April 18, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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The virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| I think with over 170 million downloads on the podcast, of course, we're live everywhere. | ||
| I want to thank G-News for getting us in Mandarin and Japanese. | ||
| Also, Real America's Voice for putting us everywhere. | ||
| The John Fredericks Radio Network can go on and get the podcast later in the day. | ||
| We put the podcast up later. | ||
| A little bit recut for timing. | ||
| There's so much going on. | ||
| Let me go back to Todd Benz. | ||
| We've got J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| The great J.D. | ||
| Vance is joining us here momentarily. | ||
| Todd, so this thing is so thought through by the Biden administration. | ||
| Don't buy this thing for a second that this is all confusing. | ||
| That's what they're putting out there. | ||
| Now, knowing that they first changed not just Title 42, But that they had the difference in the asylum officers who can sign off on asylum. | ||
| In addition, they've got this aspect to start lining everybody up early and just put them in that people, quote unquote, are exempt, which is going to start this mass wave. | ||
| The question I've got for you, who was right? | ||
| Either you or some of your fans who didn't quite agree with you on Abbott in Texas. | ||
| And don't go for the shiny pony. | ||
| The thing of putting him on buses here is irrelevant, okay? | ||
| It's what he did at the Mexican border with the economic warfare, stopping the trucks. | ||
| How's that working out? | ||
| Are the Mexican governments actually stopping the illegal aliens coming across? | ||
| We broke news. | ||
| I mean, Holman sounded like it was a big deal that day with the announcement. | ||
| I love Tom Holman, but you broke it on this show two weeks ago to tell us March was 200 and I think 12,000 people. | ||
| So where are we with the Abbott thing right now? | ||
| Is that working or not? | ||
| Did Abbott cave or did Abbott actually pull off something here? | ||
| I mean, Abbott's got four agreements with four different Mexican governments. | ||
| So, you know, this is kind of like the Abrahamic Accords. | ||
| Now, the question is, what are the details of what the Mexicans are going to do on their side? | ||
| What I'm wondering right now is if the line them up at the bridges is going to undercut that because Now, there's no reason for any of these families or LGBTQ people to cross at the river. | ||
| They can just line up at the bridges now. | ||
| And they all have legal documents from Mexico. | ||
| So, I'm not really sure what the Mexicans are going to have to police up over there. | ||
| They can't just pick them up lined up at the bridges because they all have Mexican documents. | ||
| So, in that sense, I'm really now wondering how that's going to work. | ||
| Uh, but also I want, uh, I'll point out that this thing that's supposed to start Thursday is crowd control. | ||
| It's a crowd control measure so that they don't end up with Del Rio camps up and down the river from California, uh, the border from California to Texas. | ||
| They don't want Del Rio migrant camps like in September. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Okay. | |
| But whoa, don't bury the lead here. | ||
| They want to let more people through than they did in Del Rio. | ||
| It's your thing. | ||
| It's just, they're just getting the turnstiles ready. | ||
| They just don't want the optics. | ||
| They don't want the American people and folks in the rest of the country to see the optics. | ||
| They don't care if they fled in the South, the Rio Grande Valley or South Texas, and then the rest of the United States. | ||
| This is not to defend the country. | ||
| This is so the optics, because they realized the Del Rio Bridge last time got out of control. | ||
| Is that not correct, Mr. Todd Bensman? | ||
| Well, yeah, of course. | ||
| It was a nightmare. | ||
| What they don't want is mass media coverage of what is about to come when they take care of Title 42 and they get rid of Title 42. | ||
| Really, really powerful disincentive and incentive to create programs Yeah. | ||
| so that things are channeled and orderly and it does not look chaotic uh... and but uh... what you what you should have are miles and miles long lines at these international bridges i don't know how they can avoid that everybody's not gonna we've got to get the burton bernovich these guys we gotta shut this thing down because it's going to be this is going to be the destruction of the country Todd, we've got to bounce. | ||
| How do people on social media, because you're up all the time. | ||
| Sure, go ahead. | ||
| I want to just say one other thing, that the March numbers are in, and they were 221,000 apprehensions, which is an American record. | ||
| We have never had that many hit in a single month in American recorded history. | ||
| And we already have 114,000, I'm told, for the first two weeks of April, which looks like it's going to be another record at the end of April. | ||
| The numbers, we're already in this thing. | ||
| You can reach me at tbensman at getter is my main social media. | ||
| Yeah, no, you're on fire. | ||
| In the book, you can go to Amazon, and you're at CIS. | ||
| But follow him on Getter, he's up all the time. | ||
| And by the way, Todd told us it was going to be over 200,000. | ||
| I think you said 212,000 to 220,000 a couple weeks ago on the show. | ||
| So another breaking news. | ||
| Already 114,000 in the first two weeks. | ||
| Todd, thank you so much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here, brother. | ||
| Okay, thank you for having me. | ||
| We're having wall-to-wall coverage. | ||
| Michael Yan's down and I think near the Darien Gap. | ||
| You're going to have Auden Cabrera. | ||
| We're going to have Oscar Blue. | ||
| Burquam's going to come off the beach and go back to work down on the border. | ||
| Wall-to-wall coverage of this invasion of the southern border. | ||
| I want to bring in J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| From Ohio. | ||
| JD, you said on the show, I don't know, a month ago, six weeks ago, that your focus wasn't about Ukraine or the border in Ukraine. | ||
| It was more on the southern border. | ||
| Has anything happened in the last six weeks to change your mind about your priorities as a U.S. | ||
| Senator, whether it's the southern border of this country or the eastern Russian-speaking border of Ukraine? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| I think the past six weeks actually reinforced the point that I made, Steve, which is we need leaders in this country who can separate their emotions about what's going on in Ukraine from the hard-nosed public policy response that we need to have to the crisis at our own southern border. | ||
