Trump Ally Bannon Loses Appeal on Jan. 6 Case
Steve Bannon, a former advisor for former President Donald Trump , lost his appeal for going against a congressional committee subpoena regarding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. A U.S. federal appeals court…
Steve Bannon, a former advisor for former President Donald Trump, lost his Appeal for going against a congressional committee subpoena regarding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A U.S. federal appeals court upheld the conviction Friday, Reuters reported.
In 2022, Bannon was convicted of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress. He refused to turn over documents or testify to the House of Representatives committee that was investigating the Capitol riot.
He was sentenced to four months in prison. He has remained free pending his Appeal.
In his Appeal, Bannon said his lawyer told him he did not have to comply with the subpoena. Since that was the case, there was no intention on his part to commit a crime.
“Bannon’s argument would ‘hamstring Congress’s investigatory authority,’ by making it more difficult to prosecute witnesses who spurn congressional investigations, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found,” per Reuters.