Steve Bannon proposed his house arrest in the event of his conviction Friday on the two counts of contempt of Congress. For its part, the Justice Department requested a six-month jail sentence and a $200,000 fine for Steve Bannon, as reported by ABC News. The businessman and former Donald Trump advisor will be tried in a Washington D.C. court.
Bannon agreed to testify in Congress about the incidents on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. Despite this, prosecutors noted in a statement that "from the moment the defendant, Stephen K. Bannon, accepted notice of a subpoena from the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol," they said, he has pursued a strategy of bad faith, defiance and contempt."
"For his sustained, bad-faith and contempt of Congress, the defendant should be sentenced to six months imprisonment -the maximum punishment allowed -and fined $200,000, based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine instead of cooperating," the prosecutors added.
"I stand with Trump and the Constitution."
A court faulted Bannon for defying the House of Representatives in July. Upon his exit from the trial, the businessman claimed that he "will not lose this war" and then defended both Trump and the Constitution:
I only have one disappointment, and that is that the gutless members of that [Jan. 6th ] show-trial committee, didn't have the guts to come down here and testify. We may have lost a battle here today, but we're not going to lose this war. [The jury] came to their conclusion about what was put on in the in that courtroom. But listen, in the closing argument, the prosecutor missed one very important phrase, right? 'I stand with Trump and the Constitution, and I will never back off that, ever.'
For his part, Bannon's lawyer, David Schoen, said they will appeal the sentence.