| I mean, look, man, you're talking about rescinding Title 42, which, of course, has come up in the last couple of weeks. | ||
| That will take the invasion we already have at our southern border And turn it into a massive, large scale, double the amount of people coming in, maybe triple the amount of people coming in. | ||
| And again, Steve, you say this, I say this, it is a transformative thing on our country, on the politics of this country, on the economics, the wages of this country. | ||
| And most importantly, right now, with so many people dying of drug overdoses, it really, really hammers us at a time when this country is already suffering way too much. | ||
| The folks, the good folks in Ohio, which is probably the leading MAGA state, do they fully get or fully understand that Ohio's a border state and Columbus and Cincinnati and Youngstown, they're all essentially border towns because of this invasion? | ||
| 100% they do, Steve. | ||
| I mean, look, the immigration issue is the thing that I hear most about when I go and talk to people. | ||
| You know, we do a ton of town halls, and we were recently endorsed by President Trump. | ||
| Very excited about that. | ||
| I think one of the reasons that the President endorsed me, and one of the reasons why Ohioans are supporting the campaign, Is that we're actually talking about the substance of what's going on at the border and how it affects the state, how it affects the people who live here. | ||
| It is absolutely a problem here in Ohio. | ||
| Ohio is a border state. | ||
| It is killing our people, Steve. | ||
| The number three state in the country in terms of drug overdose deaths. | ||
| You look at the amount of sex trafficking that's been increased in this state, the lawlessness at the southern border in Texas and Arizona. | ||
| It absolutely affects what's going on in Ohio and our people definitely get it. | ||
| Let's get to that, because obviously this endorsement has gotten a lot of attention as the one in Pennsylvania. | ||
| What are the two or three things you think, on a policy basis, because it came down to both the personality but who could also deliver, what are the two or three things on a policy basis that you will do as a United States Senator that Donald J. Trump thought highly enough about that separates you out from your other competitors, from the Gibbons, from the Mandels, from the Timpkins? | ||
| What do you think it was That he bought into for you to jump into obviously a very tight, very contentious, probably the highest profile race with a number of very qualified people, sir. | ||
| Yeah, look, I think it's policy. | ||
| You're exactly right. | ||
| At the end of the day, MAGA is not a slogan. | ||
| America First is not a talking point. | ||
| You actually have to believe in these things. | ||
| It ultimately goes down to overthrowing the oligarchy in this country that has controlled our economy, that has controlled our borders, that has controlled our very speech and the way that we think. | ||
| Through big tech censorship, I'd say if I had to pick two issues, Steve, number one, I'm the only candidate in the race talking not just about China. | ||
| It's easy to say you don't like China, but talking about the Trump tariffs that we're working to push back against the Chinese. | ||
| We need more of them. | ||
| We need a full bore commitment to fighting the Chinese using American economic power to do it. | ||
| Number two is absolutely, I think, the big tech issue. | ||
| The president knows that I'm not going to be one of these guys who wags his finger at the big tech CEOs on a Senate conference call where they run circles around these guys. | ||
| I'm actually talking about substantive ideas for breaking up these big tech monopolies, giving people like the president, all the way to middle class Ohio conservatives who love the president, a voice again in our own country. | ||
| Steve, we've got to wake up. | ||
| It's time to put up. | ||
| It's time to start talking in slogans, time to stop talking in slogans and talking points and actually put forward ideas that are gonna solve this problem or we're gonna lose the country. | ||
| We're gonna wake up in a country that is bought and sold to the Chinese where American middle-class people don't have any stake in this society. | ||
| Take a second, obviously in the controversy, you know, Club for Growth put millions of dollars on your head to bring up stuff from the past and statements from the past and some of your performances in the past. | ||
| Make the case for this audience that maybe are saying, hey, I'm not on the J.D. | ||
| Vance train yet, right? | ||
| And I'm a Trump supporter. | ||
| And I understand I love the president, I respect him, but I still got to make up my mind. | ||
| And these are guys that folks that have had they've seen the millions of dollars a club for growth ads That are not front not a supportive. | ||
| Let's say a JD Vance make the case right now I got a couple of minutes make the case to that those members of the audience that aren't there yet of not just about this endorsement, but what went on behind it to make Trump for the president to say this is my guy and So three things, Steve. | ||
| Number one, a lot of that money that's coming from the Club for Growth, that's coming from organizations that hate my candidacy, they hate my candidacy because I agree with Trump on the big issues. | ||
| They're putting a ton of money against my campaign in the same way they put a ton of money against Trump in 2016. | ||
| So number one on the substance, I'm actually with the president. | ||
| Number two, man, look, I'm not going to hide from the fact that I changed my mind on Trump. | ||
| You and I talked about this years ago, Steve, where I did not think Trump was going to deliver on some of these core promises. | ||
| I was very happy to be proven wrong. | ||
| He's certainly the best president of my lifetime at 37 years old. | ||
| At the end of the day, he was a fighter for people that I care about more than any politician in this country in 30, 40 years. | ||
| I think people should trust the president's judgment here. | ||
| I think he looked at all these guys. | ||
| He sees a Kasich Republican is trying to rebrand himself as MAGA. | ||
| That's Josh Mandel. | ||
| You've got Mike Gibbons who's trying to pretend that he's MAGA even though he's supporting middle-class tax hikes and can't string, you know, five words together in a sentence. | ||
| I think Trump looked at this race, looked at the contenders, looked at what we actually stood for, and decided that, yeah, though I was critical of him back in 2016, I'm on the team. | ||
