{"id":28174,"date":"2024-06-07T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28174"},"modified":"2024-06-07T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:52:20","slug":"28174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28174","title":{"rendered":"Trump ally Bannon ordered to report to prison for defying Jan. 6 probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) – Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to Donald Trump<\/u><\/a>, must report to prison by July 1 to serve a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, a federal judge said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision means Bannon, a right-wing media firebrand who maintains influence in Trump\u2019s orbit, will likely be behind bars for a critical stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign as former President Trump faces Democratic President Joe Biden<\/u><\/a> in the Nov. 5 election<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The order by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington came after a federal appeals court last month rejected Bannon\u2019s bid to overturn his conviction for spurning a subpoena from a congressional panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bannon told reporters outside the courthouse he would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, casting his prosecution as politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“All this is about one thing: shutting down the MAGA movement,” Bannon said, referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bannon was convicted in 2022 of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents or testify to the Democratic-led House of Representatives committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bannon will be the second former top official from Trump\u2019s White House to go to prison for refusing to cooperate with the committee. Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser, is currently serving a four-month term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bannon was allowed to avoid serving the sentence during his appeal. Prosecutors moved to end that reprieve after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rebuffed Bannon\u2019s challenge to his conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bannon\u2019s lawyers urged Nichols to keep Bannon free, arguing he can still appeal to the full D.C. Circuit court or the U.S. Supreme Court<\/u><\/a>. Bannon has argued that he was advised by his lawyer that he did not have to comply with the subpoena and therefore did not intend to commit a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Nichols said after the appeals court’s ruling, there was no longer justification to keep Bannon free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I can no longer conclude that his appeal raises substantial questions of law” likely to overturn his conviction, Nichols said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bannon, who no longer worked in the White House at the time, was part of a group of Trump advisers who sought to derail formal certification of Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The congressional panel said he may have had knowledge of events planned for Jan. 6, 2021, when a group of Trump supporters breached the Capitol in a failed bid to stop lawmakers from certifying the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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