Will the parade of revelations about the Capitol assault continue in court?
It is this Monday that the trial of Steve Bannon, a close ally of Donald Trump, opens for "obstructing the investigative powers of Congress".
The former adviser refused for months to cooperate with the House of Representatives committee investigating the deadly assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Bannon, 68, has been one of the most prominent opponents of the procedure since the opening of the parliamentary inquiry.
After trying, like the former president, to claim the right to Trump's "executive privilege", he did everything to postpone the trial.
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The federal court must begin by selecting the jury.
More than ten days ago, the former White House strategist informed the commission that he was now ready to testify.
His attorney, Robert Costello, said the change was because Trump waived his claim to executive privilege, the right of presidents to keep certain documents and discussions confidential.
For contempt of Congress, Bannon faces between 30 days and a year in prison, up to $100,000 in fines, and will be tried in federal court.
If he is convicted, he will also have to produce the documents he has retained until then, the content of which is unknown for the moment.
"Everything converges and it's time to attack"
Chief strategist of the campaign that led to the election of the Republican billionaire in November 2016, the populist adviser had spent a year in the White House.
During the 2020 elections, he no longer had any official function in the presidential staff but remained an influential man in the Oval Office.
He continued to advise Trump while he interfered in international politics, in particular by trying to influence the European far right, including Marine Le Pen and Marion Maréchal then Éric Zemmour.
On January 5, the day before the assault, Bannon said in his podcast that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow."
"Everything converges and it's time to attack", he also said.
He was part of the "crisis cell" run by Trump advisers from a luxury hotel in Washington before and after the assault on the headquarters of Congress, when it was learned in late June that Donald Trump had tried to force the Secret Service, the elite police officers who protect the White House, to lead him to his supporters.
Friday, the commission subpoenaed the secret services to appear to obtain the SMS exchanged by the agents this day of January 6 and the one which preceded it.
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“He is a piece of the puzzle,” said Bannon Adam Kinzinger, one of the two elected Republicans on the Democratic-majority commission, in the fall.
A few days ago, the representative from Illinois told the Wall Street Journal that the commission is still considering asking Donald Trump to testify and may seek a written response from former Vice President Mike Pence or issue him a subpoena. to testify.