| As the president said, J.D. | ||
| gets it. | ||
| I do get it. | ||
| I'm going to fight for these issues in the U.S. | ||
| Senate. | ||
| And when Trump runs again and wins again in 24, man, we cannot have Republicans who say nice things about him publicly, but stab him in the back on the substance. | ||
| I'm actually going to stand for the president on the stuff that matters, the trade, the immigration, the taking back of American sovereignty. | ||
| How do people, the people still let's say are not there, how do they go, where do they go to find out more about you, get exposure to you and this run up to this election on May 3rd, this primary on May 3rd? | ||
| So we do more town halls, more, you know, I go out there to every part of the state. | ||
| We've done 50 some town halls just in the past two and a half months. | ||
| People can get out there, they can ask me questions, they can come shake my hand, they can see what I'm all about. | ||
| I've done a lot of interviews with UC, with Seb Gorka, with Tucker Carlson, with all the people, not just the short interviews, but also the long interviews that get into where I'm coming from. | ||
| Why I changed my mind on the president, but more importantly, where I actually stand on the issues. | ||
| So I think people, you know, Google my name, look at what I'm standing for. | ||
| But most importantly, come out and meet us at an event. | ||
| Ask me the tough questions. | ||
| I'm not afraid of it. | ||
| And I think politics should be more about, it can't just be 30 second commercials. | ||
| It should be voters getting an opportunity to ask their candidates tough questions. | ||
| That's why we do so many town halls and go to our website, JDVance.com to find out when we're going to be in your town next. | ||
| JDVans.com. | ||
| And MTG's endorse you also, right? | ||
| It's MTG and Trump? | ||
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That's right. | |
| Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, and Donald Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| We've got a really solid core of support. | ||
| People who actually believe in America first, who don't just repeat the slogans, are on my campaign, not anybody else's. | ||
| Okay, JD. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here, sir. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Okay, let's get that website up. | ||
| Particularly the doubters. | ||
| The doubters go, take a look, go to Yvette, ask him a question. | ||
| This is a very, very, very important primary, okay? | ||
| Steve Cortez next in the War Room. | ||
| Biden and the Democrats are imploding according to recent polling data among the voters of two groups that they have taken for granted and that they desperately need to win any elections. | ||
| I'm talking about Hispanics and young people. | ||
| For the numbers, let's get to a Chalk Talk brought to you by Getter. | ||
| Last week, Quinnipiac released a poll and it was shocking. | ||
| It showed only 26% approval of Biden among Hispanic voters. | ||
| That same poll also revealed among young voters age 18 to 34 only 21% support for Joe Biden. | ||
| Now, how important are young people to Biden and to the Democrats? | ||
| If we look at a Tufts University analysis of the 2020 vote, we find that 61% of young people supported Joe Biden. | ||
| Young Latinos, 73%. | ||
| So, what is the prescription, the agenda, to capture and earn the support of not just Hispanics, but also young people? | ||
| I lay it out in the attached article. | ||
| Okay, the great Steve Cortez. | ||
| Cortez, today, you know, I've got Ben, although we can't, there's so many people in St. | ||
| Peter's Square, it's tough to pull him up, on Easter Monday, right? | ||
| And you got Coons and these people over the weekend talking about Inserting American combat troops into a more active American military presence into into Ukraine, where the Russians are telling you, hey, that 800 million kind of looks like the Lend-Lease, right? | ||
| The Lend-Lease deal. | ||
| And that's going to maybe push us to include you guys as combatants. | ||
| Where does the world stand today? | ||
| We've got 400 million people in China locked down. | ||
| We've got supply chains there. | ||
| And they're going to try to blame it on everything. | ||
| They're going to try to say, oh, it's the supply chains in China. | ||
| It's the Ukraine war. | ||
| It's the greedy corporations. | ||
| Where do we stand today, sir, with the Biden economic agenda? | ||
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Right. | |
| Well, paying attention to all the wrong things, majoring in the minors. | ||
| And Steve, let me just quickly say, by the way, I'm used to being the tan one on this show. | ||
| You're upstaging me. | ||
| I'm going to have to get outside and we're done here. | ||
| On the serious issues that are in front of this audience right now, unfortunately, you know, something that's not funny is that the world is quite literally on fire right now. | ||
| We have an economy that is imploding before our very eyes. | ||
| Americans are watching their prosperity vanish away. | ||
| In just over a year of Joe Biden office, we have a border which is teeming and utterly out of control. | ||
| And yet, what do the intelligentsia, the Davos crowd, the globalists, Joe Biden and his henchmen, what do they want us to worry about? | ||
| The eastern border of Ukraine and what is clearly a regional conflict that has no vital American national interest. | ||
| Let me give you some data here. | ||
| Steve, about what is going on this very day. | ||
| That does matter to Americans because the struggle in Ukraine, frankly, does not matter to Americans. | ||
| Not to their well-being, not to their prosperity, but what does matter today as we speak. | ||
| These are some of the things we have going on right now in the country. | ||
| We have corn. | ||
| I put this up on my social media. | ||
| We have corn hitting a 10-year high. | ||
| That matters. | ||
| It matters a lot, particularly to the moms out there in America who mostly do the shopping and who mostly handle the finances of most households in this country. | ||
| We have corn at 10-year highs. | ||
| We have mortgage rates at 10-year highs right now today. | ||
| We have consumer confidence at 10-year lows. | ||
| We have 10-year treasury yield at 4-year highs. | ||
| By all of these metrics that really matter to people's lives, the Biden globalist experiment has been an absolute disaster for America. | ||
| And they want us to look away. | ||
| And they want us to focus on some ridiculous diversion over in Eurasia. | ||
