Ex-President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon has been convicted of contempt of Congress. The jury on Friday found him guilty of disobeying a subpoena from the investigative committee into the storming of the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. The sentence will be announced at a later date. Bannon faces up to two years in prison. Each of the two counts on which he was found guilty carries a minimum sentence of 30 days.
Bannon was charged last November for failing to appear to testify or release documents when subpoenaed by the committee.
Bannon, 68, co-founded the right-wing internet platform Breitbart before Trump brought him into the White House. The President fired him in 2017. So at the time of the storming of the Capitol, he no longer held an official position within the US government, but was in contact with Trump.
