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Episode 2997: Dismantling The Administrative State
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steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
unidentified
Pray for our enemies.
Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon
I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.
unidentified
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
jim hoft
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
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It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big line?
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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.
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War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
Thanks for joining us.
On the other hand, he's going to sit for these four trials, and he's going to be in four different courtrooms, and he's going to be going back and forth between the two.
How does he manage doing both of these things simultaneously?
I think that conventional wisdom is wrong.
I think it misunderstands who Trump is, what his relationship with his followers is.
The trials are the campaign.
The trials are the campaign.
The mugshot is the campaign poster, right?
The trials are the campaign because, you know, he's not running any kind of conventional campaign.
Joe Biden's going to run on the economy, presuming it's good.
He's going to run on this overtime pay thing he just did, this right to organize thing that the NLRB did last week.
Prescription drugs, so on.
Conventional issues.
Donald Trump's not going to run on anything like that.
He's going to run on Donald Trump.
He's going to run on Donald Trump as the martyr.
And he's been laying the groundwork for this.
This has been his rhetoric for months now.
They're coming after me.
They're really coming after you.
I'm the only thing that stands in between them and you.
The trials allow him to be the martyr.
His followers aren't going to care about his plan for prescription drugs.
They're going to care about His martyrdom for them as they perceive it.
And to talk about the grift, Charlie, I'm sure you've seen.
With respect to that mugshot, you go to the Trump website.
That mugshot is on mugs, beer cozies, t-shirts, posters, everything with the words, never surrender below them.
So that's the kind of campaign that he's going to run.
So there is no tension.
between his campaign and his presence in the courtroom.
The presence in the courtroom, I think, as far as he's concerned, helps him.
Michael, I could not agree with you more.
As someone who's covered closely every campaign that Trump has had, this is his campaign.
jim hoft
This is the grievance.
jonathan lemire
And I think, to this point, at least with his base, extremely effective, that argument of, they're coming after me, next they'll come after you.
karine jean-pierre
that we hear from his supporters saying, well, if they can arrest him, what could they do to your family? Playing into that sort of deep state paranoia that is so key to a big part of the Republican Party. And so when updated COVID shots become available in mid-September, we've heard from the FDA and CDC, they announced this last week that there will be new vaccines next, this, we're in September, next month, mid-September. We'll be encouraging all Americans to get updated COVID vaccines.
Look, because of this work that this president has done from the beginning of his administration, making sure there was a comprehensive approach with dealing with this pandemic, with dealing COVID-19, we have tools at our disposal now, whether it's vaccines, whether it's home tests, whether it's masks.
We do have an effective treatments, obviously.
We do have these tools at our disposal, and I think that's incredibly important.
natalie winters
It's 1 September, Year of Our Lord 2023, Natalie Winters coming at you live from our nation's capital here in Washington, D.C.
Now, I don't know about you, but MSNBC, I think I would take a campaign that's rested upon Donald J. Trump's mugshot over Joe Biden's economy any single day.
And frankly, I think the merchandise that the Trump campaign has been selling, the mugs, the T-shirts, probably has done more to revitalize the economy than Joe Biden ever could.
And bro, if you're going to talk about the deep state and our unfounded fears and you're going to point to prescription drug prices as something that the Trump base doesn't care about, there's probably no better example of the administrative state than in the form of big pharma.
Look no further than the fact that the White House just yesterday is already touting masks, boosters, mandates, you name it.
As the tactics in their tool belt that they're going to use to probably roll out the next totalitarian COVID regime just in time for the 2024 election.
No conspiracies, no coincidences.
I'm sure there's probably no better example of weaponizing the federal government Then COVID-19 and all the ways that they want to weaponize, not just the virus, but the vaccine against our bodies, our ability to choose what we want to do with ourselves.
Of course, a foundational right in this country for as long as it can remain a country with the constant invasion we're facing from Joe Biden every single day, of course, at our southern border.
But talking about weaponization, there's probably no better or concrete example of how Joe Biden himself has weaponized the federal government against American patriots, oftentimes not just American grandmas, but American veterans, the very same people who enlisted to fight in the Iraq war, the same war that the people who got us into that war have faced no charges or jail time for lying about.
But Darren Beatty is joining us now to break down what is the latest just Mind-blowing, although I guess we're used to that in Biden's America.
Sentencing 17 years for Proud Boy member Joe Biggs for, what is it, knocking down a fence?
Something as simple as that.
Darren, if you don't walk us through the latest developments on the January 6th front, I'm sure the War Room Posse would appreciate it.
darren j beattie
Absolutely.
