A federal judge ordered, this Thursday, that Steve Bannon, the ally and former advisor of former US President Donald Trump, report to prison on July 1, to begin serving a four-month sentence. prison to which he had been sentenced for refusing to collaborate with the investigation committee into the invasion of the Capitol, which took place on January 6, 2021.
Bannon had been convicted of criminal disobedience to Congress in 2022, but the sentence had been suspended due to the appeals presented.
This Thursday, US District Judge Carl Nichols accepted a request from prosecutors for Bannon to begin serving his prison sentence, after a panel of three judges from a federal appeals court confirmed, last month, the his conviction.
Bannon can still appeal this latest decision that forces him to report to prison.
It is recalled that Donald Trump's ally ignored a subpoena to testify and provide documents to the parliamentary committee investigating the assault on the Capitol.
At 70 years old, Bannon is considered one of the main figures of right-wing populism in the United States, having founded the news website Breitbart, seen as a center for disseminating information from the "alt right", a movement associated with conspiratorial theses and which includes activists for white supremacist causes. After running Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, he became a presidential advisor until August 2017.
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