July 22, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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The Financial Times of London, everybody on the City of London, Wall Street, the multinational corporations, they're the ones trying to shut me up. | |
| They will never shut me up and never shut me down. | ||
| Let's discuss all of this with the Chairman of the Select Committee, Congressman Benny Thompson. | ||
| I know you're moving ahead with holding Steve Bannon in criminal contempt. | ||
| How will this work? | ||
| Steve Bannon leaves us no choice. | ||
| We gave the process every attempt to work and so the committee will do what we are required to do. | ||
| Do you really think you'll compel testimony or is this meant to send a powerful message to other witnesses? | ||
| Well, I think it's both, Wush. | ||
| Uh, uh, uh... Well, I think it's both, Wush. | ||
| Uh, uh, um... Uh... Well... | ||
| Representative Benny Thompson, chair of the House Select Committee, tested positive for COVID-19. | ||
| In a statement, Thompson said he was following CDC guidelines for isolation. | ||
| The diagnosis comes just two days ahead of a scheduled televised primetime hearing for the January 6th committee. | ||
| He encouraged all Americans to get vaccinated. | ||
| Hey folks, guess you heard this morning I tested positive for COVID. | ||
| But I've been double vaccinated, double boosted. | ||
| What are the odds that our That a gentleman named Benny Thompson is vaxxed, boosted, and double boosted following Dr. Fauci's recommendations. | ||
| That on the very day this trial starts, he comes up with COVID. | ||
| I have to laugh at that. | ||
| He comes up with COVID. | ||
| What are the odds of that? | ||
| It is 1 billion to 1. | ||
| Why is Benny Thompson not here defending his committee, the show trial? | ||
| The Moscow show trial of the 1930s. | ||
| Why is he not here in person? | ||
| Does he really have COVID? | ||
| Has anybody checked at all? | ||
| Or is he just saying he has COVID? | ||
| Has Dr. Fauci come forward and says Benny Thompson really has COVID? | ||
| This is an absurdity. | ||
| I challenge Benny Thompson today to have the courage to come to this courthouse. | ||
| If he's going to charge somebody with a crime, he's got to be man enough to show up here or send somebody like shifty shift Our Fang Fang Swalwell. | ||
| Our Sen Liz Cheney. | ||
| Sen somebody on the committee that has the guts to come here and accuse somebody of a crime. | ||
| It is outrageous. | ||
| And for them to sit there and try to get a complete hearing and they won't bring in any testimony. | ||
| Any testimony about FBI involvement, DHS involvement, any testimony about any other involvement and what's driving this. | ||
| The total and complete illegitimacy of Joe Biden. | ||
| I stand with Trump and the Constitution. | ||
| crime was committed. It's to put the information out there. | ||
| And, you know, the Department of Justice doesn't need to wait on us to do something. I sure as hell hope that Merrick Garland has an open criminal investigation into Donald Trump. I mean, with what we've laid out there, with all of the information that is publicly available as well, because your earlier guest said this was just all done in public. Like, no one needs to wait for some formality from our committee to have that ball in motion. | ||
| So there's no excuse, no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. | ||
| This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. | ||
| So we gotta make more progress. | ||
| You're okay. | ||
| You're not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations. | ||
| Thank you, Corinne. | ||
| Let me follow on Dr. O'Connor. | ||
| Neither of you has seen the president today. | ||
| Neither of you is treating the president. | ||
| The question is, when will Dr. O'Connor come out? | ||
| Because to just put out a statement and shield him from questions would be the least transparency of any White House in 50 years on a presidential illness. | ||
| I wholeheartedly disagree on your last statement. | ||
| Wholeheartedly disagree on your last statement. | ||
| We are doing this very differently. | ||
| Very differently, that I would argue, than the last administration. | ||
| And I'm happy to have that conversation with you. | ||
| The President has mild symptoms. | ||
| he's able to do the business of the American people from the residents and that's what matters right now. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, today is 22 July, year of our Lord 2022, and you are in war room in the field. | ||
| Tampa, Florida. | ||
| We have decamped Washington, D.C., the imperial capital for the free state of Florida under the administration of Governor Ron DeSantis, who will be joining us here in this room later this evening as the Turning Point USA SASS, the Student Action Summit, commences here. | ||
| The centerpiece, the focal point of freedom, the focal point and the center of the conservative galaxy, Here in Tampa, Florida this weekend. | ||
| We've got Governor DeSantis tonight. | ||
| President Trump also will be speaking tonight over in Arizona. | ||
| Then President Trump flies. | ||
| He'll be joining us here in Tampa, Florida tomorrow night. | ||
| You do not want to miss this. | ||
| The incredible show that we have for you today as well is in so packed because as we're here and we are having a celebration of America, a celebration of freedom, a celebration of what is to come. | ||
| 5,000 people have come together in this convention. | ||
| They're going to be coming in behind me. | ||
| You might see them walking around. | ||
| But we understand that the news does not stop. | ||
| Now, Stephen K. Bannon, he is not here right now because he is facing trial. | ||
| He is on his final day, and he is elected to call no witnesses in his own trial. | ||
| We're going to have Mike Davis come up in a minute. | ||
| We're going to have him give an update on the trial, everything that's going on. | ||
| We're going to go to Ben Harnwell in Rome. | ||
| We've got so many people. | ||
| Huge, huge packed story. | ||
| We have a candidate, by the way, attacked on the stump last night. | ||
| New York State, upstate New York, Congressman Lee Zeldin, he's running for governor, attacked with a bladed weapon outside of upstate New York at a VFW rally that he was holding. | ||
| This is what's going on in our country. | ||
| We're seeing this as the GOP, Rasmussen, they sent me the numbers this morning, hot off the press, Rasmussen, GOP, opening up. | ||
| A 10 point lead in the generic congressional polls. | ||
| Highest that we've ever seen from Axios. | ||
| We've seen from their new numbers that the GDP, they're worried. | ||
| The White House is worried that the GDP might come out next year. | ||
| We are going to see this contraction next week. | ||
