Stephen Bannon Is Released From Prison
The New York Times
Mr. Bannon, one of the most influential voices in hard-right American politics, predicted a legal battle after Election Day that could last weeks or months.
Stephen K. Bannon, the combative and calculating strategist who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the White House and became one of the most influential voices of the hard right, was released from federal prison early Tuesday.
He wasted little time reprising his role as one of the leading provocateurs of the former president’s political movement.
“I’m not broken, I’m empowered,” Mr. Bannon said in an interview shortly after his release at 3:15 a.m. from a low-security prison in Danbury, Conn.
He predicted a bitter legal battle after Election Day that could last for weeks or months before a winner is clear. “If people think American politics has been divisive before, you haven’t seen anything,” he said.
Mr. Bannon, 70, had been serving a four-month sentence on contempt charges for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena seeking information about the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Asked on Tuesday whether he thought it had been worth a prison sentence to not testify before Congress, he said: “1,000 percent.”
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