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作者：[德文·科尔]
周一，联邦检察官提出要撤销拜登政府期间针对史蒂夫·班农（Steve Bannon）提起的刑事案件。班农是前总统唐纳德·特朗普的顾问，多年前因公然无视调查 2021 年 1 月 6 日国会山骚乱事件的议员而被定罪。
在向华盛顿特区联邦法院审理班农案件的法官提出的请求中，美国检察官让娜·皮罗（Jeanine Pirro）表示，“政府在其起诉自由裁量权范围内已确定，驳回此案符合司法利益。”
皮罗请求美国地区法官卡尔·尼科尔斯（Carl Nichols）——一名特朗普任命的法官——以有偏见为由驳回此案。如果请求得到批准，意味着检察官不得重新提起诉讼。
这一请求似乎是司法部为撤销与骚乱相关的刑事案件所做的最新努力。自特朗普重返白宫以来，他和其盟友一直不遗余力地淡化这场骚乱的影响。
就在去年再次就职后不久，特朗普赦免了 1000 多名骚乱者，并推动国会共和党人重新审视该委员会从班农处获取信息的工作。
美国有线电视新闻网已联系班农的律师，就检察官的请求置评。
（图片说明：2023 年 12 月 19 日，史蒂夫·班农在亚利桑那州凤凰城举行的“美国节”——查理·柯克去世后的首次转折点美国峰会——上发表讲话。）
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班农已于 2024 年服满四个月的监禁刑期，但他仍继续挑战自己的定罪，包括向最高法院上诉，而最高法院尚未决定是否审查此案。
2022 年，华盛顿特区的一个陪审团认定班农犯有藐视国会罪，原因是他未能向调查国会山袭击事件的众议院特别委员会提供文件和证词。后来，联邦上诉法院维持了这一判决。
班农是特朗普核心圈中两名因拒绝参与众议院 1 月 6 日调查而被起诉的前成员之一。另一位是前特朗普白宫助手彼得·纳瓦罗（Peter Navarro），他也因 2023 年被定罪而服过刑。
作为美国另类右翼的主要发声者，班农在最近几周因一批与已故性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）相关的新文件重新受到关注，其中包括两人之间的短信。美国司法部和众议院监督委员会公布的这些记录揭示了两人密切的私人关系，并显示爱泼斯坦深度参与了班农在国际舞台上的野心。
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对班农的调查
班农于 2021 年 11 月被联邦大陪审团起诉，此前他无视了前一个月提交文件和证词的期限，而这些文件和证词是 1 月 6 日委员会发出传票要求提供的。
在要求班农配合调查时，该委员会指出，班农在国会山骚乱事件前夕与特朗普有接触，骚乱发生前一天他出现在华盛顿威拉德酒店所谓的特朗普盟友“作战室”，并且在骚乱前的播客中预测“大麻烦”即将“爆发”。
众议院委员会在建议对班农处以藐视法庭决议的报告中称：“简而言之，班农先生似乎在 1 月 6 日事件中扮演了多方面的角色，美国民众有权听取他关于自己行为的第一手证词。”
班农的辩护团队在简短的审判中未进行辩护，他也没有出庭作证。
班农对定罪的上诉主要围绕他的论点，即他是在听从律师建议的情况下无视国会传票的。尼科尔斯法官裁定，在审判中不能使用“律师建议”这一论点，2024 年哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院也确认了这一决定。
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Justice Department seeks to dismiss Steve Bannon’s Capitol riot contempt case
Updated Feb 9, 2026, 3:57 PM ET | Published Feb 9, 2026, 2:51 PM ET | CNN
By [Devan Cole]
Federal prosecutors on Monday moved to drop a criminal case brought during the Biden administration against Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted years ago for thumbing his nose at lawmakers investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
In a request to the federal judge in Washington, DC, who oversaw Bannon’s trial, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said “the government has determined in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice.”
Pirro asked US District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, to dismiss the matter with prejudice, which, if granted, would mean prosecutors are barred from refiling the case.
The request appears to be the Justice Department’s latest effort to undo criminal cases stemming from the riot, which Trump and his allies have gone to great lengths to downplay since he returned to the White House.
Just after taking office again last year, Trump pardoned over 1,000 rioters and he has pushed Republicans in Congress to re-scrutinize the work of the committee that sought information from Bannon.
CNN has reached out to Bannon’s attorneys for comment on prosecutors’ request.
Steve Bannon speaks during AmericaFest, the first Turning Point USA summit since the death of Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 19.
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Bannon already completed a four-month prison sentence in 2024, but he had continued to challenge his conviction, including by appealing to the Supreme Court, which hadn’t yet decided whether to review the case.
A jury in DC convicted Bannon of contempt of Congress in 2022 after he failed to provide documents and testimony to the House select committee that investigated the Capitol attack. A federal appeals court later upheld the conviction.
Bannon is one of two former members of Trump’s inner circle who were prosecuted for not participating in the House January 6 probe. The second, former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro, also served prison time for his 2023 conviction.
Bannon, a leading voice for the American alt-right, has returned to the spotlight in recent weeks after a new trove of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein included texts the two men exchanged. The records, released by the Justice Department and House Oversight Committee, reveal a close personal relationship — and show Epstein’s deep involvement in Bannon’s ambitions on the world stage.
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The investigation into Bannon
Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2021 after he blew off deadlines from the previous month for producing documents and testimony the January 6 committee had subpoenaed.
In demanding his cooperation, the panel pointed to Bannon’s contacts with Trump in the lead up to the Capitol assault, his presence in the so-called war room of Trump allies at the Willard Hotel in Washington the day before the riot, and a prediction he made on his podcast before the riot that “all hell” was going to “break loose.”
“In short, Mr. Bannon appears to have played a multi-faceted role in the events of January 6th, and the American people are entitled to hear his first-hand testimony regarding his actions,” the House committee report recommending a contempt resolution against him said.
Bannon’s team did not mount a defense during the brief trial, and he did not take the stand.
Bannon’s appeal of his conviction has largely centered around his argument that he was relying on advice from his attorney when he ignored the congressional subpoenas. Nichols ruled that the advice-of-counsel argument could not be used during the trial, and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that decision in 2024.
CNN’s Steve Contorno, Tierney Sneed, Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand contributed to this report.
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