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Steve Bannon, former White House adviser to Donald Trump and one of the most influential figures of the American far right, arrived this Monday at the federal prison
Steve Bannon, former White House adviser to Donald Trump and one of the most influential figures of the American far right, arrived this Monday at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, to serve a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.
Bannon appeared before prison authorities after the U.S. Supreme Court last Friday denied his request to stay his detention while he appeals his conviction for failing to comply with a subpoena during the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
“I’m proud to go to prison if that’s what it takes to stand up to tyranny,” Bannon said in statements to the press before entering the prison, surrounded by a dozen followers calling for his release.
Bannon also declared himself a “political prisoner,” a term he has repeatedly used to describe his trial, suggesting it is politically motivated, although that claim is unfounded.
The far-right politician, 70, is one of two members of Trump’s inner circle who face prosecution for failing to participate in the House investigation.
The second, former White House adviser to former President Peter Navarro, was jailed last March to serve another four-month sentence.
Bannon was convicted in 2022 of ignoring a subpoena that forced him to appear before a committee investigating the 2021 attack on the Capitol, when Trump supporters stormed the House headquarters to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory in the November election.
The committee wanted Bannon to testify because it believed he had advance knowledge of what was about to happen on January 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed Congress. The incident left five people dead and approximately 140 officers injured.
For example, the day before the storming of the Capitol, Bannon spoke with Trump on the phone and later appeared on a far-right podcast in which he declared: “Tomorrow is going to be a mess.”
Moreover, in December 2020, Bannon, who continued to informally advise Trump, advised him to focus his efforts on January 6, the date the election results were expected to be certified, according to the book Jeopardy, by journalists Bob Woodward. and Robert Costa.
The former adviser worked on the campaign that brought Trump to the presidency in 2016 and served as the White House’s chief strategist from the mogul’s inauguration in January 2017 until August of that year.
He lasted less than seven months in the White House, in part because his rhetoric about dismantling the political class and eliminating elites was out of step with a Trump administration soon filled with millionaires. He also clashed with Republicans in Congress over his opposition to tax cuts for the rich.
Considered one of the prophets of the populist “alt-right,” Bannon has stated that his goal is to become “the global infrastructure of a global populist movement” and has supported numerous far-right and populist political movements around the world, particularly in Europe.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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