Great to be here, Natalie.
And indeed, this is yet another absolute national disgrace, a travesty of justice.
Coming from Biden's corrupt and illegitimate DOJ.
Can you believe it?
17 years for what?
For basically nothing.
And they're putting on, and in fact, the DOJ is upset because 17 years was a more lenient sentence than what they were calling for.
That gives you a sense of how sociopathic and deranged these people are that the 17 year sentence isn't sufficient for them.
They're upset because it's less than 20.
It's absolutely insane.
It's completely out of whack with any kind of, you know, commensurability of what the person did versus what they're getting punished for.
And this issue with the fences is actually really, you know, it's beyond, it's not simply a ridiculous issue of them saying, Oh, they took down the fences.
This is a terrorist enhancement and so forth.
It's actually really rich coming from them because revolvers really extensively covered this issue of people tearing down fencing.
Not Biggs.
There were people methodically tearing down fencing way before Biggs and the Proud Boys even got to that initial breach site.
In fact, if I could just summarize the core revolver thesis of the Fed's erection as it pertains to the Are we having some audio difficulties?
natalie winters
Do we want to try to reboot him?
Maybe, Darren, keep going.
I think we may have the connection back.
We'll give it one more time.
darren j beattie
I don't know where we may have cut off, but I was simply saying that if you could summarize Revolver's fed-surrection thesis, it's that there were key critical players who arrived at that west perimeter of the Capitol before the Proud Boys, people like Joe Biggs and others, got there.
And these people who arrived before the Proud Boys, each of whom played a far more critical role in enabling the rally to turn into a riot.
And unlike the Proud Boys, who are facing ridiculous, seditious conspiracy charges and sentencing close to 20 years, the individuals we've identified, including someone easily referred researchers as fence cutter bulwark because he can be seen cutting all over the place methodically and unlike Joe Biggs who's given a terrorist enhancement for this the feds have zero interest in this fence cutter bulwark
whatsoever so the fence cutting issue and the terrorist enhancement for that specifically really is quite amazing coming from the DOJ given the context of known fence cutters caught on camera who played critical roles who were pre-positioned before the proud boys got there in whom the DOJ has exhibited zero interest and many of whom have not even been
unidentified
identified yet let alone indicted.
natalie winters
I mean, it's so in your face.
This is the same party that down in Arizona is quite literally welding open the border gates, the border wall, and selling this metal, the pieces of wall.
It's basically scrap metal, and they're mad that veterans are tearing down fences.
That makes it sound so much more dramatic than it actually was, to just really display their actual constitutional rights.
You know, you can criticize election results in this country.
a hot take and meanwhile to the point that it's so in your face you know if there's anything the United States government is good at it probably is inciting insurrections around the world um I know you had flagged an interesting piece some interesting work of course being done by war room favorite congressman Matt Gates uh to really try to I think stop funds or at least get some more transparency uh on the insurrections that the United States government which you know really cares about democracy according to the mainstream media has been doing particularly in Africa.
Do you want to walk us through the—I believe it's an amendment that he had introduced and what he's doing on that front?
darren j beattie
Well, you know, there's really an iconic exchange that maybe at some point you find the clip.
It's just beautiful to watch of.
It's grilling some lose.
He's got the nice outfit and everything, but this is an exchange for the ages.
This was in the category of that famous exchange where some McCain lackey was forced to admit that the US government had only successfully trained like five moderate rebels, you know, and the rest of our weapons were going to ISIS.
It's on that level where this, um, I think he's the head of African command, uh, And he was asked, so why are we training all these people in Africa when they just go on to exercise coups against their government?
Are we tracking this?
Is this intentional?
Seems to be completely out of control.
And the general had no understanding whatsoever of what Congressman Gates was talking about.
But Africa has really become a hot zone of coups lately, and it's disturbing people like Victoria Nuland
A lot of Newlands people are pointing out similar cases in Burkina Faso, we've seen it more recently in Niger, and now most recently, as Congressman Gates has been pointing out, in Gabon, where the multi-generational dynasty of the very respected Bongo regime has come to an end.
When the Bongo regime has come to an end, you know it's very serious, and that's what's happened in Gabon.
But, I mean, seriously, this is a string of coups.
It's totally out of control.
Newland has lost control.
She was in South Africa recently pleading to these various African organizations to stop the bleeding, restore these people who are friendly to the West, the United States.
Macron in France is biting his nail.
