Steve Bannon released from prison after serving contempt of Congress sentence
Donald Trump adviser and rightwing podcast host Steve Bannon to be released from prison a week before the election.
WASHINGTON — The last time Steve Bannon was a free man, Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
Bannon, the right-wing podcast host and former Donald Trump campaign official, was released from federal Bureau of Prisons custody early Tuesday, with exactly one week to go until voters choose between his former boss and Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day.
Randilee Giamusso, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson, confirmed that Bannon was released. He returned to hosting his "War Room" podcast later Tuesday morning.
"Nancy Pelosi sent me to federal prison as a political prisoner," Bannon said on his show, saying that Democrats want "to tamp down the power of this show and to break me."
"Not only didn't it break me, it empowered me," he said.
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