| Well, it's not going to work. | ||
| The American people thankfully know better. | ||
| And again, though, too, we can't just decry the darkness. | ||
| We can't just talk about how miserable things are. | ||
| They are miserable. | ||
| Let's also point the way out, you know, and what is the way forward. | ||
| And as I pointed out in that shock talk there, thankfully, groups that were formerly beholden to the Democratic Party, groups like Hispanics and like young Americans, have grown incredibly disaffected because of what has happened to their lives. | ||
| And that is opportunity. | ||
| It's opportunity for us to show them the way out and to earn their political support, not just for this election in 22 and in 24, but for decades to come. | ||
| So amidst the calamity, I do see opportunity if we're smart and diligent. | ||
| I do, too, by the way. | ||
| I don't know if I got you the articles of the weekend, but I want to talk to you about it on another show. | ||
| A couple of Democratic strategists have come out and said, hey, on the inflation thing, we've got a solution. | ||
| We've got to increase immigration. | ||
| I mean, they basically sit there. | ||
| They're so blatant to say we've got to crush Hispanics and African-Americans. | ||
| What we need to do to solve this problem, this is what we need to do. | ||
| We need to get wages down among the working poor and the working class and the lower middle class. | ||
| That's the solution, Cortez. | ||
| Look, of course the exact opposite is true. | ||
| Now let's talk about real numbers and what's really going on with Americans. | ||
| We have real disposable incomes, which of course is part of real wages in this country, meaning wages adjusted for what you can buy at the store. | ||
| Because even if your pay is going up, and I certainly hope it is, it's not going up enough to keep pace with Biden's inflation. | ||
| So real disposable income, Over the last year has been down 11 out of 12 months. | ||
| Real wages are crashing in this country. | ||
| There are a lot of reasons for that. | ||
| Globalization, Biden's inflation, but another reason is that we continue to flood America with illegal and unfair workers who are competing in the labor market against American citizens. | ||
| About 2 million let in last year in 2021 and we're on pace for more than that this year. | ||
| By the way, that's 2 million that we know about. | ||
| So, One of the key ways to elevate wages in America, and I'm talking a lot lately about housing, by the way, too, and how unaffordable housing is. | ||
| So right now you have particularly young people in this country, their real wages are crashing, they cannot afford housing, and some of them will never be able to afford being an actual homeowner. | ||
| A way to solve both of those scenarios at once, to solve both of those problems at once, is to restrict the flow of people into this country. | ||
| Let's shrink the workforce so that real wages rise again, And so that we can cool the housing market, which again, is out of control and unaffordable for the vast majority of American strivers, of young people out there who are aspirational, who want to buy homes. | ||
| So the idea of importing millions more workers to compete, again, illegally and unlawfully and unfairly, unjustly, in the labor market against Americans is the worst possible idea. | ||
| Steve, there's never a good time for us to lose control of our border. | ||
| There's never a good time For us to invite a human tsunami of trespassers into this country. | ||
| There's never a good time, but this is the worst of all times for us to engage in this policy. | ||
| But Joe Biden frankly doesn't care and neither does the complicit corporate media. | ||
| By the way, Zelensky wants him to go to Ukraine. | ||
| How about going to Del Rio, Texas? | ||
| Why don't you go there first, big guy? | ||
| Big guy, from the Hunter Biden emails. | ||
| Big guy. | ||
| Why don't you go down to Laredo? | ||
| Why don't you go down to McAllen, Texas? | ||
| Why don't you show your face? | ||
| The reason you won't do it is the Hispanics down there will turn out and boo you like nobody's business. | ||
| Because you've betrayed your country and you've betrayed them specifically. | ||
| The other thing, just before I move on, and this gets back to the youth vote, it's not simply illegal immigration, which is now just, this is an invasion. | ||
| This is no longer like illegal aliens, illegal immigration. | ||
| This is an invasion. | ||
| But you argue, and it's clear from these kids, we gotta stop all the legal immigration. | ||
| We can't have this unfair competition for tech jobs. | ||
| This is why the youth of this country, under 35 years old, you're nothing but a Russian serf. | ||
| You're better educated, you have more access to information, you're in better shape, right? | ||
| You're more interconnected, but you're nothing but a Russian serf. | ||
| You don't own anything and you're not going to own anything. | ||
| And now you're just on the wheel. | ||
| They just got you on the wheel, gave you a little bit of credit, which is going to explode the cost of it, but they're just going to keep you on the wheel. | ||
| Steve Cortez. | ||
| You know, Steve, listen, when I lay out the policy agenda that I teased there in my chalk talk, when I lay it out in my article, I think that a legal immigration moratorium is a key component of an America First agenda, agenda to renew this country, to raise real wages, and particularly to help young people, to help young workers. | ||
| It doesn't mean that we have to stop legal immigration forever, but it does mean that it's time for a pause. | ||
| It's time for a pause so that we can assimilate the illegal immigrants we have already welcomed into this country, that we can see wages rise, and most importantly, Steve, that we can decide how best to structure legal immigration going forward in a way that prioritizes not the migrants, but prioritizes The citizens of the United States first and foremost. | ||
| And right now, illegal immigration, of course, is out of control and should never be tolerated. | ||
| Zero tolerance for illegal. | ||
| But even legal immigration, I believe right now, is not serving the interests of American citizens. | ||
| So these work visas, the generosity of green cards, the abuse of our asylum system, All of this, in my view, needs to be suspended. | ||
| We need a moratorium on even legal immigration, and the candidates who are willing to go there, I believe, are going to win their primaries in the coming weeks, and then are also going to win the general elections come fall. | ||
| And that kind of a movement, that's true America First. | ||
