“I see no reason to delay this case any further,” Judge Carl Nichols said, according to several US media reports.
A judge on Monday rejected the possibility of delaying the start of the trial of Steve Bannon – once a close associate of Donald Trump -, who is being prosecuted for “obstructing a congressional investigation”, despite his late offer to cooperate, testifying before the special House investigative committee of Representatives, which is trying to shed light in particular on the responsibilities of the former president for the attack on the federal Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“I see no reason to delay this case any further,” Judge Carl Nichols said, according to several US media reports.
Mr. Bannon, once a top Republican adviser to the former president, is being prosecuted for refusing for months to cooperate with the special investigative committee. The 68-year-old was charged in November 2021; his trial is set to begin on July 18.
His lawyers asked to delay the start of the hearing until October, so that it would not coincide with the public hearings of the special investigative committee of the House of Representatives, a request that the judge rejected.
Over the weekend, Steve Bannon finally made a U-turn by agreeing to cooperate with the investigation, which a prosecutor described as a “last-minute maneuver to avoid” his trial.
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