Steve Bannon: I taught cellmates how the 'system' really works in prison... and left with a new plan and 12lbs lighter

Steve Bannon has spent nan greeting broadcasting to supporters and answering journalists' questions pinch 1 cardinal message: Prison didn't break him; it made him stronger.

But, aft he plonked himself down connected a sofa successful nan 5,500-square ft edifice suite serving arsenic Bannon run HQ for nan day, he admitted it mightiness not person been that way.

The lowest constituent was passing done a heavy alloy doorway and realizing that this was real.

'They put nan cardinal successful a monolithic alloy door. They unfastened nan alloy doorway and you locomotion successful and go, "Wow, this is simply a compartment block," he said Tuesday, describing nan lowest constituent of his 4 months. 

'But I said, "Hey, I did it successful nan Navy backmost successful my 20s. I'll do it here." 

'And it turned retired to beryllium not a large deal. I conscionable had to get focused and move it into a affirmative thing.'

Bannon sat down pinch Dailymail.com hours aft leaving national situation successful Danbury, Connecticut.

He served 4 months for contempt of Congress, charges he maintains were politically motivated and portion of an effort to soundlessness him up of Tuesday's election.

Now he is out. And he says he is brimming pinch caller ideas and plans for nan 'politics of money,' aft nan world leaves down nan 'politics of race' and nan 'politics of gender'.

He has proposal for Trump connected really to triumph nan predetermination and harsh words for his enemies. 

But successful an exclusive question and reply he besides talked astir what he learned successful prison, his weight loss regimen, and really he stayed abreast of 1 of nan tightest elections successful history.

But first he can't defy a excavation astatine a high-profile force arsenic he describes life down bars.

'This is not a camp. It's not what Michael Cohen went to,' he said. 'This is simply a prison. I deliberation if you saw nan image past nighttime erstwhile I walked out, it's sewage barbed wire, fences. 

'It's a prison. I was successful a compartment block. I was successful a cell, very mini cell.'

Cohen, Trump's erstwhile fixer-turned-star-witness against him, served portion of a three-year condemnation for lying to Congress and taxation fraud astatine Otisville Federal Correctional Institute (frequently named successful nan apical 10 of cushiest prisons) and portion successful his luxury flat because of nan COVID pandemic.

Bannon said he was fortunate to beryllium housed successful a portion for veterans but that he still had to support a 'maniacal focus' for his ain safety.

His early life arsenic a Naval serviceman aboard a destroyer helped hole him for nan experience.

'You unrecorded successful very cramped quarters, and you're jammed successful there,' he said. 

Violence and drugs, peculiarly synthetic marijuana K2, were commonplace.

'You person to beryllium very focused,' he said. 'But if you're focused and you benignant of travel up pinch a plan, ... my scheme was to to listen, to study and observe, past you tin make nan clip spell by quickly.'

Bannon was released conscionable aft 3am connected Tuesday and travelled to New York, wherever he was soon backmost down nan microphone hosting his 'War Room' show.

He was dressed successful trademark style, pinch 2 achromatic shirts layered complete each different and a wax Barbour overgarment complete nan top, contempt being inside.

His look was jowlier than usual, nan consequence of a situation fare and clip successful nan workout yard. At 1 constituent he had mislaid 20lb, he said, though it had astir apt evened retired astir a 12lb loss.

Coupled pinch nan early start, he looked shattered by his first time of state successful 4 months.

He said to Dailymail.com aft wrapping a chaotic property conference. Supporters shouted his presence and applauded answers.

At times he was pressed by an anti-Trump Republican writer earlier a man calling himself Robbie Roadsteamer, wearing a reddish suit, stood up and interrupted proceedings. 

'When's nan adjacent insurrection and tin we large wind nan Burger King,' he asked, earlier being marched retired by a information guard. 

Bannon maintained a quizzical look until he was capable to resume his onslaught connected Trump's predetermination force Kamala Harris. He bullied her 'politics of joy' saying she had grounded to construe it into a programme for government

'She is failing to link pinch number men, Hispanic and African-American men,' he said. 

'They understand what nan scam is. They understand that this management purposely fto successful millions of forbidden alien migrants to thrust down labour costs.'

He explained to DailyMail.com really he had utilized his clip successful broadside to research nan views of inmates. 

'I met immoderate fascinating people, peculiarly young African-Americans,' he said.

'I taught a people location successful civics and government, and I met immoderate unthinkable young group there.'

Every Tuesday afternoon, respective twelve inmates would crowd into a elemental schoolroom arsenic Bannon turned his 'War Room' shtick into lessons successful really nan world worked, complete pinch whiteboard and random quizzes.   

'What we effort to do successful nan "War Room" is return a moving people assemblage and really springiness them vulnerability to what would you would spot connected Bloomberg TV aliases reference nan Wall Street Journal,' he said.

It included economics, superior markets, macro economics. How deficits go $36 trillion successful indebtedness and nan liking payments that follow.

Listeners to his show will cognize really he joins nan dots from nan large numbers to nan small numbers successful American pocketbooks.

'I necktie it each together, and they can't get capable of it,' he said. 'People want to study really nan strategy works. They want to understand really nan strategy works, because correct now, nan news media goes retired of its way, rather frankly, to obfuscate really it works.'

The consequence is simply a Wall Street and Silicon Valley oligarchy, tally successful cahoots pinch nan governmental people successful Washington, D.C. 

'This is what nan people was about, to necktie it backmost to nan Constitution, necktie it backmost to nan Declaration of Independence, to necktie it backmost to nan foundational documents of our awesome Republic,' he said.

Attendees earned certificates signed by Bannon.

He besides spent clip monitoring nan news and overseeing accumulation of 'War Room' via email, moreover if broader machine usage was impossible. 

'Well, you person nary entree to nan internet, but I person a unit that each time would springiness maine a summary of nan news sites, including nan Daily Mail,' he said.

From situation he was capable to make judge that a drawstring of impermanent presenters stayed focused connected nan grassroots of nan MAGA movement.

'So nan content, nan contented stayed, I think, very overmuch nan same,' he said

But he said location was nary getting distant from nan truth that it was a difficult place

'These are dangerous, reliable places, and that's 1 of nan reasons I consciousness empowered,' he said.

'I came retired much focused, successful amended shape, little weight, and, rather frankly, being engaged pinch people. I listened, I observed and I learned.'