“I’m finally out of being a political prisoner,” Bannon declared at the media event, saying that prominent Democrats hoped to break him. “I think you can see today I’m far from broken. I’ve been empowered by my four months in Danbury federal prison.”
The experience was empowering, he said, because of whom he met and what they had to say about Harris.
“I was able to listen, to observe and to learn and from working-class minorities — young African American men and Hispanic men and yes, Puerto Rican men — about what their lives are," Bannon said, claiming his fellow prisoners took a dim view of Harris and the Biden administration's record on incarceration.
Bannon said similar things about the election and his time in prison on his podcast and web show earlier in the day. He bashed Democrats and their agenda, asserting that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent him to prison to silence his voice.
Bannon, 70, reported to the prison July 1 after the Supreme Court rejected his bid to delay the prison sentence while he appeals his conviction.
