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Episode 3744: US Continues To Look Weak On The World Stage At NATO 75
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unidentified
It looks like it's a bit of a windy afternoon going into the evening there in South Florida.
This is Doral.
This is President Trump's golf course there.
He's set to speak at 7 o'clock Eastern Time.
As you can see, there's a crowd already on hand, and I'm sure they're appreciating the wind that's blowing there because temperatures are probably pretty warm and it's probably a muggy afternoon.
Here's the good news.
No rain in the forecast there in Florida, at least not right now.
If you've ever been to Florida, you know typically in the afternoon, It tends to pour there, so hopefully that will not happen.
Let's take you back to Doral right now.
That's where Brian Glenn is hanging out.
I also want to bring in Dave Brat.
He is taking over the War Room for us.
I want to add him to the conversation here as well.
Brian, I want to get back first to these policy agenda items that just kind of passed from the RNC and the Trump campaign.
We said that these are common sense issues, but I think it's so important that with four months left, the campaign really start to roll out what they're going to do.
You can tell people all the time, oh yeah, here are our differences, here are the policy differences, but at this point, people want substance.
They want to know what you're going to do for me.
What have you done for me lately?
No, that's exactly right.
Now, I'll go back.
After the 2020 election, President Trump did 39 rallies after the election and prior to him announcing that he was going to run for president.
And then after that, he did just about double that amount.
You've got 80, 90-so rallies that he has reminded the American people of what he did under his administration.
But now he's kind of transitioned into more of a solution-based approach to these agenda, and I love it.
I think we know exactly his policies work.
But the timing of this, and I'm interested to get Dave Bratz' comments on this as well, the timing of this is perfect.
As we move into this latter months, I mean, these Hard dog days of summer.
We get into September, October.
That's where you're really going to start to, you know, the rubber meets the road on some of these independent voters that want to see solutions.
Not just talking points, but they want to see solutions.
Yeah, let's bring in Dave now.
He is there in the War Room studio.
Dave, let's talk about some of the highlights of these agenda items for you.
What do you think is most significant in all of these points?
And it's about 15 or 16 points that have been laid out.
dave brat
Yeah, for me, it's always been the big three.
Terrence, great last segment.
Brian, great job working the crowd.
I remember seeing you at CPAC all the time and interacting.
I always enjoyed it.
But the war room, whenever I interview candidates who say, I want to run for Congress or Senate, it's always the big three, because the big three are the checkpoints that will make America first, right?
And so first of all, it's the border invasion.
And it's the border invasion versus cheap labor, right?
So when you say, what's in it for me, what's in it for you is you get a job, right?
All the latest job reports for the whole last year, all the jobs were part-time.
All the jobs were part-time.
No full-time jobs.
They're negative.
And then all the jobs were government, right?
And so what's in it for you?
Jobs, real paying jobs.
That's a big deal.
So the border invasion, you can turn it around.
That one with an executive order, it started in one hour.
You can end it in one hour.
And then second, the runaway spending, the $2 trillion deficits.
That's why the stock market's going up right now.
It's all artificial high.
And that is funding the administrative state and the deep state.
So to realign America First priorities, you've got to bring down the government spending.
Our government sector, by the way, is bigger than China's.
U.S. government to GDP is 18 percent.
China's government as a ratio to their entire economy is only
USA, 18%.
We have a bigger government both in real size and in percentage size.
And so China is managing to run a totalitarian surveillance dictatorship state with 14%.
So imagine what we're going to do if we let the government run away as well.
And then the final is tied to all that.
It's the endless wars.
Under President Trump, we had peace and prosperity.
There's been a few pieces lately on leadership by the billionaire class, saying we need leaders.
I mean, I don't know what they're thinking.
There's no one who could withstand the blistering attack of the New York Times, Washington Post.
First day he was in office, the Washington Post tried to take him down.
Russiagate, China, Xi Jinping, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate, Russiagate, etc.
And so those three, right, the endless wars, now we have four hot wars, 14 hot spots around the country.
And so those are the big three.
I look for straight answers from candidates around the country.
I think the American people are learning to really listen.
unidentified
Dave, I'd love you to weigh in on this, because I think you've laid out the substance of these policy agenda items, but it seems to me, from a practical standpoint, these items help to unify the party.
Helps to get everybody on the same page, so we're all marching in the same direction.
dave brat
Well, that is true.
Theoretically, I was in Congress, and so you would hope that would be the case, because this is what the American people want.
It's what President Trump wants.
He laid down the gauntlet last time on most of those issues, but he found a very reluctant Congress and Senate And I don't need to go into some of the facts.
You know, politics is just always my own.
But one of our last speakers had the Steele dossier in 2016 and failed to let us know that.
They're running against President Trump.
I'm optimistic that the people, right, the war room posse that we're so proud of has put the pressure on their representatives, that they better be listening up this time.
No more $7 trillion budgets that operationalize woke schools and woke national defense.
And there's a lot we're offering to the American people.
It's a bank shot on some of them, right?
But they'll see it.
When you quit spending money on the government and you put it back into American manufacturing jobs, our Midwest cities and suburbs are going to feel immediate effects.
Uh, once we get our priorities straight.
unidentified
Brian, I'd like you to weigh in here.
Uh, Dave, not so optimistic as me, I guess, in terms of this roadmap and the fact that, uh, RINOs or other Republicans on Capitol Hill would in fact follow it.
Uh, do you expect there'd be a lot of people who want to veer off left or right from these policy agenda items?
Of course.
Dave is correct on all of this.
He is correct.
And when you have people in leadership that are not doing what their constituents want and are breaking their own house rules and, you know, it starts, look, it starts at leadership.
And none of us are going to defend Kevin McCarthy and we sure as heck shouldn't defend Mike Johnson as well.
But Dave Brat hit it.
