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July 15, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 2881: Live From ACTON Cont
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mike lindell
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caroline wren
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steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
unidentified
Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon
You're not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified
MAGA Media.
jake tapper
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
steve bannon
It's Saturday, 15 July, Year of Our Lord 2023.
unidentified
Jack Posovic and Mrs. Posovic are in the house.
steve bannon
Wow.
Jack, did you pay for a ticket or are you just kind of slipping in up there?
unidentified
I thought this was the MyPillow convention!
Hold it!
mike lindell
Promo Code War Room!
unidentified
Promo Code War Room!
Wow.
Wow.
steve bannon
No.
Tanya is clearly the star power in the Bosovic family.
We know that.
unidentified
Hold it.
steve bannon
Who let Mike Lindell in?
The last time we saw Mike Lindell, he was getting kicked out of the evangelical conference yesterday in Iowa.
Mike Lindell shows up uninvited and gets more interviews than anybody.
Tell us about that.
mike lindell
Yeah, yesterday I went down to Iowa there for that event.
Mike Pence wouldn't even look me in the eye when he came down the elevator.
But I went there, I had all the media.
It was funny.
I'm getting interview after interview.
Well, what do you think we need to get out of this?
I said, what we need to get out of this is every one of these candidates endorse Donald Trump tomorrow morning.
steve bannon
Hold it, hold it, hang on, hang on.
These guys got one shot, right, with the Evangelicals in Iowa.
He shows up and his advice to him, I want you tomorrow morning to just put your Genesee aside and endorse Donald Trump.
mike lindell
How well did that go over?
Well, with the people there, they were 90, I would say 95% for Donald Trump and they were very confused on when I said that Ron's Rhino Ron and the Uniparty and they're going, well, why do you say that, Mike?
I went through all the dealings he has with Libby Locke, the lawyers for Dominion, and trying to make laws and bills that make it easier to sue people like Mike Lindell for defamation.
My mom said, she lives in Florida here, she said, well Mike, I kind of like Ron DeSantis, and I said, Mom, he's suing, he's with the people that are suing your son in my bill!
I said, and he's doing it on purpose, you know.
So I was, I went there and it was... Hold on, hold on, don't bury the lead.
steve bannon
You went and talked to people that were, because this is the biggest evangelical conference of the year, you went and talked to them and you said 90% are Trump, are backing President Trump?
mike lindell
Yeah, at least 90% of the ones I talked to, and I pretty much took pictures with most of the people there as they came out for lunch, because I wanted to, I wanted to talk to them and see where their thoughts were.
And they were actually going, most of them going, you know, well, why did you come?
And they're going, well, we, you know, they thought Donald Trump because they put him on the fire, you know.
But they, uh, there was there, none of them was, most of them, I said, is there anything they could say that would change your mind?
They said, no.
And I'm, you know, they're saying, God picked Donald Trump for such a time as this and he is our real president.
And we went through and a lot of them had this narrative down there that Donald Trump can't win the general election.
That's rubbish.
steve bannon
Hold on, hold on.
Do you guys buy that electability issue?
First off, Trump got 74 million votes.
I thought I did a pretty good job running the 2016.
We got 63 million.
He got 74, almost 75 million votes.
Did Biden come close to that?
No doubt in your mind.
He's not a legitimate president.
I love when the mainstream media's head's gonna blow up.
One second, hang on, do you have something, Vox Populi, Vox Dei?
Where?
unidentified
Steve Bannon.
steve bannon
Oh, well, thank you so much.
unidentified
Thank you, and I have a shirt for you.
And I think more people have to understand this and say it.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
steve bannon
Amen.
Amen.
Do you guys believe that?
Do you believe your voice, that God's working through you, and that your voice is the voice of God?
unidentified
Yes, absolutely.
steve bannon
No doubt in your mind?
unidentified
No doubt in my mind.
steve bannon
Is this for me?
Hold on.
Hang on.
This says XL.
Scratcher from the girlfriend list.
Even the mediums are a little baggy.
unidentified
Thank you so much.
steve bannon
This is fantastic.
What's your name?
Where are you from?
unidentified
Lucille from Florida here.
And we watch you all the time.
steve bannon
Thank you so much.
Let's give it up for Lucille.
unidentified
I think we need to bring back Vox Populi, those editions of War Room.
steve bannon
You think we ought to start taking calls on War Room?
Okay, fine.
We're going to figure out how to work that out.
I've got to tell a story on Mike Lindell.
So I came out with Mike Lindell.
Mike Lindell is in Iowa.
This is Mike Lindell.
He's in Iowa yesterday.
He spends 10 hours bugging people, telling guys you've got to drop your campaign and endorse Donald Trump.
So he's really welcome there.
He's fighting Media Road.
They're attacking him.
They're saying now, it's a story that's two years old.
Remember in the war when we told you, all the big box guys dropped him.
Walmart dropped him, Bed Bath & Beyond.
And it shouldn't be lost to anybody.
Half of the guys that dropped you went out of business, right?
They went bankrupt.
Just saying.
So that's a story two years old.
All of a sudden, the last week, Mike Lindell's going out of business.
They're liquidating the company.
It's all these attack things.
So Mike works all day in Iowa.
He flies out.
We're out.
Way far in the West Coast.
He comes out, gets me.
My brother, who's with me, comes.
And so I'm very tired.
I've been working all day.
And so Mike and my brother start talking.
