Hours after he was released from federal prison, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, said he had a warning for the Biden family: Pardon Hunter before he has to serve a sentence that could destroy him.
“I don’t think Hunter Biden would last 48 hours in a federal prison,” he told DailyMail.com
“I think it would be too much for him, especially because of his previous drug addiction.”
The president’s son could face years in prison if he is convicted in December of gun and tax crimes.
Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon was released from prison on Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress in connection with the January 6 violence
Bannon described the hardships of life inside during an exclusive interview at the end of his four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.
He left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, early Tuesday morning.
After broadcasting his livestream show War Room from a Manhattan hotel suite, he spoke to DailyMail.com about the low points of his incarceration, what he learned from the prisoners and how life in the U.S. Navy prepared him for being locked up fed up. so many men.
‘I am 70 years old. “I can tell you there are not many septuagenarians I know on Wall Street or in the political class who could go to a federal prison for four months,” he said.
‘It’s extremely difficult.
“These places are violent places. There are many medications. This drug, K2, is all over these prisons.”
K2 is synthetic marijuana, also called “spice,” that can be sprayed onto paper and smuggled into prison.
He spoke to DailyMail.com about life inside. He said President Joe Biden should pardon his son Hunter to spare him the rigors of prison
‘That’s why you have to be maniacally focused 24 hours a day. “I think it’s clear to me that Joe Biden will have to pardon his son.”
Biden has repeatedly said he will not use his powers to pardon his son. But insiders say the thought of Hunter, who has five years of sobriety, spending time in prison is a heavy burden on the family.
Bannon was convicted in 2022 on two counts of defying subpoenas issued by the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack when Trump supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
Hunter Biden (seen here at the White House last month) will be sentenced in December for gun and tax crimes. He could face a maximum of 25 years in prison
His release, just a week before Election Day, sends one of Trump’s most powerful voices back onto the airwaves just as the two candidates hammer out their closing messages.
Opinion polls put Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris neck and neck.
Bannon immediately returned to the campaign Tuesday morning.
He returned to the airwaves at 10 a.m. and used his show to accuse former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of trying to silence him.
‘She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner to do two things: to make sure she was trying to undermine the power of this show, right, undermine the power of the show, and also to break me ,” he said. said.
“Nancy Pelosi, take out your number two pencil and write this down: This show has never been more powerful.”
He urged his supporters to ensure Democrats “can’t steal the election,” showing that prison time had not dampened his fire.
After his release on Tuesday, Bannon was immediately back in the middle of the campaign
After hosting his livestream show War Room, he held a press conference in a crowded Manhattan hotel suite
Later in the day it was time for a news conference, where dozens of journalists crammed into a luxury hotel suite to hear him repeat the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
Dressed in his signature double shirt and Barbour jacket, he said he had already spoken to Trump but declined to provide further details about their conversation.
Victory would come down to getting the ground game going and getting the vote out, he said.
But he had a warning for anyone who thought it would be over soon.
“My focus is on winning next Tuesday and the biggest possible number, because people, don’t think it will end on Tuesday,” he said. “This is going to take a while to figure this out.”
Thousands of Trump supporters marched on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, as part of an effort to overturn the election results
Bannon was Trump’s chief strategist in the White House before losing a power struggle with other advisers to the president
Bannon left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday
Speaking later to DailyMail.com, he described how the strict regime and outdoor exercises had helped him lose weight and that the time spent with other prisoners energized him for the political struggle ahead.
But he said it was wrong for anyone to think the prison was a camp. And Biden needs to think carefully about what he would do to Hunter.
“I don’t think his son can handle it,” he said.
“These are dangerous, difficult places.”