Former Trump adviser Bannon to begin prison sentence
Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to prison on Monday to start a four-month sentence over his contempt of Congress charges.
The Supreme Court rejected Bannon’s emergency appeal last week to delay his prison sentence, upholding Monday’s deadline for the onetime adviser of former President Trump to report to prison.
He will be reporting to federal prison in Connecticut over his contempt charges for defying a subpoena from a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
He was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the attack. He was allowed by a federal judge to delay his sentence for about two years as he appealed the case.
However, a federal appeals court upheld Bannon’s conviction in May. Judge Brad Garcia, writing for the three-judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, said that a “witness cannot defend against a contempt of Congress charge based on an affirmative defense that they were able, but failed, to.”
Bannon will be the second former Trump White House aide to serve time in prison in connection with defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee.
Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to Trump, began his four-month prison sentence in March after his emergency appeal at the Supreme Court also failed.
Bannon’s appeal will continue to play out as he serves his prison sentence. It will likely be ongoing when he is released from jail.
The Associated Press contributed.