Trump’s ally Steve Bannon released from prison just one week ahead of US election

Bannon, the right-wing podcast host, was imprisoned for four months for defying the subpoenas from the House January 6 committee back in the year 2022 but he managed to avoid jail for two years.

Bannon, who served as CEO of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and later served as advisor to the US president, reiterated his stance that Trump could remain president after the 2028 election. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

A week before the US presidential election, former President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign official Steve Bannon was released from federal Bureau of Prisons custody on Tuesday.

Bannon, the right-wing podcast host, was imprisoned for four months for defying the subpoenas from the House January 6 committee back in the year 2022 but he managed to avoid jail for two years as he sought appeals.

The last time when Bannon was a free man, it was President Joe Biden who was contesting for the Democratic Party in the race to White House against Republican candidate Donald Trump. But now when he is released from prison a week ahead of the Election Day, it has come down to Vice President Kamala Harris to take the Democrats boat to the winning line.

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Bannon said on his show, “Nancy Pelosi sent me to federal prison as a political prisoner,” and that “that Democrats want to tamp down the power of this show and to break me.”

Bannon said, “Not only didn’t it break me, it empowered me,” as reported by NBC News. He was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the House committee investigating the deadly US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021 which led to riots.

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Trump also faces four criminal charges related to the overturning of 2020 US presidential election results, to which the former President has pleaded not guilty.

The charges against Trump, include conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

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