Bannon left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, according to Kristie Breshears, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was scheduled to hold a news conference later that day in Manhattan, his representatives said. He is also expected to resume his podcast on Tuesday.
Bannon, 70, reported to prison on July 1 after the Supreme Court rejected his attempt to delay his prison sentence while he appeals his conviction.
A jury found Bannon guilty in 2022 of two counts of <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/trump-wants-former-employees-to-remain-silent-in-congressional-storming-investigation/" title="Trump wants former employees to remain silent in Congressional storming investigation”>contempt of Congress: one for refusing to testify before the House Committee on January 6 and a second for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in Trump’s efforts. to reverse his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race.
When he began serving his sentence in July, Bannon called himself a “political prisoner.”
“I’m proud to go to prison,” he said at the time, adding that he was standing up to Attorney General Merrick Garland and a “corrupt” Justice Department.
The right-wing podcast host has remained a Trump supporter and even when he was jailed last July, he insisted that he would influence the presidential race from prison and that his show “War Room” would continue. motivating the followers of the former president, CNN recalls.
While in prison, Bannon stayed in touch with a small group of followers, and some acted as guest hosts of his podcast, according to two sources familiar with the matter contacted by CNN.
Trump, the Republican candidate, seeks to regain the presidency in next week’s elections against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
In May, a federal appeals court upheld Bannon’s conviction, and he is now asking that the full appeals court hear his case. His legal team had argued that the congressional subpoena was invalid because Trump had invoked executive privilege. However, prosecutors say Bannon had left the White House years earlier and that Trump had never invoked executive privilege in front of the committee.
Bannon faces additional criminal charges in New York state court, where he is accused of deceiving donors who gave money to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Bannon has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges. The trial in that case is scheduled to begin in December.
The former advisor worked on the campaign that brought Trump to the Presidency in 2016 and was chief strategist in the White House from the time the magnate took office in January 2017 until August of the same year.
He lasted less than seven months in the White House due, in part, to the fact that his speech to dismantle the political class and put an end to the elites had little fit with the Trump Administration, which was soon filled with millionaires. He also clashed with congressional Republicans over his opposition to cutting taxes on the wealthy.
Considered one of the prophets of the populist ‘alt-right’, Bannon has stated that his goal is to become “the global infrastructure for the global populist movement” and has supported numerous far-right and populist political movements around the world, especially in Europe.
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