Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American media executive, political strategist, and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of U.S. president Donald Trump's administration, before Trump discharged him. He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News and previously served on the board of the now-defunct data-analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy from 1977 to 1983, after which he worked for two years at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker. In 1993, he became acting director of the research project Biosphere 2. He was an executive producer on 18 Hollywood films from 1991 to 2016. In 2007, he co-founded Breitbart News, a far-right website which he described in 2016 as "the platform for the alt-right". Bannon was held in contempt of Congress in October 2021 after he refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the 2021 United States Capitol attack. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on two criminal charges of contempt of Congress. In July 2022, he was convicted on both counts in a jury trial. He was sentenced in October 2022 to four months in prison and a $6,500 fine. After losing his appeal, he was ordered to report to prison by July 1, 2024, unless the full appeals court takes the case and issues its own ruling to pause the sentence from being enforced.
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Bannon Predicts ‘Criminal’ Zuckerberg Will ‘Flip’ on Trump Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has dubbed Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg a “criminal” and said he would be likely to betray the MAGA movement despite his recent efforts to woo the president-elect. The War Room podcast host told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl on This Week that he saw Zuckerberg and other tech billionaires including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as “supplicants.” “They’re not there as the oligarchs,” he asserted in an interview that aired Sunday. “We had no power. President Trump was out and, I mean, went out of the political class and the Republican Party, and Fox News turned against him. ‘We’re going to make him a nonperson.’ He was banned from their platforms for, I think, 18 months. But as soon as Zuckerberg said, ‘I’ve been invited, I’m going,’ The floodgates opened up, and they were all there knocking, trying to be supplicants. (Daily Beast 1/19/25) READ MORE>>>>> Steve Bannon Escalates MAGA Civil War With Call for ‘Reparations’ Over H-1B Visas Steve Bannon escalated the MAGA civil war Monday by calling for ‘reparations’ for Americans for losing out to immigrants on H-1B visas–who should themselves, he said, be deported. Bannon repeatedly railed against the program—and billionaire Elon Musk, who backs the visas—on Monday’s War Room, asking guests including conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and former-Democrat-turned-MAGA-backer Allison Huynh whether Musk understood the visas were a “scam.”(Daily Beast 12/30/24) READ MORE>>>>> Steve Bannon Speaks Publicly For First Time Since Prison Release Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Donald Trump, was released from federal prison early Tuesday morning after completing a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Bannon served his time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, after being convicted for defying a subpoena related to the investigation of the events that occurred on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capital, as previously reported by The Dallas Express. After his release, Bannon wasted no time voicing his support for Trump and urging Republican voters to mobilize against Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election. (Dallas Express 10/31/24) READ MORE>>>>> Cagey Steve Bannon Cites Recent 'Developments' and 'Significant Events' in Bid to Force Judge to Release Him From Prison Early Former Trump White House senior strategist Steve Bannon is desperate to get out of his prison cell. While Bannon was sentenced to only four-months behind bars for contempt of Congress, he's already filed a bail motion in hopes of getting out early, RadarOnline.com can reveal. Bannon, 70, is two-months into his prison sentence. His latest attorney, R. Trent McCotter, filed the 12-page motion with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday, August 29. (RadarOnline 8/30/24) READ MORE>>>>> How Trump’s intimidation tactics have reshaped the Republican Party Trump had help in hounding him. After the vote, Rice and the nine other Republican House members who defied Trump were targeted by Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist in Trump's White House. On Bannon’s daily “War Room” podcast, Rice was lambasted by Jason Miller, a Trump 2020 campaign advisor, as “worthless” and “not coming back.” The “War Room” abuse went on for two days. In an email responding to questions from Reuters, Miller did not address his attacks on Rice. Bannon’s “War Room” program, a go‐to interview for pro-Trump celebrities, claims to reach millions of viewers. That puts him at the center of a far-right online influencer network that joins and amplifies Trump’s calls to purge unfaithful officials. Other top MAGA figures have been hosting the show since July, when Bannon began a five-month prison sentence for refusing to testify to Congress about the Capitol attack. Nebraska congressman Don Bacon, a retired Air Force general and