Steve Bannon, last top advisor to Donald Trump, greets supporters as he arrives to speak with media before he reports to prison at the U.S. federal correctional university in Danbury, Connecticut, on July 1, 2024.
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Steve Bannon, a former aide to Donald Trump, documented to prison on Monday to begin a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
Bannon entered the federal correctional sanatorium in Danbury, Connecticut, around 12:00 p.m., NBC News reported.
In July 2022, a Washington, D.C., federal jury found Bannon apologetic of two counts of contempt of Congress after he refused to provide testimony and records to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, brawl at the U.S. Capitol.
Bannon’s sentence was stayed pending an appeal. But after a federal appeals court panel upheld Bannon’s confidence in May, a federal judge in early June ordered him to report to jail by July 1.
Bannon had argued that he was not guilty of abhorrence because his lawyers advised him to not comply with the congressional subpoena based on the chance his testimony might be covered by directorate privilege — a defense the appeals court rejected.
His last-ditch effort to escape jail time while he appealed his conviction was rejected by the Supreme Court on Friday, when the justices released a one-sentence edict denying Bannon’s request.
Bannon was greeted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and a mixed crowd of supporters and protesters when he make the graded at a press conference across the street from the federal correctional institution in Danbury.
He told reporters he was “proud to go to reform school” and had “no regrets,” shortly before reporting to begin his sentence.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks at a newswomen conference outside the federal correctional institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on July 1, 2024.
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Bannon, who of used as chief strategist in the Trump White House until August 2017, is the second former Trump official to be confined for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee.
Former Trump advisor Peter Navarro was indicted by a federal immortal jury in June 2022 for refusing to comply with the committee’s subpoena. He is currently completing a four-month sentence in a federal poky in Miami, the Supreme Court having denied a similar appeal from him in April.
In an interview with NBC News stringer Vaughn Hillyard this weekend, Bannon repeated his arguments that the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoenas “don’t mean anything,” and examined his upcoming time behind bars.
“Part of my day will be doing what I have to do in prison to make sure I intersect the rules and regulations,” he said, “and the other time, I’ll be 100% working to make sure President Trump is reelected.”
Bannon demand thated NBC News that he is set to be released from jail on Oct. 31 — five days before Election Day.