Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon released from prison ’empowered’ to help him | News from the USA

Former Donald Trump help Steve Bannonwho helped reverse his 2020 election loss, was released from federal prison feeling “empowered.”

Bannon, 70, left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., on Tuesday morning after serving four months for defying a subpoena in a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

First White house the chief strategist immediately said he would spend the rest of the week until the american election helping the Republican candidate win.

“Finally, I am no longer a political prisoner. I think you can see today that I’m far from broken,” Bannon said at a news conference in new york The city that afternoon.

“I was empowered by my four months at Danbury Federal Prison.

Bannon said being behind bars was empowering because of those he met there and what they said about Trump’s opponent, the vice president. Kamala Harris.

“I was able to listen and observe and learn from working-class minorities — young African-Americans and Hispanics and yes, Puerto Rican men — what their lives are about,” Bannon said, adding that they opposed incarceration under Harris. and the Biden administration.

Bannon, who earlier returned to his popular War Room podcast, accused former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of sending him to prison to silence him.

“Nancy Pelosi thought a federal prison would break me,” he said.

– Well, I empowered myself. I’m more empowered today, more focused today, clearer today, in better shape than I’ve even been in my entire life, so Nancy Pelosi, screw it.

However, a jury convicted him of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 for refusing to appear before a House committee investigating the 2021 insurgency and for refusing to provide documents about his role in Trump’s force to overturn the last. choice.

A judge convicted Bannon and he went to prison on July 1.

Bannon reiterated the baseless claim that Trump was “stolen” the 2020 election. He added that if the vote totals in this year’s election turn out to be similar to four years ago, Trump should do exactly as he did.

“They should stand up and say, ‘Hey, we won this. And we have teams right now that are going to make sure that this doesn’t get stolen,” Bannon said.

The right-wing strategist has vowed to do everything in his power to return Trump to the White House.

“We will secure this victory. And Donald John Trump is going to serve his second term,’ he said.

“And on January 20, at noon, he’ll get his hands on his family’s King James Bible, take the oath, and we’ll roll hard.”

After his press conference, Bannon left the podium holding a bouquet of red roses that a woman had given him.

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