So it seemed like what was a small issue in Africa is turning into a major geopolitical disruption in the region and another major failure for the Biden regime.
And in this case, I have to say for Victoria Nuland specifically, as she is the regime change hatchet woman who's tasked with making sure that only we are the ones to get to do the coups, and it's not out of our control.
natalie winters
Remember, only the United States can carry out the coups.
And if it's in the case of Ukraine, which we know Victoria Nuland played an integral role there, we got to make sure the Biden family can profit too.
That seems to be really the modus operandi of, of course, not just the Biden regime, but the Biden family.
Darren, if people want to stay up to date with everything that is coming in white hot on Revolver, where can they find you?
Where can they get the stories?
darren j beattie
a continuous stream of cutting-edge news, major January 6th follow-up that's coming and that will build off of the recent convictions of the Proud Boys, so stay tuned for that.
We're all over the election.
We're all over geopolitical events.
So follow us, Revolver.News.
I'm at Twitter, at Darren J. Beattie.
And the Revolver account on Gitter, at Revolver News, is always white-hot and certainly a favorite.
So check us out on Gitter as well.
natalie winters
Thank you sir and rest in peace to the bongo regime.
And just remember guys, to make it all make sense, you know the DOJ, Judge Tanya Shukhan, the guy, rather the woman, that's overseeing Trump's DC case, well she's the mass punisher of J6 defendants, but you know who she went easy on when she was sentencing?
A convicted Chinese Communist Party spy who was selling military secrets to, you guessed it, communists over in Beijing.
That tells you all you need to know about Joe Biden's America.
We'll be right back after this break.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Babb.
natalie winters
Welcome back to the War Room.
Here in the War Room, even though we are named the War Room, I like to think that we are all happy warriors, as Andrew Breitbart said.
But I think one of the best examples, a living legend, in my humble opinion, of a happy warrior is the man who's joining us next.
It's been on the show before.
Paul Danz, he leads Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, but he also worked in the Trump administration.
He is MAGA, to his core, a Trump original.
But before we get into the fact that the mainstream media has sort of revamped their full-fledged assault on you guys, and really the granular detail with which you have gotten into, into how we actually want To take down the administrative state.
I know the MSNBCs of the world say we're delusional for believing that, but I think we are very well within our right minds.
You used to head OPM, the Office of Personnel Management, and I actually met you back in the days of the Trump administration, and there's just a wonderful story that I would love for you to share real quick and sort of contextualize who you are for the audience.
Now, keep in mind, OPM, yeah, there are some political appointees, but that is the swamp, right?
That is, I think, the swampiest of the swamp creatures.
That you can get.
And from what I understand, during peak COVID, you played War Room.
You played War Room Pandemic and made those career appointees unintentionally listen to it.
Give us a little background on who you are, but with a special emphasis on that story, because I just love it.
paul dans
Sure.
No, it's great to be with you, Natalie.
I've been on War Room.
I started out with Navarro and then made my way to Bannon and finally made my way to the Ferris co-host of them all here.
So, um, so yeah, I, um, I'm a political outsider.
You know, I told Steve, you know, I'm full-blooded deplorable.
Basically we came from working class families.
I'm the first one, you know, to speak English as the primary language, first one, not, you know, to join a union.
And I do want to commend, uh, organized labor.
You know, our family did come out of that, you know, reflect a little bit about the strides that were made.
Over this weekend, you know, particularly remember those who toil so we can live in this prosperity.
That said, you know, I got into the government.
I was a lawyer in Manhattan for 25 years.
And, you know, I'd heard all this drain the swamp.
And, you know, I'm like, yes, I was a big Trump guy when I was up there in New York.
And that's kind of our family where it's hard hat type, you know, working class Republicans in the outer boroughs.
So I get to HUD with Dr. Carson and you know, working on homelessness and that I had background in city planning.
Finally, I get the call to go over to OPM.
That's called the Office of Personal Management.
They oversee 2.2 million federal work workforce.
And yeah, I was like, sure, I'd be happy to serve and that kind of like hung up the phone and I typed in OPM and like, let me double check what OPM is.
And, you know, it's Office of Personal Management.
And I'm being facetious, but this is an extraordinarily left alone agency.
It really is where the hardwiring for the deep state happens.
And I say that because the axiom is personnel is policy.
And this organization, this office manages all the personnel for the federal government.
And, you know, it was formed under Carter and Oddly enough, you know, Carter thought at the time the bureaucracy was running away from political management.
So this instituted a great reform in Title V of the U.S.
Code.
The office over time, though, was always intended to be run by politicals.
