Bannon Assures Podcast Listeners His Show Will Continue During Prison Stint

Final month, longtime Trump adviser Stephen Bannon claimed in an emergency courtroom submitting that he mustn’t need to report back to jail whereas interesting his contempt of Congress conviction, partially as a result of it could deprive his podcast listeners of essential political insights within the months main as much as the election. Sadly for Bannon, that argument didn’t sway the appeals courtroom, and following a last-ditch petition to the Supreme Court docket that was rejected on Friday, he begins a four-month jail sentence as we speak.

However not earlier than one last version of his podcast, the Struggle Room; talking to The New York Occasions over the weekend, Bannon said he would host two hours of the present exterior the Danbury, Connecticut, jail the place he can be incarcerated for the following 16 weeks. “We’ll be as near the jail as we will presumably get,” Bannon informed the outlet, saying that after he hangs up his headphones, “I’ll stroll throughout the road and give up.” In the meantime, the present will proceed in his absence. Per the Times:

He has ready for this second for months, Mr. Bannon stated, enlisting a workforce of almost 20 visitor hosts to proceed pumping out the present, which streams its distinctive stew of unvaryingly pro-Trump political patter for 4 hours a day, Monday by way of Friday, plus two extra hours on Saturdays.

That group consists of Andrew Giuliani, the son of Mr. Trump’s former lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani; Mr. Bannon’s daughter, Maureen; Noor bin Laden, the niece of Osama bin Laden, who is understood for her perception in conspiracy theories; and Jeffrey Clark, who served within the Justice Division underneath Mr. Trump and faces felony expenses in Georgia in reference to efforts to overturn Mr. Trump’s 2020 election loss there. They’ll be answerable for managing the stream of Republican politicians, consultants, media figures, pollsters, coverage specialists, donors, intellectuals, and economists who use Struggle Room as a bullhorn aimed straight at what’s arguably Mr. Trump’s most loyal and engaged base of help.

Bannon informed the Times that former Trump commerce adviser Peter Navarro will even seem on the present, after his jail sentence ends July 17. Navarro additionally selected to disregard a congressional subpoena from the January 6 committee, and was convicted final yr.

Talking of convicted criminals, Bannon stated he’ll stay targeted on getting Donald Trump reelected throughout his time on the within, and that if the ex-president doesn’t win in November, it’s going to mark “the loss of life of the constitutional American republic we all know.”