Stephen K. Bannon, an adviser to former President Donald Trump, is scheduled to report to a federal prison in Connecticut on Monday to begin serving a four-month sentence on contempt charges for failing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 Select Committee established to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
He will broadcast one final edition of the “War Room” podcast from outside the prison gates before contacting authorities, the BBC reported. Reports.
The judge ordered Bannon to serve time in prison after a panel of the appeals court upheld his contempt of Congress conviction, after he had been free for nearly two years while he appealed.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a last-minute attempt to delay the defendants’ prison sentences, Breitbart News reported.
According to the Associated Press, Bannon’s lawsuits will likely continue despite his imprisonment. NoteWith Trump himself remaining fully focused on his broad 2024 political agenda, House Republicans are backing their intervention on Jan. 6, arguing the committee was improperly set up.
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A defiant Mr. Bannon publicly defended himself again on Saturday, arguing that the committee’s Jan. 6 subpoena “means nothing” and returning to the executive privilege debate.
When asked in an interview with NBC News what his ultimate goal was, Bannon said: Said It was “victory or death for the Republic.”
“If we don’t win, first of all they will destroy the Constitution, which will be the death of the constitutional American Republic as we know it,” he continued.
That’s the argument the former Goldman Sachs executive made in a speech at the conservative Turning Point USA conference earlier this month.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks at “Turning Point: The People’s Convention” at the Huntington Place Convention Center in Detroit, Michigan on June 15, 2024. (Jeff Kowalski/AFP via Getty Images)
Bannon served as executive chairman of Breitbart News before being hired as CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.
Bannon later joined the Trump administration as chief strategist, leaving the post in August 2017, before returning to Breitbart News, where he left in early 2018.
