STORY: BANNON: "I'm proud of going to prison."
Influential Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon arrived at a Connecticut prison Monday to serve a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena from the committee that probed the Jan. 6th attack on U.S. Capitol in 2021.
The rightwing media firebrand spoke to reporters before entering the facility.
"I have not only no regrets, I'm actually proud of what I did. And I felt terrible if I didn't do it. I don't mind going to prison today."
The four-month sentence could keep Bannon imprisoned almost until the November election, when Trump faces President Joe Biden for the White House.
In 2022, Bannon was convicted of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress.
He was charged after he refused to turn over documents or testify to the Democratic-led House of Representatives committee investigating the Capitol riot by Trump supporters.
Bannon, who was a key adviser to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and a former chief White House strategist, is not the first Trump administration official to go to prison for refusing to cooperate with the committee.
Peter Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, reported to prison in March after he, too, was given a four-month sentence.
