The commission of inquiry into the Capitol attack on Friday called on former US President Donald Trump to appear next month, at a time when the judiciary issued a prison sentence for Steve Bannon, his chief adviser, for contempt of Congress.
The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the attack on the Capitol has asked Trump to appear before it "on or around November 14" this date.
In a published mail, the committee also ordered Trump to produce a series of documents before November 4, including a report on all communications he made on January 6, 2021, the day his supporters stormed Congress.
In this context, the "Washington Post" newspaper confirmed today that the documents confiscated from Trump's home in Florida last August included highly sensitive intelligence information about Iran and China, threatening to expose American espionage methods.
Among the documents seized by Justice Department investigators were a document on Iran's missile program and another "describing highly sensitive intelligence work on China," the newspaper quoted people familiar with the case as saying.
Investigators seized about 11,000 documents in the raid to recover documents the government says Trump kept in the US archives, but illegally transferred them to him when he left the White House in January 2021.
Bannon's sentence
Meanwhile, Washington District Court Judge Carl Nichols issued a 4-month prison sentence and a $6,500 fine to Trump's chief adviser, Steve Bannon, saying that he "does not have to serve his sentence immediately, and will allow him to remain free during the appeal period, the Associated Agency reported." Press".
Bannon, 68, was convicted last July of "contempt of Congress" after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Committee on Capitol violence on January 6, 2021.
Bannon during a previous hearing (agencies)
Bannon faced two charges, namely failure to testify and refusing to hand over requested documents.
Prosecutors had called for Bannon's six-month prison sentence, saying he "had a bad faith policy of defying and contemptuous of Congress," but Bannon's lawyers requested that their client be placed on probation rather than imprisonment.
Steve Bannon appears among the dozens of people called to testify in the attack on Capitol Hill, which left 5 people dead.
He initially refused to testify and was accused last November of obstructing the investigation.
Investigators believe Bannon and other Trump advisers may have information about the White House's connection to the crowds that entered the Capitol that day, in an attempt to prevent Joe Biden's victory from being endorsed.
Although Bannon was not employed in the White House at the time, and is no longer an official adviser to Trump, his lawyers invoked to protect the right of presidents to keep some documents and discussions confidential so that he does not appear before the investigative committee in October 2021.
Thousands of supporters of former Republican President Trump gathered on January 6, 2021 in Washington, to reject the results of the presidential elections that took place in November 2020, and were won by Democrat Joe Biden.