‘In for a wild ride’: Lev Parnas on what Bannon could expect in prison

Steve Bannon's hard time is now looking a little harder. >> Sources tell CNN that the trump ally won't be serving out his prison time. And what's known as club fed the most comfortable type of facility in the federal system that P actually had wanted. So he likely will spend time in prison in Connecticut where he'd be placed with violent criminals and sex offenders. It also doesn't have individual cells, but open pods for inmates there is also a chance abandon could be sent to new York's City, New York City's infamous rikers island. Now, all of this comes as by Bannon is now painting a clearer picture of what a second Donald Trump term could look like, or at least what he hopes it would look like. At a conservative gathering and Detroit, he gave a blunt but chilling warning that a day of reckoning quite literally is coming November 5 is judgment day January 20, 2025 is accountability de gonna get every single receipt? And to the fullest extension of the law you are going to be investigated prosecuted, and incarcerated ladies and gentlemen. >> It's very simple victory or death trying to me now is love parnas. >> He worked with trump and Rudy Giuliani to get dirt on then candidate Joe Biden in Ukraine. Later, he testified that there was no dirt he was also convicted of campaign finance crimes, wire fraud, and making false statements, and was sentenced to 20 months in prison back in 2022. He is also the author of shadow diplomacy, love parnas and his wild ride from Brooklyn to trump's inner circle love, we appreciate you being here you actually, because you've spent some time fairly recent Italy in federal prison. I wonder, what do you think Bannon can expect oh, well, Steve Bannon is in for a wild ride. >> I could tell you that much. First of all, the fact that he's no longer going to a camp, but there's not going to a minimum security prison. It's a big factor when it comes to safety, when it comes to the type of inmates your width and a very big comes to the freedom that you have the number one thing is you're behind the wall and outside the wall, which is now you're actually in prison but besides that, like you said, Steve Bannon has a lot more things. He has a case coming up soon, so he's not going to have that much time to settle in as they say, in prison, he's going to be then be moved to go to either rikers or MDC in new York to stand trial for the state case and that doesn't happen by the night before where they send the car and pick you up and drive you there. You're gonna go through a system where you might end up in Oklahoma and they might take it 2030 days to get to that other prison. So Steve Bannon is in for a wild ride especially in the low security prison there I'm very I mean, obviously Bannon wasn't just a trump ally. He was actually a key official in the trump white house for a time. And you've yourself worked with former president trump what do you think? That trump and his allies are actually going to do in a second term when you hear him talking about it that way, do you think that he means that literally? >> Oh, absolutely. I mean, anybody that knows Donald Trump and I know down trump very well he's very eventful. He doesn't forgive, he doesn't forget you can just take a look at how he acted in the past and take a look at who the people that he's put looking to but into positions of poweke attorney general, I mean I think he's looking to put like, either cash Patel or general Flynn. I mean, people that are loyal to him and then we'll go to any extreme to weaponize the justice system, to go after their enemies so to that end, I mean, do you think that there are any safeguards that would be in place if he were to be reelected the biggest safeguard is Americans have to come out and vote and make sure that he does not get anywhere near the white house that would be the biggest safeguard that I would recommend. So you were intimately involved, as we mentioned in at trump and Giuliani's effort to dig up dirt on president Biden. They were trying to find this connection between president Biden and the money that his son hunter received from Ukrainian energy company buried csma you testified that there is no connection, but now hunter has been convicted of federal gun charges. They're unrelated issues, but they came about as a result of that broader investigation. What's your reaction to that conviction for hunter? >> I'm very sorry that my actions and the actions that I took on behalf of Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani and people in the Republican mega group to put the spotlight on hunter by forcing this information by pushing all of this negative and false stuff on him that eventually led to a person, a citizen, not a public official, but a citizen that was tried. And now convicted of a crime that officially, I mean, he not nobody got hurt. He was in the trenches of a very tremendous addiction trying to get out of it, made a mistake but because of the spotlight that Donald Trump and his allies like myself put on him in 2018, 2019 by pushing the false narratives from Russian propaganda. It led to these false, ridiculous trial and obviously a conviction meanwhile your former partner and all of that, Rudy Giuliani, has been charged yet again, this time it's an Arizona for conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results we have is second mug shots up there on the screen. >> He says, he'll be vindicated how do you see what the consequences will be ultimately for Giuliani? >> I said it before and I'll say it again. I think prison is where Giuliani is going to end up just even recently as today, the bankruptcy court, the judges getting fed up with the way Giuliani is dealing and not dealing actually are giving records which could eventually lead to other charges of fraud and stuff like that. So I think Giuliani is down a very deep spiral. He's like go doesn't care and I think he's going to end up in prison even you see people like Bannon and Giuliani. And so many others, frankly flirting with real prison here. Do you think they have any idea what that is like what they are in 40 oh, they have no clue. Giuliani, I don't think still even understands that he is actually going to prison. I think he is just out there and not accepting the truth, but Steve Bannon, every day more and more is coming to reality that he is going to lose his freedom and he is going to be under the supervision of people that, you know, it's a crapshoot with the way the political diversion is in our society. It goes all the way down to the prisoners, to the prisoners. So the prison guards to the prison officials. >> So Steve Bannon, as you're going to be shooting the dice every day of his life while he's in prison, being around where he's going to sleep, where he's going to work, who is he going to be around? >> He's not going to have the choice to pick and choose and surround themselves with just mega people that will listen to him or help them out. So he's in for a rude awakening. >> Yeah, that's a really stark picture that you just painted there. When it comes to Giuliani, why do you think that he doesn't seem to care about the potential consequences of prison I don't think he believes still, just like Donald Trump doesn't believe that he's actually going to get in the venture in prison. I think because of who they are and because of the pushback, and because of the support that they're getting from congressmen and senators and millions of people. >> I think that pushes them not to believe and I don't believe Giuliani really, really believes that he's going to go and present, especially with what you see, what's going on in Georgia now you have the delays because of they're going after fan well, as the prosecutor and that's going to delay the case. So things like that give Giuliani people like Giuliani hope that it's just never going to happen. So N plus, they're fighting for the presidency. He, they are truly believe in Giuliani also that if trump wins, that, that will wipe away all their problems. So that's why it's imperative these elections. And I know we say it every year, every time there's election that this is the one, this but this is really the one first to save our democracy and to make sure