But over time, there was this ethos of hands off the You know, civil service, and you're gonna create a teapot dome scandal.
So let them kind of run themselves.
And I got in there and realized, you know, there was very few political appointees, and they were all clustered in the director's office.
And no one was down in the actual building itself, where all the decisions are being made.
That was being left to the career workforce to decide decisions about the career workforce.
And these were very important decisions like about performance management, about compensation, about, you know, everything from their retirement to their health care, to the training and recruitment.
So we cleared out that whole second layer.
And that caused a big uproar.
And this was happening in about February, March of 2020.
So my brother, twin brother had turned me on to war room pandemic at the time.
And, you know, we, we were reading through zero heads and all about, about the coming virus.
And, you know, very much having this cognitive dissonance hearing from the building.
You know, that, oh, no, this was this was some kind of weird transmission from animals and the like.
And I said, you know what, we're gonna, you know, at least in this building, where they play CNN, you walk in, you walk in and the government TVs are set to CNN.
And, you know, it doesn't have to be that way.
So we started piping in War Room Pandemic in the fifth floor there.
unidentified
And people had never... The definition of epic, Paul, I love that.
But I want to I want to get to, you know, obviously, you know, go ahead.
paul dans
There was, you know, this was the beginning of War Room, really, kind of, I don't think you guys realize, but our credo, each day was action, action, action.
So we would reflect if we had actually moved something forward that day, like, otherwise, it was a wasted day.
But the, you know, that lives on.
And I think I was fortunate afterwards to join the Heritage and now I direct this project 2025, which is probably What your audience wants to hear more about.
natalie winters
No, I'm sure they love that story, and I just have to say the fact that you admitted to that story.
Prepare, you're probably going to get indicted by Joe Biden soon enough for daring to blast War Room over the airwaves of OPM.
But there's a new sort of media barrage coming from, of course, the mainstream media outlets of the world.
The L.A.
Times particularly doing a profile titled, Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan to Dismantle the U.S.
Government and Replace it with Trump's Vision.
I don't know about you, that sounds like pretty good PR spin.
I didn't know you guys were paying the LA Times to carry your talking points.
It's like when ABC was saying, Donald Trump's 2024 campaign pledge is to take down the deep state.
What's going to happen?
Victory.
That's what's going to happen.
But I want you to walk us through, and I'll keep you through the break, but A, what exactly Project 2025 is, partly on the personnel front, but more importantly, on the actual tactics, the weapons that you guys are developing.
Sure.
paul dans
And, you know, I kind of look at that dismantle the government.
Well, dismantle is too far, but we are going to do some significant renovations.
This is a beautiful architecture of 200 plus years.
You know, our founding fathers and all the Americans who came before us really have built this city on the hill.
And it's up to us really now to kind of rebuild it.
Our government is designed under the Constitution to have three coordinate branches, the legislative, executive, and judicial.
But over time, there's been this growth of a fourth one.
These are very bad additions, if you will, if you want to think about this as a figurative government.
These additions started getting tacked on in the 1920s through Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Great Society, and LBJ, and the explosion of the welfare state.
What we're endeavoring to do is a one in a hundred year deep gut renovation and put this government back on its constitutional footings.
What Project 2025 is, is the first time our entire conservative movement has come together to systematically prepare to take power day one.
And we, I work at the Heritage Foundation.
It just went on its 50th year anniversary, but it's, Served over time is the mothership, if you will, of the conservative movement.
And so many people have come in and out of the organization that worked alongside it, that what we have that stands out among others is ability to convene the movement.
And our president, Dr. Roberts, when he came aboard said, you know, 2024 is the whole shooting match, you know, in a figurative sense, if you will.
for our republic's survival.
And we have to win.
And there's gonna be no plan B, but to do this, it can't be a heritage thing.
We have to build a coalition and bring the whole movement into it.
So that's what we've done.
We're now 70 plus of the most influential and thoughtful conservative organizations, many of which all your viewers will be familiar with.
That's Leadership Institute, ACLJ, FreedomWorks, Conservative Partnership Institute.
I kind of hesitated to name a few because I can't name all 70, but anyone can go to project2025.org and see our partners.
And what we're doing now is joining forces to systematically prepare in a way that's never been done.
Typically, a president, when he gets the nomination, or she in an eventual case, will start preparations for transition in May or even September of election year.
That is way too late.
There's just so much complexity and so much homework that needs to be done in advance.
And we really have to mass the troops, assemble people in place to get them into government day one.
But more than that, we need to tell people what we expect of them.
