“I am a political prisoner.” Steve Bannonthe guru of the American far right and the former White House strategist under Donald Trumphe turned himself in to the low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where will serve a 4-month sentence for contempt of Congressguilty of failing to testify in the congressional inquiry into the storming of the Capitol. “I’m proud to go to prison today. Not only do I have no regrets, I’m proud of what I’ve done,” Bannon, who has been free for two years while appealing his sentence, told reporters. Before donning the orange prison jumpsuit, he recorded the final two hours of his popular podcast “War Room” near the prison, which he assures “will only get bigger and more powerful” while he’s in jail.
Steve Bannon in prison from July 1st to serve 4 months of sentence, contempt of the US Congress
What he said about Trump and Biden
He is the second Trump advisor to end up behind bars for this crime. After 4 months, Peter Navarro will be released from prison on July 17th just in time to attend the Republican convention in Milwaukee. Bannon instead he will be free a few days before November 5, when he will be able to launch his last appeals returning for the final battle, “like Gandalf”, he joked. In the meantime, limited in phone calls and without internet, he will read books (including the King James Bible, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a history of the Russian Revolution), write campaign emails to key people and give advice to the tycoon and the Republicans (even if he has ruled out any role in the campaign and in a future Trump presidency). The first is a warning: Joe Biden will leave and Donald’s campaign risks being left out. «Trump’s victory in the debate is a Pyrrhic victory.
“He’ll take out a rival he knows he can beat well and an unknown quantity will emerge,” he prophesied, explaining that the president will not be able to survive the collapse in the polls. But if Biden withdraws, he continued, he will catch Trump’s campaign off guard, taking away his weakest opponent. “They will look for a messiah and then there will be a honeymoon, but when it comes to the Democratic convention in August, whoever it is, Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom, they will start with a minimum disadvantage of five to seven points.”
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