“I am proud to go to prison.”
Steve Bannon reported to prison on Monday. Over the next four months, the former Trump adviser and conservative media figure will be placed in the general population at FCI Danbury rather than at a luxury “Club Fed.”
However, Bannon held a press conference moments before being incarcerated at the low-security federal prison about 60 miles north of New York City.
Bannon entered Federal Correctional Institute Danbury, in Danbury, Connecticut, shortly before noon.
As ABC News reports:
The Supreme Court had on Friday denied Bannon's request to remain out of prison during the appeals process after he filed an emergency appeal on Friday with the high court.
Bannon was sentenced to four months 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.
Speaking to supporters before he entered the Danbury facility, Bannon said he was proud to begin his sentence.
“I am proud to go to prison,” Bannon said. “If this is what it takes the stand up to tyranny, if this way it takes the stand up to the Garland corrupt criminal DOJ, if this is what it takes to stand up to Nancy Pelosi, if this is what it takes to stand up to Joe Biden, I'm proud to do it. “
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Minnesota Republican Senate nominee Royce White, Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and a priest were standing alongside Bannon.
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