Many Americans were shocked to see somebody so close to Donald Trump be sentenced to jail, but no matter how much he appealed, Steve Bannon simply couldn't avoid serving his time behind bars. As a result, Donald Trump's former chief strategist had to react to the recent assassination attempt on Number 45 from a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.

"I've warned about this very thing for over a year—an assassination attempt—the threat is real, very real. Thankfully, President Trump wears the Armor of God. Today, our leader showed total command presence, stood tall, and said 'FIGHT'!" Bannon said.

Bannon is currently in the middle of a four-month sentence after he was found guilty of contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a subpoena by America's House Select Committee while they were investigating the J6 Capitol riot.

The horrifying incident:

Donald Trump was a few minutes into his remarks at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 13, when something went seriously wrong. A few shots could be heard from a distance, and before anyone knew what was going on our former President was bleeding and on the ground.

Secret Service agents swarmed him as a confused and horrified crowd watched and listened to gunfire that just seemed to keep coming.

Suddenly, the gunfire stopped, and Secret Service communications can be heard saying "shooter down!" Donald Trump was helped to his feet and led off the stage, but not before a bloodied and shaken president stopped to hold up his fist to the crowd in a sign of defiance against the people who have been trying to destroy his political career for a decade now.

Horrifically, firefighter and father Corey Comperatore, aged 50, was killed in the shooting after gunfire struck him while he was covering his family with his body. The shooter, who was identified by America's FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks, was also pronounced dead.

It was a horrifying sign of how much some people in America truly hate Donald Trump. The claims of "witch hunts" against Donald Trump are no longer just speculation.

Bannon previously predicted this might happen.

Steve Bannon, who hosted a popular podcast before he was sent to prison, has been saying for a while now that there was a very real possibility that the efforts to stop Trump might soon go past dirty legal and political tricks and turn to true violence.

He was right.

"The FBI wanted somebody to bleed out. This entire thing was thought through, in a high level of detail—and they weren't absolutely sure Trump wasn't going to be there. Remember, those kinds of decisions by Trump are at the last minute... They were looking to have a confrontation that would be an armed confrontation," Bannon said in May 2024.

Bannon had said in 2022, "I do not think it's beyond this administrative state and their deep state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of President Trump—everything is on the table."

Even Joe Biden seemed to be shaken awake after realizing that violence against our politicians was no longer a far-fetched idea.

"There is no place in America for this kind of violence — for any violence. Ever. Period. No exception. We can't allow this violence to be normalized," Biden said after Trump was shot.