| That is prioritizing the well-being and prosperity of American citizens, particularly young ones. | ||
| Candidates who are willing to be that bold, in my view, will form the basis of a Multiracial, truly diverse political movement, America First movement, that will dominate politics for decades to come. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Let's go to J.D. | ||
| Vance for a second, because look, the War Room audience is the most informed and the most discerning, right? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Let's say, I would say, kindly, there's a lot of audience members that are just not there yet, okay? | ||
| Now, there's plenty of time and he's made himself totally available. | ||
| Talk to me. | ||
| I know you're one of the guys who have supported, also have supported, J.D. | ||
| Vance, as the President has, as Don Jr. | ||
| has, as MTG has, as others have. | ||
| What's the case, particularly in today, when I keep saying authenticity, fighter, and the ability to take political pain? | ||
| When you look at the other candidates, and I think there's some great candidates, Timpkin, Mandel, you know, Gibbons, you know, sometimes hot, sometimes not. | ||
| But the other two seem to be fighters. | ||
| What is the case for J.D. | ||
| Vance? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And by the way, Steve, it is a really competitive race, and that's a good thing for the Republican Party. | ||
| It certainly is a good thing for our movement to have competitive primaries like this. | ||
| But I am fully behind J.D. | ||
| Vance, and you're right, the list of endorsements, most especially President Trump, Is significant and impressive, but that alone is not enough. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So simply, you know, recognize leaders. | ||
| Those endorsements are fantastic, but that is not enough on its own to convince the deplorables to convince the good people of Ohio to get behind him. | ||
| Here is my main argument and I have a lot, but my main argument in favor of JD Vance is that he has insider knowledge. | ||
| And what I mean by that is he has operated at the highest levels of big tech and finance graduated from the top Ivy League universities, but at the same time, so he knows how the ruling class operates. | ||
| But at the same time, he's an outsider. | ||
| He rejects their agenda. | ||
| He rejects their policies and their repression, frankly, of working Ohioans. | ||
| And because he has done that, by the way, and because they assumed that he was an insider, here's one of the reasons that I totally believe in the authenticity of J.D.' 's conversion on issues like President Trump, is that he paid an enormous price. | ||
| These people who formerly lauded him, people from Big Tech and Hollywood, they thought he was one of them. | ||
| Once they found out that, no, he really means it about America First and about populist nationalism, they now revile him. | ||
| And I think it's very telling that if you look at who his political opponents are, who are his enemies, who do they come for the hardest when you look at the corporate media? | ||
| They come after J.D. | ||
| Vance for that reason, because they believe that he somehow betrayed them. | ||
| Of course, he never did. | ||
| He brings the perspective and agenda of an outsider, even though he has insider knowledge. | ||
| I think that's a powerful compliment. | ||
| Hang on for a second because I want to bring you back through the break at a couple of things we've got to clean up. | ||
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Steve Cortez in The War Room. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| OK, welcome back. | ||
| I have Steve Cortez. | ||
| Steve, you came over, I think, in early 2000. | ||
| I think it was 16. | ||
| You came and you started. | ||
| I think I saw you on CNBC. | ||
| You were hammering every day for the Trump movement in a very hostile environment, CNBC. | ||
| I think what people issues people have with with J.D. | ||
| that I do think he has to get up and convince a number of people about this is that Knowing the populist nationalist program Trump was running on, and it was so different than the Republican Party in those primaries, because you came on before Iowa, before New Hampshire. | ||
| Knowing what they were, how was he so negative on those, on Trump and Trump supporters at that time in a year run up? | ||
| And no offense, Hillary Clinton is just not an alternative for that. | ||
| You just totally don't believe the guy or the guy he eventually vote for I think he voted for that nerd out of Utah who I can't stand right the worst of worst the deep state guy that ran the the guy out in Utah, so Help the audience out with that sure because look Pete obviously this is the biggest pro Trump Show where you and I Navarro. I mean we're the hardest core of the Trump. You know the Trump right wing The diehards, the dead enders. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Help people get through that, and particularly how you and then how Trump came to this endorsement. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| No, Steve, it's a totally valid question, of course, and you're very right. | ||
| The War Room audience, the deplorables out there, and I was campaigning with J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| We did a lot of his town halls together in Western Ohio just a couple of weeks ago. | ||
| Most informed citizens, the most informed voters out there ask these kinds of tough questions. | ||
| I'm going to give you a very honest answer about it. | ||
| By the way, I, like J.D., was a convert. | ||
| I used to be a Wall Street Republican. | ||
| I used to believe in, quote, free trade until I figured out, because of a guy named Donald Trump, That it never was free, that it was managed and managed against the interests of American citizens. | ||
| But I was a convert earlier. | ||
| Why was J.D. | ||
| a convert later? | ||
| My explanation of that is I think that he simply didn't believe that Donald Trump, this man with no political experience, was going to actually deliver, to deliver on the kinds of things he said. | ||
| Now, J.D. | ||
| was clearly wrong. | ||
| And to his credit, he admits that he is wrong, that he was wrong on that issue. | ||
| But once he has come over, he now speaks with the zeal of a convert, as I certainly have. | ||
| I don't think anybody out there doubts my bona fides now when it comes to promoting the America First agenda and my loyalty to Donald Trump. | ||
| So I hope that my endorsement means something, but I know that's a loan. | ||
| Again, not enough. | ||
| They need to be convinced by the candidate himself, by J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| And I would offer this as a reason, then, to look at Vance himself today. | ||
