Rudy Giuliani says Steve Bannon is being ‘tortured’ in prison

Rudy Giuliani believes Steve Bannon is being “tortured” because he does not have access to television in prison.

The former New York City mayor attacked the prison department and Attorney General Merrick Garland when he appeared as Bannon's deputy in the former White House strategist's “War Room: Battleground” episode that aired Tuesday.

Along with Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow and an election conspiracy supporter, Giuliani claimed Bannon was being treated cruelly while serving his four-month prison sentence for violating a 2021 congressional subpoena.

“Steve is unfortunately unable to listen to this show, which is an outrage,” complained the man formerly known as “America’s Mayor.”

Citing his service in the federal prison system under Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, Giuliani claimed he could not recall any inmate in Bannon's “category” being denied “access to television for occasional programs, special programs.”

“Steve Bannon is not being treated the same as other prisoners,” he continued. “His case was referred from the Bureau of Prisons to the corrupt Attorney General Garland's office, and that's where the shots are because contacts at the Bureau of Prisons told me they were taken off the case.”

The former Republican presidential candidate drew an absurd conclusion by telling viewers in quotation marks that Bannon, a fellow campaigner of Donald Trump, was being “tortured.”

“Boy, this election is about a fascist regime,” Giuliani added. “And Steve Bannon is victim number one.”

Bannon reported to the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut, a low-security prison, in early July, where he is expected to remain until the end of October.

Although the far-right political strategist's time behind bars is likely to end before the 2024 presidential election, he could face a longer prison sentence in the near future.

On Friday, New York State Supreme Court Justice April Newbauer ruled that Bannon will stand trial on fraud charges in December.

Bannon is accused of diverting hundreds of thousands of the $15 million he and others privately raised for Trump's proposed border wall to pay the fundraiser's executive director, Brian Kolfage.