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Former Trump aide Bannon released from jail

By Guardian Editor
30 October 2024   |   3:11 am
Former Donald Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, has been released from prison after spending four-months behind bars.
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Former Donald Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, has been released from prison after spending four-months behind bars.

Bannon, 70, was released from a Danbury, Connecticut, correctional facility yesterday, Benjamin O’Cone, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman, told the BBC.

Bannon, a conservative podcast host who was key to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to a January 6 Capitol riot investigation.

According to the New York Times, upon Bannon’s release, he said: “If people think American politics has been divisive before, you haven’t seen anything.”

Before he was sent to jail, Bannon relayed a consistent message of loyalty to Trump and hostility towards Democratic figures.

“I’m a political prisoner of Nancy Pelosi; Merrick Garland; Joe Biden and the corrupt Biden establishment,” he said before going to jail.

He promised he would continue to help Trump and his campaign from behind bars.

The Trump loyalist claimed on his podcast in May that Democrats were going to do everything to steal this election.

He has repeatedly claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Bannon is still facing other legal troubles having been indicted on charges of money laundering, fraud and conspiracy in a separate New York state case in 2022.
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