The plane makes, like, nine stops, and when you're with Mike Lindell, it's like a Greyhound bus.
You don't know where it's going, and you don't know who you're going to pick up or who's going to get off.
So, they sit there, and he talks for seven hours to my brother the entire time.
But the part I missed, we're in some part of Louisiana.
I'm sound asleep in the back.
The plane's going down the runway, and all of a sudden, my brother says, Mike Lindell goes, Stop!
Stop the plane!
Stop the plane!
Stops on takeoff, pulls over to the tarmac.
Mike goes, I forgot.
unidentified
I've got a voter group in California I've got to give a speech to.
steve bannon
They throw it up on Zoom.
My brother Chris said, what did he say?
He said, this will only take five minutes.
I go, that means at least an hour.
Mike Lindell never did anything in five minutes of his life.
It took an hour.
I get up, so we finally get here at like 2 in the morning.
The plane lands, I wake up, he's still talking, my poor brother.
And Sharona Bishop, who you're gonna broadcast all day.
Mike Lindell, can we give it up for Lindell?
This guy works hard.
Is there anybody in America except for Donald Trump works harder than Mike Lindell?
Tell us about the summit.
mike lindell
Tell us about the summit.
steve bannon
Why should these folks in the middle of August take time and watch what you're going to do?
mike lindell
This is really, really important.
If you want to do something to save this country, you need to spread the word about the summit.
It's the election summit.
You can go to LyndaleEvent.com.
LyndaleEvent.com.
Get your email in there now.
And by the way, you'll get a free gift.
Everybody watch.
You'll get a free gift immediately emailed to you.
But what it is, what I'm going to reveal, the first day we're going to have all 50 states represented.
What you're not hearing is you're not hearing the hope that's going on in our country.
Every state, everyone, from Hawaii to Maine to Minnesota to Florida here, There's great things going on, but you don't hear about it on Fox News, or Newsmax, or CELA Media.
They can't talk about the election platforms, right?
And then the next day, you're going to hear all this hope, but the next day we're revealing a plan we've been working on for over a year.
And when it's never been done before in world history, it's never even been talked about.
And trust me, when we reveal this plan, this will fix our elections.
Not fix them the way they're fixed now, but it'll secure our elections immediately, and we will have the fairest elections in world history.
steve bannon
Okay, okay.
Hang on, hang on.
Mike's gonna stay with us through the hour.
I'm gonna get into the audience.
I gotta do one thing.
This Friday, this coming Friday, Mike Lindell is going to be with Tim Pool at Tim Pool's Compound with Scott Pressler and Matt Brainerd, and you're going to do a live Tim Pool show, a debating between Ballot Harvesting, essentially, and Mike Lindell's We Gotta Get Rid of the Machines.
mike lindell
Melt him down and turn him into prison bars, that way.
steve bannon
We're so lucky.
Natalie went out for her second appearance on Tim Pool, and she came back alive.
It's not an easy trip.
unidentified
No, no.
steve bannon
What's it like being on Tim Pool at the Tim Pool?
unidentified
It's so much fun!
I love doing their show, and I have to say, I just got a new dog, and Sebastian Gorka, it wasn't you, no offense, but he was nice enough to send me a MyPillow dog bed.
I'm sure he used promo code War Room, but it's wonderful, so thank you!
steve bannon
How come I never get swag?
unidentified
I'm still waiting on my gift from you.
steve bannon
Yeah, how come I never get any swag like that?
mike lindell
And speaking, I want to say that, speaking of MyPillow products, you know we've all been attacked over the last week.
The media did not attack me for 70 days.
When they want to silence me, they just don't attack.
Well, they regurgitated all this stuff from two and a half years ago because they don't want to get the word out about the summit.
Here's what's really going on at MyPillow right now.
We're celebrating our 20th anniversary this month of me inventing my pillow.
steve bannon
All right.
mike lindell
And all my employees, all my employees did a, we did a commercial last week.
It comes out on Wednesday.
It is epic.
I watched it.
It's, it's amazing.
All my employees in there and thank, and they thank all of you with our new product, 1998 for our pillow.
It's our 20th anniversary limited edition promo code.
steve bannon
Not Promo Copa Sobic.
mike lindell
War Room.
steve bannon
We can do more.
Hang on.
I'm going to go in the audience, but hold it.
I want to give a true showing, because you guys are the backbone of the nation.
Before the debate next week, you got Pressler and Brainard on the, hey, we've tried everything.
We now got to get into the ballot harvesting business.
On the other side, you got Mike Lindell.
We've got to get rid of the machines, paper ballots, game day vote, turn them into prison bars.
Right now, And let's be truthful, how many are in, let's get into the ballot harvesting business, raise your hands.
How many with Mike Lindell, how many with Mike Lindell, take them out.
mike lindell
We gotta get rid of paper ballots, hand-counted, same-day voting, and voter ID, what a concept.
steve bannon
The question people are going to ask, I think everybody's hearts in the paper ballot, game day vote, do it like the French.
The question is, do we have the time between now and 2024 to implement that?
I don't want to give out the plan.
mike lindell
I know you're going to have a plan.
If I could tell you what the plan is, 100%, Steve, with the footprint we have now, this plan works immediately.
steve bannon
Lindell laid out a plan that could take the machines out of the business.
Remember, I'm not a machine guy.
I was a ballot verification, double signatures.
