Hours after being released from federal prison, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon said he had a warning for the Biden family: Pardon Hunter before he has to serve a sentence that could destroy him.
“I don’t think Hunter Biden can last 48 hours in federal prison,” he told DailyMail.com.
“I think it would be too much for him, especially given his previous drug addiction.”
The president’s son could face years in prison when he is sentenced for tax and gun crimes in December.
Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon was released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress related to the Jan. 6 violence.
Bannon detailed the difficulties of life inside during an exclusive interview at the end of his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
He left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
After broadcasting his War Room show live from a Manhattan hotel suite, he sat down with DailyMail.com to talk about the lowest point of his incarceration, what he learned from inmates and how life in the US Navy The US had prepared him to be locked up with so many men.
‘I’m 70 years old. “I can tell you that I don’t know many 70-year-olds on Wall Street or in the political class who can go to federal prison for four months,” he said.
‘It’s extremely difficult.
‘These places are violent places. There are many drugs. This drug, K2, is everywhere in these prisons.
K2 is synthetic marijuana, also known as “spice,” that can be sprayed on paper and smuggled into prisons.
He spoke to DailyMail.com about the inner life. He said President Joe Biden should pardon his son Hunter to spare him the hardships of prison.
‘That’s why you have to be maniacally focused 24 hours a day. “I think it’s clear to me that Joe Biden is going to have to forgive his son.”
Biden has repeatedly said he will not use his powers to pardon his son. But insiders say the thought of Hunter, who has been sober for five years, spending time in prison has been a burden on the family.
Bannon was convicted in 2022 on two counts of defying subpoenas issued by the Congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack when Trump supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
Hunter Biden (seen here at the White House last month) will be sentenced for tax and gun crimes in December. He could face up to 25 years in prison.
His release just a week before Election Day unleashes one of Trump’s most powerful voices back on the airwaves just as the two candidates deliver their final messages.
Polls put Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris tied.
Bannon got back into the swing of things on the campaign trail Tuesday morning.
He returned to the airwaves at 10 a.m. and used his show to accuse former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of trying to silence him.
‘“She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner, to do two things, to make sure that she was trying to crush the power of this program, right, crush the power of the program, and also to break me,” he said. .
‘Nancy Pelosi, get out your number two pencil and write this: This show has never been more powerful.’
He urged his supporters to ensure that Democrats “can’t steal the election,” demonstrating that the prison sentence had not dampened his fire.
Bannon returned to the center of the campaign after his release on Tuesday.
After presenting his livestreamed show War Room, he held a press conference in a packed Manhattan hotel suite.
Later that day, there was a press conference, where dozens of journalists crowded into a luxury hotel suite to hear him repeat the baseless claim that the 2020 election had been stolen.
Dressed in his trademark double-shirt suit and Barbour jacket, he said he had already spoken with Trump but declined to offer further details of their conversation.
Victory would come down to getting the basic game going and getting out the vote, he said.
But he had a warning for anyone who thought this would end quickly.
“My focus is on victory next Tuesday and as many as possible, because friends: don’t think this will end on Tuesday,” he said. “This is going to take a while to sort out.”
Thousands of Trump supporters marched to the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, as part of an effort to overturn the election result.
Bannon was Trump’s chief White House strategist before losing a power struggle with other advisers to the president.
Bannon was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday.
Speaking later to DailyMail.com, he described how the strict regime and outdoor exercise had helped him lose weight and that the time he spent with other inmates gave him energy for the political fight ahead.
But he said it was wrong for anyone to think the prison was a camp. And Biden should think carefully about what he would do to Hunter.
“I don’t know that his son will take care of it,” he said.
“These are dangerous and difficult places.”