Steve Bannon has decided to surrender himself to authorities to face charges of outrage after refusing to appear before the House Commission investigating the January 6 assault on Capitol Hill. Donald Trump’s former adviser is expected to appear in court later. In front of the cameras he said: “We are overthrowing the Biden regime.”
If convicted, Bannon faces up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $ 100,000. In refusing to testify, Bannon – who the day before the assault on Congress in his podcast had given precise indications of the will to sensational actions – had appealed to the executive privilege, invoked by Trump as former president to refuse to hand over to the commission. the documents of his administration.
United States, Steve Bannon surrendered to the authorities
Architect of the 2016 election victory, largely thanks to the activism of the far-right site Breibart he headed, Bannon then had a brief season as a strategist at the White House, from where he was fired in August 2017. Last year he was arrested and indicted by the feds for defrauding supporters of a campaign to raise private funds for the construction of the Wall on the Mexican border.