That's how they stole it, Mark Elias.
But the work he's done over the last couple of years, particularly the technical guys, they all brought up the same point.
Why are these machines so complicated?
Why are they just not like the money counting machines in Vegas?
Why are they programmable?
And quite frankly, I think you guys have proven now they actually are connected to the internet.
mike lindell
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
And then they swear they were not... Yeah, remember they all told us they weren't connected to the internet, right?
Well, guess what?
They are.
How do you think you see it on TV?
steve bannon
Okay, if all your evidence, you've got all this evidence, you've got all this talk, all this, why did the Murdochs give up 800 million dollars not to go to court and prove that, sir?
mike lindell
Well, I've got my opinion.
I think they were in on it.
You know, I mean, there's no other explanation why Fox will not talk about anything to do with the elections.
Remember, they called Arizona early.
That was our first clue.
And this has been going on for two and a half years.
They never came to me for my lawsuits and said, hey, what do you got?
steve bannon
Do you think they put the fix in when they called Arizona early?
No doubt in your mind.
Did you see Tucker yesterday in Iowa Unchained from Fox?
The questions Tucker asked, was it great?
mike lindell
Right.
steve bannon
We'll see if Tucker's okay.
We've got to take a short commercial break.
We're going to come back.
We've got some audience participation.
We've got Mike Lindell.
My co-host is getting a little bored.
He's this younger generation.
You've got to keep him engaged.
unidentified
We're gonna go back for another round of golf here shortly.
Welcome back to Palm Beach, Natalie.
steve bannon
Back in a moment.
unidentified
Cause we're taking down the CCP Spread the word all through Hong Kong We will fight till they're all gone We rejoice when there's no more Let's take down the CCP Here's your host Stephen K. Bamm.
Hello!
steve bannon
Missed my mark here.
You're back here at ATCON 2023.
Caroline Rendell joins us with Mike Lindell.
Can we give it up for Caroline?
unidentified
**Cheering** Lindell, we last left you.
steve bannon
The debate at Timpool on Friday, it's going to be ballot harvesting versus take the machines out, all of it.
mike lindell
Paper ballots, hand-counted, same-day voting, stuff we had.
You guys ought to realize, all this stuff that was put in illegally in 2020 by these crooked Secretary of State, the legislatures make the laws, not them.
So we can't let this be grandfathered in, this status quo that's going on now.
We have to change it and go back to what, same-day voting, paper ballots, hand-counted, voter ID.
steve bannon
By the way, they have an announcement.
Charlie Kirk, his breakout session, Charlie Kirk's breakout session is going to start in 10 minutes upstairs in room 2D2F.
And if any of you leave, I'm taking notes.
I'm just kidding.
By the way, all day you've got breakout sessions, you've got main stage.
Edwarder, I think we're going to try to get Edwarder here.
The film Sound of Freedom is going to play at 1 o'clock.
So at Cannes, they've got everything going on.
Mike, one last question on this.
Can you commit to these people?
Your plan can be implemented before the 2024 election.
That is the $64,000 question.
mike lindell
Right.
If you get people, the only way this plan fails is if people don't watch in August.
I'm telling you, on August 17th, when we announce this, it's going to take half the day on August 17th.
Immediately on August 18th, you're going to wake up and everyone I don't care if you're a Democrat, Independent, Republican, it doesn't matter.
You're gonna embrace this plan and go, wow, why wasn't this ever done in world history before?
We are using this in this coming election this fall in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
So you'll have plenty of time before the 2024 election and everyone's gonna go, this is amazing.
steve bannon
Hold on, hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're gonna, so in the Kentucky, In the Louisiana and Virginia?
mike lindell
Mississippi, those three.
steve bannon
So Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky, your plan's going to be?
mike lindell
So we'll have proof of concept, everybody's going to be happy, we're going to go.
And I'll tell you this, with transparent, with what we're going to do after this plan, I'm telling you, when Donald Trump runs in 2024, this country is 70% red.
Period.
Redder than Ronald Reagan.
steve bannon
Do you believe that when you talk to your neighbors, talk to your friends, that it's two-thirds red, 70%?
unidentified
No doubt in your mind?
steve bannon
We've got some special guests here.
Name and where are you from?
unidentified
Blake Patterson, St.
John's County, Florida.
steve bannon
And what are you here for?
unidentified
I'm here because of the President.
steve bannon
Donald J. Trump?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
150%.
So, I'm the Republican Party county chair, and we have a group of great patriots in our party.
caroline wren
Kerry Lake's going to speak at his club.
We just booked that.
Wait, Caroline Rigg, good to see you!
mike lindell
Caroline, how are you?
Good to see you, Blake!
caroline wren
We just spoke!
unidentified
So, we saw on 22 that all the grassroots candidates that lost, lost because of vote-by-mail.
steve bannon
Can you repeat that to the nation?
Why did they lose?
unidentified
Vote-by-mail.
So they won the in-person ballots, they lost the vote-by-mail.
And that's right there in very conservative St.
John's County, Florida.
Ron DeSantis' home turf.
And if that's the case, unless Mr. Lindell succeeds, we're going to ballot harvest the hell out of everybody.
We're building the organization to do it.
We've got great grassroots candidates.
We don't want candidates that are politicians for life or career words.
We have here Linda Thompson.
And Linda is running for the school board.
She has an incredible base of experience.
She's a former county administrator and former... Okay, I just want to say good morning.
