'You’re going to jail': Protestor cheers after Bannon ordered to prison by July 1

Former top Trump campaign and White House official Steve Bannon has been ordered to surrender and begin serving his four month prison sentence by July 1. Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress in 2022.

“U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, previously paused Bannon’s four-month sentence while he appealed his conviction,” Politico reported. “But on Thursday, Nichols ruled that the original reasons for the postponement no longer apply because a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled strongly and unanimously last month against Bannon’s position.”

Bannon can continue the appeals process but it is unlikely that will keep him out of prison by July 1.

In November of 2021, Bannon was indicted by a grand jury for refusing to testify before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack and for refusing to hand over documents to investigators examining the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol and on American democracy. His indictment was heralded as “Good news for the rule of law” at the time.

Last month a federal appeals court panel upheld Bannon’s conviction.and experts predicted he would be sent to prison.

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Bannon, a far-right provocateur, hosts the “War Room” podcast, which Media Matters last year called “the media home of Project 2025 and Trump’s retribution plans.” Project 2025 is The Heritage Foundation’s massive plan to remake the entire Executive Branch, fire thousands of civil servants, and turn the Dept. of Justice into an arm of the next Republican President.

NBC News justice reporter Ryan J. Reilly posted some “dramatic moments” from inside and outside the courthouse today.

Watch MSNBC’s report below or at this link.

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