Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon has been ordered by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to report no later than July 1 to begin serving a four-month prison term for ignoring a subpoena by the tainted House committee that “investigated” the J6 disturbance.
Bannon told reporters outside the courthouse where the ruling was issued, “I’ve got great lawyers, and we’re going to go all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to.” This was in response to Judge Nichols, while granting the prosecutors in Bannon’s case request to make Bannon start serving his prison term, also stating Bannon was free to seek a stay of the judge’s order.
Bannon’s convictions are for two incidents of contempt of Congress. One centers on his refusal to participate in a deposition with the January 6 House Committee, while the other focuses on his refusal to turn over documents allegedly connected to Donald Trump’s efforts to declare the 2020 Presidential election results corrupted.
As reported here in May 2024 by Bob Hoge:
The fraudulent J6 committee had wanted to quiz Bannon about the events of that day:
When the now-defunct House panel sought documents and testimony from Bannon in 2021, it pointed to alleged communications between Bannon and Trump in the days leading up to the January 6 Capitol attack, as well as comments Bannon made on his podcast the day before the riot that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.”
Bannon for some time served in Trump’s White House, but by the time of Trump’s crusade to overturn his 2020 electoral loss, Bannon had long left the (Trump Administration).
Commentator Greg Price summed it up perfectly in a tweet Friday afternoon:
"Steve Bannon has one of the most popular pro Trump shows in the country and Biden's DOJ is going to jail him sometime during the election for a completely made up crime."
This is a developing story.
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