I'm so happy to be here.
I'm happy to be running for school board because I hope to bring an educator's view to the school board.
Right now, there's not one person on our school board who's actually an educator.
steve bannon
Unbelievable.
One last thing.
You're from DeSantis' home county, and that's Trump country?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
By far.
Not even close.
steve bannon
Not even close?
unidentified
Not even close.
steve bannon
Wow.
You're from the RNC?
Hold it, we have somebody here from the RNC.
unidentified
She's okay, she's okay.
caroline wren
She fought Ronald McDaniel every single day within the RHC committee.
She is the patriot in there.
She would get there screaming in the meetings and say, you guys are wrong.
She is a rock star.
unidentified
We had a makeover in Nebraska a year ago.
This is Juliana.
She's the new chair from Delaware.
There's 21 of us here, and we are all on your side.
Wow.
So when you see our badge, come talk to us.
And we have a panel today at 1.30.
Come and ask us questions.
steve bannon
Where's the panel going to be?
unidentified
1DE.
1DE.
steve bannon
Let's go to the breakout session.
By the way, one of the great warriors in our country.
unidentified
Julianne Murray.
I ran in 2020 for governor of Delaware as a first-time candidate.
Ran in 22 as AG and lost by 3.8% in Delaware.
Understand election interference tremendously and I took out our state chair and I'm the state chair for Delaware.
To introduce to you our fabulous Executive Director for Nebraska, a grassroots patriot, my friend Dawn.
Hi.
I am so happy to be here.
We're taking back this country, one county, one state at a time, and that's how we do it because that's what Trump said to do.
Yes.
steve bannon
Amen.
One district, one county at a time.
Mike, what about the challenge over here?
Hang on.
You've got guys, men and women, that are dedicated to this country back.
They love Mike Lindell.
They sleep on my pillow.
They sleep on the topper.
They sleep on the Giza Dream Sheets.
mike lindell
Promo Code War Room.
steve bannon
Promo Code War Room, they love you, but they're saying, hey brother, I'm gonna ballot Harvest like crazy until you show me an alternative.
mike lindell
Well, they're just, they're very much, look at that.
steve bannon
Hold it, hold it, got the slippers.
mike lindell
My slippers.
My slippers.
They are.
I got two things to say to that.
The ballot harvesting, all that, you know what?
I'm not even going to talk about that now because after the event in August, you're all going to go, wow, this is the way we have to do it.
I will say this, with the RNC, when I was there and ran for chair and got to meet you all and meet everybody, There, right now, that's before, and you know this, the resolution that the RNC is having a week after the event in August, it's a resolution for same-day voting, paper ballots hand-counted, and voter ID.
I believe we have enough votes in the RNC to get this pushed through.
steve bannon
I want Caroline in this group, these folks want to know, can the RNC be saved?
unidentified
Yes.
One state at a time.
Three people per state.
So become a precinct committee person and that's how you start at the grassroots level.
steve bannon
If you're on takeover of the RNC, precinct strategy?
unidentified
Absolutely.
caroline wren
Absolutely.
steve bannon
You approve?
caroline wren
Steve Stern texted you yesterday about us.
I'm the secretary of Collier.
unidentified
My husband is the chair of Collier and Byron Donald's district.
caroline wren
We listen to Dan Schultz, War Room.
We're obsessed with the War Room.
unidentified
And we have doubled the number of MAGA conservatives.
And we took over from the RINOs one precinct person at a time.
steve bannon
Time to throw out the RINOs?
mike lindell
Yeah, get rid of them.
steve bannon
Caroline, tell us how it's going to be done.
caroline wren
Well, Carrie Lake likes to say that God gave us angels and warriors.
Mike Lindell is an angel, an honest broker who wants to fight for this country.
I'm in the warrior camp, and I don't want to show up anymore to a knife fight with a spoon.
And so whatever we have to do to win elections, I am willing to do to get our people in to get this stuff passed, because the Democrats are not playing by the rules, and I'm sick of playing by the rules.
steve bannon
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Politico and the Washington Post, everybody's reporting that Christine Caramo and the precinct strategy took over Michigan and the grassroots and Dan Schultz and the precinct strategy took over Arizona and both of them have no money.
The donors have cut them off.
So what is the grassroots supposed to do?
If they take over these state party apparatuses and the donors say, we're not in, tell us how that's going to work.
caroline wren
Do you believe that or do you think that's just... Oh yeah, that's absolutely happening.
But we have to be able to do this outside of just focusing on money.
Our whole structure of the Republican Party is built on television ads.
Nobody's watching TV anymore.
We need to connect with the people, go out, get them to turn their ballots in.
If that is on election day, then great.
Mark down in your calendar that you spoke to this person, they want to turn in on election day, and then you call them on election day and say, have you done this?
We can do this.
You don't have to have millions and millions of dollars lining consultants' pockets.
The patriots can step up and do it.
We are 70% of this country.
They are stealing elections from us on the left because they have unlimited money to do it, and we can fight back.
But do not wait for any party committee or any major donor or hedge fund manager to come and save us.
This is up to you guys in this room and the war room to do it ourselves.
steve bannon
Real quickly, we got an update on Ricketts.
unidentified
Okay, so for Nebraska, we have five federal delegates, three Congress, two United States Senators, and our governor is Republican.
All of them are Republican, and they do not work with our state party since we had our makeover.
