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A district court in Washington, D.C., has ruled that Steve Bannon, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, must begin serving his four-month prison sentence by July 1.
President Trump’s former chief strategist was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 after failing to appear at a House committee hearing on Jan. 6 and refusing to turn over documents related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Bannon, 70, a veteran Breitbart reporter, was initially granted a stay of sentence by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, as he appealed his conviction.
But a federal appeals court upheld the original sentence in early May, and Nichols said it was time for Bannon to serve his sentence.
“I believe the original basis for my stay no longer exists,” Nichols said Thursday. The Associated Press.
Bannon He spoke to reporters outside the court. He plans to appeal to a higher court.
“I have a good lawyer and I’ll go all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary,” he said.
The right-wing podcaster slammed “the entire Department of Justice” and said the department could not “silence President Trump and his cohorts.”
“You can’t build prisons or jails that will silence me,” Bannon added.
His looming prison sentence comes at the same time that another top Trump aide, Peter Navarro, turned himself in to serve a four-month prison sentence in March for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
Bannon, who served as Trump’s chief strategist and senior adviser in the White House for about seven months, has previously said he would be willing to go to prison for the former president.
If his sentence begins on July 1, his four-month sentence will run until just before the November 5 presidential election.