A federal judge has ordered Steve Bannon, a former Trump White House chief strategist, on Thursday to report to prison on July 1 for defying a congressional subpoena.

Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress for not complying with a subpoena to turn over documents and testify in 2022 to the Democrat-led House Select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. He was sentenced to four months of incarceration.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, had initially stayed the sentence, giving Bannon time to appeal the conviction, but he reversed course this week.

“The United States has moved to lift the stay of Defendant Stephen K. Bannon’s sentence following the Court of Appeals opinion affirming his conviction,” Nichols wrote in his order. “For the reasons explained at today’s hearing, the Court concludes that Defendant’s appeal no longer raises a substantial question of law that is likely to result in a reversal or an order for a new trial under 18 U.S.C. § 3143(b)(1)(B).”

“Accordingly, it is ORDERED that the Motion is GRANTED; it is FURTHER ORDERED that Defendant Stephen K. Bannon shall report to the Bureau of Prisons by July 1, 2024,” the order concluded.

Speaking outside of court on Thursday, Bannon said that his team would appeal the case all the way up to the Supreme Court to get it overturned.

“In the two and a half to three years we’ve been here, look at the rise of MAGA, look at the rise of Donald Trump. If the election was held today, according to CNN’s Harry Enten, President Trump would win in a landslide,” Bannon said. “All of this, beside the major illegal issues that have to be addressed, all of this is about one thing. This is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump. Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail and every number and every poll shows that.”

“There’s nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up. There’s not a prison built or a jail built that will ever shut me up,” he continued. “All victory to MAGA, we’re going to win this, we’re going to win at the Supreme Court, and more importantly, we’re going to win on November 5 with an amazing landslide and the Senate, the House, and also Donald J. Trump back as president of the United States.”

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CNN’s top legal expert said this week that there is a good chance that the criminal charges former President Donald Trump faces in Georgia over his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election may completely fall apart now that the case has been postponed.

Elie Honig, CNN’s Senior Legal Analyst and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, made the remarks after a Georgia appellate court halted the case this week.

“It’s over. Let’s be realistic. It’s not happening before the 2024 election. It’s not happening in 2024. It’s maybe not happening at all,” Honig said. “Now, look, the appeals court, we can never predict what they’re going to do. But there’s some things we know for sure. Number one, they didn’t have to take this case, the appeal, and they chose to. The other thing is they didn’t have to pause the district court.”

“In fact, the trial court judge, when he issued his ruling, allowing Donald Trump, and the others, to ask the appeals court to take the case, the trial court judge specified, while you all are doing that, I am going to continue holding proceedings in this trial court,” he continued. “And now, today, just a couple hours ago, the appeals court said no, no, no, pause that, too. So, that tells me that they are taking this appeal very seriously. And if Trump and the defendants prevail in this appeal, this case is essentially toast.”

He added that if the case gets dismissed, former Trump officials who pled guilty in the case will most certainly walk their guilty pleas back.

“There is a separate issue that Trump and the other defendants are going to raise that I think is a bigger deal, which is Fani Willis’ inappropriate comments about the case outside of court,” he said. “Judge McAfee found those comments to be, quote, ‘legally improper,’ and then he did nothing about it. And so, the defense is going to argue to the Court of Appeals, if the prosecutor makes, quote, ‘legally improper’ statements that impair the constitutional rights of the defendant, there needs to be a remedy for that.”

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