American right-wing populist ideologue and former White House adviser to Donald Trump Steve Bannon arrived today at a federal prison in the northeastern US to begin serving his sentence for obstructing a congressional investigation into the storming of Capitol on January 6, 2021, an AFP photographer reported, quoted by BTA.
"I'm proud to go to jail today /.../, if that's what it takes to stand up to Joe Biden,'' Bannon, an influential figure in the ultraconservative movement, said before entering the Danbury jail. the state of Connecticut. Now he will have to serve four months behind bars.