What happened to former Trump strategist Steve Bannon? The War Room podcaster is currently serving time in prison, so invited Osama bin Laden’s niece and Rudy Giuliani’s son to guest host his show
- Steve Bannon was the name on everyone’s lips – and the cover of Time magazine – during the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, but fell out of favour with the former POTUS soon after
- Now he’s in prison for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena, and has lined up a series of guest hosts to take over his War Room podcast while he serves his time
Steve Bannon, 70, is currently serving four months in prison for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the attacks on the US Capitol in 2021 – and he’s not going quietly.
Bannon, considered by some to be the man behind the rise of the alt-right in America, as well as the driving force behind the right-wing Breitbart News Network, was also previously Trump’s chief strategist.
Here’s what you need to know about the Maga firebrand.
What is Steve Bannon behind bars for?
On July 1, Bannon reported to Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut to begin a four-month sentence for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas in relation to the January 6 riots on the US Capitol in 2021. According to CNN, the January 6 committee was interested in communications between Bannon and Trump from December 2020, as well as comments Bannon made on a podcast that aired the day before the riots in which he said, “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow”.
The committee investigating the riot wanted details from him on those conversations and the context for his comments on the podcast, but Bannon had repeatedly refused, citing “executive privilege” invoked by Trump. However, the committee claim that the privilege never allowed Bannon the freedom to ignore the subpoena in the first place, so in 2022, Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced to prison by federal judge Carl Nichols.
Prison drama
