Jan. 8, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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War Room Impeachment. | |
| You with Stephen K. Bannon, Jason Miller, and Raheem Kassam. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Yes, you heard correctly. We have gone back... | ||
| We've come full circle. We're in pandemic and that's... we're just doing this once, maybe do it a couple times, but it's four-room. | ||
| The original show, War Room Impeachment, started back, what was it, in October? | ||
| Planned in late September, October of 2019, correct? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| With the first impeachment. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi did a, we did the goof open, and of course, I'd forgotten, Jack Maxey was actually running the war room, the engine room, he's chief engineer, and Jason Miller was here, and now we got Maggie, we got Jack. | ||
| Maybe get Jason back for a guest appearance. | ||
| The reason we're doing this is serious, right? | ||
| Do we have it up there? | ||
| Nancy Pelosi is, I think, you know, notified, I think sources have notified the White House by, I think it's noon on Tuesday? | ||
| If you have not resigned, we're going to bring a bill of impeachment, and I believe that they've actually moved that up. | ||
| We're going to be joined by Jack Posobiec of One American News momentarily, but I think, let's get into it. | ||
| There's some articles floating around, I'm sure there are going to be updates at work over the weekend, but what do we have right now, gentlemen? | ||
| So I just want to reiterate for the new audience out there who never ever got to see an episode of War Room Impeachment, that's how War Room Pandemic started, and that's how No, it used to be introduced. | ||
| I actually text Jason Miller. | ||
| I said, we've got to get you on. | ||
| He goes, I would, but I'm at a 12-year-old's birthday party right now. | ||
| So it's probably not the best idea that I call it to War Room Impeachment 2.0, but welcome to War Room Impeachment. | ||
| We have these articles that are floating around at the moment. | ||
| I think we've all got a copy of them. | ||
| So, I mean, we should just jump in. | ||
| Jack, you want to start reading through them? | ||
| Yes, in the House of Representatives, a resolution impeaching Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. | ||
| Resolved that Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate. | ||
| Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America against Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, President of the United States of America, President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of. | ||
| It's impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. | ||
| Article 1. | ||
| Incitement of insurrection. | ||
| The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment and that the President shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors in his conduct of the office of the President of the United States and in violation of his constitutional oath, faithfully to execute the office of the President of the United States and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and in violation of his constitutional duty to take | ||
| care that the laws be faithfully executed. | ||
| Donald John Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by willfully inciting violence against the government of the United States in that on January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Vice President of the United States, the House of Representatives and the Senate met at the United States Capitol for a joint session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College. | ||
| Shortly before the joint session commenced, President Trump addressed a crowd of his political supporters nearby. | ||
| There, he reiterated false claims that we won this election, and we won it by a landslide. | ||
| He also willfully made statements that encouraged and foreseeably resulted in imminent lawless action at the Capitol. | ||
| Incited by President Trump, a mob unlawfully breached the Capitol, injured law enforcement personnel, menaced members of Congress and the Vice President, interfered with the joint session's solemn constitutional duty to certify the election results, and engaged in violent, deadly, destructive, and seditious acts. | ||
| President Trump's conduct on January 6, 2021, was consistent with his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the result of the 2020 presidential election. | ||
| Those prior efforts include, but are not limited to, a phone call on January 2, 2021, In which President Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find enough votes to overturn the Georgia presidential election results and threatened Mr. Raffensperger if he failed to do so. | ||
| Note the threat in this impeachment. | ||
| In all of this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government. | ||
| He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coordinate branch of government. | ||
| He thereby betrayed his trust as president to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. | ||
| Wherefore, President Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. | ||
| President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honour, trust, or profit under the United States. | ||
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And that's probably what it's all about. | |
| They're saying the White House put out a statement or Judd Deere, I guess one of the things, as President Trump said yesterday, this is a time for healing and unity as one nation. | ||
| A politically motivated impeachment against the president with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our country. | ||
| I don't know about that. | ||
| You know, Nancy Pelosi, if they want to impeach President Trump on what they just laid out, Hey, we're all for it. | ||
| Remember, we like coloring inside the lines with bold colors. | ||
| Bring it. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| Last time I remember, they failed in their last impeachment, correct? | ||
| They failed in their last impeachment. | ||
| And as we now know from the hard drive from hell, it was a perfect phone call with the Ukrainian young president of Ukraine, the anti-corruption president of Ukraine. | ||
| You can tie the hard drive from hell right back to that. | ||
| So, if that's what they want to do, if that's in the middle of their, you know, the middle of the CCP virus, COVID-19, in the middle of this, which every day they're saying, hey, more people being hospitalized, more capacity of the ICUs being used. | ||
