Steve Bannon goes to jail.
The person partly answerable for engineering Donald Trump’s beautiful 2016 victory will report back to jail on July 1 after a federal choose ordered him to serve 4 months for contempt of Congress.
“There is no such thing as a jail or jail that may ever shut me up. All MAGA wins, we’ll win it,” Bannon remarked Thursday after the order got here down outdoors a federal courthouse.
U.S. District Choose Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, revoked Bannon’s bail and upheld the sentence after a federal appeals court docket final month rejected Bannon’s try to plead responsible to denying a subpoena from the committee on Jan. 6.
Bannon was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 after refusing to cooperate with a Democratic-led Home of Representatives committee. Bannon now joins Peter Navarro, one other high Trump aide, in jail. Navarro can also be serving a four-month jail sentence.
The committee had hoped to query Bannon about public feedback concerning the 2020 election that indicated he was concerned in efforts to overturn it. Bannon and Navarro are credited with the “Inexperienced Bay sweep” technique during which members of Congress would object to the certification of electoral votes.
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The “sweep” by no means materialized and Joe Biden was sworn in as president.
Bannon’s attorneys argued that the aptly nicknamed “Honey Badger” ought to stay free because the case works its manner via an appeals course of, however Nichols dismissed their arguments.
Together with his jail time period set to final till November, Bannon will now transfer into probably the most contentious a part of the 2024 election season.