We cannot go forward and win and just put the regular same old Washington retreads into place.
We now need to have an army of of patriots and Americans, many of whom are listening to this very broadcast, to put down their tools to really look and say, this is my moment to come to Washington and serve.
Maybe the way your parents did or, you know, went to war for this country or how others went off and selflessly gave.
Now is the time where your country is looking at you and asking you to make this contribution.
So it's a tremendous, extraordinary opportunity.
And what we're doing here is essentially built on four pillars.
All of this you can find on project2025.org, but we came out with a thousand page prescriptive fix for what a successful conservative term would look like.
And this is an agency by agency kind of a rundown.
So this is a very good primer for someone new to the federal government.
We put top line ideas in this.
We are, we're making no little plans.
But yeah, I can let you know.
natalie winters
Can you hang with us through the break?
Because I want to drill down more on the specific tactics.
It's funny.
The mainstream media says that we're crazy for thinking the deep state exists.
But meanwhile, they're also panicking because you guys are coming after them.
That doesn't quite make sense.
And we like to make it make sense in the War Room.
And we will do just that when we are back from break.
We've got Paul Danz and so many more guests.
We'll be right back.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
natalie winters
Welcome back to the War Room.
There's just an amazing tweet from the Washington Post that I got to read you guys from the from their fact checker.
Here's a guide to some of the stories told by President Biden that cannot be verified or are not plausible.
That's also called a lie, and it's awesome seeing them get ratioed.
In the reply section, people are saying, this is the most absurd spin I've ever seen, and you know that they rely on their censorship industrial complex.
Complex the taxpayer-funded fact-checkers like the Washington Post.
To really run narrative cover for what is the faltering American regime, managed decline is their MO, and you know they're of course lying to you about everything they're doing with the economy, so make sure you go to birchgold.com slash Bannon to get what is I think the latest iteration of the end of the dollar Empire, Joe Biden, and everything he's doing with the economy is certainly making that seem to be more likely of an outcome.
And I stand by what I said.
I think Donald Trump's mugshot merchandise has done more to boost the economy than Joe Biden ever could.
I think we still have Paul Danz with us.
And Paul, before I let you go, I have one last question.
Obviously, when we talk about the administrative state, we're, of course, talking about, you know, within the confines of the United States here, right?
OPM is, you know, in D.C.
But I think there's also an element to the administrative state.
We see this, of course, with the WHO pandemic treaty, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, that they have outsourced some of their power, right?
The planning, the plotting, the collusion of what is an agenda to deprive us of our rights really has, I think, been outsourced to some extent to the global stage.
So in your opinion, how much and again, you were, you know, behind enemy lines, you saw this.
How much of the deconstruction or really targeting the administrative state is focused here in the United States, but is there a global aspect and element to it as well?
paul dans
Well, very much.
I think that our deep state, our administrative state, looks to their counterparts in Europe and across the globe as a model.
And ultimately, one day they probably hope to fuse everything together.
And that's kind of why the political appointee, the new group we're trying to recruit is really going to guard against that.
I saw that even in OPM, you know, with COVID, when COVID hit, the first scramble was, hey, let's, let's take direction from the WHO to determine whether federal employees go home or whatever.
And I said, stop, stop, stop, stop.
We only take direction from one person, and he's two blocks down the road and happens to live in the White House.
But we do not listen to Tedros.
But that impulse radiates throughout the federal government.
And you see very bizarre kind of attempts under the Obama administration, and probably now under Biden, to build these international linkages with other foreign governments, with their bureaucracies particularly.
That is something we have to watch.
natalie winters
Paul, hit us one more time with the website that people can go to to sign up for Project 2025.
But more importantly, I don't even know if you're on social media, but if people want to follow you, where can they go?
paul dans
Well, go to project2025.org.
We have our entire policy book there.
It's free to download.
Anyone can make your way through it.
We really want folks who can serve to join the database.
Go there and create your profile.
This is the way you can learn about how to serve in government.
We also have free online courses to teach you to get you ready.
So Project2025.org.
We're at Project2025 on Twitter, and I believe Rumble.
That's Project without the vowels.
And you can get me there.
Just, you know, try to get my attention on that.
But I'm a naive social media person, to be fair.
unidentified
More power to ya!
natalie winters
Well, the people I'm sure will find you and make sure you go to Project2025.org.
Paul, thank you so much for joining us.
paul dans
Thank you, Natalie.
natalie winters
Now if there's any issue that I think the agenda has gone global and they're using these WEF UN type style organizations to push it on us, it has to be climate change.