| And worries of a recession, they're already starting to work the numbers on that, work the messaging. | ||
| President Biden, AWOL. | ||
| We do not know where the president is. | ||
| We do not know the status of the president. | ||
| And as I said yesterday, I believe that this will be the moment that Kamala Harris has the ability to try to push him out of the way. | ||
| And you saw the White House Correspondents Association yesterday for 40 minutes go full Columbo, full court press. | ||
| It's almost it's like you flipped a switch and they turned into actual Journalists for a second. | ||
| All of this going on. | ||
| They're pushing Biden out. | ||
| They want to bring Kamala Harris in, pull her in up the world stage. | ||
| And before we go to Davis, though, I have to I have to say I'm a little bit confused because here with me in Tampa, I've got this this gentleman to my side who's shown up with with a bag of of of some some kind of orange colored delectable. | ||
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What? | |
| What's going on? | ||
| It's my brother, folks. | ||
| It's Kevin Posobiec. | ||
| Shows up. | ||
| And what do you have here? | ||
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here what is this? | |
| I got some farm fresh oranges brought to you for a sunny day in Tampa. | ||
| And I'm just here to spread some of the citrus sweetness. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Because we need the vitamin D. And as Dr. Malone told us earlier this week, as Dr. Malone told us this week, it is the vitamin D That is how you fight depression so well because the stories are coming out that the serotonin levels, this chemical imbalance, it was all bunk. | ||
| It was bunk for so long. | ||
| The vitamin D, that's what we need. | ||
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All right, we're going to be eating during the break. | |
| But I want to bring in now, I want to bring in Mike Davis because as we said, we're down here in Tampa, but up in DC, we've got Stephen K. Bannon facing off against the regime. | ||
| Closing arguments expected to come today. | ||
| Mike Davis, walk us through what's going on the last couple days of the trial and where does Steve Bannon find himself right now? | ||
| Well, Steve Bannon had a major legal error happen in his trial where the judge said that he could not President Trump absolutely asserted executive privilege, as confirmed by a letter on July 9, 2022, saying that Stephen K. Bannon cannot cooperate with the January 6 Commission because of executive privilege. | ||
| We've had executive privilege going back to George Washington. | ||
| What it does is it protects presidential advice between a president and his advisors. | ||
| uh... the the supreme court has held that that applies to former presidents former presidents can maintain executive privilege after they leave office and the office of legal counsel will see the general counsel for the executive branch of the department of justice has a an opinion from uh... two thousand seven that outside advisers to the president are protected by executive privilege meaning the fact that steve bannon was a former white house staffer | ||
| does not mean that he does not enjoy executive privilege so the fact that this judge could did not allow steve bannon to put on this defense is a reversible air it's a legal air it it it destroyed steve bannon's case Steve Bannon has no defense now because the judge, uh, erred, legally erred, majorly legally erred by stripping this, uh, Steve Bannon's ability to put forward this evidence of executive privilege. | ||
| Well, but Mike, what's so confusing to, I think the jury and a lot of people watching this is that the letter though, that was written by president Trump that was delivered to Steve Bannon about executive privilege also was introduced in the trial and yet the judge came around and we had Viva Frye on, he's doing the podcast over for Post Millennial, and he said that the judge was, he allowed the letter to be introduced, but he said do not worry about the underlying truth of the matter itself. | ||
| What is going on here with this judge? | ||
| This judge, I think the judge may realize that he screwed up royally by not allowing Steve Bannon to put forward this evidence that President Trump asserted executive privilege in this case. | ||
| The government needed this evidence and so the judge let the government backdoor this evidence at the last minute through this hearsay letter. | ||
| But the judge did not allow Steve Bannon to call the appropriate witnesses and call the appropriate evidence to put forward the fact that President Trump asserted executive privilege. | ||
| I think where the judge may have gotten confused is he may have gotten confused whether there is a valid claim of executive privilege as a matter of law versus as a matter of fact whether executive privilege was asserted by former President Trump making it impossible for Steve Bannon to cooperate with the January 6th committee. Well and this is exactly what what Viva was talking about yesterday because there's a | ||
| difference here between whether or not right whether or not Steve Bannon his analysis of the law uh is not actually what's at question here because it was his lawyers that went to him that gave him him this. This was the advice of counsel acting on advice of counsel. | ||
| And so the idea being though, there is no mens rea. | ||
| There's no criminal intent on the behalf of Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| That's the entire point. | ||
| situation. And so the question, of course, becomes if he had no criminal intent, then how can they say that a crime was committed? | ||
| That's the entire point. | ||
| They could have brought in President Trump himself to go on the stand and say, yes, I invoked executive privilege, but they didn't allow any of that. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, here's the issue. | ||
| This is where the January 6th Commission, working hand in glove with the Biden Justice Department, made a legal mistake here and violated Steve Bannon's constitutional rights. | ||
| They should have resolved this through civil litigation. | ||
| If there's a dispute between President Trump and President Biden about whether there's a valid assertion of executive privilege as a matter of law, whether it's because they're saying that former President Trump can't assert executive privilege, well, the Supreme Court's already said that he can, | ||
| Back in 1973 in the Nixon case, or if they're saying that a former presidential advisor, that you can't have executive privilege with an outside advisor, well the Office of Legal Counsel has already determined that you can, but those are issues that should have been resolved in civil litigation in the court instead of going right to criminal contempt. | ||