evangelical Christian with a firmly conservative voting record, says he has been threatened and harassed repeatedly by people “radicalized” by far-right media personalities such as Bannon. (Reuters 8/16/24) READ MORE>>>>> Steve Bannon to report to prison on Monday Steve Bannon is finally headed to prison for refusing to answer for his role on January 6th. After a busy day of gutting executive authority, criminalizing homelessness, and protecting January 6th rioters, the Supreme Court denied a last-ditch effort from Steve Bannon to avoid a prison sentence, setting him up for a July 1 report to jail. Bannon was charged with contempt of Congress after denying to answer a subpoena from the January 6th select committee, and sentenced nearly two years ago to a four-month stint before a deluge of appeals set his sentence back. (Salon 6/29/24) READ MORE>>>>> Steve Bannon promises a second Trump administration will target journalists Accountability day starts the afternoon of 20 January 2025. It's going to happen. You have to embrace that. You have to embrace it. Don't be tortured. Don't have torturous conversations, leave the country. Leave. You know what you've done. Run, run now. The long arm of American justice will get you, sir, because we owe this, we have a duty, we have an obligation to this constitutional republic, to get us back on its even keel and one of those things we have to do is we have to is show the world that we can regenerate. How do we do that? We have to go back to the people that tried to steal this Republic, to try to turn it into a fascist state, to try to turn it into a police state. And the media should understand too, every text message, every email, every lie you told is going to be exposed and yes, you're going to be held accountable. If you didn’t do anything wrong, you shouldn’t be having a tortuous conversation. (Media Matters 6/10/24) READ MORE>>>>> Why Steve Bannon’s and Hunter Biden’s subpoena disputes differ Former Trump administration adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison after he was convicted on contempt of Congress charges for disobeying a subpoena from the House’s Jan. 6 select committee. A judge recently ordered Bannon to report to prison by July 1. Hunter Biden initially refused a subpoena to testify privately in front of House Republicans conducting an impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden offered to testify publicly instead. Hunter Biden eventually agreed to testify privately. The House did not vote on whether to hold him in contempt. (Politi-Fact 6/10/24) READ MORE>>>>> |
October 29, 2024: Steve Bannon is released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. March 3, 2023: Daily Beast reported: Far-right kingmaker Steve Bannon will come out swinging against Fox News at his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, according to CNN reporter Alayna Treene. Bannon said he would “go after” the right-wing media giant, Treene tweeted, and gave a preview of his line of attack: “The Murdochs have decided that Trump is not going to be President of the United States. Well, we've decided that Fox is not going to be a major network anymore.” Though conservative mega-pundits Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity publicly remain some of Trump’s biggest boosters, a rift has opened between the former president and Rupert Murdoch, the owner of his former favorite network. In February, legal filings revealed texts between Carlson, Hannity, and Murdoch in which they repeatedly called Trump’s baseless election fraud claims “crazy.” Murdoch’s vast right-wing media empire has recently heaped glowing coverage on Trump’s presumed primary rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. January 9, 2018: PBS reported: Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is stepping down as chairman of Breitbart News Network after a public break with President Donald Trump. Breitbart announced that Bannon would step down as executive chairman of the conservative news site. A report on the Breitbart website quotes Bannon saying, “I’m proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class news platform.” 
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Appears on Fox News Days After Accusing the Network of Wanting to 'Murder' Tucker Carlson
Greene attacked Fox News during a recent interview with Steve Bannon on his podcast, War Room, where she falsely accused the network of ignoring her motion to vacate House Speaker Johnson. “So you got to remember Fox News that literally fired Tucker Carlson, the number one cable TV news host in the nation,” Greene said. "Tucker, who was basically the voice of everyone, that’s the Fox News that refused to cover me calling the motion to vacate.” (Radar Online 5/12/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Greene attacked Fox News during a recent interview with Steve Bannon on his podcast, War Room, where she falsely accused the network of ignoring her motion to vacate House Speaker Johnson. “So you got to remember Fox News that literally fired Tucker Carlson, the number one cable TV news host in the nation,” Greene said. "Tucker, who was basically the voice of everyone, that’s the Fox News that refused to cover me calling the motion to vacate.” (Radar Online 5/12/24) READ MORE>>>>>
That dog don't hunt: Right-wing media say Kristi Noem’s vice presidential dreams are dead
