Bad News for Steve Bannon: Judge From Trump’s Hush-Money Case Will Preside Over Advisor’s Fraud Trial, When He’s Supposed To Be in Prison

’You are going to be investigated, prosecuted, and incarcerated,’ Bannon tells fellow conservatives at a Turning Point conference.

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Steve Bannon arrives at federal court for a sentencing hearing, October 21, 2022, at Washington. AP/Nathan Howard

President Trump’s former campaign manager and chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who’s been ordered to report to prison by July 1 and begin serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, also has a court date in New York on September 23 with Juan Merchan, the same judge who presides over Trump’s hush-money case. 

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