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Ex-Trump strategist Bannon ordered to prison
Caitlin Wilson,BBC News, Washington
Steve Bannon was convicted in 2022 for contempt of Congress
A US federal judge has ordered Donald Trump's former strategist Steve
Bannon to report to prison by 1 July to serve a four-month sentence.
The order on Thursday comes after years of legal wrangling, with an appeals court last month upholding Bannon's 2022 criminal conviction for contempt
of Congress.
The right-wing podcaster was found to have illegally refused to testify
before the committee investigating the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.
Bannon, 70, has denied any criminal wrongdoing and his lawyer called the
ruling a "horrible decision".
The downfall of Steve Bannon
Steve Bannon found guilty of contempt of Congress
After Thursday's decision, Bannon said he and his lawyers would "go all the
way to the Supreme Court if we have to".
"There's not a prison built or a jail built that will ever shut me up," he defiantly told reporters outside the courthouse in Washington DC.
He called the legal challenges against him a plan for "shutting down the
Maga movement" - a reference to former President Trump's "Make America
Great Again" campaign slogan.
Bannon has said he was following legal advice in refusing to testify before
the House committee investigating 6 January, when rioters ransacked the US Capitol with the goal of stopping the certification of Joe Biden's election win.
Bannon's lawyer David Schoen, who has called the case against his client politically motivated, also vowed to appeal to a higher court.
Mr Schoen said his client would have been violating Trump's invocation of executive privilege - a legal concept that allows presidents to keep some communications private - had he testified before Congress.
But a three-member panel from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected that argument when it upheld his conviction in May, saying his
claim "runs headlong into settled law".
"This exact 'advice of counsel' defense is no defense at all," Justice
Bradley Garcia wrote in that decision.
A full appeals court could delay Thursday's sentencing order if it took up
the case and issued its own ruling stopping its enforcement.
Bannon was a key player in Trump's 2016 rise to the Oval Office and later became chief strategist at the White House.
He left the administration after a violent far-right rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, but remains a top ally of the
former president.
Another senior Trump aide, Peter Navarro, reported to prison in March after
his own contempt of Congress conviction.
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