A jury found Steve Bannon—who served as former President Donald Trump's chief strategist—guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the January 6 select committee.
"Bannon is the tip of the insurrectionist iceberg," said U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva."More must be held accountable.A federal jury on Friday found Steve Bannon—who served as former President Donald Trump's chief strategist—guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.Matthew M. Graves, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, in a statement.
Once the jury assembled, and before the verdict was read, he had one hand bracing the table, and glanced at the jurors just a few times, primarily watching the judge. He smiled and smirked after the verdict was read, and then patted his lawyers on back. "But apart from Trump himself, there might not be any other person more deserving of a stint in the pokey than Bannon, the loud-mouthed propagandist, and podcaster who led Trump's 2016 political campaign to victory, and subsequently served as the disgraced ex-president's chief strategist and senior counselor for nearly eight months in 2017," he added.
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