| These highly unusual, unprecedented actually, criminal contempt charges against No Mike, we're down to one minute. | ||
| We know closing arguments are today. | ||
| Do you expect a verdict today? | ||
| Final thoughts. | ||
| Do you expect a verdict today? | ||
| that the January 6th Commission is partisan and out of control and usually the Justice Department is a check on that, but the Biden Justice Department is working hand in glove. | ||
| Now Mike, we're down to one minute. We know closing arguments are today. Do you expect a verdict today? Final thoughts. Do you expect a verdict today? The trial for Stephen K. Bannon? | ||
| Yeah, I expect the jury to find Bannon guilty because he was not able to put up a defense. | ||
| The issue is, is this is going to go up to the D.C. | ||
| Circuit, which is stacked by Obama liberals. | ||
| And so then it will have to be resolved by the Supreme Court if the Supreme Court decides to take this case and correct an egregious legal error that affects every president going forward. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Every single potential president now. | ||
| focused on this is executive privilege allowed in this country. | ||
| Mike Davis, thank you so much for coming up next. | ||
| We're going to Rome. | ||
| We're going to Ben Harm. | ||
| Well up in Rome for a complete walk down of everything that's going on the world. | ||
| Stay tuned Jack Pasobic and Kevin Pasobic here Tampa, Florida at the student Action Summit turning point covering down a worm Stephen Cabana. | ||
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And I room pandemic with Stephen K Bannon. | |
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| All right, Jack Posobiec here live Tampa, Florida. | ||
| We're at the Student Action Summit packed show though for the War Room. | ||
| We've got so much going on and I'm joined today here in person by my brother Kevin and Kevin's got a giant bag of Florida oranges. | ||
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Now. | |
| I was thinking by the way. | ||
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That's right. | |
| that's right if everyone went to their getter profiles, their social media profiles we know that President Trump is under attack right now yeah the gen six committee is coming for him they're talking about charges, they're doing anything they can if you want to show your support for President Trump what can you do in your profile Kev, what can they do? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| post orange let's get oranges up So take that orange emoji, post it up, put it in your bio. | ||
| Should I start juggling these? | ||
| Put it in your bio. | ||
| Wait, you want to juggle? | ||
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No, I can't do that. | |
| There's no juggling in the world, Kevin. | ||
| There's no, not even, and we're, this is War Room in the field. | ||
| There's no juggling on camera. | ||
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Yeah, there's not. | |
| There's not. | ||
| I could do it one hand one time. | ||
| All right, one hand. | ||
| You work on that. | ||
| So we're going to get, put it in your profile, put the orange up in your, put the emoji in your bio, get your oranges up, throw them up. | ||
| A beautiful day in the bay, a beautiful day across this country. | ||
| For the orange man himself. | ||
| Orange man, good. | ||
| But I want to go to the Rome man. | ||
| And now we've got Ben Harnwell up in Rome. | ||
| He's up there. | ||
| My brother and I, you know, Ben, we actually just got back from Rome. | ||
| And we had an incredible trip there. | ||
| We're at the Vatican, Piazza Navona, we're staying at. | ||
| But Ben, you've got an incredible update for us. | ||
| As you've been documenting in real time, you called this the fall of the Italian government, the resignation of Draghi. | ||
| And what is the latest update? | ||
| Good morning, Jack. | ||
| Morning, Kevin. | ||
| So, the situation as of yesterday, remember, when we were broadcasting right outside the official presidential residence, was that the speakers of both the lower house and the upper house of the Italian parliament, you can just actually see that the lower house, the Italian equivalent of the House of Representatives, just over where my finger is there, that's it there, Both speakers went over to the president. | ||
| There was basically no conversation, Jack, about trying to get a new government scratched out to last through until the projected general election in spring of next year. | ||
| So yesterday evening... | ||
| Last night, President Sergio Mattarella signed the official decree dissolving Parliament and calling fresh elections for September the 25th. | ||
| So now, instead of taking off a long summer, which Italians love doing, the whole political establishment is now going to be in maximum fighting gear right through the summer, all the way through to the end. | ||
| Of September. | ||
| And I'm going to give now for the War Room three things, three factors that I think are going to be quite important over the next couple of months. | ||
| The first is the inter-party wrangling. | ||
| There's a coalition system here, thanks to the appalling Italian constitution. | ||
| So you never really get a strong, stable government, but they're just packed together parties. | ||
| I think that this actual parliamentary mandate, which was dissolved yesterday, had three governments In four years. | ||
| And that's par for the course. | ||
| There have been 67, in fact, governments since the end of the Second World War. | ||
| 70 or so years. | ||
| So there's going to be the wrangling between the parties, both before the elections and then after the elections. | ||
| That's going to be instrumental to decide what the colour of the new government is going to be like. | ||
| In addition to that, the sword of Damocles hanging over that discussion is something called the PNRR, which is the €750 billion bailout from the European Union. | ||
| Obviously, it's European taxpayers' money that's paid over to Brussels. | ||
| Brussels then hands it back out. | ||
| The largest recipient of this PNRR fund is actually Italy, and they're going to get €191 billion. | ||
| Italy's already had the first tranche of 20 billion, so there's a lot more to go. | ||
| The question is, and this is the glue, if you like, that kept the Draghi government held together, is will the Italian government, and having elections in the end of September, has already thrown into jeopardy the autumnal budget debate, Will this shock to the Italian political system? | ||
| Put the PNRR now in doubt, which is very much needed. | ||
| Italy's bankrupt, basically. | ||
| So if this money comes through, it'll be able to fall forwards a little bit longer. | ||
