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Steve Bannon to be released from prison days ahead of election
ABC News ^ | October 28, 2024 | T. Michelle Murphy, Laura Romero, and Jonathan Karl

Posted on 10/28/2024 7:03:22 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn

Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, will be released from prison on Tuesday. The timing puts him back in front of the media exactly one week before Election Day -- and he's already called his first press conference, which will take place just hours after his scheduled release. On Tuesday, Bannon will have served his four-month prison term.... He was sentenced on two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. ... The decision was upheld by a federal appeals court in May 2024, and Bannon has since been serving his time at a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Sam Mangel, Bannon's prison consultant, told ABC News that his client taught history and American government in prison. "He was excellent at it, I'm told," Mangel said. "The people who took his classes really enjoyed it, because he's an extraordinarily intelligent man. And has a wealth of knowledge that no one else in that facility could possibly have." The prison consultant told ABC News Bannon "held his head up high" and was respected by the other inmates. ... Before reporting to prison, Bannon told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl that he had "no regrets" about defying the House Jan. 6 Committee's subpoena. "If it took me going to prison to finally get the House to start to move, to start to delegitimize the illegitimate J6 committee, then, hey, guess what, my going to prison is worth it," he said at the time. Bannon used his "War Room" podcast to announce a press conference for the morning of his release, which is scheduled to take place in Manhattan on Tuesday.

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I fully expect Bannon to come out breathing fire.
1 posted on 10/28/2024 7:03:22 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
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OMG! Days before the election!!! Oh my...
2 posted on 10/28/2024 7:05:36 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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I’m sorry he wasn’t free in time to join the rally last night...he should have been there. The Biden DOJ is full of petty little bastards.


3 posted on 10/28/2024 7:09:46 PM PDT by LizzieD
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To: LizzieD

Now he can join the final Trump rallies before Election Day.


4 posted on 10/28/2024 7:21:35 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: LizzieD

>> The Biden DOJ is full of petty little bastards.

My formula for administering justice to DOJ:

1% should be hung in the public square
9% should be in prison, some for life
90% should be immediately fired.

*some* DOJ needs to be rebuilt, and *some* of the fired ones are worthy of re-employment; let them apply and *earn* their positions back after a *thorough* vetting.

Same goes for FBI and CIA, by the way.

And blow apart so-called “department of homeland security”. It can go back to being separate institutions. MINIMAL separate institutions. Put the slimmed-down and thoroughly vetted Secret Service back under Treasury.

Not sure we even need an FBI.


5 posted on 10/28/2024 7:23:47 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: SharpRightTurn
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. The case is being prosecuted by the Fraud, Public Corruption, and Civil Rights Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

That's like being investigated by the Moscow Political Crimes Division of the KGB and being tried in a the Soviet Moscow Military District Court

6 posted on 10/28/2024 7:25:19 PM PDT by PGR88
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Bannon and Navarro have served their time for defying the J6 committee. They are free to speak.


7 posted on 10/28/2024 7:31:02 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: LibertyWoman
The Derp State held Bannon until one day AFTER Trump's huge rally in Madison Square Garden WHERE HE SURELY WOULD'VE SPOKEN.

His release date is NOT a coincidence!

8 posted on 10/28/2024 7:31:27 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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“I’m sorry he wasn’t free in time to join the rally last night...he should have been there.”

Yes, that would have been great.


9 posted on 10/28/2024 7:36:21 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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“That’s like being investigated by the Moscow Political Crimes Division of the KGB and being tried in a the Soviet Moscow Military District Court”

BTTT


10 posted on 10/28/2024 7:38:26 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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I fully expect Bannon to come out breathing fire.
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Many men enter prison and find the Lord. St. Peter, St. Paul, MLK, miracles in prisons are happening all the time. So, I’ve been praying for Steve Bannon, but rather than peace, I am getting the sense that he has much to say.

And I cant wait to hear him.


11 posted on 10/28/2024 7:47:08 PM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
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90% fired and prosecuted. Make them spend their money on their legal defense. Even if found not guilty they should be broke by the end of it.


12 posted on 10/28/2024 7:56:26 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Nervous Tick

See my tagline.


13 posted on 10/28/2024 7:57:25 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Kewl! I concur!


14 posted on 10/28/2024 7:58:28 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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‘Bannon’s prison consultant [said that Bannon] taught history and American government in prison. “He was excellent at it, I’m told,”... The prison consultant told ABC News Bannon “held his head up high” and was respected by the other inmates. ...’

Like St. Peter & St. Paul and MLK, Bannon with GOD’s help left his prison and his fellow prisoners a better place for his having been there.


15 posted on 10/28/2024 8:03:22 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: SharpRightTurn

When Dems jail their political enemies it is not Hitler, it is Castro.


16 posted on 10/28/2024 8:11:38 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: lurk

The Beltway Bolsheviks also ruined the lives of Rudy Guiliani, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and untold numbers of innocent January 6th demonstrators.

They represent pure evil.


17 posted on 10/28/2024 8:14:50 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: SharpRightTurn

The judge that sentenced him needs to go to prison.


18 posted on 10/28/2024 8:39:33 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Nervous Tick

Agree with everything you said.


19 posted on 10/28/2024 8:40:22 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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90% fired and prosecuted. Make them spend their money on their legal defense. Even if found not guilty they should be broke by the end of it.

*YES!*

Unleash the very same power against them, and make *THEM* suffer. Burn through their cash and threaten them with prison. The shoe needs to be put on their foot.

20 posted on 10/28/2024 8:42:26 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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