry into January 6, 2021 recommended criminal proceedings against him in December 2022 , in particular for calling for rebellion and plotting against American institutions.
He was nevertheless indicted in August 2023 by a federal court in Washington then by the justice system of State of Georgia (southeast) for its allegedly unlawful attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
It was in the final months of Donald Trump's victorious 2016 campaign 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, 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.