No more money.
Our group was ran by Pete Ricketts, and he has stopped funding us, which is fine.
We don't want Ricketts' money.
But it's hard to educate grassroots to give.
So that's how you do it.
We all need to be giving to our local Party and your state party because that's how we fund it, but you know people are so strapped right now Economically, it's tough to carve out money for that So what's the alternative is you force the donors to do it if you're ever lost on something look to your churches How do your churches do it you meet together?
caroline wren
You pass around a plate people are willing to put with some people you give a thousand some people can give ten dollars But you do that with campaigns that are based on TV ads, right?
Yeah, exactly.
We waste the money that we raise and spend anyway, so let's be more efficient with the money and crowdfund and host wine nights with your friends and call people to tell them to get up vote.
Go knock on different doors.
We don't have to be wasting all this money.
unidentified
Hold it, hold it.
steve bannon
She goes, I can't cut in.
Caroline's talking.
I said, it's the war room.
Just cut in.
Or I will.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
unidentified
You'll learn.
Give me the microphone.
Alright, what we're dealing with in Delaware is we started something called the President's Club.
Five dollars a month.
Sixty bucks.
And what I said is if every Republican who voted for me in the last election in 22, nine million bucks.
Five dollars at a time.
steve bannon
Mike, we gotta bounce.
Where do people get to you the rest of the day?
How do they follow you?
mike lindell
They could go to FrankSpeech.com.
Watch it.
We're live streaming all day here.
It's in the other room.
FrankSpeech.com.
Y'all need to get that.
And don't forget, go to LyndellEvent.com right now and help save this country.
steve bannon
Mike's gonna be with us at Bedminster when we scream Sound of Freedom.
Tim Poole this Friday.
The Cage Match.
Cage Match.
Scott Pressler.
Matt Brainerd.
mike lindell
Mike Lyndell.
steve bannon
Back in a moment.
unidentified
We will fight till they're all gone.
mike lindell
We rejoice when there's no more.
unidentified
Let's take down the CCP.
steve bannon
Host Stephen K. Babb.
unidentified
...
steve bannon
I quit.
Welcome back.
I could have a mic.
Thanks.
Welcome back.
We're at ATCON 2023 live.
We've got Well, Johnny McEntee.
Johnny McEntee's been with President Trump from the beginning.
Johnny, can you give your history of Donald Trump?
unidentified
Is this thing on?
Okay.
Yeah, I started as a volunteer, actually, with President Trump in 2015.
I was totally obsessed with the movement, worked my way up from there, was given a lot of opportunities, worked with Steve on the 2016 campaign, and then eventually became what is known as a body man, which is the personal aid to the president that travels with him 24-7.
It was an amazing opportunity, and you got to see the man in action.
steve bannon
He was First off, you're a star quarterback at the University of Connecticut, right?
unidentified
I don't know about star, but I was a quarterback there, yeah.
steve bannon
Now, what was your NFL career like?
unidentified
Uh, non-existent.
Yeah, I've had a little bit more of a political career, turn of events.
steve bannon
So you came in at the very—you volunteered, and you were his body man, and you traveled with President Trump.
In the campaign in 16, and then in the first couple years of his presidency, every day with him, right?
unidentified
Yeah, I was with him every day for a few years in 2016, and then in the White House.
We went to China and Paris and all over.
The man never sleeps.
He's a machine, as you know, and it was very exciting to watch history unfold every day.
steve bannon
Johnny's office was right there.
Your office is the one office right almost bolted on to the Oval Office, correct?
unidentified
Yeah, it's in the outer Oval Office.
You see all the action.
At times it looked like, you know, Grand Central.
But it was a lot of fun.
steve bannon
Was there any action in the Oval Office when Trump was president?
unidentified
No, it was very dull.
There was not a lot going on.
No, there were things happening every day and just an exciting place to be.
steve bannon
Now, you came back, you took a hiatus, you came back as the head of personnel for the White House.
That's one of the most, and for the executive branch, that's one of the most powerful jobs in all the government.
What did you learn about the importance of personnel?
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, first off, I think it goes to show what type of man President Trump is to give a young person that job.
You know, usually it's a more established figure, but he had a gut feeling, and we did a lot of good work there.
I would say the number one takeaway is that change can be made.
You know, people think the government's too big, the bureaucracy's too big.
I think that's true, but we were making big changes every day for that last year, and I think a second Trump term or any other Republican president, with the knowledge we have now, will be super successful.
steve bannon
The issue we had when we first won is we weren't staffed up.
We didn't have enough MAGA-type people that have been trained.
James, tell us what you're doing here.
You two are now working together.
These guys have come up with a plan that on the third victory of the second term, we hit the deck plates running, right?
There's 4,000 Appointees by a president.
4,000 to run the entire government.
1,000 of those I think have to be Senate confirmed.
But 3,000 can start work day one.
Walk through what you guys are doing.
And I keep asking, do you work for Johnny or does Johnny work for you, right?
unidentified
I definitely work for John.
So what we're doing with Project 2025 is we're recruiting the MAGA America First Republicans right now so that we can take DC by storm in 2025.
We're not going to go in like we did in 2017 where the establishment took over and co-opted much of the personnel of President Trump's administration.
We're more prepared this time.
We're recruiting grassroots conservatives.
And we want all of you, if you want to serve in the next White House, next State Department, next Pentagon, we want you to sign up.
