His application was suspended due to a defense appeal, but Judge Carl Nichols lifted the suspension at the request of the prosecution and ordered the 70-year-old defendant to be jailed on July 1. “Nothing will calm me down,” Steve Bannon replied as he left the courtroom, predicting “a tidal wave” for Republicans in the November 5 presidential and congressional elections.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lamented the “total American tragedy” on his Truth social network, again accusing his Democratic successor Joe Biden’s administration of “tooling” justice against its opponents. Another former adviser to Donald Trump in the White House, Peter Navarro, was sentenced to four months in prison for the same facts and began serving his sentence in March 2024.
On the phone with Trump
On January 6, 2021, Steve Bannon spoke to Mr. Trump on the phone. That day, hundreds of supporters of the outgoing president besieged the Capitol, the seat of the US Congress, in an attempt to block Joe Biden’s certification of victory in the November 2020 election.
Donald Trump was not directly charged by the court for the attack on the Capitol, although on January 6, 2021, a parliamentary commission of inquiry recommended criminal proceedings against him in December 2022, specifically calling for sedition and conspiracy against US companies.
Nevertheless, he was indicted in August 2023 by a federal court in Washington, and later by courts in Georgia (southeast) for his illegal efforts to alter the results of the 2020 election, setting up both of these trials.
In the final months of Donald Trump’s victorious campaign in 2016, Steve Bannon began to make his mark, denouncing a world order controlled by political and financial elites.
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