And as we know very well in the war room, thanks to the work of people like Dave Walsh, this green energy agenda kills quite literally.
We're of course coming, I think we just passed the second anniversary of what was the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Now, there's a quick clip that I want to play before we bring in our next guest, Joe Kent.
So Denver, if you want to roll that, this is Joe Biden talking the same day that is the second anniversary of, like I said, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
This is what Joe Biden thinks about the accomplishments of his regime.
joe biden
Name me a single objective we've ever set out to accomplish that we've failed on.
unidentified
Name me one in all of our history.
Not one.
natalie winters
I can name a few, and I'm sure my next guest can as well.
We have new reporting that in the midst of this Afghanistan debacle, climate change activists and appointees within the Defense Department were hounding the Secretary of Defense to sign on and endorse new climate change goals, climate change agendas that is within the Pentagon while we saw 13 Americans tragically lose their lives and create a whole new batch of Gold Star Families. Joe, if we have you, of course you're out in Washington and a good friend of the show. I would just love to get your thoughts on this
new reporting that the Biden regime was more concerned with climate change than actually protecting and willfully going out of their way to ignore dissent cables and intelligence about the actual situation on the ground in Afghanistan two years ago. Yeah, I mean, at this point, because of course they were, or what else would they be doing in the midst of this horrible withdraw?
joe kent
I mean, look, everything with the Biden administration is, I think, very deliberate.
And it usually is at the confluence of hubris, their horrible agenda, but then also just a lot of incompetence.
And they sprinkle that in there so that we focus on the incompetence and we don't focus on the other aspects of what they're trying to do and deliberately destroy our country.
And so, Like you said, there's multi-facets to the climate agenda and what it's doing to our energy sector.
But now we see what it's doing to the Department of Defense, as opposed to prioritizing what should have been the number one thing going on at the Pentagon, which was this Afghanistan withdrawal, which by mid-August, everyone knew was going horribly.
You had appointees and you had bureaucrats within the Pentagon that were focusing on this climate nonsense.
It just speaks to the broader issue of these guys did not care what happened in Afghanistan.
And of course, you can backtrack and see that the Biden administration came in.
They threw out the plan that the Trump administration had executed despite the best efforts of the Congress to keep our troops in Afghanistan.
They had a solid plan there.
Biden threw it out the window.
And the next thing you know, you have the State Department running the withdrawal While the Pentagon, the Department of Defense is focused on climate change.
So I mean, at this point, it's just like, yeah, of course, because of course they were.
I think the bigger question is, why haven't we impeached the Secretary of Defense?
Why haven't we gone after the top brass?
Why has no one been held accountable?
Why is Joe Biden not impeached right now?
natalie winters
Certainly.
And I think the only question is, were they also hosting a drag queen story hour on any of these bases?
Because that seems to be the other issue that the Pentagon is more concerned with, as opposed to actually defending American lives.
And this brings me to what I think you really hit the nail on the head with, which is it's America laughs.
There's no other way to put it.
I know it sounds a cliche, but when it's so in your face, you got to call it what it is.
And I think there's a really good example of that right now, how Joe Biden wants to link more Ukraine aid, that's correct, even more Ukraine aid, apparently billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars, it's not enough, but to more federal response disaster aid, whether it's Maui, whether it's the wildfires, whether it's the hurricane.
Your thoughts on the proposed and alleged interlinking of aid that is meant to help Americans and aid that is meant to, I would say, help Ukrainians, but it's not even helping Ukrainians.
Money that is, I think, probably more aptly described as helping the defense contractors here in the Beltway.
joe kent
Yeah, you know, regardless of how you feel about the war in Ukraine, I think the war room is probably on the same sheet of music that we should not be continuing to fund this because it's just leading to more death and destruction, escalation towards World War III.
But even if you're on the more hawkish, traditional Republican side of this, You should be very, very offended that the Biden administration would put in the same bill aid to Americans, especially Americans out in Hawaii who are suffering now from a horrible disaster that we still don't have all the information on.
And then this Ukraine aid.
I mean, it's very obvious.
It's right up in your face.
This is the American people being held hostage for this neoliberal, neoconservative ideology that really, at the end of the day, only goes to benefit the defense contractors and to make we, the American people, less safe.
And really, with this bill, they're putting it right up in our face and they're saying that you guys, you American citizens, are not our priority.
We need to fund these wars to line our pockets.
