Bannon unsuccessfully tries to postpone a condemnation vote in the US Congress.

The far right Steve Bannon, close to former President Donald Trump, tried unsuccessfully on Tuesday to postpone a vote on whether he should be found in contempt of the committee investigating the assault on Capitol last January 6.

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Bannon’s lawyers asked the committee to postpone the vote until a lawsuit that Trump filed in federal court on Monday is resolved; but the chairman of that committee, Democrat Bennie Thompson, rejected the request.

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Thompson argued that the committee’s work “is extremely important and urgent to the nation,” so it cannot be held back.

The debate for the vote, therefore, will begin at 19:30 local time (23:30 GMT), as scheduled.

The committee wants Bannon to testify because it believes he “had some prior knowledge about the extreme events that could occur” on January 6, when Congress was scheduled to certify Biden’s electoral victory and Trump had called a protest near the White House.

Specifically, tonight the committee will make the decision whether or not to recommend to the Democrat-dominated lower house to hold BanNon in contempt for refusing to testify before Congress and to refer his case to the attorney general of the District of Columbia, which could prosecute you for contempt.

Anyone found in contempt could face up to a year in jail and a $ 100,000 fine, according to the Congressional Investigative Service.

This Monday, Trump filed a lawsuit to keep hidden documents about the assault on the Capitol, in which five people were killed and 140 agents were injured.

With that lawsuit, the ex-governor wants to prevent the US National Archives, which guards historical documents, from releasing information about the assault on the Capitol to the committee that investigates it.

Ten days ago, his successor, Joe Biden, authorized the National Archives to hand over the documents to the committee and rejected Trump’s arguments, who argued that those reports should be kept secret because they could endanger national security.

The exact content of those documents is unknown, but supposedly they could expose what happened at the White House as hundreds of people stormed the Capitol.

The committee investigating the assault on the Capitol was created by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, and is made up of a majority of Democratic congressmen, although there are two Republican members – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – who are at odds with Trump.

Your mission is to investigate why the assault occurred, who was responsible, and what can be done to prevent another similar event.

To that end, he has requested access to hitherto secret documents, such as Trump’s, and has summoned his closest allies, including Bannon, to testify.

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