Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon surrenders to prison after conviction for contempt of Congress“They think by prosecuting me they are going to shut down one of the top advocates for president Trump,” Mr Bannon said outside the prison on Monday. “I am proud to go to prison if this is what it takes to stand up to tyranny.”
Mr Trump himself is due to be sentenced on July 11th for his New York fraud conviction tied to “hush money” payments to an adult film actress, though he is not expected to face jail time. Carl Nichols, the judge presiding over Mr Bannon’s contempt case, had previously halted his imprisonment while Mr Bannon appealed against it. But an appellate court earlier this year unanimously rejected Bannon’s challenges, including the claim that his conduct was “affirmatively authorised by government officials”.