Former Trump aide Steve Bannon released from prison

Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon has been launched from jail after spending 4 months behind bars.

Bannon, 70, was launched from a Danbury, Connecticut, correctional facility on Tuesday, Benjamin O’Cone, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman, informed the BBC.

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

“The 4 months in federal jail not solely didn’t break me, it empowered me,” Bannon stated on his podcast following his launch.

“I’m extra energised and extra centered than I’ve ever been in my whole life.”

Bannon is anticipated to carry a information convention in New York Metropolis later Tuesday.

Earlier than he was despatched to jail, he promised to proceed to assist Trump and his marketing campaign from behind bars.

“I’ve served my nation now for the final 10 or so years specializing in this,” he informed the BBC earlier than going to jail, referring to politics and Trump’s Make America Nice Once more slogan. “If I’ve to do it in a jail, I do it in a jail – it makes no distinction in any respect.”

Bannon has remained loyal to Trump and hostile in the direction of Democratic figures, regardless of a falling out between the 2 throughout Trump’s presidency.

“I’m a political prisoner of Nancy Pelosi, I’m a political prisoner of Merrick Garland; I’m a political prisoner of Joe Biden and the corrupt Biden institution,” he stated earlier than going to jail.

The Trump loyalist claimed on his podcast in Could that Democrats have been “going to do every thing to steal this election”.

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

Bannon remains to be dealing with different authorized troubles – having been indicted on fees of cash laundering, fraud and conspiracy in a separate New York state case in 2022.

He has been accused of dishonest donors to a fundraiser that promised to construct a portion of a wall on the US-Mexico border. Bannon has pled not responsible to the costs.