| and why to believe in him and why to believe that he's fully authentically the America first candidate even outside of the important endorsement of Donald Trump. | ||
| And I would bring you to the issue of Ukraine. | ||
| He's the only candidate who was brave enough to get on that debate stage and I think he did a masterful job in general in those debates in Ohio, but particularly on this point. | ||
| He was brave enough to say as a former U.S. | ||
| Marine, that we have no dog in the fight between Russia and Ukraine, that this is a massive distraction. | ||
| There's no vital U.S. | ||
| national security interest. | ||
| His two primary opponents, Gibbons and Mandel, both of them supported a, quote, European-led no-fly zone, which if you think about that for five seconds, you realize quickly gets America into a hot war with nuclear-powered Russia. | ||
| That is a disastrous interventionist establishment policy stance on an issue that is of paramount importance right now. | ||
| So I think J.D. | ||
| shows his willingness to be brave, to take political positions that get him mocked by the corporate media, mocked by the establishment left, but are important for the deplorables. | ||
| So I hope that positions like that, and I hope that endorsements, particularly from President Trump, are enough to convince the voters out there that this is the man who's going to go to the United States Senate and be a bold advocate. | ||
| We are going to have the other candidates on here. | ||
| Listen, look, I'm a big believer in contested primaries. | ||
| This is a highly contested primary. | ||
| Ohio is so important in the MAGA world that this is, I think, the first among equals now for importance in this Senate primary. | ||
| And so it's going to be tough. | ||
| And people should go and go on J.D.' 's site, find out more about the guy and then go. | ||
| If you're in Ohio particularly, If you're one of the citizens voting there, make sure you go to one of these town halls and question him. | ||
| Get your answer. | ||
| Do your due diligence. | ||
| This is totally, and remember, people, the MAGA movement has to be convinced of whoever wins here, because we need a massive turnout in November on this. | ||
| This is going to be highly contested. | ||
| Tim Ryan's going to come with tens of millions of dollars. | ||
| They want the Senate seat. | ||
| Simply for the fact about President Trump. | ||
| Real quickly, on the de-dollarization of the world economy, We're in even additional uncharted waters. | ||
| I know you got all kind of charts on mortgages. | ||
| We'll try to get you back here tomorrow to walk through that. | ||
| The danger of us having, because of the fecklessness of Biden in this group and getting in an economic war in this Ukraine situation and not going after the CCP in this regard. | ||
| How nervous are you about us losing our status as prime reserve currency? | ||
| Steve, I cannot exaggerate how nervous I am about this, and I think that of all the crises, the created crises of the Biden administration, and they are many, and they are severe, the most lasting legacy of losing of Joe Biden may well be, eventually, the dethroning of King Dollar, because I think that has already begun. | ||
| And a lot of Americans, if they don't travel a lot internationally, or if they don't watch global capital markets, they may not think about the dollar, which is understandable, but believe me, it has mattered to your life immeasurably that for a century now, The dollar has been the reserve currency of the world, meaning it is the preferred currency in which all important transactions take place, from oil deals to foreign central bank holdings to drug and arms purchases. | ||
| The dollar has been sound as a pound. | ||
| By the way, that phrase comes from when the British pound was the reserve currency of the world. | ||
| It has been the dollar. | ||
| And that great inheritance, and it evolved because of the strength of the U.S. | ||
| military, because the grit and ingenuity of American entrepreneurs, and because of a lot of great political leaders who came before Joe Biden. | ||
| That grand inheritance of dollar dominance has now been squandered in just over a year with Biden in office, particularly because Of his insistence that we engage in all-out economic war with Russia. | ||
| And by the way, he rolled the dice with the credibility of the dollar. | ||
| That was bad enough, Steve. | ||
| But even worse, it didn't even work! | ||
| It only collapsed the ruble for a couple of weeks! | ||
| The ruble is all the way back to where it was before we decided. | ||
| So you didn't even get the economic punch out of this unprecedented economic war. | ||
| But on top of that, way more importantly, is that we have convinced the world Both friends and enemies. | ||
| Friends like India and enemies like China. | ||
| We have convinced them that guess what? | ||
| You cannot rely on the United States dollar because you are then basing your assets at the whim of the United States Treasury or United States President. | ||
| So what are they doing? | ||
| They are de-dollarizing. | ||
| And it's one of the reasons that commodities are soaring as people want to get into physical assets instead of U.S. | ||
| dollars. | ||
| That's one of the reasons That life is so painful right now for consumers in this country, at the gasoline pump, at the grocery store. | ||
| Steve, how do people get to you on Getter, and how do they get to your sub-stack? | ||
| Yeah, please find me on the Getter. | ||
| I'm at Steve, very simple, and then my sub-stack is linked to there. | ||
| I have this new article about young people and Hispanics. | ||
| You can also still find me on Twitter, at Cortez, Steve Cortez with an S. | ||
| Okay, thank you very much, Steve Cortes. | ||
| Okay, before we play our next clip, I want to make sure everybody go to birchgold.com, hashtag Bannon. | ||
| You can get my new paper that's come out, The End of the Dollar Empire. | ||
| This is a catastrophic impact on the American people, and you have two things you've got to focus on. | ||
| You've got to focus on gold as an alternative, and also crypto. | ||
| Gold and crypto. | ||
| You need to get as much information. | ||
| This one, Birch Gold. | ||
| I put out this new paper. | ||
| You can read it and then go from there. | ||
| Also, let's play this. | ||
| I got Eric Fineman now with some updates on FJB, some big technical improvements they made to our cryptocurrency. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play the play the spot I | ||
| Okay, Eric Fineman Eric, this new app, since our podcast audience is almost as big as our live audience and they only hear the music and didn't see the visuals, walk through what you've done and your team has done. | ||
