How Prison Time Could Burnish Steve Bannon’s MAGA Cred: “It’s Amazing Clout”
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It’s not easy to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces. But throughout the years, Steve Bannon, host of the popular right-wing War Room podcast, has continued to prove an indispensable voice for the former president, saturating the airwaves with pro-MAGA propaganda while galvanizing Trump’s base into action. On the latest episode of inside the Inside the Hive, Puck National Correspondent Tina Nguyen and Washington Post National Political Reporter Isaac Arnsdorf discuss how the infamous and canny GOP strategist helped Trump come out of his post-election hibernation, whether Bannon is more bark than bite, and why his impending time behind bars could burnish his MAGA bona fides. “It’s amazing clout,” Nyugen says of Bannon's prison sentence, “for someone in the MAGA world in these MAGA times with a MAGA audience.”
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| 0:38.7 | Isaac, can you just remind us why Steve Bannon is about to go to prison? |
| 0:43.0 | Well, this was for essentially blowing off the subpoena from the House Committee |
| 0:48.0 | investigating January 6th. |
| 0:50.0 | They were requesting documents and testimony from him and there were some other |
| 0:54.3 | witnesses who went in and took the fifth but he just didn't respond at all and so they |
| 0:59.7 | referred that to the Department of Justice he He was prosecuted and convicted. The judge |
| 1:04.0 | stayed that sentence to give him the opportunity to appeal and he finally lost |
| 1:09.4 | that appeal and so the judge said it's time to report to prison. |
| 1:13.0 | That is Isaac Arnstorf, national political reporter for the Washington Post. |
| 1:18.0 | His new book, Finish What We Started, is all about the MAGA movement since January 6th and he interviewed |
| 1:24.4 | Bannon for the book. And I'm Brian Stelter. Welcome to Inside the Hive from |
| 1:29.9 | Vanity Fair. This week we're going inside what Steve Bannon calls the war room. It's his |
| 1:36.2 | podcast where he rallies the Trump faithful and plots revenge against perceived |
| 1:40.6 | enemies. I think it's important to know what's being said there. |
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