We have got to rattle the cage.
brian glenn
The War Room Posse, Real America Voice viewers need to call their representative and say, We are not going to do another Nancy Pelosi kick the can down the road and just keep building the government bigger and bigger and going into these massive deficits that I quite honestly, and Dave Brat knows more about this than anybody, I'm not sure how we ever get these things down under control.
unidentified
But it's going to take some hard decisions, and Dave can agree with me on this, it's going to take multiple election cycles to make that happen.
Dave, go on and respond to that.
dave brat
Yeah, no, that's right, Brian.
We need to be honest with the American people.
Go Google the Chicago school system for an example of a decades-in-the-making project.
12% of the poor kids in Chicago can read at the third grade level.
12% can read at grade level.
Right?
That's the only hope they have of success.
Going on to the rest of the grades, getting a job, having a good family life.
12% of the poor kids in Chicago are reading at grade level.
So that's what we mean when we say we have a decades-long project to make America great again.
That's what we're talking about.
And then the budget deficits and all that's just as bad.
But that, you know, if your heart goes out to the kids, The liberals used to care about the kids and now the Marxists
don't.
And so we need to bring the old liberals over to this populist movement that cares about
all Americans.
unidentified
And to your point, this is a...
Okay, go ahead, Brian.
I'm sorry.
Hang on just one quick.
That was after the teacher union said, look, if we get a pay raise, these kids are going to get a better education.
We're going to have a better graduation rate.
And we saw that you just can't dump money on something and expect a better outcome.
So yeah, I just wanted to throw that in there.
That's after they said, hey, if you pay us more money, we'll get better rates.
And that's been a tradition in Chicago.
I'm from Chicago.
Teachers are always striking.
It seems like it's almost an annual thing, and unfortunately not much has gotten better.
Dave, we're going to hand this over to you here in just a minute, but I'd love to get your thoughts.
Right.
Because you said something that I think is very important.
This isn't just a four-year process.
This is something that's going to take decades.
And President Trump at this point only has four years, so who's going to be next?
Because somebody's got to pick up this mantle and continue to run with it.
dave brat
Yeah, well, you know, I think it is important that, you know, the president picks a VP who's America first, right?
We've seen in the past when the leadership can't even make promises up front, you see what you get in terms of budgets and all that kind of thing later on, right?
Even a lot of the Republican conference, they run on Republican creed, say I'm for fiscal restraints and constitutional adherence and whatever, and they end up spying on the American people.
And so he needs to make some appointments right now that position people to take over after four that will keep this America First agenda going because it is a decades-long program.
And the global elites And there are so many, you can't count them.
But this, you know, NATO meetings right now are a perfect case in point with the defense establishment spending $700 million on new missiles for over there, not for over here.
Endless wars.
We're propping up the defense establishment instead of returning that money to the schools.
And everything I said about Chicago is true for all the major cities.
And so this country needs to develop a real economy, putting Americans back to work, educating Americans.
It takes a long time.
No one's going to like to hear that eat your spinach sermon.
But he better pick someone who is good at giving a sermon.
unidentified
Well, it's a truth dose right there.
Again, folks, we're going to get you back to Doral as we wait for President Trump to speak.
He's going to speak about 7 o'clock Eastern time.
But now, Dave, you get the honors of doing War Room, sir.
Enjoy.
dave brat
All right, Terrence.
Great show.
Thank you, Terrence.
Thank you, Brian.
Great job.
All right, Dave Brat sitting in for the one and only Stephen K. Bannon.
We always pay special tribute and respect to Steve.
We open every show in the D.C.
His chair always has the sign of the cross behind him.
So we open every show until Steve returns in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
What you just heard on the prior show was a truth bombs, you know, across the board.
And that's what's so great about this America First project.
We're not scared of the truth.
The truth sets you free in the end.
And it may not be easy in the short run, like we just discussed, right?
The school tragedies and the kids in the K-12 system are just trapped.
Endless wars.
Debt deficits.
These are big Herculean lifts we have ahead of us.
But I want to welcome to the show, right off the bat, Darren Beattie is with us.
And I wanted Darren to kind of tee off on some of the—there's so much politics to keep up with right now.
But, you know, the Democrat presidential race, many people watching may not be aware of all the historic tensions between the Clintons and the Obamas and the Bidens and Jill Biden and the Hunter laptop.
There's so many angles there.
Darren, what's your best reporting been on all of that side of the aisle, for starters?
darren j beattie
Well, you know, the Democrat Party, sometimes it can seem it, but it's not actually monolithic.
And just like the deep state itself, there are many sub factions within the Democrat Party, within the various Democrat patronage families.
It's like even the mafia famously had five families, right?
So Trump, thankfully, knocked out two of the most famous political mafia families, namely the Clintons.
And the Bushes, but still there's a looming presence.
And in particular, in the Democrat Party, there's been a lot of pressure, of course, for Biden to step aside.
Now, I've been very public for quite a while now in saying that Biden is going to resist as vigorously and probably won't end up stepping aside unless there's some kind of catastrophic Medical issue that forces him to but he's not going to listen to pressure.
He's not going to listen to I don't know if you could call it reason because there is frankly a very good case to be made that the Democrats are worse off.
Replacing him at this late hour than they would be trying their chances with this sort of weekend at Bernie's approach, just keeping him out of the limelight as much as possible and dragging him over the finish line if they can do it.
So I actually think if I were the Democrats, I would want to keep Biden in simply because as bad as Biden looks against Trump, they're in an even worse position.
To have to replace him at this late hour and all of the chaos that that would engender.
dave brat
Yeah, I've agreed with your analysis there, and it's interesting.
This morning, I think, James Carville came out with a piece, and he wants to have a no-holes-barred, eight-Democratic candidate open house forum debate on the most serious issues of our day.
And I think the strategy there is to bypass the vice president, Kamala Harris.
