Steve Bannon returns to the microphone with a vengeance: "Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner"

"Here's your host, Steve Bannon." The conservative commentator returned to host his online show Bannon's War Room just hours after being released from the low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where he served four months for contempt of Congress.

"Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner," the former Trump adviser bluntly said from his New York studios. What for? To "tamp down the power of this show and also to break me." And he directed a message to the former House speaker: "This show has never been more powerful… we’re going to deliver a knockout blow to your progressive insanity on five november."

Bannon thanked his team for continuing the programming during his absence, and assured that it was his "turn to be next man up." Just "six and a wakeup away from the most important political days in the history of this country."

Democrats, 'clinging to power'

He appeared to have tiptoed around the election from behind bars, touching on such topics as the Madison Square Garden rally, Elon Musk's campaign and Kamala Harris' problems with black and Hispanic voters. On the latter, he asserted:

"I can tell you being a political prisoner in a federal prison that the young men in this country that are African American and Hispanic detest, detest, Kamala Harris. We have a chance to move past race on November 5th."

After assuring that Democrats and progressives "have no intention of given up power," he asserted that it was necessary, first, to "crush them at the ballot box," furthering the idea of a victory too big for fraud to occur. He then called to protect the vote by supporting legal efforts to avoid delays or delegitimization.

He also asked not to relax because the latest polls show a positive outlook for Trump.

"American politics is a blood sport right now"

"I’m a little rusty, I haven’t done this in four months," joked Bannon, who was nonetheless relaxed and energetic: he chatted with guests including commentator Gavin M. Wax, Dr. Naomi Wolf and author Eric Metaxas, introduced the book Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws: A Pictorial History of WarRoom, and interrupted programming to live stream a panel of the Republican presidential front-runner...

He also described the current political scene as "a blood sport right now." In that vein, he disparaged Democrats and journalists who called Trumpists "fascists" - and thus his own audience, "they’re calling you fascist" - and took aim at the journalists who participated in his first, pre-show press conference: "The hostility was a physical presence, a material presence."