Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon was launched from a federal jail on Tuesday. Bannon served 4 months after being convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress in October 2022.
The best-wing podcast host served his time after quite a few appeals and rejections, together with the Trump-friendly Supreme Court docket’s June determination to disclaim one other request to delay his jail sentence.
Bannon couldn’t keep out of jail regardless of being the beneficiary of one of many sloppy pardons Trump handed out on the finish of his time period in workplace. He was indicted on federal expenses of fraud and conspiracy alleging that he and different organizers of the “We Build the Wall” nonprofit used donor cash to counterpoint themselves as a substitute of really constructing a wall alongside the southern border of america. Bannon is nonetheless going through comparable fraud expenses from Manhattan prosecutors.
The Trump loyalist was again to selling conspiracy theories on his “War Room” podcast simply hours after his launch on Tuesday. Whether or not it’s peddling 2020 election lies or ruminating about far-out theories involving ”deep state” psychological operations involving pop star Taylor Swift, Bannon’s podcast is the place the place he and other people like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can peddle conspiracy theories a few murky “globalist elite.”
CNN studies that Bannon’s podcast has diminished in recognition throughout his absence, and even a revolving crew of MAGA movie star hosts together with fellow ex-Trump adviser (and ex-convict) Peter Navarro hasn’t carried out a lot for its rankings. And whereas many imagine Bannon’s present will doubtless get well now that their No. 1 trainwreck is again on the helm, a spike in rankings may not be sufficient to have any influence on an election that is just one week away.
“I think it’s going to take some time to bring the audience back and to mobilize them,” Madeline Peltz, deputy director for fast response at Media Issues, instructed CNN. “I don’t think the one-week period between now and the election is enough time to complete that, but I think really, you’ll see it kick into high gear in the post-election chaos that we’re all sort of anticipating.”
Bannon’s New York trial for his border-wall fraud was delayed whereas he served his jail time and is set to start in December. Ideas and prayers.