And so he says, you know, thesis statement, Biden cannot win.
And so right now, if you share that idea that Biden can't win, do you think there is a possibility they open up the convention for this type of national debate?
darren j beattie
Well, I think they're probably right that Biden can't win, but I still think Biden has the best chance of winning relative to, again, This late hour replacement in Carville seems to be in fantasy land, especially if he thinks they're going to replace Biden by someone who isn't Kamala.
You know, Kamala is famously detested by just about everyone within the Democrat Party.
But recently, I think you noticed and everyone noticed there was a big push.
Kamala was flexing and you had major African-American leaders come out and say, look, If there are any would-be puppeteers who are thinking of a situation in which we replace Biden by someone who isn't Kamala, you better think again.
Kamala is the heir apparent and she's next in line.
Now, there may have been a variety of motivations for that.
Maybe Kamala actually thought she was making a move.
But in effect, what she was doing is reinforcing her position as Joe Biden's insurance policy.
Because she's saying, I'm not going to go quietly.
And therefore people can say, Oh my God, if we want to get rid of Joe, we're going to have to deal with Kamala.
It's going to be even more of a nightmare on top of all the other problems attendant to this late hour, chaotic replacement fantasy.
So they're just damned if they do damned if they don't.
And I think they won't do it.
They'll go for the path of least resistance and hope that Biden can make it.
And by make it, I mean that in the literal sense, make it without any kind of catastrophic medical failure.
And still, you know, they have structural aspects working in their favor.
The media will, you know, even though it's pushing against Biden now, the media will ultimately favor whoever the Democrat is, likely Biden.
They have all kinds of shenanigans going on, you know, relevant to these The border, people coming in through the border and various ways that they can rig the election through that.
But they're in a tough spot because, you know, I think 2020 was a high watermark for election rigging.
They're not going to have the mass mail-in ballots.
They don't have COVID like they did in 2020.
They don't have censorship like they did in 2020.
All of the files came out, the Twitter files and so forth.
Twitter is now under new management.
So yes, there will be censorship, but 2020 was a high watermark.
So in terms of censorship, in terms of election rigging, 2020 was the high watermark.
And now they're stuck with a guy who is clearly mentally disabled, clearly not functional, but they're stuck in a position where they can't really get rid of him.
So they're in a very, very bad bind here.
They're in a very unenviable position and everybody knows it.
dave brat
Yep, spot on.
Let me, Darren, you're kind of the cream of the crop when it comes to the three-letter agencies and the globalist forces, the elitist forces.
It's hard to track down exactly what that means.
There's a lot of complexity there, right?
I mean, you've got Soros, you've got Davos, you've got the defense establishment, you've got China and all those minions and funding.
You've got the CIA, the FBI, the State Department.
And give us your best sense of, this is not gonna be a clean transition, right?
No one's gonna lay down all of these powerful billionaire forces, right?
So who's a proxy for what?
When it comes to these globalists, the Clinton administration, who are they with?
The Obamas, who are they with?
Biden, who wants to see him continue in power, maybe because they're getting their way with him.
And so that's a big, huge question, but you've been on this from the beginning and the posse is fascinated with these globalist, elitist forces that haven't been perfectly specified yet.
darren j beattie
Well, that's a much larger conversation, the various factions of the regime and of the deep state.
As per Biden, I think it's a more simple answer to say that the people invested in Biden's continued presence in the White House are the people who directly benefit from that.
And that's famously Jill Biden and his immediate family, but it extends outward to Biden's inner circle and even a lot of people like at the periphery, not even an inner circle, maybe the middle circle.
And that's, I think something that was overlooked in a lot of the early enthusiasm for this idea that the Democrats, the amorphous, ambiguous, they quote unquote would get rid of them.
Well, who are the they?
Once you look at who the people actually are, The people, for instance, in the DNC who would have to vote to change the rules to get rid of them, they're stacked with Biden loyalists.
And so one thing that's pretty reliable in politics is people don't want anything to happen that reduces their power, their access, and their influence.
And so notwithstanding all of the pretty talk about what's good for the country, which is probably the last thing on the agenda, certainly for any of these Democrats, You can't expect these people within Biden's inner circle to act against their own interests and push him out and then go out the door with him.
It's just that doesn't work that way.
So there's not an incentive alignment.
And then you have people, I think, who are more shrewd within the Democrat Party who realize as bad as it is and as bad as it looks to have Biden in there, It's going to be even worse to have this last-minute chaotic thing where they can't even agree on somebody.
They get rid of him, either replace him by Kamala, who everyone hates and who's even less popular than a brain-dead Biden, or overstep Kamala and rattle the hornet's nest even more of the base and maybe aggrieved minorities who think they're getting the short shrift.
So again, it's a really bad position.
They could have avoided this had they only had this conversation a year ago.
And ironically, as I've stated, it was the media that was majorly complicit in gaslighting their own people, gaslighting their own Democrats by rejecting any reports about Biden's ill health, ill mental health and condition as conspiracy theory.
But if they had Embrace this conspiracy theory, which turned out to be fact, like many conspiracy theories.
They could have actually salvaged 2024 for themselves.
They didn't.
And so there's this delicious irony of, for once, the mainstream media and its lies, they end up shooting themselves in the foot and probably losing the 2024 election over it.
So we can actually thank the media for losing the 2024 election for the Democrats.
dave brat
Right.
Excellent, Darren.
Great analysis, as always.
I'll get you back on tomorrow, maybe go a little more in-depth on the transition from the globalist forces under Clinton, and then to Obama, and then under Biden, and then Israel.
I wanted to get one last in there.
But how do people get you?
We're going to go to Jane Zirkle and the Trump rally up there at Doral.
So give us your coordinates.
darren j beattie
Coordinates, as always, revolver.news for the hottest and the latest cutting-edge analysis news reporting on everything.
