Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon released from prison

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been released from prison after spending four months behind bars.

Bannon, 70, was released from a correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday, Benjamin O'Cone, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, told the BBC.

Bannon, a conservative podcast host who was instrumental in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was convicted in 2022 of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to an investigation into the Capitol insurrection on January 6. January to comply.

According to the New York Times, Bannon said after his release, “If people think American politics has been divisive before, you haven't seen anything.”

Bannon is scheduled to host his “War Room” podcast and hold a news conference in New York City on Tuesday.

Before he was sent to prison, Bannon delivered a consistent message of loyalty to Trump and hostility toward Democratic figures.

“I am a political prisoner of Nancy Pelosi, I am a political prisoner of Merrick Garland; “I am a political prisoner of Joe Biden and the corrupt Biden establishment,” he said before heading to prison.

He promised to continue helping Trump and his campaign behind bars.

“I've been serving my country and focused on that for the last decade or so,” he told the BBC before going to prison, referring to politics and Trump's slogan “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). “If I have to do it in a prison, then I’ll do it in a prison – it makes no difference at all.”

The Trump loyalist claimed on his podcast in May that Democrats would “do anything to steal this election.”

He has repeatedly falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Bannon still faces other legal problems – he was charged with money laundering, fraud and conspiracy in a separate case in New York state in 2022.

He was accused of defrauding donors in a fundraiser that promised to build part of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Bannon pleaded not guilty to the charges.