A US federal judge has ordered Steve Bannon, the right-wing agitator who became one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, to surrender for prison by July 1 after being convicted of contempt of Congress.
The former chair of Breitbart News and ideological champion of Trump’s Maga movement was sentenced to serve four months and ordered to pay a fine of $6,500 after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the Congressional committee probing the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of the former president.
“This is about shutting down the Maga movement, shutting down grass roots conservatives, shutting down president Trump,” Bannon said on Thursday outside the court in Washington. “There is not a prison built or a jail built that will ever shut me up.”