Tuesday, July 02, 2024 - Influential Donald Trump ally, Steve Bannon, reported to prison on Monday, July 1 to serve a four-month sentence after he was convicted for defying a congressional subpoena from the committee that probed the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.
Bannon arrived at a low-security federal prison in Danbury,
Connecticut, and spoke to reporters amid a cheering group of supporters.
He called himself a "political prisoner" and said
his right-wing populist followers would spread his message while he served his
sentence.
"I'm proud of going to prison today," Bannon said.
"I have not only no regrets, I'm proud of what I did."
After addressing the cameras, Bannon entered a dark-coloured
SUV that drove into the prison complex.
The sentence could keep Bannon imprisoned almost to Election
Day.
Inmates in federal prison do not have access to the internet
or social media, making it difficult for Bannon to communicate with fans of his
"War Room" podcast.
His decision on Monday comes after he lost a last-ditch
effort to stay out of prison when the Supreme Court rejected his request to
delay his sentence while he exhausts the appeals process for his conviction.
He was sentenced to four months after being convicted in
2022 of two misdemeanour counts of contempt of Congress. He was charged after
he refused to turn over documents or testify to a Democratic-led House of
Representatives committee investigating the Capitol riot by Trump supporters
who had sought to prevent congressional certification of Biden's 2020 election
win.
Bannon was a key adviser to Trump's 2016 presidential
campaign and then served as his chief White House strategist in 2017. Former
President Trump is the Republican candidate challenging Democratic President
Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 U.S. election and Bannon's sentence might last till the
start of the election.
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