Steve Bannon, a former senior adviser to President Trump, on Sunday released a list of people he believes should be pursued if former President Trump is re-elected.
Bannon, who is due to enter prison on Monday for contempt of Congress, said in an interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC’s “This Week” that the media has overstated concerns about “retaliation” in a second Trump administration.
“If you haven’t done anything, then there’s no need to worry,” he said. “What we’re saying is we want justice. There will be a thorough investigation and if criminal charges are filed, criminal charges will be filed.”
Among those Bannon warned about were former FBI directors Andrew McCabe and James Comey, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, former Attorney General Bill Barr and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
“This is justice,” Bannon said of the investigations into early members of the Trump administration and those appointees by Trump himself.
“This is not retaliation at all,” he added, also disregarding Trump’s past promises to seek retaliation against his supporters.
“As he said last night at the debate, his retribution has been a very successful, even successful, second term,” Bannon said of Trump.
Bannon faces four months in prison for dodging a subpoena from a House committee on Jan. 6. Bannon had avoided prison time for months, but was finally relented on Friday after a last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected.
“I’m a political prisoner,” Bannon said. “It doesn’t change me. It doesn’t suppress my voice. As long as I’m there, my voice won’t be suppressed.”
He told Karl he had no regrets about refusing the committee’s subpoena.
“If I had to go to jail to sway the House and begin to delegitimize the illegitimate J6 committee, well, I guess it was worth going to jail,” Bannon said.
House leaders, led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), announced last week that they would file a legal brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in support of an appeal of Bannon’s conviction.
The former adviser to President Trump was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 after refusing to meet with the committee and turn over documents.