First, we'll get to you guys later on, but I think this is the broader picture, really, when you look at how the military-industrial complex always gets paid first, whether it's foreign aid or whether it's foreign wars, and then the table scraps are left for the American people.
That's just how Washington, D.C.
rolls, so, you know, credit where credit's due.
At least this time, they're being honest.
natalie winters
And Joe, obviously, you're running for Congress out in Washington.
Your opponent is quite radical.
I think she has branded herself as rural Antifa, a little bit paradoxical there.
But say you're in Congress today.
You were talking about impeaching Lloyd Austin, going after people, you know, transparency and accountability, where I think the most commonly cited words in that hearing that they held two days ago on the Hill with the Gold Star families What does accountability look like to you in terms of Afghanistan?
In other words, would you pursue impeachment against the top brass at the Pentagon?
How would you go about actually bringing about accountability, not amnesty or any of these other terms that the establishment likes to play around with?
joe kent
So I personally think that we need to start with with Joe Biden.
There's multiple reasons why we should be impeaching Joe Biden.
The Afghan withdrawal is definitely one of them.
Really, at the end of the day, a commander in chief, he can say, hey, we're going to move our forces out of Afghanistan.
That's within his purview.
And that overall decision, I personally agree with.
However, when he decides that he's going to leave American citizens on the battlefield to fall into the hands of the enemy.
That right there was a deliberate decision.
So impeach Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, all these general officers that have been overseeing these wars for the last 20 years that did nothing but lie.
I mean, look, even the Washington Post uncovered the Afghan papers that, you know, really spoke to how commanders on the ground were lying for multiple years over and over.
Yet none of them have been held accountable.
At the end of the day, all of them have been promoted.
And that's how you get guys like Milley.
That's how you get guys like Austin.
So we need to go after and impeach them, hold them accountable.
I personally think we need an accounting for Afghanistan and really just the whole global war on terror so that we don't have a situation like this again, where Washington, D.C. and the Pentagon gets to take us off to war with no accountability whatsoever, no oversight.
And then at the end of the day, when it all comes imploding, no one gets held accountable.
That's got to end.
We've got to have real accountability.
And I think that starts with the impeachment of Biden, Secretary of Defense.
And then we start going after all these general officers who've gotten promoted for lying to multiple administrations for the last 20 years.
natalie winters
Joe, if people want to stay up to date with you, the campaign, everything, where can they go to find you?
But more importantly, where can they go to support you?
joe kent
Yeah, please go to joekentforcongress.com.
We are in a pretty hot fight out here up against a very radical Democrat, only lost by less than a percentage point last time.
So every single dollar that we get is just another round that we can put downrange to flip this seat.
So please go to joekentforcongress.com.
The War Room Posse has always been great about supporting me.
So really appreciate it, Natalie.
Thank you.
natalie winters
Thank you so much, Joe, for joining us.
We don't need any more rural Antifa leaders in the United States Congress.
Thank you, Joe.
While you talk about the war on terror, you guys know they're already re-upping the war on COVID, or at least using COVID as a pretext to launch a war on your body, a war on the bodies of others.
Shout out to Dr. Wolf.
As you guys know, you can head to warroom.org to read some of my latest stories talking about how the federal government has already started entering contracts Into this year and next year for COVID-19 equipment, for COVID masks, for test kits, for safety protocols, but the real smoking gun on those stories and what should really have you concerned is the fact that they're set to expire not just in the year 2025, that's some of them, but in the year 2028.
That shows you, in my opinion, how they have always been exploiting these so-called public health emergencies To push agendas because they've been planning these agendas for a very, very long time.
Look no further than what Paul Dan said.
People in OPM, whose boss is Donald J. Trump, they wanted to take their marching orders from the World Health Organization.
That's not how we do it in the war room, and that's not how we should be doing it in America.
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And we will be right back after this break.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
natalie winters
It's clear that we're in a spiritual war, not just against the Democrats, but against many establishment Republicans too.
They're not committed to this cause.
I mean, look no further.
You can walk into any store.
I was at a pet store the other day and all I saw, I guess maybe it's because it didn't sell but was, you know, gay flag pride shirts for my dog, which I obviously did not buy.
The only thing I could bring myself to laugh about was that they didn't have any Ukraine flag adorned apparel for my dog.
But it made me think, I was like, why am I even supporting this institution in the first place?
So I think you guys probably know where I'm going with this read.
If you want to shop somewhere where people actually support you, support your values, aren't hoping and cheering that you get arrested for, I don't know, protesting on January 6th the companies that aren't spreading woke trans whatever propaganda to your children as young as like two years old.
Fun fact, the Biden Foundation ran a transgender program celebratory initiative and they took testimonials from across the country of parents with allegedly transgender children.
And one of the quotes was from a kid who was a year and a half and it was the mom going on and on and on about how the Biden Foundation helped.
She helped her realize that her son or daughter or whatever was transgender and wasn't binary and didn't fit on the gender spectrum and those are now the very serious people running our country.
So if you don't want to interface with any of that, which is I think the way to live, make sure you go to publicsq.com to just get away from the crazy, to get away from the degeneracy, to get away from Who knows what it is, but it's evil.
Like I said, we really are in a spiritual war.
But someone who is waging that war quite well is, of course, over at the Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft.
I'm sure much to the dismay of the powers that be, not just in Michigan, but the entire country.
If you want to give us the latest story, I know we always like to use the word bombshell, but I think in this case, with what the whistleblower told you, it really is a bombshell.
So walk us through the latest story that just dropped on Gateway Pundit.
jim hoft
Thanks, Natalie.
Yeah, I want to give credit to Ben Wetmore and Patty McMurray, who helped put this together.
Actually, they did most of the work on this.
And what we have is, as we've reported on the war rooms previously, There was a police report that was written back in October of 2020, and it was about this clerk in Muskegon, Michigan, who received all of these boxes of registrations that apparently were fraudulent.
She contacted the police, they wrote up a report, they raided offices, they did an amazing job.
We had the state police report, but recently we got a copy of the city report from Muskegon.
The city police report included more details.
And then what I'm going to announce now is that we have a whistleblower who came to us after our initial reports.
So thank God that there are some honest and courageous Americans out there I give this person all the credit in the world.
It took a lot of guts for them to contact us.
And what they gave us, Natalie, is just explosive is not the word.
What happened in Michigan, we know that Dana Nessel, the corrupt Attorney General, I would say, she said that we caught the fraud.
She made an announcement after Gateway Pundit's initial reports.
She said, we caught the fraud.
The system works.
Well, that isn't true, and we proved that today.
They didn't catch the fraud.
We caught the fraud.
Gateway Pundit is catching the fraud.
These clerks had a private social media group, and we gained access to this group.
And we have at least a dozen different clerks across the state of Michigan who admit in this group, this social media group, That they also were receiving these packages of suspect registrations from this GBI Strategies, which also goes by the name of Empower Michigan at times, EM they call it.
And for the record, Empower Michigan shares the same address as the Democrat Party of Michigan in Lansing, Michigan.
So, this GBI Strategies was sending these packages to clerks across the state, filled with these suspect registrations.
They were receiving several packages.
We decided at this point, we kept the names of the clerks anonymous, except for one clerk.
It's a former representative, Richard LeBlanc, and he is a clerk in Michigan now, and he says that he received five bundles of these registrations in his mail from GPI strategies.
And so we've contacted his office.
We'd like a response from him, wondering what did he do with those?
Because there's no record that he turned those in or flagged them or sent them back or notified the state.
We don't have any record of that.
So if you look through this report, you'll find that these clerks were talking about receiving
Ballots where one was a deceased dog, you know, so they immediately they were just they're so Absurd these these registrations that of course it raised red flags And you know when you get the name of a dog you get deceased people or somebody who was born in 2020 that was a birthday for one of these people who is supposedly registering to vote It's it's just amazing.
So this is widespread Um, we have several of the screen grabs from the social media group and, um, we, uh, they know now that we're onto them.
We have more reports to come, but this is very explosive.
This wasn't an isolated incident, Natalie.
It was not just one office in Michigan.
This was statewide and it was hidden by attorney general Nestle.
It was hidden by Jocelyn Benson, the secretary of state.
It was hidden by.
The governor there, Gretchen Whitmer, and they must have known that this was widespread.
They contacted the FBI for Muskegon, but they never said anything to people about the rest of these different clerk's offices who are receiving these packages.
Let me add, too, Natalie, the cherry on the top of this ice cream sundae.
In some of these boxes, they were marked There's some deep metaphorical significance to that story.
Jim, can you hang with us through the break?
boxes and they found like face masks and registrations in the same box. It's unbelievable.
natalie winters
There's some deep metaphorical significance to that story.
Jim, can you hang with us through the break? Sure.
We'll be right back because I think I have a very pressing question that I'm sure is on the forefront of all of the War Room Posse's mind.
When it comes to this story, we'll be right back.
Jim Hoft, Mike Davis, Rep Rosendale, and a whole bunch more.
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