Steve Bannon, 70, must now serve four months behind bars after a judge rejected a suspension of his sentence following one of his appeals.
“Our movement is living its moment”
Wearing gray pants and a black shirt, he was greeted outside the prison building by a small crowd of supporters with “Trump 2024” flags and by one of the most fierce Trump supporters in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who hugged him in front of the cameras.
Although he no longer officially works for the Republican candidate, Steve Bannon again assured him of his support on Monday and promised that he would use all his influence to promote his re-election, particularly via his podcast. War Roomwhich will continue without him.
Before arriving at Danbury Prison, he spoke on his show to congratulate himself on the results of the first round of early legislative elections in France, marked by the clear victory of the extreme right, and on the other good results of this movement in other countries during the European elections. “Our movement is living its moment,” he rejoiced.
“All Hell” on the Capitol
Steve Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 to four months in prison for obstructing the investigative powers of Congress due to his refusal to cooperate with the congressional inquiry into the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a sentence upheld on appeal on May 10, 2024.
The day before January 6, Steve Bannon predicted that “all hell” would break loose. And on the day that hundreds of Donald Trump supporters stormed the seat of the US Congress, in an attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 election, Steve Bannon spoke on the phone with the outgoing president. The parliamentarians wanted to question him about his role.
His entry into prison comes on the day that the US Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, again postponed the federal trial of Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to illegally reverse the results of the 2020 election. Another former Donald Trump adviser at the White House, Peter Navarro, is already serving a four-month sentence for refusing to respond to a congressional subpoena in the investigation into the assault on the Capitol.
