Biography Flash: Steve Bannon Backs Marine Le Pen While Warning Republicans of Prison if They Lose 2028

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In the past few days, Steve Bannon has been back in his favorite role: global right wing hype man with a talent for stirring the pot in multiple time zones at once. The most biographically significant move comes from Europe. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, Bannon gave an interview to broadcaster France 2 in which he openly backed Marine Le Pen for Frances 2027 presidential race and dismissed her party president, Jordan Bardella, as a total lightweight. Le Monde reports that Bannon said a Le Pen presidency would help break the European Union, signaling that years after leaving the White House he is still trying to reshape Western politics far beyond U.S. borders. That public endorsement, aired this week, underscores his long running project to knit together a nationalist, populist international and keeps his name tied to any future French political earthquake.

In U.S. politics, several outlets including regional affiliates of Sinclair Broadcast Group have been resurfacing Bannon’s recent warning to conservatives that if Republicans lose the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential race, some in this room are going to prison, myself included. Those remarks, delivered at a Conservative Partnership Institute gathering, fit a long term pattern in his biography: presenting politics as existential combat, casting Democrats as relentless persecutors, and framing himself as both strategist and potential martyr. These stories also rehash his criminal record: his 2022 conviction for contempt of Congress over the January 6 committee subpoena, the four month prison term he served last year, and his earlier federal fraud case over the We Build the Wall project, from which he ultimately avoided federal prison time.

At the media level, Bannon continues to use his War Room podcast as his primary megaphone. ProPublica and other investigations over the past few years have detailed how, even after bans from major social platforms, his show still reaches a large audience through podcast apps, and that dynamic has not changed in the last few days. I have not found any credible reporting of new business ventures, major legal filings, or verified viral social media posts tied directly to Bannon in the past 24 hours; anything claiming otherwise right now lives in the speculation bucket and should be treated with caution.

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