| That is really the big question on everyone's minds. | ||
| And it's going to, as I say, colour the elections going forward. | ||
| The third factor, Jack, I would outline. | ||
| Very briefly, it's the situation now with Giorgia Meloni, who is the leader of Fratelli d'Italia, the Brothers of Italy, which, according to the polls, is now the leading political party. | ||
| Now, Giorgia Meloni was unusually, for a centre-right political party, one of the most vociferous voices inside the coalition government behind Mario Draghi's position with regards to Ukraine. | ||
| The other two centre-right parties that are allied to her, which are Silvio Berlusconi's party and Matteo Salvini's party, they took a far more hesitant approach, having strong personal relations with Vladimir Putin. | ||
| Georgia Maloney said she was very much behind the Draghi position. | ||
| This is also, therefore, another dynamic, as I mentioned yesterday and a few days before, with this government having fallen now, and it was the most vociferously pro-Zelensky government in the European Union. | ||
| With this government now falling, the question is which of the other European Union countries will now step forward and take that place, bearing in mind That what had happened in Sri Lanka a few weeks ago now happened here. | ||
| These are both direct cause and effect consequences of the Ukraine war. | ||
| A government in the European Union has now fallen because of this issue, because of the catastrophically high prices and the cost of living crisis. | ||
| And once one government falls, and Mario Draghi was the epitome of the European Union establishment, having been president of the European Central Bank, when a government like Italy falls with that government, with all the establishment support behind it, other member states are asking, who's next? | ||
| And I'll simply say that I think France and Germany are two countries that are going to be extremely cautious about pursuing a radically | ||
| I have been able to confirm what I had suggested yesterday that at the same time Mario Draghi was formally giving his resignation to the President of the Republic, Russia was augmenting its gas supply by 71% to Italy. | ||
| So there's also this other dynamic in play to do with the energy shortages. | ||
| Well so Ben, what you're saying is essentially we're starting to see a domino effect here. | ||
| And that the countries that are most vulnerable in this situation, we now see that Russia is able to use, and this is exactly what President Trump predicted, they are able to use their control over these gas taps to get the governments that they want across Europe. | ||
| This is also why you're seeing European Central Bank. | ||
| They just said they got to come out. | ||
| They're raising rates. | ||
| The IEA chief says they're cutting gas 20% across Europe. | ||
| They've got to contract because all they were doing is settling down on these green policies. | ||
| They're pushing the Green New Deal type policies. | ||
| That's why we saw the government in Netherlands facing the farmer uprising, the Dutch. | ||
| Have they put themselves up? | ||
| Ben, what is going on? | ||
| Are they going to continue to push this policy of continuing to exacerbate the situation in Ukraine, to go toe to toe with the Russians? | ||
| Because we just saw, by the way, U.S. Treasury just said that they're going to start floating Russian bonds again. | ||
| They just put that out today. | ||
| So the question is, where'd the sanctions go? | ||
| What was that? | ||
| What were the sanctions all about? | ||
| If you're getting back in with Russian bonds now, we're turning it around. | ||
| They have no other choice at this point than to go back. | ||
| They're running over to Azerbaijan. | ||
| They're running to Qatar. | ||
| They're running all over the place. | ||
| They're saying, you can't turn on a nuclear facility in a week. | ||
| They have no choice. | ||
| And Ben, I said this the other day, I think Germany, Scholz is going to get to the same point when he realizes that they don't have a choice, but they do have two pipelines called Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 that are already built. | ||
| Yeah, Jack, look, you're absolutely right. | ||
| I think with the fall of the government here in Italy, in chancellors across the European continent, political leaders are just realising now that the show's getting real. | ||
| And if, yeah, politicians are opportunists, sure, they'll put their own people on the back burner and support other countries at the drop of a hat. | ||
| But when the prospect of losing office Joe Biden just stepped off the stage yesterday. | ||
| First he says he has cancer, then he says he has COVID. | ||
| They took him off. | ||
| He's going to be taken a couple of days off now. | ||
| He's resting. | ||
| and I've not seen presently any particularly grand change of position on behalf of the Biden administration. | ||
| And that's looking a defeat of its own creating. | ||
| Joe Biden, Joe Biden just stepped off the stage yesterday. | ||
| First, he says he has cancer. | ||
| Then he says he is COVID. | ||
| They took him off. | ||
| He's going to be taken a couple of days off now. | ||
| He's resting. | ||
| They're going to juice him up. | ||
| They're going to try to get he's regenerating. | ||
| Biden's down. | ||
| Biden down hard right now. | ||
| They are taking him away. | ||
| Kamala Harris is going to be stepping up. | ||
| Ben, one minute left. | ||
| Close us out. | ||
| Where can people follow you? | ||
| You're going to be doing a livestream today on all this? | ||
| I might do. | ||
| I'm waiting to get something confirmed. | ||
| I might do. | ||
| I'll close with this point, Jack. | ||
| And if folks want to hear any more of this, follow me on Getter. | ||
| I'm exclusively on Getter. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| My profile is at Hanwell. | ||
| Now, as you basically said, the European Central Bank raised interest rates across the whole of the European Union, the Eurozone, that is, I should say. | ||
| For the first time in 11 years. | ||
| And it wasn't the quarter point rise that everyone was expecting. | ||
| It was a full half point rise. | ||
| The European economy is already circling around the toilet, as it is, Jack. | ||
| We're now heading into a recession. | ||
| And I think at a future point, we're going to look back on the fall of the Draghi government and say, as far as the Western support for President Zelensky goes, this was the turning point. | ||
| It was with the fall of this government that we magnified, as you're saying, the Biden administration is now also going to take a slight back step. | ||
| This is the moment when it all changed. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| This is the Lehman Brothers moment. | ||