| If that's the case, bring it. | ||
| Bring it. | ||
| And I would not, from the White House, I just don't like that statement. | ||
| It's like you're trying to ask them not to. | ||
| Pretty please. | ||
| They're coming. | ||
| Okay, we said this the other day. | ||
| They're going to use the impeachment and the 25th Amendment. | ||
| It's a pincer move, right? | ||
| And what they're trying to do is toxify Donald Trump so badly. | ||
| And quite frankly, what they're trying to do here is to take it to the next step. | ||
| Bring the Bill of Impeachment. | ||
| They've got the votes because they just need a majority to bring the Bill of Impeachment. | ||
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Impeach him. | |
| Go as quickly as possible. | ||
| Impeach him. | ||
| Toss it to the Senate. | ||
| I think there's still an open debate. | ||
| I think the jury can sit after the 20th, after he's President. | ||
| And remember, one of the things about impeachment, if you're impeached, if you're found guilty at trial, you can't run again for The presidential office, and I think that's one of the things they're trying to do here. | ||
| I think it's one of the big things they're trying to do is nip the Trump, really the Trump presidency, because going forward he is not going to back off. | ||
| I don't think he's going to back off Joe Biden at all. | ||
| He's going to contest every policy he doesn't think puts America first. | ||
| He's going to contest every policy that he does not think is with MAGA, as he should. | ||
| That's called what opposition, we're an advocacy system. | ||
| But if they do this, if what we just read In the War Room, and I'm sure they're going to work over the weekend to... Oh yeah, there'll be more articles. | ||
| And more articles, and they'll hone those down, but if that's what they want to do, on willfully inciting insurrection, and the ability you get to bring in all the information, so Maggie, Jack, Rahim, jump in here before I go to Jack Lassovic. | ||
| Well I think it's wonderful. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| I think it really is just another power grab. | ||
| By the way, you look at today alone. | ||
| General Flynn is taken off Twitter. | ||
| People are losing their accounts all over the place at the moment. | ||
| This is the sort of abuse of power that people are used to seeing in foreign countries, Soviet countries, communist-controlled countries, totalitarian dictatorships. | ||
| And the Democrat Party is showing the American people what it really is, and that is a pro-totalitarian party. | ||
| So I am embracing the suck on this one. | ||
| Let's have it. | ||
| Let's have this fight. | ||
| I don't think the White House should be saying no, no, no. | ||
| They should be saying yes. | ||
| Come on, let's see all that you've got. | ||
| Here's the thing. | ||
| Here's what really interests me about all of this. | ||
| It's exactly as you said. | ||
| this is about stopping him from running again because this man and this man only has the power to delegitimize over the next four years every single thing a Biden administration does and then run for office again and he'll have more energy the next time around than he had in 2016 and that he had in 2020. | ||
| He'll be able to put together the office of the 45th president of the United States over the course of the next few years and hit Biden every single time and if Lisa Murkowski wants to leave the party as a result of it she should promise us to leave the party. She comes out with a statement she goes hey if Trump's gonna remain the centerpiece of the Republican Party I might leave. There's the door Lisa we all want you to walk through it. | ||
| As President Trump said yesterday this is a time for healing and unity as one A politically motivated impeachment against a president with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our country. | ||
| When they say unity, I don't think there can be, I don't know if, how, look, the country's gone through periods where it's not united, and every time it's gone through this period where it's not united, they kind of, these things were fought through, and the country went up to the next level. | ||
| We just happen to be in one of those periods of time. | ||
| That's why I call it a fourth turning. | ||
| I've said this for years, that you're just in a situation where people have two different theories of how our constitutional republic is to be, is to conduct itself. | ||
| And, you know, you're seeing one with, I think, the corporate fascism of a lot of these corporations are taking down the oligarchs, as Steve Cortez said. | ||
| And we've been pretty open about that, our disagreement. | ||
| When I left the White House, the very first thing I said is these things will be made into public utilities. | ||
| Let's bring in Jack Posobic. | ||
| And listen, people said, oh, they're just bluffing here, they're just trying to make noise over the weekend. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think they're dedicated. | ||
| They're going to bring articles. | ||
| Now they're talking about bringing it on Monday because they're going to want more days to have their hearing on the impeachment, their impeachment hearings. | ||
| They want more days. | ||
| And maybe give it more time to pitch to the Senate and see if they can have a trial. | ||
| Listen, as hard as it is to believe, we're now into an impeachment process in the middle of a pandemic. | ||
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And so, like I said, we ended it that way. | |
| But do we not start the week by saying we are hurtling towards a constitutional crisis? | ||
| And this is one of the things we said on the very first show. | ||
| Back in October of 2019. | ||
| We're hurtling towards a constitutional crisis then, which we were. | ||
| So Pasovic, from One American News, you were up there when things started, but tell us what your current thinking is about where the Democrats are going. | ||
| We used to say Nancy Pelosi would overplay her hand many times in the original impeachment. | ||
| Here they want Donald Trump to be the only president that's been impeached twice. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And the reason they can even impeach him twice, they lost the jury trial of it the last time. | ||
| So where do you think we are? | ||
| Well, Steve, where we are is a point of massive overreach from the Democrats, the left and the establishment. | ||
| They are trying to otherize and atomize every one of the seven. | ||
| And by the way, this isn't about Donald J. Trump himself. | ||
| This is about the 75 million people who voted for him. | ||
| The people who stood up and said they didn't want their country to be sold out to the CCP anymore, that they wanted to come back to those America first populist policies. | ||
| They wanted, they were kind of, you know, you would say a little bit closer to the center on the, in terms of economic issues. | ||
| They wanted peace. | ||
| They didn't want any foreign wars. | ||
| This is about shutting down that movement. | ||
| And I see this as a way to extend cancel culture, not just to the president, by the way, you had Joe Biden out there. | ||
| Comparing Josh Hawley and Senator Ted Cruz to Joseph Goebbels. | ||
| They were talking about, he said, this is like the big lie in the bombing of Dresden. | ||
| That's Joe Biden came up today. | ||
| So when you're talking about uniting and dividing, what is Joe Biden up there doing today? | ||
| He's comparing United States senators, sitting United States senators, holding a constitutional process to the firebombing of Dresden and the actions of Joseph Goebbels. | ||
| This is not a guy who is interested in putting this country back together. | ||
| This is a guy who wants more and more of this division. | ||
| This is a guy who wants more and more going at each other. | ||
| And they are overreaching. | ||
| They're absolutely overplaying their hand. | ||
| It's not just Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| Now we haven't heard, by the way, and I haven't seen any indication, I checked with a few sources on the Hill earlier today, that there's no indication whether or not Pelosi has signed off on this Impeachment push. | ||
| We know that Ted Lieu and a few others on the far left side, Ilhan Omar, they're behind this thing. | ||
| What do you mean she had not signed off? | ||
| I thought she came out at noon and said, hey, he resigns by noon. | ||
| I thought I heard her say that. | ||
| Yeah, Jack, she came out and said he resigns by noon. | ||
| Multiple reports. | ||
| Either he came out by noon or he's going to get impeached. | ||
| She hasn't called a special session yet, so we're waiting to see that. | ||
| If she turns over the weekend and says she wants a special session, That means, because right now their house is out, right? | ||
| The house is adjourned. | ||
| They adjourned before the articles went forward. | ||
| If she calls a special session, we're going to know Pelosi is behind this thing. | ||
| And it's real. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| We'll take a short commercial break. | ||
| Jacobus was going to hang over here. | ||
| War room impeachment, a war room pandemic, the impeachment special at five o'clock. | ||
| I tell you what, the more changes, the more it stays the same, right? | ||
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right will be back in a moment impeachment with steven k ban on jason miller and writing to some of | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, Nancy Pelosi, the only way she's not coming, Jack Posobiec, the only way she's not coming, if they do some polling over the weekend, I think it's going to hurt them, but they want to drive this stake in the heart of the vampire right now. | ||
| They're hitting it with the 45th Amendment, they're hitting it with people saying to resign. | ||
| Larry Hogan just came out, the Republican Governor of Maryland, said that on Bloomberg Radio that he should resign. | ||
| And she's coming. | ||
| I mean, you don't think that she thinks she's got some momentum here? | ||
| She's going to try to do the last days of Donald Trump, or at least the last days of his first term, in dramatic fashion, and try to do what she couldn't do back the first time, when she kind of made up this bizarre thing about the About the letter and about the phone call to the Ukrainians, which now it looks like, I tell you what a waste of time they knew it was. | ||
| You never heard it mentioned at all in the campaign of 2020. | ||
| Guy gets impeached on a third time in the history of the United States. | ||
| Biden never brought up at a debate. | ||
| They never had a spot on it. | ||
| I don't even think, I don't even remember being in this. | ||
| If it was in a spot, it was a throwaway, right? | ||
| Never even mentioned. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Given where the pandemic was and they were screwing around with the impeachment, they would have been more held accountable by the American people. | ||
| And also they ran the risk because they knew that the FBI had had this hard drive since December 9th of the prior year. | ||
| There might have been, I mean now this seems impossible, but there very well could have been a patriotic member inside the FBI who might have revealed some of that information that would have debunked their talking about the impeachment. | ||
| Well DOJ and FBI knew that. | ||
| I don't think Pelosi and those guys knew. | ||
| No, no, but what I'm saying is, if they had come out hard talking about impeachment during the election, they ran the risk that somebody in the FBI would release the truth. | ||
| Not a high risk, I might add. | ||
| That Joe Biden wouldn't have even been in there, that Bernie pillow fight. | ||
| In fact, you ought to give that Michael in sponsorship, right? | ||
| MyPillow.com? | ||
| That's where they start calling Bernie Sanders MyPillow, the MyPillow guy. | ||
| Yeah, he should start coming out with models. | ||
| The Bernie Sanders pillow, extra crumply. | ||
| Did you see what Bernie leaked today? | ||
| Like, oh, I was on the short list, or Biden said he was on the short list to be Secretary of Labor. | ||
| That's great, Bernie. | ||
| Two presidential runs where you should have won both. | ||
| Two presidential primary runs, you should have won both of them. | ||
| You come up with a set of steak knives that would be for second place. | ||
| And your big thing is to brag about, you were like the number three pick. | ||
| You're number three in line to be Secretary of Labor under Biden. | ||
| OK, I want to go back to Bisoba. | ||
| Guys, I want you to jump in here. | ||
| Where are we in this country where, you know, we have this we have the account of the electoral vote in on the Capitol and 48 hours later, we're talking about an impeachment. | ||
| And it looks like the last two weeks of the Trump administration will be tied up And an impeachment, because I think Nancy Pelosi, because right now, if you go on the Hill, Twitter's blowing up, the TV, MSNBC, CNN, they think they've got a head of steam here by tarring both the MAGA movement, the deplorables, Trump as a mob, as an insurrection, treasonous, sedition, all that. | ||
| So, Posobiec, where do you think we are? | ||
| Yeah, Steve, and just to make sure I'm being clear what I'm talking about is we don't know that Pelosi has specifically said these are the articles she's going to use to go forward. | ||
| She hasn't called it in a special session yet. | ||
| She's definitely coming. | ||
| Don't get me wrong. | ||
| These are probably going to be the articles that they use and they're laying out a process for that. | ||
| So we'll look for that over the weekend and then going towards Monday in terms of actual timing. | ||
| As far as the president goes and with the other side, they are trying to do everything they can. | ||
| This is the, you know, the empire strikes back moment. | ||
| This is the moment where the uniparty, the two-party duopoly, right, that runs Washington, D.C. | ||
| and effectively runs our country, is trying to reassert itself. | ||
| They are trying to turn the MAGA movement, the populist movement, into a failed peasants' revolt that lasted for about five years. | ||
| They're trying to act as if President Trump is some kind of tin-pot dictator who was deposed. | ||
| The narrative's right themselves, right? | ||
| The problem is the 75 million. | ||
| Look, in 1984, Emanuel Goldstein was a guy on TV. | ||
| He wasn't your next door neighbor. | ||
| This isn't going to work. | ||
| They are going to overreach. | ||
| You're already seeing that with what you saw Biden talk about by comparing Cruz and Hawley to Nazis just now. | ||
| Let's go to, I'm going to go to Josh Hawley. | ||
| He's got a response to that. | ||
| Maggie, do you have it ready? | ||
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Yes, I do. | |
| So yeah, Josh, Senator Hawley hit back at Joe Biden's statement earlier saying, President-elect Biden has just compared me and another Republican senator to Nazis. | ||
| You read that correctly. | ||
| Think about that for a moment. | ||
| Let that sink in. | ||
| Because I raise questions in the format prescribed by the laws of the United States about the way elections were conducted in the state of Pennsylvania, Just as Democrats did about other states in 2001, 2005, and 2017, he is calling me a Nazi. | ||
| This is undignified, immature, and intemperate behavior from the President-elect. | ||
| It is utterly shameful. | ||
| He should act like a dignified adult and retract these sick comments, and every Democrat member of Congress should be asked to disavow these disgusting comments. | ||
| So I just want to read again the White House on the second impeachment. | ||
| As President Trump said yesterday, this is a time for healing and unity as one nation. | ||
| You know, President Trump did say that in his video last night, but when he got Biden doing this, where's the unity? | ||
| Remember, we have said from day one that this issues about the illegal voting, the issues about the ballot fraud, the issues about the election fraud, until they're fully vetted, until they're fully vetted, it's going to be a wound that's not going to heal. | ||
| It's just not going to go away. | ||
| And I think Jack Basovic makes a great point. | ||
| There's 75 million Americans that voted for Donald Trump. | ||
| And most of those Americans understood by voting for Donald Trump, they're putting themselves a little bit at social risk, right? | ||
| You know, if you don't talk about it at the club loudly, you know, you could get some stink eye. | ||
| Maybe sometimes at restaurants you want to talk about it or among your friends and even in a backyard barbecue, you got to kind of have the secret Dakota ring to make sure that you know you're loud and proud for Trump. | ||
| Also, there's two numbers important, the 75 million. | ||
| Also, the number that's got a four in front of it. | ||
| And I don't know if it's 43 percent or 47 percent or close to 50 percent. | ||
| Of people that think that the election was unfair, illegal, illegitimate, all of it, including, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, they couldn't find one Republican in Georgia that they went around and talked to, not one Republican in Georgia, that did not think the election was stolen. | ||
| This is for the runoff, right? | ||
| Didn't think that November 3rd election was stolen. | ||
| Those numbers, and hey, if you're going to talk about insurrection and what caused it, you know, you're going to get into all these issues. | ||
| And Josh Hawley's sitting right there and saying, hey, last time I looked, I thought I was not insurrectionist, I was not a revolutionary. | ||
| I looked at this thing called the Constitution, and even the federal statute called the Electoral Count Act of 1887, and I thought, you know, if we thought there were some problems, As a sitting senator, I was supposed to put it up there, and then we'd have two hours of debate, talk about that, and then we'd vote, hand it to democracy. | ||
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If we lose the vote, we lose the vote, but we'd get two hours to do it. | |
| Anybody want to jump in here, jump in here. | ||
| Pasobag, I want to know, we've got a couple minutes left. | ||
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But I just feel like this is what's so disturbing to me, is that now we're not allowed to hear from the other side. | |
| They're completely shutting us down. | ||
| And I mean, I've been seeing this on social media for a while now, but to see it actually happen, where Josh Hawley's being called these names, he's basically being told, like, you don't have a right to your opinion, you don't have a right to your discourse, you don't have a right to be heard. | ||
| And then in the last 24 hours what we've been noticing on Twitter is just this mass purging of conservative accounts. | ||
| And now it started off with just smaller accounts and now they're going after big people. | ||
| They just banned a girl who had over half a million followers and it just makes me sort of like so scared for the direction of our country that the left, who are not even in power yet, are now feeling so emboldened to go down this direction of just acting like complete tyrants. | ||
| And I mean, Jack, you have a following of over a million people. | ||
| It's frightening to think just sort of the ripple effect that all of a sudden your voice could be stripped from you. | ||
| I'm sorry, I'm freaking out over here. | ||
| I think it's crazy. | ||
| Take a deep breath, we're fine. | ||
| You're fine! | ||
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I'm a social media person! | |
| I'd like to separate the signal from the noise and I'd like to speak in defense of six and a half million innocent Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and tens of thousands of young American men and women who gave their lives to liberate Europe. | ||
| I find it utterly shameful for the Democrats to use such language for sitting representatives in America. | ||
| And let's remember something. | ||
| This impeachment is an impeachment of that 75 million people. | ||
| When they threaten the 25th Amendment, trying to say that he's lost his mind, they're saying that you are crazy. | ||
| They're saying that you are insurrectionists. | ||
| This is not true. | ||
| You are some of the most brave, patriotic, thoughtful, and I want to say calm, Minded people in history. | ||
| Maintain your dignity and stand your ground. | ||
| All we're asking for is the receipts. | ||
| That's completely reasonable. | ||
| And accounting, if you will. | ||
| Passova, can you stay over to that? | ||
| We're going to have Brandon Strzok, and I want you to stay through that because we want to talk to you. | ||
| By the way, what about the answer to Maggie's question to you, given that you have one of the most active Twitter accounts out there and get some of the biggest pickup from anybody? | ||
| Look, Maggie, I've looked at my account. | ||
| I've always made sure to stay on the side of peace. | ||
| I held a demonstration, a rally against political violence all the way back in 2017. | ||
| I called it out on the right. | ||
| I called it out on the left. | ||
| I'll always call that out. | ||
| If they're going to go after me for saying that we should use a constitutional process to examine serious allegations of misconduct, then obviously Twitter has decided that they're just going to throw all the rules out the window. | ||
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Yeah, well it seems like they are. | |
| If they're setting up the President of the United States saying if he gets one more violation, he'll be off of Twitter permanently. | ||
| And we already see that the violations he's quote-unquote violated are not real violations. | ||
| Oh yeah, they're going to pull him down, there's no doubt about it. | ||
| Okay, so by the way, Alan Dershowitz is just saying that he signed up for the President's team. | ||
| That's the reason we wanted to start with Rudy today, to talk about the character, the strength. | ||
| The fortitude and the non-back down nature of Donald Trump on this morning show. | ||
| We kind of knew this was coming and Rudy's going to be obviously part of the impeachment team. | ||
| Dershowitz just volunteered. | ||
| Hey, they're manning up. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| They're working on this right now. | ||
| They take this as real because they have to take it as real. | ||
| The Democrats are having a pincer move. | ||
| They're going all out on this 25th Amendment, right? | ||
| And they're going all out on the impeachment. | ||
| And people should say, hey, don't worry about the 20th. | ||
| They're all in. | ||
| And they're looking at the rules right now about a trial. | ||
| Do they have to get the trial before the 20th? | ||
| Or can the trial go after the 20th? | ||
| By the way, get the app by going to War Room. | ||
| Text War Room 888-111. | ||
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Be back in a moment. | |
| Impeachment. | ||
| with Stephen K. Bannon, Jason Miller, and Raheem Kassam. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| you You're actually in War Room Pandemic, but that's our old music from the how the show began over a year ago. | ||
| We got Jason. | ||
| We do have we do have Jack Pasovic with us and Maggie Vandenberg, Raheem Kassam and Jack Maxey, a new reformulated team. | ||
| We're now honored to bring in Brandon Strock from the walk away movement. | ||
| First off, give us your thoughts. | ||
| You're a former Democrat. | ||
| You have this group of people that are former Democrats that have walked away because they're populist or economic nationalist. | ||
| Really attracted to the ideas of the deplorables in the MAGA movement. | ||
| What is your sense of the last couple of days and particularly Nancy Pelosi announcing today that they're picking up a head of steam? | ||
| The president either resigns by Tuesday or they're going to bring a bill of impeachment against him. | ||
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Well, from what I understand, if there's an impeachment that takes place, it would prevent him from being able to run for a second term. | |
| So my assumption is that that's the strategy here is to make sure that Donald Trump can never run for president again. | ||
| Obviously, I think that the entire thing is frightening and absurd because I was there. | ||
| I was there for every part of it. | ||
| I sat actually right there in the front row as Donald Trump spoke. | ||
| He very specifically, several times, made sure to say, you know, this is a peaceful thing. | ||
| There should be no violence. | ||
| And this wasn't... | ||
| This wasn't like some spontaneous act of anarchy that happened. | ||
| I mean, the plan for weeks was for there to be numerous events that happened around Washington, D.C., one of which was supposed to be a rally at the Capitol. | ||
| And I was actually slated to speak at that rally at the Capitol. | ||
| So everything, I mean, this was all the plan. | ||
| Donald Trump was going to speak. | ||
| There was going to be a march. | ||
| There was going to be a rally. | ||
| You know, there were hundreds of thousands of people there, so I had personal security with me who had told me that, you know, you can't march in the crowd of 100,000 people, so I had to separate off, get on the Metro in D.C., and I was on my way to the Capitol, and by the time I arrived at the Capitol on the Metro, we were getting alerts that were coming in that Mike Pence had | ||
| Was not going to, you know, push for a 10-day reprieve for an investigation that he was going to move forward with certification. | ||
| And then the next thing we knew, we were getting messages saying that people had breached the Capitol. | ||
| And so it took me about 18 minutes to walk from the Metro to the Capitol. | ||
| So there was about an 18 minute period of time, at least, between the time that that breach had begun and the time that I got there. | ||
| And when I got there, What I found were thousands of people outside. | ||
| I mean, people were singing songs, people were holding signs, people were chanting into megaphones. | ||
| There was really no indication that anything, any kind of anarchy was taking place whatsoever. | ||
| And so I started asking people, what's going on? | ||
| Are people going inside? | ||
| And they said, well, yeah, there are people going inside up there, up the stairs. | ||
| So I walked up the stairs. | ||
| Now, I've got all of this on video every moment from me walking from that point to go up the stairs. | ||
| And what I saw were two large metal doors, and this is a really important point, because there was no glass, so I saw no glass being broken, I saw no acts of violence, I saw no acts of vandalism. | ||
| What I saw were two large metal doors, one of which was already opened, and people were walking through the door. | ||
| And then a few minutes later, both doors opened, and now you had several hundred people in a tight space who were walking through the doors. | ||
| There was no violence, no cops were being beaten up, no craziness like that whatsoever. | ||
| And then shortly after that, some tear gas started getting kind of blasted out, just little spurts of tear gas, nothing crazy. | ||
| And right after that, a man walked out and he said, Congress has gone home, everybody left, everyone turn around, there's no reason to go inside anymore. | ||
| And at that moment, everyone turned around and they left. | ||
| I saw, what I witnessed with my own eyes, there was no violence. | ||
| There was no anarchy. | ||
| Now, clearly, I've seen videos and images and things like that since then. | ||
| I just want to be clear that this was not like, you know, a fully chaotic, anarchistic break-in. | ||
| There were people just walking through open doors as well. | ||
| Was there a, was there, what was the police presence? | ||
| I mean, when you got there, were people saying, hey, you can't go up these stairs, it's secured, you can only go to one certain area, or you just open and you just walk in? | ||
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The doors were open and people were walking in. | |
| I didn't see any police. | ||
| And again, I've got my entire encounter on video, but no, I literally witnessed none of that. | ||
| That's why I was surprised later that night when I left the Capitol and I went home and I turned on the TV and I saw all of these right-wing talking heads and pundits, you know, on television saying how deeply ashamed they were and, oh, this must have been Antifa and we're so embarrassed. | ||
| I rather regretfully got on Twitter right away and I said, look, this was not Antifa, this was our people. | ||
| Because what it appeared to me was that our own people were being shamed by the typical right-wing talking heads who make their living by going on Fox News and selling books and contributing nothing else to the political conservative movement. | ||
| And, um, so I got on Twitter and I said, you know, essentially stop shaming these people. | ||
| These are our people. | ||
| But again, I want to be clear. | ||
| I didn't see any violence. | ||
| I didn't see any windows being broken. | ||
| I didn't see anything. | ||
| I saw people very peacefully walking through an open door. | ||
| And so I'm like, why are we shaming these people? | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| But I've since removed the tweet because I didn't know that there were windows being broken, cops being attacked, things like that. | ||
| I didn't see any of that. | ||
| Did it rise to the level of an impeachment, of impeaching a president? | ||
| And you were down there and heard the speech in the freezing cold, which I think sounded kind of like a legal brief, that he willfully incited a violent mob and willfully incited insurrection against the government of the United States. | ||
| Did you see that, Brandon Strzok, Democrat head of the walk-away movement? | ||
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No. | |
| First of all, as I said, I mean, he said several times, you know, that this needs to be a peaceful thing and, you know, violence, no, no violence or anything like that. | ||
| But I mean, even just his tone and his demeanor at the end, he, I mean, it was, it was almost like a side of him that I had never seen before, where he just, just very calmly said, all right, now let's all, we're all going to walk to the Capitol together. | ||
| Let's all just gather. | ||
| We're going to walk over to the Capitol. | ||
| And I mean, it was just, it was just this very sort of like loving, Very peaceful kind of energy that he was giving off. | ||
| Nobody, I think, had any indication that anything like this is going to happen. | ||
| I don't want to say anything further about what, because I think that we still have to wait and see what the facts are. | ||
| I mean, I'm now hearing stories that people say they were witnessing the Antifa people getting off of buses. | ||
| Again, I saw none of that. | ||
| I spoke too prematurely that night when I got on Twitter because I was only speaking about my own experience, which was watching people walk through an open door with no... Do you think this is... No, nothing happened. | ||
| Do you think this is, is there any correlation between what you tweeted out that night and you've been taken down, you've been taken down by Twitter? | ||
| And how big a deal is that for your, Facebook I guess also? | ||
| Maybe not Twitter, you've been taken down by Facebook. | ||
| What has happened on social media and how has it impacted your organization? | ||
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With the post that I put, I put on Twitter and what has happened on Facebook, I'm sure that there is some relationship and perhaps they're saying, oh, this guy was in D.C. | |
| at the time that all this went down. | ||
| So maybe that is the excuse. | ||
| Facebook has given me no explanation. | ||
| But what I want to say here is that the walk away campaign is a group With 508,000 people who joined this group over the last two and a half years since I started it. | ||
| There's a few things I want to make really, really clear here. | ||
| Number one, the only content that's permitted on WalkAway Campaign Group are testimonials. | ||
| Real stories of real people telling their stories about why they're leaving the left. | ||
| Video testimonials, written testimonials. | ||
| We don't allow news stories. | ||
| We don't allow promotions of, oh, we're going to go meet at the Capitol. | ||
| So there would be absolutely no opportunity for someone to express an opinion about why they should go storm the Capitol or why they agree with the people who stormed the Capitol. | ||
| These are just people telling their own stories about why they're leaving the left. | ||
| What happened today was I got a call from one of my paid employees. | ||
| I have about a dozen paid employees in the walkaway organization. | ||
| One of them called me. | ||
| She said the group is down and I've been banned on Facebook. | ||
| And I said, huh? | ||
| All of us went to get on Facebook and discovered that we were all banned. | ||
| And almost simultaneously, I started getting phone calls and text messages from every volunteer, from every paid employee. | ||
| All of them have been banned. | ||
| Every person who was attached to my organization as an employee or a volunteer has been banned from Facebook, and the WalkAway campaign group has been taken down. | ||
| You know, I'd like to say something as an observer here. | ||
| Steve, one of the things that's so amazing about this hashtag WalkAway movement was Were these testimonials? | ||
| I mean individual people setting up their phone and sometimes very emotionally describing their break with the left. | ||
| And now all of these videos of individual people, this historic record of their change of heart, have been removed from the historic record. | ||
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And I have to say that WalkAway's Facebook page being taken down shows the real reason and the real agenda, in my opinion. | |
| It's not about stopping violence. | ||
| It's not about stopping hate speech. | ||
| That's just another lie that's being pushed. | ||
| The real reason is that thousands of videos are highlighting the disaster that is the Democratic Party, and that's in the own words of some of the users. | ||
| And that, I think, is just too powerful, right? | ||
| They shut it down because they want to control the narrative. | ||
| Brandon, you've built this organization on social media, so tell us where WalkAway is going to go from here and how our audience, which is the biggest, most powerful audience of the MAGA and the Deplorables, how they can assist you guys in trying to rebuild this. | ||
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Thank you so much, Steve. | |
| I can't tell you how much I appreciate this. | ||
| So, there's a few things that people can do right now, and I want to stress these are interim solutions. | ||
| These are not, you know, where we'll finally end up. | ||
| But a few things. | ||
| First of all, I really would like every single person watching to go to walkawaycampaign.com and subscribe to our email list. | ||
| For the time being, that's going to be our most effective way to be able to reach you. | ||
| And number two, we've now created a group walkaway campaign on CloutHub. | ||
| CloutHub.com. | ||
| Clout Hub, that's C-L-O-U-T, Clout Hub, is a conservative owned and run social media platform that is very similar to Facebook and has a lot of the same functionality that Facebook had. | ||
| We're going to begin rebuilding the walkaway campaign from scratch on Clout Hub. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So people please, yeah, so please go on and join Clout Hub today and then join, go click on groups and join the hashtag walkaway campaign group on Clout Hub. | ||
| And while you're on walkawaycampaign.com, our website, in addition to signing up for our email address, I'm going to ask you to please consider making a donation to my organization. | ||
| I do have about a dozen paid employees in addition to my volunteers. | ||
| Some of these people have children. | ||
| We are a strictly grassroots organization. | ||
| WalkAway has never been funded by major donors. | ||
| We don't have millionaires and billionaires funding us. | ||
| My staff gets paid from grassroots donations, and we've depended largely on this group of 508,000 people who were terrific to us, by the way. | ||
| 508,000 people who would give us $1, $5, $10, sometimes when they didn't even have the money to do it, to keep this organization running. | ||
| Please support us if you can, because it's going to be really hard going for us for a while. | ||
| Brandon, how do other social media, you on Parler or Twitter, how do people follow you during the day? | ||
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Um, you can follow me on Twitter, but that's not gonna be long either. | |
| Uh, they've removed 13,000 of my followers in the last 24 hours. | ||
| I would imagine I'll be gone very soon. | ||
| You can follow me on Twitter at BrandonStrock. | ||
| Uh, my last name is spelled S-T-R-A-K-A. | ||
| I am on Parler. | ||
| Every social media platform, my handle is at Brandon, B-R-A-N-D-O-N, Straca. | ||
| It's spelled S-T-R-A-K-A, like Straca. | ||
| You can find me on Instagram. | ||
| You can find me on Twitter. | ||
| You can find me very soon on CloudHub. | ||
| Probably as soon as I get off here, I'm going to create my own personal profile. | ||
| But we do have the WalkAway campaign group up and running. | ||
| And that's what I've got right now. | ||
| Okay, brother, you're paid. | ||
| You're a patriot. | ||
| We're going to help you start over because we believe in what you're trying to do. | ||
| Give people that are Democrats an alternative, right? | ||
| This is what it's about. | ||
| This is what America is about. | ||
| Okay, Brandon. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I want to get that social media up on Denver. | ||
| Put it up on the screen. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| Great job. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| I forgot how much I missed that music. | ||
| It was good music. | ||
| Raheem did a fantastic job on Pandemic. | ||
| We're going to get back to Pandemic. | ||
| I'm going to do a mash-up. | ||
| This is a throwback. | ||
| Speaking of throwbacks, Tommy Lasorda. | ||
| Tommy Lasorda has passed away, a Dodger legend, and I thought, in honor of this great American, who really, I don't know how he voted, but come on, Tommy was definitely deplorable. | ||
| And the Dodgers put this out today, a quotation from Tommy Lasorda. | ||
| When you say you're a padre, people ask, when did you become a parent? | ||
| When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. | ||
| But when you say you're a dodger, everybody knows you're in the major leagues. | ||
| Tommy Lasorda. | ||
| Tommy Lasorda. | ||
| Godspeed. | ||
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| By the way, it's the 205th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, which really brought to the end of the American Revolution, right? | ||
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All sorts of communist anniversaries. | |
| But we're going to talk more about that tomorrow in the Saturday Show. | ||
| We're trying to do it today, but we had all this breaking news on impeachment. | ||
| The 193rd birthday of the Democratic Party of America as well. | ||
| Okay, well that's Nancy Pelosi starting her impeachment. | ||
| Jack, you just heard Brandon Strzok, who's one of the more important grassroots leaders in this movement. | ||
| He's brought all these Democrats over, put on great rallies, great conferences, seminars, blown out of the water today by Facebook. | ||
| So give me your thoughts on where we stand with social media. | ||
| Maggie, the star of the show, she's a little rattled. | ||
| Right, that they're coming for everybody. | ||
| We noticed the other day with a lot of the lao bai jing of the whistleblower movement in the new federal state, we noticed a lot of the Chinese, they said, yeah, they're doing a mass purge on some of the Chinese, too. | ||
| Go ahead, sir. | ||
| Well, what we're seeing right now, and I think we need to push back on this a little bit, is the gaslighting, this mass gaslighting coming from Pelosi, coming from mainstream media, also now going on to tech platforms. | ||
| It is a pseudo-reality, to borrow a term from James Lindsay, the mathematician from the University of Tennessee, that nobody called for an insurrection, nobody called to storm the Capitol. | ||
| You heard Brandon Strzok while he was there. | ||
| He attended it. | ||
| It was a peaceful march. | ||
| He did not hear any speakers call for this. | ||
| You can go through the words of every single one of those speeches. | ||
| Nobody called for anything other than a peaceful protest and a congressional situation, a congressional That was what Josh Hawley, that's what Ted Cruz, everyone was following. | ||
| So the gaslighting that is being pushed on the American people right now, when they know, they absolutely know that this is part of our Constitution, it's part of our system. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi herself objected in 2005 to the electors of George W. Bush, okay? | ||
| She called it part of our democracy. | ||
| She is now the one who's turned around and saying that it is an impeachable offense. | ||
| This is an absolute, first of all, it's absolute overreach. | ||
| They're trying to push Totalitarianism with their policies. | ||
| It's actually Marcusean if anyone has actually read Marcuse. | ||
| This idea that you have to be totalitarian in order to shut down the right and that only the left can be the ones to actually maintain and yield power in progressive America. | ||
| This is Marcuse verbatim. | ||
| It's textbook Marcuse. | ||
| What freaked him out was the 75 million Americans that came out and voted for Donald Trump. | ||
| You know, he went up more than any president, I think, in his second term. | ||
| I think it's totally freaked him out. | ||
| They are trying to shut down the Trump movement. | ||
| They're going to impeach President Trump. | ||
| Rahim, real quickly, we're running out of time. | ||
| I want to go to you. | ||
| The White House looks like a strategy. | ||
| I don't see any surrogates out. | ||
| I don't see any pushback. | ||
| The President's been quiet since his video last night. | ||
| I think he had one tweet. | ||
| Maybe he's had some others I haven't seen. | ||
| But, essentially, you can see that the Democrats are piling on. | ||
| Establishment Republicans are piling on. | ||
| Quiet from the White House. | ||
| That's obviously a strategy. | ||
| What do you think about it? | ||
| Also, I think Jack's referring to the repressive tolerance philosophy of Herbert Marcuse, and everybody's got to read exactly what was written by Marcuse. | ||
| It's an absolutely genius point by Posobiec. | ||
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You get to learn a lot by going back through their old texts. | |
| Everything that they're running right now. | ||
| The plays they're running. | ||
| Look, here's what's happening. | ||
| They are trying to goad the president into crazy. | ||
| Pushing and probing and poking and trying to get out of him like a screaming match. | ||
| Trying to make him seem unhinged on the back of the room, because they've got all of this imagery on the televisions of like smoke and flames and whatever, right, from the Capitol. | ||
| In fact, Natalie Winters made a really good point today on the 3pm show. | ||
| She said, it's interesting, you watch the television, they talk a lot about the insurrection, but they don't show a lot of pictures. | ||
| But the pictures they do show, you know, they're trying to do all this stuff. | ||
| Now what they want, because they don't have this right now, they want something of Trump going nuts. | ||
| They want him screaming at the camera. | ||
| Yeah, they're not going to get that. | ||
| But that's what this is. | ||
| But you don't need to put him under... Look, I know the strategy is they made a decision, put him under wraps, people want to hear his voice and they've... | ||
| A little bit of breaking news as we're talking about censorship and as Jack Posobiec is talking about people moving to Parler. | ||
| Parler has evidently been given by Apple 24 hours to clean up their content or be deplatformed from the Apple App Store. | ||
| Okay, Jack Posobiec, I want to thank you very much. | ||
| By the way, in honor, we've got one of our Engine Room producers, and a special hat tip to him. | ||
| It's what, David Bowie, it's been David Bowie's 73rd birthday, it's the anniversary of his death. | ||
| He's a communist. | ||
| He's a communist, and that's going to get a wild reception in the Thin White Duke, we're going to end with his music. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, One American News. | ||
| We're going to be back tomorrow morning with a fascinating show, so make sure you don't miss it. | ||
| Quick, 20 years after today, the Battle of New Orleans, in 1835, in other words, it was the only time, I believe, that U.S. | ||
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national debt had hit zero, and Jackson actually had a celebratory dinner. | |
| Big time. | ||
| Get rid of that debt from Hamilton. | ||
| It's just interesting. | ||
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I wish you could swim. | |
| Like dolphins. | ||
| Like dolphins can swim. | ||
| Though nothing, nothing will keep us together. | ||
| We can beat them. | ||
| Forever and ever. |
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