Steve Bannon (70) was released from prison on Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress. In 2022, Bannon was sentenced for refusing to explain himself to a committee in the House of Representatives that investigated the storming of Congress on January 6, 2021. At the press conference after he was released, he was received with applause from the audience and fired freely at the Democrats. He tells the Republicans to prepare for battle. CLEAR: Bannon confirms that he has spoken to Donald Trump after he was released. Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AP – We will have a replay of the 2020 election. They will try everything they can to nullify and delegitimize Trump’s second term as president. I can say right now that the middle class people who support Donald John Trump are not going to let that happen. He still believes that the election was stolen by the Democrats in 2020. Refused to explain The attack on Congress on 6 January 2021 was led by Trump supporters who tried to stop the confirmation of Trump’s election defeat in 2020 against Joe Biden. In the subsequent investigation, Bannon also refused to deliver documents to Congress. The day before the attack, he is said to have said that “all hell will break loose tomorrow”. He appealed the sentence, but also lost this one. 2017: Bannon was one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers during his first term as president until they fell out. Photo: MANDEL NGAN / AFP Bannon was an important adviser to Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and was chief strategist in the White House until he and Trump fell out. Before working for Trump, Bannon was a leader in the right-wing media. After he left the White House, he returned to the media. Nevertheless, he maintained close contact with Trump. Bannon confirms that he has spoken to Donald Trump after he was released, but will not say what they talked about. Kicked at Pelosi He kicked hard at, among others, Nancy Pelosi, who was formerly leader of the House of Representatives for the Democrats. – She thought federal prison would break me, but it only made me stronger. I have never been in such good shape, said Nancy Pelosi. Suck it up, Bannon said Tuesday. Pelosi sat down the committee that investigated the storming of Congress on January 6, 2021. There, Bannon refused to explain himself, which led to him having to go to prison. In 2021, while Nancy Pelosi was the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, she called President Trump’s most important adviser a racist who has nothing to do in the National Security Council. PELOSI: Bannon claims the former speaker for the Democrats has tried to destroy him. Photo: SAUL LOEB Pelosi did not mention Steve Bannon by name when she held her weekly press conference, but there was no doubt that she was referring to the former editor of the right-wing website Breitbart. He will now rent his podcast “War Room”. Published 29/10/2024, at 22.27 Updated 29.10.2024, at 22.38
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