An American jury needed just three hours to find Steve Bannon guilty of contempt of the US Congress.Prosecutors argued that Bannon saw himself as"above the law" and brazenly defied the House.Donald Trump's advisor Steve Bannon was found guilty Friday of criminal contempt of the US Congress in connection with his defiance of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
The House voted in October to hold Bannon in contempt for refusing to sit for questioning or turn over documents to the nine-member committee investigating the January 6 attack and former US President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Within weeks of that vote referring Bannon to the Justice Department for prosecution, a grand jury indicted Bannon on a pair of contempt of Congress charges, each carrying a maximum sentence of a year in prison and $100,000 fine.
Corcoran urged jurors to uphold what he called an essential principle of criminal prosecutions in the US: that"politics can play no role." , and his lawyers made a point of preserving the chance to appeal several rulings. Bannon's lawyer David Schoen argued that the defense team was"badly stymied" by its inability, based on a past ruling from Nichols, to call members of the House January 6 committee, namely its chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson.
Prosecutors objected ahead of trial to Bannon raising his offer to testify, which they had described in pre-trial court filings as a"last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability." But at trial, they appeared to see an opening to make Bannon's offer to testify backfire against him. Corcoran questioned Amerling's impartiality in his closing argument, telling jurors that she has worked for Democratic members of Congress for 20 years.
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