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Victoria Bekiempis

Steve Bannon peddles US election conspiracy theories on podcast hours after prison exit

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Steve Bannon speaks at a Turning Point USA event in Detroit, Michigan, on 15 June 2024. Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters

Steve Bannon, a longtime Donald Trump ally who orchestrated his successful 2016 presidential campaign, was just hours out of federal prison when he returned to peddling unfounded conspiracy theories, urging supporters to make sure Democrats “cannot steal the election”.

Bannon, who early on Tuesday morning completed a four-month sentence in Danbury, Connecticut, for flouting a congressional subpoena in an investigation of the January 6 US Capitol attack, fanned the flames of electoral unease on his first War Room podcast post-release.

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