Steve Bannon doesn’t shirk away from interviews by the political opposition; that much is certain. On Sunday—the day before Bannon was to report for a four-month prison term for contempt of Congress—Mr. Bannon appeared on ABC News opposite that network’s Jonathan Karl. The exchange was, shall we say, spirited.
First, Bannon essayed a prediction regarding this fall’s elections:
Former White House chief strategist and longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon said he thinks former President Trump will win this November’s election by a “landslide.”
“We have a 100% certainty we could beat [President Joe] Biden and beat him big and take the Senate and pick up seats in the House,” Bannon said in an interview Sunday with “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
Bannon, an architect of Trump’s 2016 campaign who later spent just seven months in the White House, told Karl he talks with Trump “frequently…