Steve Bannon Released from Prison

Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was released from federal prison. He had been behind bars for four months for contempt of Congress charges.

The charges related to his refusal to testify before the January 6 Committee regarding the 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol.

Bannon returned to his show, The War Room, on Tuesday.

“Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison. She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner to do two things, to make sure that she tried to tamp down the power of this show, right? Tamp down the power of the show and also to break me,” he told viewers. “Nancy Pelosi, take out your number 2 principle and write this down. This show has never been more powerful. The audiences behind it have never been more powerful. The audience has never been more powerful. And we’re going to deliver a knockout blow to your progressive insanity on fifth of November, and then we’re going to secure the deal after that.”

He added that his four months in federal prison “empowered” him.

“I am more energized and more focused than I’ve ever been in my entire life,” Bannon said, “and I can see clearly just like in 2016 and in 2020 exactly what’s going on here and what we have to do to defeat it.”