| Thank you so much, Ben. | ||
| We're going to make sure everyone keeps following you for all the updates. | ||
| We're coming back. | ||
| We've got a huge show. | ||
| We're going to be bringing on soon Benny Johnson from Turning Point USA to give us a full update. | ||
| What's going on Biden administration? | ||
| What's going on with the numbers for Congress? | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
| Turning Point Sass and War Room continues from Tampa. | ||
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We will fight till they're all gone. | |
| We rejoice when there's no more. | ||
| Let's take down the CCP. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Jack Posobiec sitting in. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon on trial. | ||
| Facing off against the regime. | ||
| Washington, D.C. | ||
| We have decamped. | ||
| This is War Room in the field. | ||
| Tampa, Florida. | ||
| And we are here. | ||
| And Kevin, my brother, is with me. | ||
| to prove that he's got an entire bag of Florida oranges. | ||
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That's right. | |
| Now, Kevin, are you going to try to finish this entire bag as we sit here on the War Room Show? | ||
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There's a strong possibility of that. | |
| I was going to say, though, Jack, maybe we could get Ben to send us some oranges from Rome. | ||
| Do you remember those orange blossoms from Rome? | ||
| We had incredible orange blossoms from Rome. | ||
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They're probably second. | |
| I mean, Florida's got to be number one in the world, but you're putting Florida over Well, we gotta get Joe Biden some vitamin C. He needs the vitamin C. He needs the vitamin C. Oh my goodness. | ||
| Gotta get him back on track. | ||
| Well, he is pretty sick. | ||
| He is absolutely sick. | ||
| And who better to bring on to talk with us about how sick and old our president is and how it's affecting the entire country. | ||
| Then, Benny Johnson, the host of the Benny Johnson Show. | ||
| He's a host over at Newsmax. | ||
| He's here at Turning Point, a huge part of the event. | ||
| He's going to be coming by later today. | ||
| Benny Johnson, thank you so much for joining us here today on The War Room. | ||
| Jack, of course. | ||
| It's a privilege and an honor to be on The War Room for the first time. | ||
| Also, I have to lead in by saying this. | ||
| I am not Benny Thompson. | ||
| Benny Thompson is a Democrat member of Congress running the J6 committee. | ||
| Some people tweeted at me recently, hey, Stephen Bannon is coming after Benny Johnson. | ||
| I'm sorry, that was a bit of a mess up with the mic when Steve Bannon was talking outside the courtroom. | ||
| I am not the same man. | ||
| He's like a 70-year-old black member of Congress from the Carolinas, I believe, and that's not me. | ||
| Just want to clear that up. | ||
| But that being said, what would it be like if Benny Johnson actually was running the January 6th committee? | ||
| Walk us through that. | ||
| So every single day, you would have Adam Kinzinger crying. | ||
| Adam Kinzinger crying memes were the hottest thing a couple of months ago. | ||
| He hasn't cried since. | ||
| That's a real problem for the meme economy. | ||
| We really gotta get more Kinzinger crying memes. | ||
| His salty, salty tears, they're delicious. | ||
| They taste like ice cream. | ||
| They fuel us. | ||
| And we would like to have more tears from Adam Kinzinger. | ||
| If I were running the committee, that would be the sole goal of the committee. | ||
| Also the prosecution of the Antifa members who were there on January 6th. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Now, Benny, we were talking during the break a little bit. | ||
| We've got a situation now, right? | ||
| Serious situation. | ||
| The President of the United States tells us he has cancer. | ||
| The next day they announce he has COVID. | ||
| He is off the world stage. | ||
| Everything's spinning out of control. | ||
| Inflation's spinning out of control. | ||
| Gas prices spinning out of control. | ||
| A war in East Asia, or excuse me, war in East Europe, then in East Asia. | ||
| The CCP is looking at Taiwan. | ||
| They're eyeing them up at the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait. | ||
| They want to come in. | ||
| What does it mean by the fact that we've got this guy who doesn't even seem to be able to make it through a single week on the job? | ||
| Well, I was looking up an allegory here, and I was very interested in what you said yesterday, Jack, about Kamala's moment. | ||
| And I think the best metaphor here is Tom Brady's start in the NFL. | ||
| And I'm not comparing Kamala Harris to Tom Brady, but Drew Bledsoe, the number one draft pick, Tom Brady was like the number 900th draft pick. | ||
| He was never going to get a shot. | ||
| But Drew Bledsoe went down with a near-career-ending injury, giving Tom Brady his shot at quarterbacking the Patriots. | ||
| And that's what led to Tom Brady's start. | ||
| And I think Team Kamala is seeing this moment I think it does not transmit any type of strength. | ||
| Joe Biden is not a transmitter of strength. | ||
| back position and start making moves. I think you're 100% correct. And of course, I think it does not transmit any type of strength. Joe Biden is not a transmitter of strength. | ||
| Everybody can see that he has training wheels on his bicycle, that he is currently unable to carry himself up the stairs. | ||
| It is clearly and plainly obvious, we had recent revelations from Tucker Carlson, that Joe Biden takes pills to have senility on the campaign trail. | ||
| I mean, these are scary moments. | ||
| And of course, 40 vacations, Jack, 40, count them, 40 vacations since being in office. | ||
| And what that means is a trip to Delaware, where there are no visitor logs, where he's inside of a walled compound. | ||
| We've gone to his multi-million dollar mansion on the beach in Delaware. | ||
| Strange how all the purveyors of climate change always have multi-million dollar homes right on the beach. | ||
| Barack Obama, John Kerry, all of them. | ||
| You'd think they'd be up in the mountains if they actually believed this stuff, but nonetheless, Joe Biden has this compound that's walled, that's protected, that's inside of a walled community. | ||
| Nobody knows what goes on there. | ||
| All we see is him doddering around on his little bicycle every once in a while, his mongoose, and they take the training wheels off and you see what happens. | ||
| Well, and what does it say, right? | ||
| What does it say that we have a situation like this? | ||
| Kamala Harris now, she can come up. | ||
