“This show has never been more powerful. The voices behind it have never been more powerful. The audience has never been more powerful,” the former White House adviser said live from New York following his release from prison on Tuesday morning, speaking to an audience of more than 150,000 live viewers, according to metrics on X and Rumble.

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Bannon’s release comes just a week before Election Day, where Trump, his former boss, is in a tight race with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The War Room host’s imprisonment became a rallying call for Trump’s MAGA movement at a time when the former president himself is battling four different criminal cases against him, two of which could be significantly diminished if he wins back the Oval Office.

Bannon’s prison term stemmed from his 2022 conviction for failing to comply with a subpoena from the now-dissolved House Jan. 6 committee, which required him to appear for a deposition and produce requested documents. Though Bannon sought to stay out of prison during his appeal, the Supreme Court declined his request days before his report date.

At several points during his podcast on Tuesday, Bannon blamed his imprisonment on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who was the speaker of the House at the time of his subpoena fight with the now-defunct Jan. 6 committee.

“You know 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 the show … and also to break me,” Bannon said defiantly.

The former Trump administration adviser also criticized Democratic election attorney Marc Elias on several occasions Tuesday morning, warning that the former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer has been tapped by the Harris campaign to be an “adviser” on post-election litigation.

“This guy, Marc Elias. He’s their top attack dog in elections. He’s literally laid out a blueprint of how they’re going to steal the election,” Bannon said.

Bannon’s criminal case followed a similar one surrounding former Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro, who also served prison time for defying the committee’s subpoena related to the Capitol riot.

While the committee voted to hold other Trump officials in contempt, such as former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, federal prosecutors chose not to pursue charges in those cases.

Navarro argued at his trial that executive privilege prevented him from cooperating with the committee. However, his judge ruled this defense inadmissible as Navarro couldn’t show that Trump had invoked privilege.

Navarro’s team argued this limitation affected his defense, a matter now central to his appeal. Released from prison in July, Navarro resumed his public appearances shortly after his prison term.

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Bannon’s defense was similarly based on Trump’s claim of executive privilege. Though his judge initially allowed him to remain free pending appeal, Bannon’s appeal failed in May, prompting the judge to enforce his prison sentence by July 1.

Outside the court after his sentencing, Bannon remarked defiantly, “There’s not a prison built or a jail built that’ll ever shut me up.”