Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was back to hosting his daily podcast 'War Room' just hours after his release from federal prison.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was back to hosting his daily podcast"War Room" just hours after his release from federal prison.Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon arrives at a press conference outside a federal correctional institution on July 1, 2024 in Danbury, Conn.and one-time political adviser to former President Donald Trump, was released from federal prison Tuesday morning after serving four months behind bars for contempt of Congress.
Bannon was convicted in 2022 on two counts for defying subpoenas from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters. He left prison a week before Election Day, as Trump and Vice President Harris deliver their respective closing messages in a tight race for the White House.
Just hours after his release, Bannon returned to host a new episode of his daily podcast, “War Room.” Dressed in a black shirt and with his gray hair slicked back, Bannon falsely claimed that former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent him to federal prison as a political prisoner “to tamp down the power of this show and to break me.”“Four months in federal prison didn’t break me. It empowered me,” Bannon told his online audience.
Bannon echoed the false argument of other Republicans, including Trump, who accuse Democrats of weaponizing the Justice Department and the legal system against members of the party.Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro to go to prison after Supreme Court rejects his appeal A variety of people filled in on the “War Room” podcast while Bannon was in prison. He marked his return to the podcast with a fiery message for Trump’s supporters ahead of Election Day, telling them: “This is a fight not simply for the direction of this country but what this country stands for.
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