| I think we all know this is why Putin decided To make his move in Ukraine. | ||
| By the way, they're also talking about expanding their military operation, the special military operation in Ukraine. | ||
| But if you're Kamala Harris, you're sitting there in this situation, I think what she's going to do, and this is my contention, I've said this a couple of times now, I said it on Human Events Daily just now, when we recorded the morning show. | ||
| She's going to use this, and Benny, whether or not we do see an actual designation, right, of her as acting president, and we could see this, by the way, for example, If Biden goes to Walter Reed, if he takes a turn for the worse, if he heads out and he has to go under, if he has to undergo any type of procedure, anything like this, you might see a designation of the presidential powers fall to Kamala Harris. | ||
| It's already happened before. | ||
| And so I've said, embrace the suck. | ||
| Kamala Harris, United States of America will be your first female president of the United States. | ||
| It is going to happen. | ||
| But I think, here's my contention and I'll throw it to you to see what you think. | ||
| She's going to try to make a move anyway. | ||
| She's going to try to make her mark because we all know that she wants to run in 24. | ||
| We're also seeing that Hillary Clinton wants to run, Gavin Newsom wants to run, right? | ||
| But Kamala Harris is going to try to make some milestone moment that she can then refer back to and say, when President Biden fell ill, I stepped up. | ||
| And I was able to. | ||
| And then here's the thing. | ||
| I'm not quite sure yet what that accomplishment might be. | ||
| So let me throw it to you. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Pick your brain a little bit. | ||
| What do you think are some of the things that Kamala might try to get into while essentially the mouse is gone, or excuse me, the cat is gone, the mice will play. | ||
| She's effectively now got a free hand in the White House. | ||
| Yeah, that's a great question. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| The creation of the first COVID ice cream flavor? | ||
| That's what the meme economy is saying that Kamala's working on right now. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| We know that Gavin Newsom went to the White House recently and had to meet with Kamala Harris and placate Jill Biden to say, according to reports, that Kamala wasn't going to primary. | ||
| Joe Biden in 2024. | ||
| So who knows what she can be up to? | ||
| I gotta tell you, if you're Jill Biden right now, and you're sitting in Washington DC, and you're up there, and you hear Joe Biden doddering around inside of the executive mansion, there in the, you know, the east wing of the White House, and you hear him, and he's in his mustard-stained bathrobe, and he's fumbling with the remote, and he's trying to figure out how to turn on Matlock, or the Andy Griffith show, And you know, the Werther's originals get stuck in his denture one more time, you know, and you're Jill Biden, you're sitting there and you're like, wow, how are we going to recover from this? | ||
| And you just hear the echo of Kamala Harris's cackle, right? | ||
| Like, that's what you hear faintly coming down the hall, like the cackle of Kamala Harris echoing through the halls of the White House. | ||
| It's got to be a terrible time. | ||
| And also, Jill Biden, yo, she's not a real doctor, but she's a doctor enough to know that Donald Trump went to Walter Reed with this same illness. | ||
| Donald Trump had a, you know, pneumonia spring up when he got COVID. | ||
| He went to Walter Reed. | ||
| Donald Trump is in a much better physical position And a much better mental position, a much better moral position, a much better position of strength than Joe Biden has ever been in his presidency. | ||
| And it knocks people on their butts. | ||
| I got COVID. | ||
| This is a rough one, man. | ||
| It really sucks to get COVID depending on, you know, where you're at. | ||
| And I consider myself a pretty healthy dude. | ||
| I know you're a pretty healthy dude, Jack. | ||
| But it really can't drop you down. | ||
| And so what's going to happen here? | ||
| Is Joe Biden going to get the worst of it? | ||
| I think it's bad times right now in the East Wing. | ||
| And I think Joe Biden is sitting there You know, um, counting her tacos. | ||
| You know, when I got COVID, right, and I've said this publicly a few times, it felt to me like no virus, no sickness that I've ever had in my entire life. | ||
| And it felt... Yes. | ||
| It felt mechanical. | ||
| It felt like there was some kind of mechanical element to it, the way it affects you, the way it directly affects multiple systems. | ||
| There's different stages of it. | ||
| It comes in waves. | ||
| It comes, it goes. | ||
| You get better, you get worse. | ||
| I've never had anything in my life, and I've talked to other people about this, Benny. | ||
| And let me ask, was that your experience as well? | ||
| Did it feel like it was something almost artificial when you had it? | ||
| I've never been sick like that before. | ||
| I'm not a sickly person. | ||
| I don't get sick. | ||
| You know, we power through. | ||
| I married a medical professional. | ||
| She's a top-tier nurse. | ||
| And so we get ourselves through without any big pharma help, right? | ||
| And so we really do, in the Johnson household, sunlight, activity. | ||
| Walking outside. | ||
| These are the treatments that God gave us. | ||
| He also gave us natural immunity. | ||
| These are the treatments that were given to us from heaven. | ||
| And these are how you should treat the vast majority of regular everyday symptoms and illnesses. | ||
| And it's how we practice health in our family. | ||
| And again, my wife, a trained medical professional with over 15 years of top tier nursing experience. | ||
| And anyone who knows the medical profession knows that the nurses are the ones who do the most amount of work. | ||
| And so, my wife and I both got COVID. | ||
| And, Jack, it was severe. | ||
| I've never felt sick like that. | ||
| You're right, it felt mechanical. | ||
| It felt manufactured. | ||
| It felt like nothing I've ever had. | ||
| And it was, uh, it was... I got it over Christmas, like two years ago. | ||
| So I got original COVID, like the OG COVID. | ||
| The bat soup, straight from Wuhan, direct COVID. | ||
| Real, not some watered-down stuff. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Not like the cheap knock-off imitation stuff they sell in the streets of New York, but the real COVID, and that stuff was severe, and so it's nothing to joke around with, and if Joe Biden's got it, man, the dude's in exactly the kind of shape that you don't want to be in if you're getting COVID. | ||
| Right? | ||
