Steve Bannon Finally Ordered to Surrender to Prison
It looks like Steve Bannon is going to prison. U.S. District Judge Judge Carl J. Nichols on Thursday ordered the former Trump adviser and threat to democracy to report to prison by July 1 to serve his sentence for defying a congressional subpoena. Bannon was held in contempt of Congress in October 2021 after he refused to respond to a subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots. In July 2023, he was convicted on two contempt charges, and three months later was sentenced to four months in prison and a $6,500 fine. Bannon appealed the sentence, but a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld his conviction last month, putting to end Bannon’s many attempts to flout and stall a ruling against him, including an attempt to turn the trial into a circus and stir up the MAGA faithful. Speaking to reporters outside of the court on Thursday, Bannon said “all this is about one thing.” “This is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump,” Bannon said. “Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail, and every number, every poll shows that. There’s nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up.” Bannon was then interrupted by a heckler who yelled, “Fail! You’re going to jail.” The heckler also called Bannon a “coup plotter.” NEW: Steve Bannon says Trump is gonna win and a protester calls him a “coup plotter” after he was ordered to surrender to the federal Bureau of Prisons by July 1 to serve his four month sentence for defying the Jan. 6 committee. pic.twitter.com/z9RReRLSWU— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 6, 2024Thursday’s news means that another one of MAGA’s most prominent voices will soon be behind bars.Since Trump’s term ended, Bannon has attempted to interfere in Brazil’s politics as well as the upcoming election in the United States, and his radio show is a haven for far-right Republicans to rant about whatever they want. Now, after escaping prison once thanks to a Trump pardon over a border wall fraud scheme, he will soon be behind bars.This story has been updated.
It looks like Steve Bannon is going to prison.
U.S. District Judge Judge Carl J. Nichols on Thursday ordered the former Trump adviser and threat to democracy to report to prison by July 1 to serve his sentence for defying a congressional subpoena.
Bannon was held in contempt of Congress in October 2021 after he refused to respond to a subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots. In July 2023, he was convicted on two contempt charges, and three months later was sentenced to four months in prison and a $6,500 fine.
Bannon appealed the sentence, but a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld his conviction last month, putting to end Bannon’s many attempts to flout and stall a ruling against him, including an attempt to turn the trial into a circus and stir up the MAGA faithful.
Speaking to reporters outside of the court on Thursday, Bannon said “all this is about one thing.”
“This is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump,” Bannon said. “Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail, and every number, every poll shows that. There’s nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up.”
Bannon was then interrupted by a heckler who yelled, “Fail! You’re going to jail.” The heckler also called Bannon a “coup plotter.”
NEW: Steve Bannon says Trump is gonna win and a protester calls him a “coup plotter” after he was ordered to surrender to the federal Bureau of Prisons by July 1 to serve his four month sentence for defying the Jan. 6 committee. pic.twitter.com/z9RReRLSWU— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 6, 2024
Thursday’s news means that another one of MAGA’s most prominent voices will soon be behind bars.
Since Trump’s term ended, Bannon has attempted to interfere in Brazil’s politics as well as the upcoming election in the United States, and his radio show is a haven for far-right Republicans to rant about whatever they want. Now, after escaping prison once thanks to a Trump pardon over a border wall fraud scheme, he will soon be behind bars.
This story has been updated.
