Steve Bannon, an essential ally of Donald Trump and his marketing campaign director within the 2016 presidential election, reported himself this Monday, July 1, to jail to serve a four-month jail sentence.
He was convicted in October 2022 of disobedience to the Congress of the US, after he refused to cooperate with the fee of inquiry of the Home of Representatives that investigated the invasion of the Capitol by Trump supporters, on January 6, 2021.
Bannon confidently arrived at a low-security federal jail in Danbury, Connecticut, and spoke to reporters and a bunch of cheering supporters. He known as himself a “political prisoner” and stated his followers on the populist radical proper would proceed to unfold his message whereas he was serving his sentence.
“I’m proud to go to jail immediately,” he stated, earlier than coming into the jail advanced. “Not solely do I’ve no regrets, I am pleased with what I did.”
Former President of the US Donald Trump will face Joe Biden within the race for the White Home which can finish on the polls on November 5. After 4 months in jail, Bannon shall be launched simply days earlier than the presidential elections.
Final Friday, a Trump ally misplaced a final attraction to keep away from an precise sentence, when the Supreme Court docket rejected his request to postpone the sentence.
Bannon, 70 years outdated, was one of many major advisers of the Republican candidate throughout the 2016 election marketing campaign, later turning into Trump’s presidential adviser and one of the well-liked figures of the American radical proper.
Earlier than Steve Bannon was sentenced to 4 months in jail, Peter Navarro, one other former adviser to Donald Trump, which he began final March.
In 2020, Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud in a case associated to elevating funds to construct Trump’s promised anti-immigration wall, inflicting him to spend hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from Republican voters for private bills. On January 20, 2021, hours earlier than the top of Trump’s time period, he took benefit of a presidential pardon and was by no means tried.