I'm on Twitter, also known as X, at Darren J. Beattie.
D-A-R-R-E-N-J-B-E-A-T-T-I-E.
dave brat
Great.
Thank you very much, Darren.
Thank you for being with us on The War Room.
All right, folks, we're going to be going to Doral after the break, but we just got put on hold for a minute.
They're praying at Doral, so we're there in spirit with them right now in the war room.
Today, some economic pieces out.
Go out to the Hill.
There's some good analysis of the cracks in the banking system.
Over 2,600 banks in stress test problems.
Three or four hundred in serious shape.
Goldman Sachs fails a stress test out in the headlines today.
That's fascinating piece of news.
And so the markets are going straight up.
I'll get back into that a little bit later in the show.
But a lot of that's due to the Federal Reserve printing of money and the two trillion dollar deficits.
And so we should expect the economy to be moving.
But the only thing that's moving is government spending.
In the economy.
That's not the real economy.
So, back in the war room, right after the break, and up to Doral.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.
All right.
dave brat
Back in the War Room with Stephen K. Band and Dave Brat.
We're bringing in James Zirkle from Doral in a minute.
I think they're still going through the prayer and the national anthem.
And so we're with them in spirit.
In the meantime, I'm going to pull in our China expert, Bradley Thayer.
But he's also an expert on all things international, and right now the NATO meetings are going on.
There's so many ways of attacking that issue, right?
I saw today headlines on 700 million in Stinger missiles the US is paying for.
I saw the spokesman for the Biden administration saying that Thanks to the Biden administration, Europe is finally paying their dues.
It seems like that pressure was put on prior to me.
There's the defense establishment.
A lot of folks are making, in my mind, morally grotesque arguments.
About this war, that it's good for the economy, that's a reason to go to war, and then even worse than that, well, don't worry, you know, your U.S.
kids aren't dying, right?
They're dying for us.
Ukrainian kids are dying.
So don't worry about it.
And so I wanted to cover that, you know, broad swath of issues.
No one better than Bradley Thayer.
Bradley, welcome to the War Room as usual.
And why don't you guide us in a little conversation.
We'll go back and forth.
bradley thayer
Sure, Dave, it's great to join you again.
I think the NATO Summit's important for US domestic reasons, but then also for international reasons, and then also where the domestic and the international come together.
First, the domestic.
It's always a high wire act whenever Biden is out in public, and clearly many Democrats have said his performance at the NATO summit is going to inform, again, the debates that they're having within the party about replacing him or not.
It's not a good position for the U.S.
to be in at a NATO summit, obviously.
It's a major national security concern, as we stressed, Secondly, there's the international component to this, and that is where NATO is doing what it can do, again, to creep up and to push escalation of this war between Russia and Ukraine.
And so NATO is announcing in the summit the next three days, today, Wednesday, and Thursday, measures that it's taking To facilitate, to have an office in Kiev, to create a new command based in Germany, to facilitate training and to facilitate arms transfers.
There's going to be a logistical hub also created.
There's financial support as well that NATO is advancing.
So there's a package really of events that they're advancing forward.
But the key international issue is going to be what do they tell Zelensky about membership
and can they basically placate him so he doesn't repeat what he did at the last summit, Vilnius
summit in 2013, where he roundly criticized NATO for not giving him a path to membership.
So the debate within NATO is about whether you give, what type of commitments you give
to Ukraine.
Do you give him a path to membership?
Or do you give them something short of that?
And is he going to go along with it?
And then finally, there's where the domestic international meet.
dave brat
Hey Bradley, let me hold you up.
Hold that .3 for me for a second.
We're going to Mike Lindell out at the Trump rally at Doral.
He just got up on the stage and so we're passing the feed over to the Trump rally at Doral with Mike Lindell back with Bradley Thayer.
mike lindell
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And we have a whole plan laid out for you there.
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We all need to do this.
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And now I want to say this is, so I am very encouraged what's going to happen.
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but we've just got to swamp the vote.
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platforms.
But I want to say this before I go.
You guys, all the things that have been going on in our country that you look around that
are bad with the open borders and the fentanyl pouring in and people dying and the economy
the worst it's ever been and these things happening.
What they've done is they've drove people to this bucket of common sense, which is our
great real president's bucket.
And once you're in that bucket, you don't leave.
The other thing, the other bucket that's going on is people don't reach out to God.
When I say God's given us grace for such a time as this, when things are going good, they don't reach out to God.
But when things are going bad, like things are going now, people are coming more and more to the Lord every day.
And we're in the greatest revival for Jesus Christ in history.
God bless you all. Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you.
dave brat
Okay, good.
unidentified
Let's go.
dave brat
All right, way to go, Mike Lindell, always crowd favorite at the Trump rally in Doral, the Doral Golf Club in Florida.
And so we're jumping back to Bradley Thayer we have with us on The War Room.
He just covered a couple points related to NATO.
And one of the main points, he made the obvious one in point two there on the international pieces, NATO was set up after World War II to keep the peace so Germany could never happen again.
Right?
And Bradley Thayer just, you know, kind of alluded to the point that now NATO is being used to go to war.
And so how did this transition come about, Bradley?
This is just returning to point two, and then I know you wanted to go off to a third as well.
unidentified
Sure.
bradley thayer
Well, Lord Ismay said at the creation of NATO that its job was to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.
That was the three objectives during the Cold War.
And today, that mission certainly has changed.
And there's clearly impetus not just to keep the United States in, but to continue to push the expansion of that alliance in a way which is now, of course, with membership in Ukraine, which was the causes, really, Putin's major concern for attacking Ukraine in the first place.
Is escalatory and very dangerous, Dave.
So when the domestic and the international come together, which is what we're seeing now at the NATO summit, we're seeing Biden administration pushing escalation.
