Steve Bannon described himself as “a political prisoner” and said he was “proud to go to prison.” Another former Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, is already serving time for refusing to answer questions to Congress.
Steve Bannon, a former adviser to former US President Donald Trump, entered a federal prison in the northeastern United States on Monday to serve a sentence for obstructing the congressional investigation into the attack on the Capitol.
I am proud to go to prison today (…) if that is what it takes face “Joe Biden,” said the populist ideologue, an influential figure in the ultra-conservative movement, before entering Danbury prison in Connecticut, describing himself as “a political prisoner.”
Steve Bannon, 70, must now serve four months behind bars after a judge refused to suspend his sentence as a result of one of his appeals.
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Bannon was greeted near the prison building by a small crowd of supporters waving “Trump 2024” flags and by one of Trump’s most ardent supporters in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Before arriving at Danbury prison, Bannon used one of the episodes of his television show to hail the results of the first round of early legislative elections in France, marked by the victory of the far-right National Union.
União Nacional in the lead with 33.15% and Renascença in decline. The results of a historic night with the highest turnout in recent decades
Steve Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 to Four months in prison for obstructing investigative powers Congress for his refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary investigation into the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a sentence confirmed on appeal on May 10 of this year.
On the eve of January 6, 2021, Steve Bannon foretold that there were violent riots in the streets of North American cities and – on the day when hundreds of Donald Trump supporters invaded the headquarters of the North American Congress, in an attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 elections – they spoke by telephone with the outgoing president.
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His imprisonment comes on a day when the conservative-majority US Supreme Court further postponed a federal trial against Donald Trump over his alleged attempts to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Another former White House adviser to Donald Trump, Peter Navarro, is already serving a four-month sentence for committing refusing to respond to a subpoena of Congress in the investigation of the assault on the Capitol.
Source: Observadora
