'Prison will do him good': Bannon mocked over last-ditch effort to dodge prison surrender [View all]
Former President Donald Trump's ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon is pleading to be spared prison because it will hamstring his ability to provide "meaningful" expertise in this year's election.
"The government seeks to imprison Mr. Bannon for the four-month period leading up to the November election, when millions of Americans look to him for information on important campaign issues," Bannon's new attorney Trent McCotter wrote in a recent emergency request. "This would also effectively bar Mr. Bannon from serving as a meaningful advisor in the ongoing national campaign.”
The same three-judge panel rejected Bannon’s appeal on all grounds. Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston, who joined special counsel Jack Smith's team, told jurors during closing arguments in 2022: “The defendant chose allegiance to Donald Trump over compliance with the law." Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols sided with prosecutors, finding there was no reason to sustain his stay to let Bannon remain free from lockup now that an appeals court upheld the conviction.
“I don’t believe that the original basis for my stay of Mr. Bannon’s sentence exists any longer," he said. "I no longer consider that his appeal raises substantial questions of law of a kind likely to reverse his conviction,” Nichols said, citing the appellate panel’s ruling.
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