Steve Bannon’s five-day trial ended on July 22 with a jury finding the ‘War Room’ podcaster and former adviser to President Donald Trump guilty of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress.
The jury unanimously agreed that Bannon failed to comply with a Sept. 23, 2021, subpoena to provide documents and testify before the House January 6 Committee last fall.
The jury had little choice, Bannon himself acknowledged after the verdict was rendered and before leaving the E. Barrett Perryman U.S. District Courthouse in Washington on pre-sentencing probation.
During a July 11 pretrial hearing, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said he would strictly adhere to a 61-year-old precedent that precludes “advice from counsel” as a defense in contempt-of-Congress charges….