The former chief strategist of ex-US president Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is to begin his four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress on July 1, a judge in the US capital Washington decided on Thursday. The ultra-right journalist and conspiracy theorist Bannon was convicted around two years ago for ignoring a subpoena from the Committee of Inquiry into the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and failing to provide requested documents. Bannon appealed against the judgement but failed in court a few weeks ago. The 70-year-old said on Thursday that he would not be silenced and woul…