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From Inside the Hive: How Steve Bannons Prison Sentence Could Help Trump Win

Published: July 3, 2024, 9 a.m.

With the New Yorker office closed for the July 4th holiday, The Political Scene brings you a recent episode from Vanity Fair\u2019s \u201cInside the Hive,\u201d hosted by the special correspondent Brian Stelter. Tina Nguyen, a national correspondent for Puck, and the Washington Post\u2019s Isaac Arnsdorf, a national political reporter, join Stelter to discuss how Steve Bannon helped rehabilitate Donald Trump among Republicans after January 6th. Bannon\u2019s popular \u201cWar Room\u201d podcast has been galvanizing the far right at the local and national level, and his four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress could actually burnish his bona fides with the base. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing clout,\u201d Nyugen says of Bannon\u2019s prison sentence, \u201cfor someone in the MAGA world, in these MAGA times, with a MAGA audience.\u201d


This episode originally aired on June 20th, 2024.


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