Tell your sons, tell your daughters, tell all your friends.
It's Project2025.org.
steve bannon
So, Johnny, okay, you heard that?
If you guys want to serve, you've got to get engaged now.
You've got to be involved now, because one of the big parts of this is networking.
It's not just training people up, but those networks that we do with grassroots organizations, with other organizations.
Walk through, tell me what the plan is.
unidentified
So we're collecting resumes.
We're getting as much information as we can now to save the transition time on the back end.
As you know, when a president wins or president-elect wins, things happen very quickly and you have a short amount of time to staff an entire administration.
It's also looking beyond the 4,000 and what we can do with the bureaucracy itself.
So we're thinking of creative policy things as well that will integrate with this.
Well, hold it.
steve bannon
When we talk about that, let's talk about schedule.
I mean, is there going to be a plan in place to start to take apart the administrative state?
unidentified
There has to be, and yes, there will be.
The next president, if President Trump gets back in there, he needs to reorient the government in a way that hasn't been seen since Franklin Roosevelt did it with the New Deal.
We need to gut these agencies.
We need to start from scratch.
We need to make a new government, essentially, because the one that we have now doesn't work for conservatives.
It wasn't made for us.
It's built against us.
So we have to go back to the drawing board with these agencies.
steve bannon
Johnny, you've seen on the inside, let's give it up, is that what we want?
Okay, but I'm gonna ask the practical question.
You've been on the inside about how vast this bureaucracy, the administrative state is massive.
It's more than the two million, they say, well there's two and a half million government employees, but there's 16 million contractors.
So there's an 18 million man workforce right there of some of those highly educated, but also they're maniacally focused on keeping the administrative state.
So tell me, how are we going to start to take it apart?
If you've got 16,000, 16 million contractors, 2.5 million, we've got 3,000 day one, and you know they're going to fight every Trump appointee, and for confirmation it's going to be a dogfight.
So how are we going to take apart the administrative state?
unidentified
It's finding the people that can run each agency and dismantle it one by one.
What else, James?
What do we want to do?
I think we want to do mass government layoffs.
steve bannon
Hold it.
unidentified
I think Mediaite just got its headline.
steve bannon
Hold it.
Is that a fantasy or is that reality?
unidentified
It's a reality.
President Reagan's Director of the Office of Personnel Management fired over 100,000 bureaucrats using reduction in force exercises.
So you can't fire a civil servant because they have civil service protections, right?
But you can eliminate their position.
steve bannon
Take away the billet?
unidentified
It's a way of getting, eliminating the building, eliminating the position.
So it's a way of firing them.
We can do stuff and get creative like that.
Another thing, yeah, don't give away all the secrets.
Another thing is the President actually needs to exert a tremendous amount of more authority over these people.
You know, a lot of conservatives think, oh, we'll move the FBI to Alabama, that'll solve all our problems.
No, you need to move the FBI into the DOJ and you need the Attorney General meeting with the President regularly.
You need more control, not less.
steve bannon
Jeff Clark wrote this amazing piece about this fantasy of the independent DOJ and independent FBI.
You guys, and the way you're looking at things, that's all nonsense.
You don't have independent agencies that are independent of the Commander-in-Chief and the President?
unidentified
Right.
You have to govern very aggressively.
So the Attorney General can go and visit the FBI and review what they're working on.
You don't want these agencies spread out around the country.
You want to dig into them.
The bureaucrats don't want supervision.
Don't give them what they want.
Don't send the agencies away.
In fact, visit the agencies, exert more management over these bureaucrats.
That's the way to do it.
steve bannon
And Johnny, you think that in the second term there's going to be that type of focus?
This is going to be a dogfight.
It's very easy to roll over and let's get underway.
Do you think there's going to be the focus now, understanding what our problems were the first time, to do mass layoffs, take billets away from the bureaucrats and start to fire some of these contractors?
unidentified
I think we have to.
I think with what we learned last time and also potentially working in a short time frame will help us.
Because we don't have potentially eight years, we have four.
And we need to get moving.
I think with Project 2025, having all of these people ready to flood DC with us and take it on, and having them already trained up, I think we have a good shot.
steve bannon
Okay, are you guys going to volunteer for this?
By the way, for your kids, your grandkids, all of it, you guys are going to volunteer?
Okay, how do they get to the site to find any information on how they volunteer?
unidentified
So it's project2025.org and hit the apply button.
Also, if you apply, you can take the training academy program, which will train you to be an effective political appointee.
steve bannon
There's a training academy?
unidentified
Yeah, because we don't want appointees to go in and get captured by the bureaucracy.
Because that's what happened to a lot of people last time.
It's free training.
It's free training.
steve bannon
So it's free.
You can go to the training academy for free?
unidentified
It's all free.
steve bannon
Okay, one more time.
Where do they go?
unidentified
Project2025.org.
Okay.
steve bannon
Johnny, before I lose you guys, can we talk about the app?
unidentified
Let's do it.
steve bannon
Okay.
Johnny's also an entrepreneur.
Right?
Tell us about the app that you put together.
unidentified
We have a dating app for conservatives.
It's called The Right Stuff.
It's free to use.
It's live in the App Store.
The average demographic is 20s and 30s, so if you have someone you know, a niece, a nephew, get on.
It's growing every day.
Our largest network is in Southern California, believe it or not.
steve bannon
Oh, it's Southern California?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
Orange County, you know?