Noem’s multifront collapse has right-wing media voices speculating about whether she “might be done” not just as a vice presidential contender, but potentially as a politician. “The whole thing reeks of desperation,” said The Five co-host Jeanine Pirro, while others complained that Noem’s “delusional” and “scary” self-sabotage not only harms her but, perhaps worst of all, embarrasses Trump by association. “I’ve always been an advocate of a woman as a VP,” claimed War Room host Steve Bannon on April 29. (Media Matters 5/10/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Noem’s multifront collapse has right-wing media voices speculating about whether she “might be done” not just as a vice presidential contender, but potentially as a politician. “The whole thing reeks of desperation,” said The Five co-host Jeanine Pirro, while others complained that Noem’s “delusional” and “scary” self-sabotage not only harms her but, perhaps worst of all, embarrasses Trump by association. “I’ve always been an advocate of a woman as a VP,” claimed War Room host Steve Bannon on April 29. (Media Matters 5/10/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Ex-60 Minutes reporter unleashes bizarre Baltimore bridge conspiracy theory
Former Fox News and CBS reporter Lara Logan went off the rails in a segment on Steve Bannon's "War Room," concocting an elaborate conspiracy theory that the Baltimore bridge disaster was actually a cyberattack directed against the United States — and somehow tied it to theories that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. "This is what you call death by 1,000 cuts," said Logan. "It is an absolutely catastrophic attack on critical infrastructure and you cannot see it because a cyberattack is unseen, just like the attack on 2020, on the voting machines that you cannot see."(Raw Story 3/26/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Former Fox News and CBS reporter Lara Logan went off the rails in a segment on Steve Bannon's "War Room," concocting an elaborate conspiracy theory that the Baltimore bridge disaster was actually a cyberattack directed against the United States — and somehow tied it to theories that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. "This is what you call death by 1,000 cuts," said Logan. "It is an absolutely catastrophic attack on critical infrastructure and you cannot see it because a cyberattack is unseen, just like the attack on 2020, on the voting machines that you cannot see."(Raw Story 3/26/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Even Steve Bannon is worried about Trump’s ability to govern
Normally, the Steve Bannon Experience feels a bit like shooting psychedelic toad venom into your eyeballs while Randy Quaid’s vestigial twin reads random 8chan posts, but occasionally he says something that sounds vaguely true-ish. It may be an accident. After all, a roomful of chimpanzees banging on typewriters could recreate all of Shakespeare’s works over trillions of years—or one teleprompter-ready Trump speech in about 15 minutes.
(Daily Kos 2/16/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Normally, the Steve Bannon Experience feels a bit like shooting psychedelic toad venom into your eyeballs while Randy Quaid’s vestigial twin reads random 8chan posts, but occasionally he says something that sounds vaguely true-ish. It may be an accident. After all, a roomful of chimpanzees banging on typewriters could recreate all of Shakespeare’s works over trillions of years—or one teleprompter-ready Trump speech in about 15 minutes.
(Daily Kos 2/16/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Steve Bannon calls Speaker Johnson “a hot mess” and “a wimp”
STEVE BANNON (HOST): I can't take anymore. I can't take anymore. So Johnson's now committed to five or six different alternatives. Right? Every time he gets in a room, he commits to something. Yo, dude. I wouldn't be so confident of anything right now. You're a mess. You're a hot mess. Courage. Courage. And courage means in the defining moment, you have to step into conflict. Dude, you're just a wimp. It's not hacking it. The country's in a crisis. You got all the leverage in the world if you have the titanium stones to say, hey, guess what, Biden? If you're going to have an invasion on the border, if you're going to spend money like crazy. If you're going to do this, hey, your illegitimate regime is going to shut down. You can suck on this because we are the House of Representatives, and I am Speaker of that House, empowered by the Constitution of the United States and the founding fathers of this nation. (Media Matters 1/12/24) READ MORE>>>>>
STEVE BANNON (HOST): I can't take anymore. I can't take anymore. So Johnson's now committed to five or six different alternatives. Right? Every time he gets in a room, he commits to something. Yo, dude. I wouldn't be so confident of anything right now. You're a mess. You're a hot mess. Courage. Courage. And courage means in the defining moment, you have to step into conflict. Dude, you're just a wimp. It's not hacking it. The country's in a crisis. You got all the leverage in the world if you have the titanium stones to say, hey, guess what, Biden? If you're going to have an invasion on the border, if you're going to spend money like crazy. If you're going to do this, hey, your illegitimate regime is going to shut down. You can suck on this because we are the House of Representatives, and I am Speaker of that House, empowered by the Constitution of the United States and the founding fathers of this nation. (Media Matters 1/12/24) READ MORE>>>>>