| No, that's 100% right. | ||
| We've seen people, this is where they were putting people in ventilators, we've seen the pneumonia, we've seen so much of this. | ||
| But Benny, I have to also mention, because you sent me a video earlier this week, you're putting out a new investigation, an investigative piece that you've done here on the streets of Tampa, if I remember correctly. | ||
| A specific area where you were going around and conducting, we've seen these polls lately, talking about how Hispanics are moving, the numbers are shifting. | ||
| By the way, inflation is driving a lot of that. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because if you look at Mexico, you look at Central America, you look at South America, It was inflation that destroyed so many of these countries. | ||
| And so people who have moved here from those areas, they understand the damage, the severe damage that inflation can do to your country. | ||
| But you went in and you were conducting a little bit of an experiment in the community. | ||
| Tell us a little bit about that. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Instead of referring to the second largest Latino population in the world, I was shocked to find that out. | ||
| It was actually the CEO of Goya that pointed that out to me, that the second largest Latino population on planet Earth is in America. | ||
| It's not in South America. | ||
| It's in America via country and borders. | ||
| And so America has a massive and growing Latino population. | ||
| And we can talk about the reasons that is and some of the illegal reasons that Biden is pushing that that is, but it is what it is. | ||
| And so The left likes to take this gigantic portion of the American public and call them two things that are quite offensive. | ||
| One is Latinx. | ||
| Latinx. | ||
| Or Latinx. | ||
| I'm not quite sure how to say it. | ||
| You could mix it all up. | ||
| This isn't actually like a... This isn't like a gamer handle or a profile on Call of Duty. | ||
| It's actually a thing they refer to Latin Americans as because It's a mark against gendered language, I think, right? | ||
| So the A and the O, Spanish is a gendered language, so you have feminine and you have masculine words, and so they decide that because feminine and masculine can no longer exist, they have to call them Latinx. | ||
| We're coming up on our one minute here. | ||
| If I could just get your final thought on that and let people know where to follow you. | ||
| Real fast. | ||
| So, I went to the streets of Tampa, and I asked Latino people if they are Latinxs, and they didn't like that. | ||
| The follow-up will probably be asking them if they're Tacos, simply quoting Jill Biden, and we'll see what happens. | ||
| I hope we can come back on The War Room when we have that video out, and we'll be happy to do a premiere of that video on The War Room. | ||
| I just want to say thank you. | ||
| I've been a huge fan of The War Room for a long time. | ||
| Huge shout-outs to this audience. | ||
| I love this audience. | ||
| You can follow me at Benny Johnson. | ||
| On all platforms and at Benny on Truth Social. | ||
| Huge shout out to Carly Bonet, who's my favorite War Room fan, and actually introduced me to the War Room. | ||
| Love this audience, God bless all of you. | ||
| Hey man, alright, Benny Johnson coming back. | ||
| Darren Beattie, we're gonna talk Jan 6th. | ||
| The committee, fiery hearing last night as the War Room continues in the field. | ||
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| Alright, so we are back here live from Tampa, FL. | ||
| We don't have Darren Beattie for us right now, but I wanted to bring on someone from SAS, from the Turning Point Student Action Summit Conference. | ||
| We are here and we were talking yesterday a little bit and that person is Sani Dash and someone that I've met at many of these events, many of these conferences. | ||
| So I want to bring her in now if we can to talk a little bit about an interesting question that I've been investigating. | ||
| And the question of course becomes then, what's going on with the MAGA movement? | ||
| Because when I look at the media, the media tells us again and again, the MAGA movement's dead. | ||
| It's gone. | ||
| Nobody likes Trump anymore. | ||
| The Jan Zicks hearings are destroying him. | ||
| They're destroying the movement. | ||
| Nobody likes this guy. | ||
| Nobody wants him anymore. | ||
| And so here's somebody and her business specifically is the merchandise. | ||
| She's a vendor. | ||
| For the various rallies, the Trump events, and I said, well surely somebody from the business side would know in their sales numbers, do they have, you know, is this true? | ||
| Is what the media is telling us is true? | ||
| So I want to bring in here, Sani Dash. | ||
| Welcome to the War Room. | ||
| All right, thank you so much for being on. | ||
| Now, let us know, what is the website again? | ||
| Make sure everybody knows what it is. | ||
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It is usatrumpstore.com. | |
| Again, let's get you a little bit closer to the mic there. | ||
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Sure, is this better? | |
| Yeah, it's just a little, just talk right into it. | ||
| The mic's a little soft. | ||
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But so, tell me, what's going on with this, right? | |
| We talked a little bit yesterday, but for the War Room audience, Are you seeing a drop in sales? | ||
| Are you seeing, is it pausing? | ||
| Is the MAGA movement dying like the media is telling us? | ||
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Absolutely not. | |
| It's just growing bigger and bigger and bigger. | ||
| And I think the audience is even getting bigger than ever because we have Democrats coming to our side. | ||
| As a former Democrat, I can tell you that. | ||
| They're coming to our side and they're just, they're upset with the Biden administration. | ||
| They're loving this. | ||
| What are you seeing in terms of the numbers though, in terms of the numbers? | ||
| And we can talk a little about some of the items you have. | ||
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Sure. | |
| The numbers, I think, even like, you know, everybody, some people said shut down the store after January 6th. | ||
| I said, absolutely not. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Because the MAGA movement will continue. | ||
| We're not going to get frightened. | ||
| We're not going to shut down and we're not going to stop because of this committee or what's going on. | ||
| We understand what's going on on the streets. | ||
| We understand what's going on with the movement. | ||
| The people love Trump. | ||
| People love the MAGA movement. | ||
| You know, we're upset with a two-party system. | ||