And also we have a lot of people in New York.
I think conservatives that are in these liberal states find it most useful to find like-minded people.
steve bannon
By the way, a comment from the audience.
They said the villages is not your biggest...
So hold on, it's totally free?
You just go online?
unidentified
It's free.
You can go in the app store, the right stuff.
You can follow us on social media, date right stuff.
You'll see a lot of funny videos of me making fun of liberals, my favorite thing to do.
Yeah.
steve bannon
Johnny, why would you need a dating app?
unidentified
Uh, you know, we work a lot when you're in D.C., you know, you don't have time, so... This guy is the hardest working guy of all.
steve bannon
Navarro, everybody.
We had so many hard workers, President Trump.
This was the hardest worker, because he was with Donald J. Trump every day for four years, five years?
unidentified
Every day for the 2016 campaign, the first year of the White House, and the last year of the White House.
steve bannon
Wow, unbelievable.
Go get it from Johnny McAtee, one of the great MAGA.
Guys, James Bacon, one more time.
What's the website they go to?
I want everybody to go take the Academy for free and get trained up.
unidentified
Project2025.org.
We'll see you in DC.
steve bannon
Thank you, guys.
Can we hear it?
Thank you.
Who are you?
Where are you from?
unidentified
John Mayo, Chairman of the Collier County REC.
steve bannon
Oh, you're one of the guys that took over Collier County?
unidentified
Yeah, we took it over big time.
And the reason why we took it over big time was your show.
Since November of 20, I've watched you.
You're a pit bull.
You never give up.
You never stop the fight.
You always said one thing.
I always stuck close to you.
I said, one of the most important virtues of humanity is courage.
And courage is contagious.
But I'd add something else to that.
And that's why I think DeSantis is going to lose big time.
The second most...
An important attribute of humanity is loyalty.
And that man would not have been sitting in the governor's seat if it wasn't for Donald Trump.
And what we see happening right now in the state of Florida is horrendous.
You're in shock of winning that primary.
steve bannon
I think this is shocking a lot of people because we just have, I just want to show hands because I think, I've always said Governor DeSantis is a good governor in Florida, but I'm getting a lot of feedback today that he's taking us out of the ball.
Is that what you guys feel?
What's happened?
So he just won a landslide victory.
What happened?
unidentified
Yeah, well, I don't know what happened to him.
I guess what happened to him is he got lost in the power grid.
But at this point, we've done a number of surveys at various different gatherings.
And when you ask, who's a Trump supporter, the room goes nuts.
When you say, all right, who's out there for DeSantis?
It's like, I don't want to say dead silent, but there's two lone voices in there.
I'd just like to say some other thing.
I appreciate Mike Lindell.
I appreciate all his work.
But I look at this political game, and I call it a game, as a game.
What game would anybody get into where the rules are different for each team?
So I would go back, whatever Mike can do, it's great, but I'm going to encourage everybody to do exactly what the Democrats do.
You want to win this election, you got to do what they're doing.
That's the bottom line, Steve.
steve bannon
Laura Loomer happened to Ron DeSantis.
Yeah, big time.
Real quickly, where are you from?
unidentified
Miami-Dade County.
We follow a precinct strategy to become members of the REC.
steve bannon
We're part of the GOP REC.
unidentified
We're also with the Dominican American and Haitian American network of voters.
We educate, motivate, and activate conservative Dominican voters and Haitian voters to vote for conservative candidates.
steve bannon
Is Dominican Republic MAGA?
unidentified
All the way.
It's a conservative country.
So is Haiti.
mike lindell
All right!
Short commercial break.
steve bannon
We'll be back in the warm in a moment.
unidentified
to the end just watch and see it's all started everything's begun and you are over because we're taking down the ccp spread the word all through hong kong we will fight till they're all gone we rejoice when there's no more let's take down the ccp
steve bannon
here's your host stephen k vann welcome back We're here for Atcon 2023.
It's wild.
Oh my god, Joe Allen, Dave Walsh, two hitters.
First off, can we put up the tweet?
She put up a tweet the other day that said when she does War Room, as hosts and when I do it, she had Barbie and she had the actors, what, Oppenheimer?
Is that true?
No, you're University of Chicago.
You're 10 times smarter than I am.
You're not Barbie.
unidentified
Well, I think UChicago is rated higher than Georgetown, but not Harvard.
Oh, well, thank you.
A little bit of a shade war.
steve bannon
Hang on one second.
We have a very special guest.
95 years old?
unidentified
No.
95!
Great!
Trump!
mike lindell
And you're Trump 2024?
steve bannon
Say again?
You're Trump 2024?
Trump 2024?
unidentified
Say again.
You're Trump 2024?
steve bannon
Absolutely.
Is Trump, we need Trump to save the country?
unidentified
Save the country by Trump, yes.
steve bannon
What's your name and where are you from?
unidentified
Lester Bellin from Gloversville, New York.
steve bannon
Wow.
Love you, Lester.
mike lindell
This is my birthday party.
steve bannon
All right.
Happy birthday to Lester!
unidentified
95 or so, move around.
Happy birthday dear Kevin, happy birthday to you.
Alright!
Thank you.
mike lindell
Thank you!
steve bannon
Joe Allen, real quick, you got here in the middle.
You drove all night to be here.
Why?
Talk to me about the book Transhumanism.
mike lindell
So I want to leave you guys in a good mood.
unidentified
Check it out, Dark Aeon, Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity.
