(Washington) The American Department of Justice wants to overturn a conviction of former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon, for refusing to respond to a congressional subpoena on the riots of January 6, 2021, according to the American press.
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Monday, according to Washington Postthe department asked the Supreme Court to send the case back to court where the federal prosecutor requested that the charges against him be dropped.
The department’s number two, Todd Blanche, described this approach as a change of course in the face of what he describes as “the instrumentalization of the judicial system by the previous administration”, in a press release.
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Assistant United States Attorney General Todd Blanche
The ideologue was sentenced in October 2022 to four months of imprisonment for his refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary investigation into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump. He served this sentence and was released at the end of October 2024, in the middle of the presidential campaign.
A major figure of the American far right, Steve Bannon was one of the spokespersons for accusations – never proven – of alleged wrongdoing during the 2020 presidential election.
Theories still in vogue among some American conservatives claim that Donald Trump had in fact beaten Joe Biden.
In her motion filed Monday, Washington federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro said a federal judge should dismiss the indictment against Steve Bannon “in the interest of justice,” the court said. Washington Post.
Donald Trump has regularly downplayed the seriousness of the attack on January 6, 2021, describing this date as a “day of love” and “overflow of affection” towards him.
That day, hundreds of his supporters stormed the Capitol, to try to prevent the certification of the victory of his opponent Joe Biden. The attack shocked the United States and the world and caused the deaths of five people.
On January 20, 2025, upon his return to the White House, Donald Trump pardoned by decree some 1,250 convicted for the assault on the Capitol, commuting the sentences of 14 others and ordering a halt to the proceedings against hundreds of defendants still awaiting trial.
He thus put an end to the largest investigation ever carried out by the Department of Justice.
