Steve Bannon, who helped bring Donald Trump to the White House, is now on trial for refusing to testify about the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol.

A US judge on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department to provide former President Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon access to certain sensitive internal legal opinions or other related records that could potentially help bolster his defense against criminal contempt of Congress charges.

Steve Bannon, a longtime aide to former US President Donald Trump, has filed a motion to plead not guilty to criminal contempt of Congress charges after he failed to comply with a subpoena from the House January 6 select committee.

American political analyst Myles Hoenig says Trump’s adviser Steve “Bannon’s indictment is unusual, and is a political act as well as a legal one.”

Congressman Adam Kinzinger has said that the indictment of Steve Bannon for failing to comply with a congressional committee investigating the January 6 assault on the Capitol may send a “chilling message."  

A federal grand jury in the US has indicted Steve Bannon, a prominent adviser to Trump, for defying a subpoena issued by a congressional committee investigating the January 6 assault on the Capitol.

Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney says the refusal of Steve Bannon, a longtime aide to former US President Donald Trump, to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Capitol riot clearly shows the Republican president’s role in the January 6th incidents.