Donald Trump associate Steve Bannon has been released following a four-month bid in federal prison. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman reports.
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00:00The AP reports that Donald Trump associate Steve Bannon has been released from prison.
00:04Bannon served a four-month sentence in Danbury, Connecticut. He had been convicted of contempt
00:08of Congress for refusing to cooperate with investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020
00:13election. I'm proud of going to prison. I am proud of going to prison today.
00:18Bannon is expected to return to hosting his podcast, War Room. According to Newsweek,
00:23that show had fallen out of the Apple Podcast charts while it was handled by guest hosts in
00:27Bannon's absence. As Bannon has been an influential figure throughout Donald Trump's
00:32political career, it remains to be seen if his newly regained freedom will impact the election.
00:36Madeline Peltz of Media Matters tells CNN,
00:39I think it's going to take some time to bring the audience back and to mobilize them.
00:43I don't think the one-week period between now and the election is enough time to complete that,
00:47but I think really you'll see it kick into high gear in the post-election
00:50chaos that we're all sort of anticipating.