They want to keep expanding that conflict, US involvement and NATO's involvement in that conflict, of course, which is very dangerous.
And there's some concern too of an October surprise, Dave, that There are going to be a lot of events between now and November 5th.
And some of those events are going to be probably in Ukraine.
And there's a great concern that there might be a clash or some event which greatly causes an escalation of that conflict, sucking the United States in, not in the gradual steps that we're seeing now, right, where every day the Biden administration is taking a half step or a full step towards involvement in that war, but taking a leap Uh, into conflict.
So that's very dangerous.
And, of course, the audience has got to watch out for that concern.
And then, additionally, there's the concern, really, about what our ambitions are.
What's the intent of NATO, Dave, which is what you were getting at?
And Russia is not the Soviet Union, and it's far easier to deal with than the threat that we dealt with during the Cold War.
And we need to obviously keep an eye on, really, the dangerous aspects of this conflict.
Escalation can occur not just intentionally, what the Biden administration is doing, but it can also occur inadvertently.
That is where neither side wanted it to, but nonetheless it results.
So it's a really dangerous component here when you're dealing with nuclear states.
The United States is flirting with conflict with Russia, right?
A formidable nuclear power And a formidable nuclear power also aligned increasingly with the People's Republic of China under the dictator Xi Jinping, who was quite happy to see the United States and Russia going at it.
Well, he has a free hand to do what he wants, both domestically against Taiwan, against the Philippines and other countries.
So this summit is, in many respects, really archetypical of the problems that we're facing in the Biden administration and the considerable dangers that we face of an escalation of this conflict between now and Election Day.
dave brat
Yeah, yeah.
Very good, Bradley.
Thank you much.
And let's just continue one of the strands you just developed there a little bit.
We just had Darren Beatty on and he said this time, you know, there's no COVID.
There's not as much of a censorship regime in place with the big tech, folks.
That's to be determined, however.
But you talked about an escalatory event that's intentional right now to some extent, not all the way up the chain.
But a lot of the war room, you know, thinks there's many of these escalatory events that are being at least positioned, right?
They're in the war room posse mind and in mind.
That this border invasion is intentional.
It clearly can be ended with a stroke of a pen, and it is setting up a potential, you know, 9-11-type catastrophe by terrorists coming into our country.
The FBI says we have red lights going off all over the place.
And then this war we have going on in Ukraine is also providing another avenue for an escalatory event.
I've got a lot of conspiracy-minded friends.
I like the receipts, like on The War Room.
We bring the receipts.
But the one humorous part about this conspiracy stuff is I don't think anyone could have made up this current White House race on the Democrat side.
It is so chaotic.
And so out of control.
I don't know one could have managed such a catastrophe.
And so with that, it's kind of a predicate that's given.
unidentified
Right.
dave brat
So we've got massive chaos, but out of chaos and in desperation.
Right.
If the poll numbers are down five or 10 percent in closing.
Yes.
What have you heard?
Is there any Chinese intelligence, Russian intelligence, CIA scoops you've heard that lead to that kind of a story?
bradley thayer
Dave, you're right to think through that there are many avenues, really, that might lead us to an October surprise, of course.
Going back, of course, to Reagan's concern in the 1980 campaign that Carter would free the hostage release would occur, the Iranian hostages.
So, whether that's in Ukraine, or whether that's a terrorist attack like 9-11, Dave, I think that's certainly a possibility.
The Middle East opens another avenue for something.
dave brat
Yeah, Bradley, let me hold you right there on the Middle East piece, because I want you to go there and have plenty of time to do it.
We've got about 30 seconds to the break, and so give us your coordinates and your latest book, and then we're going out in 30 seconds.
bradley thayer
Sure, I'm available at BradTheronX or BradleyTheron at Getter and Truth.
My book with Jim Finnell is Embracing Communist China, America's Greatest Strategic Failure, which really explains how the United States got into the situation it is, facilitating and supporting the rise of communist China.
and why that was the greatest strategic mistake of course that we've made.
dave brat
And so much of what we're doing. Back with Bradley Thayer in two seconds at the War Room.
unidentified
Here's your host Stephen K. Bannon.
dave brat
Dave Brat sitting in the War Room, Stephen K. Bannon and our good friend Bradley Thayer who's
our in-house China expert but also covers global relations today.
He's helping us out with our analysis of just the spectrum of issues related to the NATO meetings that are happening now, right?
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 32 countries all meeting right now, debating
who's going to join.
Some of that's in place.
So we've been covering some of the scenarios related to war in Ukraine.
And Bradley just started pivoting toward the Middle East, and we had to hit a hard break.
But, Bradley, you're back.
And so, pivot toward the Middle East, and thanks for being with us.
bradley thayer
Sure, Dave.
Always a pleasure to join you.
As Colonel John Mills illuminated last week, there are a lot of potential conflicts in
the Middle East with the conflict between Israel and Hamas, but also Iran and Iran's
proxies Hezbollah and then, of course, the Houthis.
So there could be certainly trouble there.
And then China as well.
If we turn to the Indo-Pacific, then aggression from communist China against the Philippines,
Taiwan or other assets.
I think, Dave, the logic of any type of major escalatory event between now and the election
compels us to think that Ukraine is going to be the center of that.
And that is because the Biden administration has been driving this.
That they have been supporting Ukraine and supporting escalation of that conflict with Russia.
Again, through half steps or full steps or potentially now in the future, an escalatory jump.
And then also because the focus of that administration is on Russia and really ensuring that Russia becomes a theme of the campaign and is interwoven with American domestic politics, going back to the tropes and the lies that you know very well, Dave, and so does the audience, in terms of Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin.
So, I think we should look there very closely and be greatly concerned between events now and the November 5th.