| You came in as a strategic advisor and put together this app to make this really a cutting-edge cryptocurrency. | ||
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Absolutely, yeah. | |
| No, I'm glad to be on. | ||
| But yeah, basically I came on with the goal of being a senior strategic advisor and the goal of building out something that makes it really easy for people to get into crypto. | ||
| And also, you know, really easy to kind of join on into this new kind of uncancellable financial system. | ||
| because that's the beauty of crypto, right? | ||
| And crypto and Bitcoin particularly started out as this kind of libertarian movement, but a lot of these bigger crypto companies like Coinbase, et cetera, it's basically been taken over by big tech, but the underlying technology, still uncancellable, still great. | ||
| So we built this app. | ||
| It's called the, you know, it's the FJB coin app, which allows you to easily get FJB coin. | ||
| And the goal of FJB coin is to, is to get crypto and this uncancellable financial system in the hands of 75 million plus people that supported Trump. | ||
| And even the rest of the world as well. | ||
| But to this also allows you to get another cryptocurrency. | ||
| So if you have Bitcoin, or if you heard about Bitcoin, you can use this as a way to get into Bitcoin. | ||
| But I'm so proud of this. | ||
| We spent the past couple months building this out. | ||
| It really is the easiest way to get into crypto. | ||
| Again, I repeat, a lot of people have heard about Bitcoin, crypto, even FGB coin, but it's been kind of tricky to get into for any cryptocurrency. | ||
| Crypto, this thing is that gold and precious metals, because I keep telling people, go get information on that, that's a store of value. | ||
| It's not going to be able, because these alternatives have to both have a store of value and to be a means of transactions. | ||
| Gold is not going to be a means of transactions. | ||
| People know that's a store of value. | ||
| Crypto offers the potential to be an alternative store of value and transactions. | ||
| But you needed a mechanism in order to do this. | ||
| That's why Eric came in and the team did an incredible job on this app. | ||
| Because before, not just to buy this, but all these other ones, you had to go through so many backflips to buy Ethereum or to buy Bitcoin, to translate it, and then to do it. | ||
| This app is really one-stop shopping. | ||
| Is that not correct, Eric? | ||
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Exactly, exactly. | |
| I mean, it really is simple. | ||
| I've had my whole family and my grandparents and my parents and they've tried it out and then they find it really easy and they couldn't figure out how to buy Bitcoin before. | ||
| And they're very smart people, right? | ||
| My parents are Stanford PhDs. | ||
| They're very smart people and they still couldn't figure out how to buy Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. | ||
| But yeah, I mean, this is the real goal. | ||
| And how FGBCoin is different than Bitcoin is, again, the goal is to get this in the hands of as many conservatives and patriots as possible to not just use it or hold it, but for being able to send it and an actual utility to it. | ||
| Send it to each other, use it because it really is the fall of the dollar empire. | ||
| I mean, and that's because of the Biden administration's actions. Basically, they've been using what Daren Beattie talks about this. They're using the techniques that they use on Iran, on the American people, these sanctions, right? | ||
| You can't have a bank account. | ||
| You can't, you know, you look what happened to Mike Lindell, right? | ||
| On my pillow, his bank, his local bank. | ||
| And Mike Flynn, and others. | ||
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| Eric, hang on for one second. | ||
| I want to hold through the break. | ||
| For the American people, for people listening to this show, You're having a rolling devaluation on your net worth if you hold dollars. | ||
| That has nothing to do with your hard work. | ||
| None of your actions are bringing this about. | ||
| This is the apparatus and they continue to print money. | ||
| Elizabeth Warren's got a big article in the New York Times this morning about how the Democrats can fight back and actually hold ground in November. | ||
| It is 100% virtually about spending additional, running massive deficits. | ||
| Massive deficits. | ||
| That's just going to crush the dollar even more and do another devaluation. | ||
| My point. | ||
| You need to find out about precious metals and you need to find out about crypto. | ||
| You have to take it on yourself to immerse yourself in knowledge and understanding. | ||
| And that's what we try to do at FJB to provide this app. | ||
| Also the website that you can get more information. | ||
| You owe it to yourself to find out more about this. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Eric Fineman, one of the top young men in crypto and digital currencies has stepped into FJB and helped build this incredible app. | ||
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| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| By the way, go to birchgold.com and get the slash Bannon sign-up now for The End of the Dollar Empire. | ||
| It's the first of a series. | ||
| We talk about the Federal Reserve, the formation of the Federal Reserve, how it was a reaction to the populist politics of the 19th century that made currency one of the top political topics. | ||
| Currency is going to be one of the top political topics. | ||
| Because it underpins so much that's wrong with the finances and economy of this country, and this mentality. | ||
| And don't look at me. | ||
| Just go to Elizabeth Warren's proposal about how to save the Democratic Party. | ||
| What it is, is hit the printing presses again. | ||
| Hit the printing presses. | ||
| And with all their lies, it's been, oh, we're going to lower costs by spending more money. | ||
| It's all lies and misrepresentation. | ||
| It's all going to bury you. | ||
| OK, that's why you look at precious metals on the other side. | ||
| You got to look at crypto. | ||
| On the other, once again, Eric Feynman, you guys did an incredible job this app because you had to make it easier. | ||
| People just to go through all these back floats makes it too technical and limits the ability of people to get into it. | ||
| Just limits to the most technically proficient. | ||
| So once again, talk about this app and what do people do have to download it to go on it? | ||
| What do they have to do? | ||
