“I am a political prisoner.” Steve Bannonthe American far-right guru and former White House strategist below Donald Trumpturned himself into the low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where he will serve a 4 month sentence for contempt of Congress, guilty of not testifying in the parliamentary inquiry into the attack on the Capitol. «I am proud to go to prison today. Not only do I have no regrets, I’m proud of what I did,” Bannon, who remained free for two years while appealing, told reporters. Before donning the orange prison jumper, he recorded he last two hours of his popular podcast “War Room” near the prison, which he declares, “will only get bigger and more powerful” while he remains in his cell.
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Steve Bannon in prison from July 1 to serve 4 month sentence, contempt of US Congress
What he said about Trump and Biden
He is the second Trump adviser to end up behind bars for this crime. After 4 months, on July 17 Peter Navarro will be released from prison just in time to participate in the Republican convention in Milwaukee. Bannon instead he will be free a few days before November 5, when he will be able to make his final appeal by returning to the final battle, “like Gandalf”, he joked. Meanwhile, confined to 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 figures and advise the tycoon and the Republicans (although he ruled out any role in Trump’s future campaign and presidency). The first warning is: Joe Biden will leave and there is a risk that Donald’s campaign will be left out of place. «Trump’s victory in the debate is a Pyrrhic victory.
He will remove a rival that he knows he can beat well and an unknown will emerge”, he prophesied, explaining that the president will not be able to survive the fall in the polls. But if Biden withdraws , he continued, will catch Trump’s campaign off guard, taking his weakest opponent. «They will be looking for a messiah and then there will be a honeymoon but, when it comes to the Dem convention in August, whatever it will be someone, Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom, with a minimum disadvantage of five / seven points».
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