So, the NATO summit now, today and the next few days in Washington, D.C., might be really the takeoff for an event that comes to pass between now and November 5th involving a clash between NATO aligned with Ukraine against Russia.
Very dangerous situation.
dave brat
Yeah, well, and let's go back and review that.
There's a couple of data points that come to mind, right?
The left is claiming, right, the open society folks that don't like religious people whatsoever, right?
So they're open to everything except to Russian culture, China culture, India culture, Christians, Judaism, et cetera, right?
And so the open society folks are saying we're fighting for democracy.
That's obviously not what they mean, and there's a couple of data points.
The U.S.
did a coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014, and so our hands are not clean.
But then, secondly, and more important, just in the current almost news cycle, a couple of years ago, in 2022, Russia put a peace deal, a real peace deal, on the table from everything I've been able to discern, and we said no to it.
Is that true?
Because that That right there will tell you who really wants to end the war and who doesn't.
bradley thayer
That's right, Dave.
And there have been other trial balloons.
There have been other peace proposals that have been advanced by the Turks.
Even Xi Jinping has suggested that there be peace talks.
So, it's quite clear that people are shooting those down, right?
They want this war of attrition to continue.
And for Russia and Ukraine to continue grinding away Like World War I on the Western Front, consuming the resources of all of them in an effort to bleed Russia dry.
The irony of course is that a lot of military reports are coming out that the Russian military is learning a lot from this conflict and becoming more formidable.
Actually, as a result of its experience in this conflict and as a result of the lessons they've learned and the intelligence they've gathered on Western systems, for example.
dave brat
Yeah, exactly.
And I want to probe your mind on a word you just used called resources.
So, you know, This media narrative, you know, we're trying to weaken Russia and, you know, we hope they fall or something like that.
I just don't buy it.
I think there's way more to it.
That's a nice byproduct if the U.S.
gets that, the warmongers get that.
But there's also actually literal resources in the ground in Ukraine.
And Ukraine is also a huge geopolitical source, you know, down to the seas and etc., for the future.
And so, these globalist elitist forces that we always talk about on The War Room, and I just talked about them with Darren, there's so many, and they haven't been well specified yet.
There's China, right?
There's the defense establishment, going back to Eisenhower and the entrenched corporate forces that are over a trillion dollars, right, in the U.S., just in the U.S.
budget, not to mention everyone we sell to.
And then there's the three-letter agencies, the CIA, the State Department, the FBI, all
grouped into these globalist forces.
What other factors, how can you help us think about these other forces?
And it looks to me like Ukraine has become a piggy bank, number one, to launder a lot
And then secondly, there's a lot of real natural resources in the ground in Ukraine.
And so it's not just this idea that it's Russia and we're trying to degrade them.
That's certainly true.
What you said is true.
But I think there's way more beyond what we're allowed to see.
bradley thayer
Without question, that's the case. Steve always said that, of course, and continues to stress
that there's a lot of evil going on in Ukraine and a lot of activities going on there that
will be revealed at some point.
I would add to that, Dave, additionally, that the reconstruction of Ukraine is also going to be lucrative for a lot of individuals.
dave brat
Yes, yes.
bradley thayer
That is when the war finally, if there's an armistice or if there's a peace, The war is going to end, and Ukraine is going to be rebuilt, and I think a lot of folks in Washington, D.C.
are going to profit handsomely from that as Ukrainian society is going to be rebuilt.
I would add one point additionally, Dave, and that is the NATO summit is touting the importance of Article 5, which is that an attack on any member of the alliance is an attack on all of them.
It weakens Article 5 by stretching and by having this quasi-relationship with Ukraine, a non-NATO member, right, where Article 5 does not apply, and yet the Biden administration is touting, well, in essence, it might apply, right?
It might be.
It's a kind of a quasi-puppet of NATO, if you will.
That weakens Article 5.
Article 5 is either on or off.
It is not something which is negotiable.
And that's been the great strength of the NATO alliance from its inception in 1949 until today.
What Biden is doing in Ukraine is actually weakening that.
And coupled with that, the increased conventional spending of NATO members, which the Biden administration is saying, well, they did that.
In reality, of course, it's the possibility of Trump's return.
Which is energizing NATO members to spend the NATO standard of at least 2% of gross domestic product on defense spending.
If not more, some states do more, most actually, NATO members do a lot less.
So, Ukraine is hurting the alliance, the Article 5 commitment, it's helping the Russian military improve itself, and we're flirting With a conflict which could escalate to the nuclear level, which serves no one's end.
dave brat
Yeah, thank you.
Bradley Thayer, thanks for hitting all the main points.
You just triggered my memory on several points.
Reconstruction, right?
You hit that point.
The reconstruction costs are going to be in the billions and tens of billions.
And the great thing about the war room posse and the real threat to the American and globalist left is that this show has a memory.
And this is something new in American politics in the last 10 or 20 years.
We have a memory.
We will see who gets those contracts.
And just as a little teaser in advance for some of these guys, the Magnificent Seven are all monopolies.
Right.
A lot of them have made money off of China.
A lot of them have federal government contracts.
A lot of them are just pure monopolies on their own.
It's very hard to enter.
And even worse than those seven monopolies, you have the three index funds.
Right.
And BlackRock is one of the names that's being touted as being in the construction phase of Ukraine, along with Vanguard and State Street and etc.
So these guys are not just simple little index funds.
Right.
These guys actually proxy vote for the big seven and way more.
They're worth tens of trillions of dollars in control on the market.
They're way bigger than other nation states.
So we will see if these are the folks that come into the reconstruction bids.
I have the feeling the War Room Posse is going to jog our memories, Bradley.
And so, thanks for being with us on the War Room.
We're going to pivot over to the Trump rally at Doral right now.
But the War Room Posse, remember these data points.
Write these down.
As to what you just heard on this show from Bradley Thayer and then the huge reconstruction.