It's a very uplifting tale with a happy ending.
You just have to get through the apocalypse to get there.
Pick it up, Amazon.
steve bannon
Steve will have the foreword.
Look at that cover.
This guy, we hired him years ago.
He's the number one authority on transhumanism, artificial intelligence.
You've got to get this book.
Now here's why.
Where else are you going to find a cracker from Tennessee that can explain transhumanism?
mike lindell
I appreciate you guys.
unidentified
It's great to see your smiling faces and your beautiful eyes.
Talk to you here in a few.
steve bannon
We're going to roll the book out in August at the Springfield Conference.
unidentified
Hold it.
steve bannon
Dave Walsh is in the house.
unidentified
Thank you, thank you.
steve bannon
Walsh, Arizona, it's 120, it's 134 in Death Valley.
It's record heat in Big Bend, Texas.
Is this grid going to make it?
The folks in Florida want to know, is it going to make it?
unidentified
I think in Arizona, New Mexico, it's going to make it.
Other places, it may not make it.
The problem isn't the weather.
The problem is the inability of our generation system to meet hot and cold periods because we don't have enough electricity.
We've got one candidate, one candidate for president on the Republican side.
We've got a team of Rona McDaniels shills.
All with a purpose, goal, and objective of unseating President Trump.
President Trump is the only candidate who we understand has energy policies.
They're articulated.
We know what they are.
They're a matter of record.
They're about full, all-in, abundant American energy.
They're about the electricity system that's robust.
Gas and oil, coal, all the above.
The other guys, silencio, they have no policy.
steve bannon
Let me ask you a question.
Can the United States return with the type of economy we can have and pass down to the next generation and generation after that what was bequeathed to us unless we get back to full-spectrum energy dominance?
unidentified
We absolutely cannot look at the case of Germany.
The economy is in decline.
Deindustrialization is occurring because they don't like things dirty, making steel, making cars, making chemicals, making electricity with nuclear, with coal.
They've shut their nuke plants.
They've shut their coal plants, by and large.
The country's beginning to fade, industrially.
We can't have the same thing happen here, because when that happens, you can't defend yourself.
You don't have the military hardware to defend yourself.
steve bannon
Okay, we got a couple of minutes left.
Dave Walsh.
Dave, what social media, how did it get to you for all your great reporting on energy?
unidentified
On Getter and True Social at Dave Walsh Energy.
Great to see you all here.
Thank you.
steve bannon
Joe, how did they get to you to get to the book, and how did they get to all your great writings?
joe allen
You want to find it at warroom.org under the Transhumanism tab, social media, slave chain, at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z, link to the book right at the top, and of course you can go directly to Amazon, soon Sky Horse Publishing.
steve bannon
Is transhumanism, at the end of the day, a spiritual war?
unidentified
Absolutely, 100%.
That's the central thesis.
steve bannon
Okay, we're in.
What is this right here?
unidentified
Steve, this is a boxing kangaroo.
We won't talk about the America's Cup in 1983, but you're a fighter and I'm a fighter, so this is a gift for you to keep fighting.
Wow.
steve bannon
You come to all these events.
What's your name and where are you from?
unidentified
Greg Smith from Melbourne, Australia.
Grassroots Greg on social media and I'm looking for biological females on dating websites.
He gave me a call!
steve bannon
Why are you, as an Australian, why are you here following a macro?
unidentified
Well, it requires action.
This conference is about action and I'm an action taker.
I'm here today.
I took action.
I want to do that further.
I want to Uh, find a way where I can help here.
Like I said before in your program, uh, the day before the last election when I was in Arizona, we need to save America before we can start saving places like Australia.
Wow.
steve bannon
Uh, name and why are you here?
unidentified
Uh, Marla Lloyd, I'm from Nashville, Tennessee, and I'm here to see Steve Bannon.
steve bannon
Oh my gosh, here we go.
Uh, why'd you come to ATCOM?
unidentified
First-timer at this event, I'm here because I like the way you connect all the dots.
Judeo-Christian civilization, Western civilization, the great books.
I'm an academic in exile and my son is a Navy officer like your brother, a pilot, carrier-based, fought the vaccine mandate, and is now in the reserves.
steve bannon
This is what America is about, right?
Why are the great... Real quickly, why are the great books important?
unidentified
Because they've got all the wisdom, accumulated wisdom of great minds throughout the centuries, and we're crazy to refuse it.
steve bannon
Unbelievable.
unidentified
Hold it.
I'm from Partners, from Family Values.
That's my grandson behind me.
Could you give me 30 seconds of a positive message for the youth?
Okay, from you.
steve bannon
A 30-second positive message.
Action, action, action.
unidentified
Hold it.
steve bannon
Right here, the young lady that made this, Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
That's what populism is.
Are any of the elites in this country going to save this country, or are you going to save this country?
We're fighting.
You're seeing we're having victories every day, and the big victory has got to be... Whoa.
Hang on right here.
Action, action, action.
unidentified
Real quickly.
I'm Marva Swiss from the Villages, and what we are asking for is a website of success.
We want to see the voting records of each member showing each vote.
steve bannon
I think Grace is working on that.
We gotta bounce.
Have a great ACT 2023.
unidentified
R.A.V.' 's gonna have them all day.
steve bannon
Here's to you guys.
Let's give it up to you!
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