Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon must report to prison by July 1

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been ordered by a federal judge to report to prison by July 1, effectively voiding his bail after being convicted of contempt of Congress in connection with the January 6 assault on the Capitol. .

District Judge Carl Nichols, who presided over the case, heard arguments Thursday in Washington, D.C. The Justice Department previously requested that Bannon begin serving his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress after being found guilty of defying a subpoena. of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Despite the conviction, Judge Nichols agreed to postpone the prison sentence while Bannon appealed the sentence. However, after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Bannon’s conviction last month, federal prosecutors requested that the judge order Bannon to begin his four-month sentence.

According to prosecutors, there is no legal basis for Judge Nichols to continue Bannon’s suspension from serving his sentence after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ conclusive ruling, which rejected the basis of Bannon’s appeal for all. the motives.

In the document released in May, prosecutors argued that there is no longer a “substantial question of law” that would likely result in a reversal or an order for a new trial.

Among the officials who were under the Trump Administration, former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is serving a four-month sentence in a Miami penitentiary, also for contempt of Congress.

“I will proudly enter there to serve my sentence,” Navarro declared during a press conference before turning himself in to the authorities. “I will take strength from this: Donald John Trump is the nominee.”