{"id":105849,"date":"2024-06-06T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/judge-orders-ex-trump-adviser-steve-bannon-to-report-to-prison-by-july-1\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:04:07","slug":"judge-orders-ex-trump-adviser-steve-bannon-to-report-to-prison-by-july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/judge-orders-ex-trump-adviser-steve-bannon-to-report-to-prison-by-july-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-06\/bannon-file-gty-ml-240606_1717673846013_hpMain.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2024. (Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal judge has ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to surrender to prison by July 1, revoking his bail.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice had requested that Bannon begin his four-month prison term in connection with his contempt of Congress conviction.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols heard arguments Thursday in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: Steve Bannon&#8217;s contempt of Congress conviction upheld by appeals court<br \/>Following the judge&#8217;s ruling, Bannon spoke to cameras outside of the courthouse and reiterated his intent to appeal, but went onto attack top officials at the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of this is about one thing. Shutting down the MAGA movement. Shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump,&#8221; Bannon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s not a prison built or jail built that will ever shut me up,&#8221; Bannon said.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon was sentenced to four months for contempt of Congress in October 2022 after he was found guilty of defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, but Judge Nichols agreed to postpone the jail term while Bannon appealed the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>After the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Bannon&#8217;s conviction last month, federal prosecutors requested that the judge order Bannon to begin his four-month sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have said there is no legal basis for Judge Nichols to continue the stay on Bannon serving his sentence after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals&#8217; conclusive ruling that rejected the basis for Bannon&#8217;s appeal on all grounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consequently, there is no longer a &#8216;substantial question of law that is likely to result in a reversal or an order for a new trial,'&#8221; prosecutors wrote in a filing last month.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2024. (Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal judge has ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to surrender to prison by July 1, revoking his bail. The Department<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/judge-orders-ex-trump-adviser-steve-bannon-to-report-to-prison-by-july-1\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}