WorldNetDaily has spent the year being enamored with far-right crank Steve Bannon, from gushing over his falsehood-ridden speech at CPAC to being sad that he was sent to prison for breaking the law. That fretting continued in an Oct. 22 article stolen from the Gateway Pundit claiming that “The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has admitted to holding former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon illegally, in violation of the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018.” In fact, the BOP pointed out that by the time the request could be processed, Bannon would already be released anyway.
Bannon was indeed released a few days later, and Bob Unruh was in full gush mode:
Businessman and conservative firebrand Steve Bannon, caught in the bull’s-eye of the Democrats’ lawfare campaigns against President Donald Trump and jailed for refusing to comply with the partisan agenda of ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s special committee on Jan. 6, 2021, has returned to his “War Room” broadcasts on fire.
According to comments transcribed by the Gateway Pundit, he promised Pelosi, “Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison. She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner to do two things, to make sure that she tried to tamp down the power of this show, right? Tamp down the power of the show and also to break me. Nancy Pelosi, take out your No. 2 (pencil) and write this down. This show has never been more powerful. … The audiences behind it have never been more powerful. The audience has never been more powerful. And we’re going to deliver a knockout blow to your progressive insanity on 5th of November, and then we’re going to secure the deal after that.”
He said, “It’s Tuesday, the 29th of October in the Year of Our Lord 2024. We’re, what, six and a wake up away from one of the most important political days in the history of this country. But I want to make sure everybody understands something.”
“We have two things we’re going to talk about today, the get out to vote effort, focused on our first phase, which is November 5th. …I have never heard, and I think most people would agree, the rhetoric that’s come out about American citizens calling this audience, not just Donald Trump, and not the people around Donald Trump. That’s bad enough. Calling us fascists, but calling you fascists. Saying that that fantastic, that amazing rally in Madison Square Garden that could never be pulled off by Kamala Harris or the Democrats. With that energy and people from Tulsi Gabbard to Elon Musk, just the broad cross-section you had of American entrepreneurs, Vivek Ramiswami, you had these powerhouses up there. They’re trying to smirch that with one influencer’s throw away, not funny line.
“I can tell you in coming from and being a political prisoner in a federal prison, that the young men in this country that are African-American and Hispanic detest Kamala Harris. They detest her.”
[…]He said the second part is that four months in prison “empowered me. I am more energized and more focused than I’ve ever been in my entire life. I can see clearly, just like in 2016 and in 2020, exactly what’s going on here and what we have to do to defeat it. I want to go back through the three phases. Number one is 5 November. All that matters right now in places like Pennsylvania, and in Michigan, and in Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, obviously other states, but these seven battleground states, is to deliver something that takes us to where Ohio and Florida are today…”
Unruh served up a revisionist history of why Bannon went to prison in the first place:
Bannon, a former Trump adviser, had refused demands from Pelosi’s partisans to turn over confidential communications between himself and Trump around the time of the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Congress demanded his records, but he explained they were protected by presidential privilege and Congress was not qualified to demand them. Eventually, President Trump released his hold on the information and Bannon said he would comply, but partisans in Congress pressed charges anyway.
In fact, Trump had fired Bannon from the White House in 2017, meaning that Bannon was a private citizen when he was consulting with the then-president in the run-up to the riot and, thus, his communications were not protected.
After Trump’s election victory, Unruh cheered Bannon’s threat of violence against Trump’s critics:
Steven Bannon, an adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term in office, just got out of a short prison term – sent there by Democrats in Congress who demanded he provide to them information about the president and his comments around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, protest-turned-riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The information he had was covered at the time by presidential privilege, but it made no difference to the partisan committee set up by ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi which tried to find every way it could to blame Trump for that vandalism that day.
Bannon, addressing the apparent fraud in the 2020 election, spoke out after Trump’s White House election was confirmed early Wednesday.
He promised those who manipulated votes, who schemed over evidence regarding Trump and others, and who were involved in what has been described as the “stolen” 2020 presidential election, that “justice” is coming.
“You deserve not retribution, justice,” he said.
“But you deserve what we call rough Roman justice, and we’re prepared to give it to you.”
He cited Trump’s decision to urge Americans to unity during his victory speech in the day’s early hours.
“He may be empathetic. He may have a kind heart. He may be a good man, but we’re NOT!” he warned.
Bannon and Unruh did not explain what “rough Roman justice” means, but it sure sounds violent.