Steve Bannon shot his most powerful political ally in the foot with his own attempts to put off going to prison, an MSNBC opinion writer argued Friday.
In a new editorial, columnist Hayes Brown revels in the "deep irony" of what he describes as the poorest possible timing for former President Donald Trump's influential former campaign strategist to find himself locked behind bars.
"Bannon has nobody but himself to blame for it," Brown writes.
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A federal judge Thursday revoked bail about two years after Bannon was convicted of defying a congressional subpoena from the Jan. 6 investigation committee and sentenced to four months behind bars.
Rather than accept the verdict and serve his sentence, Bannon filed an appeal arguing Trump's executive privilege prevented him from submitting to the subpoena's demand.
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The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in D.C. upheld Bannon’s conviction in May and, on Thursday, Bannon was ordered to surrender to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on July 1.
A Bannon behind bars is a Bannon who cannot do the work political analysts have credited with Trump's 2016 election victory, Brown concludes.
"It’s an order that is set to neutralize one of the MAGA movement’s most influential bomb-throwers and propagandists until right before Election Day," writes Brown.
"If he’d reported to serve out his sentence in November, he’d have been out of prison for over a year by now."
