Overview
- Bannon told Jonathan Karl he devised a coded email system from FCI Danbury to route guidance to President Donald Trump’s 2024 team.
- He said messages moved through his daughter Maureen Bannon and associate Grace Chong to reach aide Boris Epshteyn.
- Bannon recounted that a Danbury official warned him inmate emails were monitored, and he acknowledged the Bureau of Prisons could review the records.
- He said he learned of the 2024 assassination attempt on Trump from another inmate and urged the campaign to politically “double down.”
- He described the facility as violent, claiming he witnessed a stabbing, befriended inmates including Vito Guzzo, and framed his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress as political.