I shouldn't, you know, I shouldn't make light of it because this is so serious and so many Ukrainian boys and girls have died.
For this grotesque profiteering over war.
It always happens in war.
That's why we should always strive for peace, unless it's to defend the weak or self-defense, etc.
But right now, we're being led down the primrose path, as Stephen K. Bannon would say.
Let's pivot over to Jane for a minute for a highlight, and then we'll get back to Jane for the next entire block.
Jane, what do you got for us over there in one minute?
unidentified
The American spirit is alive and well here in Doral.
Florida has showed up for President Trump despite the nearly 100 degree heat.
He has a massive village of people.
I mean, Doral has absolutely turned into MAGA country.
I mean, look at this amazing scene of patriotism.
And let me tell you, such an exciting night coming on the heels of the RNC platform committee.
Officially adopting President Trump's MAGA agenda as the Republican Party platform for 2024.
That features 20 promises to the American people which focus largely on the economy and closing the border, undoing Joe Biden's destruction.
And that is a major issue for the patriots here.
The economy, immigration, that's the focus of the voters on the ground here and they are so excited that that is the agenda.
President Trump has the Republican movement.
United behind him.
Listen to this!
Chanting USA, USA!
dave brat
Jane Zirkle back after the break with Jane Zirkle.
You can feel the energy.
That's why it's so great to have theorists on the show, but then we're a populist audience and we love showcasing the people.
unidentified
War Room.
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
Back in the War Room with Stephen K. Bannon.
dave brat
Kay Bannon.
Special day today.
We get to go show you the highlights from the Trump rally up in Doral with our fearless leader on the ground, the populist leader.
It's great having, you know, the theorists, the Stephen K. Bannon friends sat with the big brains who help us see, you know, a few years ahead of time, like Steve so famously has done for year after year after year.
And then we couple it with hearing from the crowd.
Let's hear it from the populace.
And Steve has always known what's near and dear to the American people's hearts.
And so, I think the Trump agenda just went through the RNC platform committee.
All political views are just my own.
But it's the big three from the war room, as always, right?
It's the inflation, the border invasion and the endless wars.
And so, Jane Zirkle's on the ground.
I think she's going to ask a few folks which of these are priority number one in their lives and what they want to see the country do in the years to come.
Jane, take us to the crowd and let us know what's on their hearts and minds.
unidentified
Yeah, so I have spent the day talking to the War Room Posse, and I just want to share with you some stats.
Since Joe Biden has taken office, prices in Florida have risen by over 21%, the cost to buy a home nearly doubling, and Joe Biden has cost the average Floridian household nearly $29,000 extra per year.
Now, I want to talk to some of the War Room Posse and tell them why they support President Trump.
Hey, can you tell me why you support President Trump?
Because we need to make America great again, and we need to stop the migrants, the fentanyl, the drugs, the gender stuff in school.
It's so much we need to stop.
We need to close the border, close the floodgates.
Hey guys, can you please tell me your names and what brings you here today?
Oh, I see we have a volunteer.
Your name and what brings you here today?
Alan Gonzalez and Freedom.
Freedom, what's your favorite Trump policy?
What's your favorite Trump policy?
Come on!
Building the wall!
Do we need to build a wall?
Oh yeah.
Your name and what brings you here today?
My name is Adonis.
I'm here to watch the true leader of the United States of America bless us all and just give us his force, his leadership.
And the reason why I'm here is because nine years ago I came from Cuba and I know what it's like to live under tyranny.
And just being here is a commitment from myself and from my family to be with the American people and to vote for freedom and to vote for this country.
Yeah, hey folks, I think we just had a little technical glitch.
dave brat
They'll get back in my ear in a little bit.
In the meantime, why don't we go to one of our friends, Catherine O'Neill.
Catherine, are you on standby there?
And what are you up to?
Hey, there she is.
catharine oneill gillihan
How are you, Dave?
dave brat
Hey, I'm doing great.
How are you doing?
Where do you live?
Where do you do all this beef and tell us what kind of deals and what's so special about your business now?
catharine oneill gillihan
Absolutely, Dave.
Thanks so much for having me on.
I'm out here and in Wheatland, Wyoming, which is just an hour north of Cheyenne, which is the capital of Wyoming.
And we have a vertically integrated cattle company offering the War Room Posse, the best beef on the market, the cleanest beef.
As you may know, Dave, all of our beef is hormone and vaccine and antibiotic-free, which is different than you can find in the grocery stores.
We also dry age our products 14 days at a minimum, so you're getting really high-quality, tender flavor.
And what we're doing today, Dave, is we're really encouraging the posse to subscribe to our products, to do a monthly subscription.
You'll get 15% off each month.
And it's really important that the posse gets a spot because we're expanding rapidly and we're diving into new markets.
But we want to make sure that the War Room Posse locks in their supply now because, you know, people just really want to buy our stuff.
So we want to make sure that they're taken care of.
dave brat
Catherine, what did you do before you were in the cattle and beef business?
catharine oneill gillihan
Yeah, absolutely.
I actually worked for President Donald Trump for five years.
I was a young college grad joining his campaign in 2016, taking a leap of faith.
I worked on the transition team under Mike Flynn, actually.
I sat right next to him as a young kid not knowing what I was getting myself into.
I served at the State Department for three years, went back on the 2020 campaign,
and then went back into the administration for the final months.
And I did not abandon Trump like many did after January 6th.
I stood with him until the final day of the administration, and I was proud to do that.
dave brat
That's what I wanted to do.
I thought I heard that about you, and I was like, wow, that's an impressive person.
And so, Catherine O'Neill, everybody check out The Beep.
I love the age stuff myself.
I'm going to subscribe and try it out.
And so, Catherine, thanks so much for being on The War Room.
Your smile is contagious.
