Steve Bannon received out of federal jail at round 3 am Tuesday. Seven hours later, he was stay on his Warfare Room podcast to “flood the zone with shit” precisely one week earlier than the presidential election.
Flooding the zone with shit is Bannon’s personal oft-quoted description of his media technique: churning so many lies or half-truths into the stratosphere that it turns into inconceivable to attract a line between reality and fiction.
“I’m extra energized and extra centered than I’ve ever been in my total life,” stated Bannon on the Warfare Room stream on Rumble, which garnered practically 100,000 stay viewers at one level. “The 4 months in federal jail not solely didn’t break me, it empowered me.”
Bannon, 70, a longtime ally of and former strategist for Donald Trump, spent 4 months at a low-security federal jail in Danbury, Connecticut, for contempt after he defied a subpoena within the congressional probe into the January 6 Capitol riot.
Bannon has solid himself as a martyr—somebody who, like January 6 rioters and like Trump, is being unfairly persecuted by the identical tyrannical forces they’re up in opposition to subsequent week within the election.
On Tuesday on air, and later at a press convention, Bannon repeatedly prompt that former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi banished him to jail as a result of she needed to include his affect.
“When you’re not ready to be despatched to federal jail as a political prisoner, you then’re unfit to be on this motion,” he stated. “You must perceive, they wish to put you in jail, and they’re going to put you in jail. When you can’t settle for that, you then don’t know what they signify.”
Bannon’s return to the general public sphere additionally means the return of a large mouthpiece to amplify the election fraud conspiracies which can be already raging on-line. And Bannon received on to enterprise, spinning a story to his viewers of Democrats plotting to heist the 2024 election.
“Every single day after November 5 goes to be Stalingrad,” Bannon stated. “If they will’t take it away from Trump, if they will’t nullify it proper there, they wish to not less than delegitimize his victory.”
“They may go to any size to cease President Trump,” Bannon continued. “That’s the truth.”
A 2023 Brookings examine on disinformation in political podcasts recognized Bannon’s Warfare Room as the largest disseminator of falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims; a few fifth of all episodes assessed by researchers had been decided to have claims flagged as false by debunkers reminiscent of Snopes and Politifact.
“If the Pelosi equipment wins, you higher be ready to go to federal jail,” Bannon stated. “As a result of these folks don’t have any qualms about weaponizing the justice system, weaponizing the authorized system, in opposition to Individuals who’ve completely different political opinions.”
His followers appear to be pleased he’s again. “God Bless You Steve’ Get The Bannon Sledge Hammer Out, And Begin Smashing The TRAITORS,” one viewer wrote throughout the Tuesday livestream.
“Welcome again Steve, we want our chief,” wrote one other. “Give us our marching orders and lets get this executed.”
