Former influential adviser to Donald Trump at the White House Steve Bannon was released Tuesday from prison, where he was detained for obstructing the investigative powers of Congress, one week before the presidential election which promises to be very close.
Also influential in Europe, the 70-year-old right-wing populist ideologue was sentenced to four months in prison for his refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary investigation into the assault on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.
His expected release was announced by most major American media in a particularly tense electoral context between anti-migrant speeches and personal attacks on the Republican side, with Donald Trump neck and neck in the polls against Democrat Kamala Harris.
Nearly four months after his incarceration in July in a Connecticut prison, Steve Bannon should resume control of his podcast “War Room” on Tuesday to continue, as he had promised, to support the Republican candidate, according to the CNN channel .
The return of Steve Bannon introduces a new “variable in a tight race” which is entering its final stretch before the November 5 vote, the New York Times. “Trump supporters hope Bannon can make a difference in the final week, boosting the enthusiasm of the party’s base,” according to the New York newspaper.
The sentence handed down in October 2022 for obstructing the investigative powers of Congress was confirmed on appeal on May 10, 2024.
On January 6, 2021, Steve Bannon spoke on the phone with Donald Trump. That day, hundreds of supporters of the outgoing president stormed the Capitol, seat of the US Congress, in an attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 election.
It was in the final months of Donald Trump’s victorious campaign in 2016 that Steve Bannon began to make his mark, denouncing a world order controlled by political and financial elites.
