Trump fumes over court decision ordering Bannon to report to prison

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday fumed over a federal court decision ordering that his former adviser Steve Bannon report to prison to serve a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.

Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress in 2022 for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee, though his sentence was placed on hold while he appealed the conviction. The appeals court in late May upheld Bannon's conviction. The order that he report to prison came Thursday.

Trump, for his part, contended that the case was political in nature.

"It is a Total and Complete American Tragedy that the Crooked Joe Biden Department of Injustice is so desperate to jail Steve Bannon, and every other Republican, for that matter, for not SUBMITTING to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, made up of all Democrats, and two CRAZED FORMER REPUBLICAN LUNATICS, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, and Liz 'Out of Her Mind' Cheney," Trump posted on Truth Social.

"It has been irrefutably proven that it was the Unselects who committed actual crimes when they deleted and destroyed all material evidence, in a pathetic attempt to protect Crazy Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats from the TRUTH — THAT I DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG," he went on. "The unAmerican Weaponization of our Law Enforcement has reached levels of Illegality never thought possible before. INDICT THE UNSELECT J6 COMMITTEE FOR ILLEGALLY DELETING AND DESTROYING ALL OF THEIR 'FINDINGS!' MAGA2024"

Should Bannon serve his sentence, he will become the second Trump adviser to serve prison time over his handling of a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee. Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro is currently serving his own four-month sentence in a Miami federal prison.

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter.