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The episode he recorded on Monday will be the last in four months; Donald Trump’s former adviser has no intention of relinquishing his influence.
By Ken Bensinger
Stephen K. Bannon would have possibly been forced to appear in federal court on Monday, but he wasn’t going to let that stop him from staging a big, flashy, and fiercely provocative finale.
Bannon, a longtime adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, spent the morning livestreaming his popular podcast, “War Room,” from locations around Danbury, Connecticut, near the site of the low-security facility where he will spend the next few months locked up. Cheered on by his flag-waving supporters, members of Congress and other allies, he spent his final hours of freedom continually pointing rhetorical fingers in the eyes of the Justice Department and the Biden administration.
“I’m a political criminal,” Bannon said at an outdoor news conference at a church 800 yards from the federal criminal he visited shortly after noon ET. When he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Bannon smiled and attacked in front of the television cameras. “I’m proud to become a criminal,” he added. If that’s what it takes to take on Joe Biden, I’m proud to do it. “
Bannon lost his latest jail bid Friday after the Supreme Court rejected a request for a stay while he appealed a jury verdict that found him in contempt for refusing to appear to testify before the House committee investigating Jan. 6 and for defying a subpoena. relating to the Committee’s documents.
As a result, the personality itself will remain out of sight – and off the airwaves – until a few days before the November 5 election; Opening his exhibit from a makeshift hotel studio Monday morning, he referred to himself as “Federal Prisoner 0cinco63cinco-cinco09. “
But right-wing Brandon insists that trading his studio microphone for prison work and double-collared shirts for government khakis will have little effect on his podcast, as he claimed in a lively interview over the weekend. Listeners. In fact, Bannon said, “it will only get bigger and more powerful” while he is in custody.
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