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Yeah, I mean the reason why it's been so complicated before is that you have to comply and we've done that with like a million different regulations that kind of make it on purpose difficult for people to get into it and I think that's totally intentional and we found a way to make it super simple but still legally compliant. | |
| So just go to fjbcoin.org for you to check it out or app.fjbcoin.org and that takes you directly there and it's super simple. | ||
| All you do is you create an account, you deposit some cash, then you can use that cash to buy FJB coin or Bitcoin or Ethereum or any other cryptocurrencies that we have. | ||
| I look at this again, I want to repeat this. | ||
| Right now they're using, the United States is using basically the same technique they use in Iran on the American people right now and we need to get free from it. | ||
| I launched a project, it was a conservative project, and we made three and a half million dollars in that first day, and the financial system, these payment processors, these banks, they completely deplatformed us, kept a lot of that money for six plus months, and that kind of made me have a personal vendetta against this current financial system. | ||
| I mean, it's horrible, and I got into Bitcoin Back in 2011, I was just 12 years old. | ||
| I must have been a weird kid. | ||
| And then, you know, by the time of 18, I became the, you know, the claim to fame as the youngest Bitcoin millionaire. | ||
| But what I wanted to see, what I thought was going to more happen, especially with Bitcoin, the price that it's at, is that people were going to be using Bitcoin in stores, etc., much more so than they're doing now. | ||
| And right now, it's kind of been a good investment for people, Bitcoin, but it's not used, like, in the country really that much. | ||
| And that's, I think, the goal of this app is to make it really easy for normal people to send it to friends or even merchants or small businesses to accept it. | ||
| I mean, I look at this app as general. | ||
| Yeah, this app is what gives you that ability. | ||
| I want to just frame what you just said, though. | ||
| Remember, in digital or cryptocurrency, they're both a potential store of value. | ||
| Also, you can use for transactions as soon as they're more widely used. | ||
| And the way you get them more widely used is create apps like this. | ||
| That's why this did it. | ||
| Eric came to this, and he'd already been in Bitcoin, but he became a big believer in that we've got to get a coin that conservatives, everybody can use it, but conservatives specifically because he had a project. | ||
| That was on the on the communication information side and seeing what a roaring success that was immediately the tech oligarchs. | ||
| What did Steve Cortez and J.D. | ||
| Vance just talk about? | ||
| In fact, J.D. | ||
| Vance said, hey, one of the things I really go after, and I think President Trump trusts me, is that I will go after the tech oligarchs. | ||
| The tech oligarchs essentially shut Feynman's operation down. | ||
| The payment system shut down. | ||
| The banks wouldn't take it. | ||
| This is because they control the entire infrastructure. | ||
| Right now, they control it. | ||
| Now, people are starting their own banks. | ||
| People are coming in with their credit cards and insurance companies. | ||
| All that's going to take place. | ||
| And it has to. | ||
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| Because you can't trust the Wall Street guys. | ||
| You cannot trust these woke corporations. | ||
| And it's the battle over wokeness. | ||
| And that's why what Ron DeSantis is doing at Disney is so important. | ||
| This is awesome. | ||
| What JD just said about he would be the antitrust guy to break up these tech oligarchs. | ||
| This battle with the tech oligarchs, we're at the very top, top, top of the first inning. | ||
| This is going to be a death struggle. | ||
| And that's why you're going to need alternatives. | ||
| You're going to need alternatives across the board for banking, for payment systems, for alternative currencies. | ||
| At the same time, Your government, their policy, and you saw it up here with these spending bills. | ||
| These spending bills go on in perpetuity. | ||
| If you sit there and ask them, as I always do, I said, show me the plan. | ||
| Just show me the sustainable plan. | ||
| Show me where revenues that come in match what the expenditures are, particularly now that you want to triple down on being a policeman in the world. | ||
| You want to get us in Ukraine. | ||
| You're sucking us into this war on the Eurasian landmass without going after the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| So what Feynman and the guys at FJB have done have at least taken a first step to get an app that gives you more accessibility. | ||
| One more time Eric, how do people get to this app and how they download it? | ||
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Absolutely, go to fjbcoin.org and there's a big button there right in the middle of the website for you to get the app. | |
| It's super simple, this is the easiest way to get into crypto. | ||
| I look at this as General Sherman's march to the sea of getting this entire country, entire America and hopefully the rest of the world Eric, thank you so much. | ||
| And as a Southerner, let us tell you, we don't even take offense to that. | ||
| So, Eric, thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much, brother. | ||
| Thank you for coming on. | ||
| Okay, we're gonna be talking about this every day. | ||
| Make sure everybody goes to Birch Gold. | ||
| Get my new paper on the end of the dollar empire. | ||
| It's going to have a massive impact for you. | ||
| For folks under 35, this is literally your future. | ||
| It's not your future, this is your present. | ||
| It's going to be your future. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Every day now on the show, it's going to be jam-packed for every session. | ||
| Be back here at 5, then at 6, we're going to have Blake Maslow, we're going to have others. | ||
| We're taking back school boards. | ||
| We're going to address this story in Politico about fighting us at the election. | ||
| We're taking back school boards, as you heard Tiffany Justice. | ||
| Also, there's some heroic MAGA believers that are going to take over the, wait for it, the college, these colleges, these woke colleges to get there and give some common sense. | ||
| We're going to have a young woman that's doing that tonight on the 6 o'clock show. | ||
| Okay, see you back here in the War Room at 5 p.m. |
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