| The MAGA movement is bigger than the two-party system. | ||
| And that's something the media does not talk about. | ||
| So how's the business then? | ||
| Has January 6th, has this affected your business? | ||
| Are numbers down? | ||
| Is it slowing? | ||
| What's going on? | ||
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Well, it did slow us down for the first couple of months. | |
| And then one day in May, I said, you know what? | ||
| Let's get back up. | ||
| Let's get back up. | ||
| Let's get it running. | ||
| Let's go out there. | ||
| And I think a lot of people started following us and said, hey, you're open. | ||
| You're not scared. | ||
| And I said, what's there to be scared of? | ||
| We didn't do anything. | ||
| Why exactly would we be scared? | ||
| So the first couple months we did shut down. | ||
| You know, we, it doesn't seem like the DOJ, the FBI, the government is really on our side. | ||
| And I feel like they're attacking a lot of Trump supporters, including Steve Bannon for no reason. | ||
| So we were, you know, we're civilians. | ||
| The reason is because he's a threat to them and he's a threat to the regime. | ||
| He is one of the chief dissidents and the war room posse is a massive thorn in their side, as well as people like you, Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
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And I think we get, I get a lot of attacks simply just because I'm not Caucasian. | |
| So they will ask, how can you be part of this movement after you saw what happened on January 6th? | ||
| And nothing can be further from the truth. | ||
| That's not a representation of millions, hundreds of millions of people that love Trump. | ||
| There is a few rogue people out there, but majority of them were out there doing what everybody else is. | ||
| We have a right to protest. | ||
| And the Capitol belongs to us. | ||
| It doesn't belong to the government. | ||
| It belongs to us. | ||
| We pay taxes. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| And why is their blood bigger than our blood? | ||
| And why is there so much security for Nancy Pelosi and her people? | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| So when you're talking about the business, you mentioned something to me yesterday. | ||
| I said, are you, are you, are you, you know, are you seeing more business or less business now? | ||
| Tell me what's the current status of the business and tell us the website again for the audience. | ||
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The website is usatrumpstore.com and we're seeing a lot of business. | |
| And because of that, we're opening up stores in California. | ||
| Yes, you heard that. | ||
| California and Huntington. | ||
| Like physical stores. | ||
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Yes, a physical brick-and-mortar store in Huntington Beach, in Solano County, and I believe the other counties, Yolo County, I've got reps looking out for places in California. | |
| We're very close to signing deals there. | ||
| Right now, our biggest store is, we had a store on 5th Avenue in New York also. | ||
| We had to shut that down because there was a lot of threats coming to us, and yes, yes, and we do have a huge store in Dallas and Gainesville, Texas. | ||
| We're planning on opening up around 50 stores by end of this year. | ||
| You're going to have 50 brick-and-mortar stores all for the Trump movement by the end of this year. | ||
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Yes. | |
| But I don't understand. | ||
| The media tells me that the movement's over, that people are done with Trump, that they're sick of him. | ||
| It's far from over. | ||
| You're not slowing down. | ||
| You're expanding. | ||
| Yes, we're expanding. | ||
| You're actually expanding into the 50 stores across the country. | ||
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Yeah, we actually talk to real people. | |
| The reporters don't report the news necessarily that are actually factual. | ||
| So we talk to people. | ||
| We go, we don't just sponsor events like this, but we're also doing rallies. | ||
| So you talk to all sorts of people. | ||
| The demand is there. | ||
| Why would we slow down? | ||
| And this is, of course, this is your livelihood. | ||
| You're set on this. | ||
| You're investing all your life's work into this. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Well, I invested about a half a million dollars into this a while back ago. | ||
| I used to own a bunch of tech companies and this was really just for the fun of it. | ||
| And it just turned into such a huge empire that I said, you know, I started bringing friends on board and I said, let's get on it because, you know, we love Trump. | ||
| We've been approached by Kamala Harris' people in the past to do flags, and we absolutely said no. | ||
| I mean, there's no amount of money I would do it for that side at all. | ||
| We're coming up on 90 seconds. | ||
| Tell us, say the website again. | ||
| Tell us some of the new products you're coming out with. | ||
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Okay, some of the new products are different purses. | |
| I come up with new purses all the time. | ||
| The website is USATrumpStore.com. | ||
| And you are known for the purses. | ||
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Yes. | |
| You are known for the purses. | ||
| Purses, and we come up with some cool t-shirts, but you know, other than that, we've got some cool bangles here. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Don't show this to my wife. | ||
| She's gonna want all of them. | ||
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Yeah, we gotta have matching bangles with the purses and then also cool shoes too, coming up. | |
| Oh, that's amazing. | ||
| So the website again, usatrumpstore.com. | ||
| And look, You can look at the polls. | ||
| You can look at what the media says. | ||
| You can look at all of these things. | ||
| But if you talk to the actual numbers, if you look at the actual business side of things, you know, you know the difference. | ||
| You guys have your entire livelihood in this and you're putting it up together because you believe in it, but also because the market signal is there. | ||
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Yes. | |
| The market is absolutely there. | ||
| We wouldn't be on the road. | ||
| We're on the road every day from Florida to Oregon, to New York, to California. | ||
| We go everywhere. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| All right, usatrumpstore.com. | ||
| Zanny Dash, thank you so much for joining us today. | ||
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Thank you so much. |
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