Keep it up.
catharine oneill gillihan
Thank you.
dave brat
You bet, you bet.
All right, we're back on the War Room.
Do we have Jane Zirkle and Durrell and the Trump rally ready to fire?
Did we resolve our technical issue?
Jane, are you there with us?
Or Mike Lindell, are you with us?
mike lindell
I'm here!
unidentified
Hello!
dave brat
Good, I think we have Mike Lindell with us.
Mike, hey, we got you.
How you doing, brother?
Welcome to the War Room.
unidentified
Yeah, thanks.
mike lindell
I'm here at the rally.
I just got done speaking a little bit ago and I wanted to quicken on and thank the War Room Posse for making it all possible.
And to tell you, we're running the best special ever today, you guys.
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It's going to be a great night out here.
In my speech, I said I thank everybody for supporting MyPillow and my employees in all these attacks over the last three years.
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unidentified
And Dave, it's going to be an amazing night here in Miami.
dave brat
Yeah, well, hey, why don't you give us a little more on that?
Stephen K. Bannon always says, President Trump puts us in the room, and Bannon puts us in the room, and now you're going to put us in the room.
What's it feel like there?
What's on the agenda tonight?
What's coming up?
mike lindell
Well, one of the things I really liked is before it started, they played a whole tape... They played a... Yes, I'm staying.
unidentified
Sorry.
mike lindell
Okay, okay.
I'm live here, okay.
Hey, you guys, the first thing that happened, the first thing that happened was the president, he had it taped, and he goes, hey, we need to get to paper ballots hand-counted.
And as everybody knows, what happened today was Elon Musk tweeted it out, paper ballots hand-counted.
So everybody, the crowd went wild.
We know we're not going to get that far yet, but we also know that I announced my plan to everybody to secure their ballots, which you can check out at LyndalePlan.com.
Very good.
So go to LyndalePlan.com.
You guys, the Secret Service, tell me I gotta move.
I was out in a no-fly zone, I guess.
dave brat
You're blocking the red carpet.
unidentified
Good.
dave brat
Thank you, Mike.
Mike Lyndale.
Back to Jane Zirkle.
Jane, put us in front of the people again and keep doing what you're doing.
unidentified
The bottom line here, Dave, is that the Republican Party is united behind President Trump.
But we cannot say that when it comes to the Democrats.
There is a literal schism going on as to whether or not Joe Biden will end up making it to November.
the posse on the ground here, if whether or not they think Joe Biden is going to be the
Democrat nominee.
And we have some mixed response.
They want Joe Biden to be the Democrat nominee because they believe that will result in an
absolute President Trump landslide.
However, some of the names that they have brought up for his replacement have been Kamala
Harris, Gavin Newscombe and Michael, I mean, Michelle Obama.
But let's get some more opinion on that from the Warren posse.
Do you think that Joe Biden is going to remain the Democrat nominee?
I don't think so.
Do you think his presidency is a national security risk?
It is.
Do you guys think that Joe Biden is going to remain the Democrat nominee?
No.
Even the youngest voters think that Joe Biden is not going to make it to November.
dave brat
Hey Jane, let us know who have been the crowd favorite so far today and who's coming up on the agenda and then when is President Trump up there?
unidentified
So President Trump is expected to make remarks at 7pm, and there is some speculation of a potential VP announcement, so definitely stay tuned.
I'm sure he's going to address some of the debate momentum that he's been experiencing, because that is just absolutely remarkable.
That has completely shaken up this election cycle.
So it's going to be an exciting night for sure, and I believe this is one of the first rallies, if not the first, on Trump property.
So, historic night.
dave brat
Outstanding.
Who have been the crowd favorites so far prior to us talking?
And who's coming up that likely will be crowd favorites before the president comes on?
unidentified
Yeah, so we just heard from Byron Donalds.
Right now we're hearing from Marco Rubio.
So Florida favorites for sure.
It is a Florida heavy crowd and it's just an awesome, awesome group of people.
They've been here for a very long time and it just shows the dedication of President Trump supporters.
Very heavy Hispanic community, of course, being here in South Florida.
That's to be expected.
We're seeing a lot of Latino for Trump signs, Hispanic for Trump signs.
I've talked to a lot of A lot of immigrants in the crowd who are especially concerned with the southern border just absolutely being an open floodgate because they came here the right way.
They've done things the right way.
They're law-abiding citizens, and they're seeing this massive epidemic of migrant crime, and it's absolutely disgusting.
Joe Biden has turned every state into a border state, including Florida.
We're seeing Haitians on our beaches just coming in here with no checks.
We don't know where these people are.
are coming from, their backgrounds, anything. We don't know anything about these people.
We're seeing terrorist cells form in the United States of America because of the open border
crisis that Joe Biden has caused, and people are sick of it.
They want to return to safety and security that they had under President Trump.
dave brat
Jane, thank you so much for letting us be in the room with you there at Doral.
Great coverage.
It's been great.
I had Jane visited at Liberty University.
We had lunch one day in the cafeteria with all the students.
Really enjoyed it.
Jane, keep up the great work.
We're going to give a sign-off, a special tribute to Stephen K. Bannon, who can't be with us today.
But that is why this audience needs to be more vigilant than ever.
You see the energy out there?
You see what America looks like, right?
The media, the mainstream media, no one wants you to see that energy, right?
The energy of President Trump, the energy of Stephen K. Bannon.
He has made this show single-handedly so special.
And it's the last thing the elitists want you to see is the true power and goodness of the American people.
So let's turn it over to the great crew at Real America's Voice who just makes all this possible.
And with Terrence.
Terrence is going to take the show over.
Terrence, you came before us.
We're doing an outstanding job.
Keep up the great work.
Terrence, I'm handing over the mic to you.
God bless you.
Keep it up.
unidentified
Bless you as well, Dave.
We appreciate you in the war room posse.
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