Staunch Trump ally Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison Friday for contempt of Congress after he repeatedly fobbed off subpoenas to testify and provide documents to the House committee probing the Capitol riot.
to the House committee probing the Capitol riot.
“The Defendant has expressed no remorse for his conduct and attacked others at every turn,” the feds wrote in a sentencing memo earlier this week. Nichols, however, said the Jan. 6 committee had “every right to investigate what happened that day,” calling the riot “undeniably serious.” However, he did acknowledge that Bannon appeared to be following legal advice, rather than ignoring the subpoena entirely. And he questioned why the committee didn’t sue him to enforce its subpoena rather than seeking out a criminal contempt prosecution.
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