Aug. 10, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. | ||
| It's another element that backs them into a corner and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie Winters hosting War Room Battleground today, Friday, August 9th in the year of our Lord 2024. | ||
| Doing double duty today, hot off a very explosive 5 p.m. | ||
| edition of War Room, talking all things election interference. | ||
| You guys know one of the main ways they do that, too, is by, of course, censorship. | ||
| The Praetorian Guard, the censorship industrial complex, whatever you want to call it. | ||
| You know, when you really drill down, I think that the most concerning part of that story is that it's not just NGOs or far left organizations independent of the government carrying out these sweeping actions. | ||
| It's oftentimes being carried out in concert, in conjunction with the federal government, right? | ||
| They've sort of outsourced not just jobs and manufacturing industry, but censorship to these kind of NGOs to skirt around The first amendment, but we have a new explosive report that is already, in just a few days since it's been up, driven some serious action. | ||
| We're joined by the author of it. | ||
| You guys know the Foundation for Freedom Online. | ||
| That's Mike Benz's foundation, but Alan Bacar used to be with Breitbart. | ||
| Now he's writing wonderful reports for the Foundation for Freedom Online. | ||
| Alan, if you want to walk us through this report, and we can get into it on the other side, the positive effects that it's already had. | ||
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Yeah, so some of you might have seen Elon Musk's battle with a group called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, or GARM, which was essentially a cartel. | |
| I can say was, past tense, because they just announced yesterday they're going to be shutting down in response to a lawsuit from X and from Rumble over their collusive censorship activities. | ||
| Now what GARM was, was essentially a coalition of virtually the entire advertising industry. | ||
| It was created by an organization called the World Federation of Advertisers, which represents 90% of the global advertising market. | ||
| So basically the entire industry banding together to set censorship standards for the entire internet. | ||
| GARM's purpose was to establish what they called a brand safety floor. | ||
| for social media companies and for online news websites. | ||
| Essentially saying if you don't follow our guidelines on content, if you don't cut out what we call disinformation, what we call hate speech, you're not going to see a dime of the world's advertising revenue. | ||
| Which is an enormous thing to say to social media platforms and to online websites because for almost a decade Social media platforms have been joined at the hip to the advertising industry. | ||
| That's where they get the vast majority of their revenues. | ||
| So for the advertising industry to band together in one organization and say, if you don't follow our guidelines on content, our guidelines on speech, we're just going to cut off all of our revenue and effectively put you out of business, make it impossible for you to survive as an online business. | ||
| That was just a massive gift to the advocates of censorship. | ||
| And we've already seen what they were able to do. | ||
| They cut Twitter's ad revenue almost in half after Elon Musk took over the company. | ||
| And they were doing it as part of this cartel which brought together all the major global advertising agencies, multiple brands, multiple ad buying agencies, all working together. | ||
| And they were investigated by the House Judiciary Committee on antitrust grants, because when an entire industry bands together like that, there are serious questions of competition. | ||
| And it gets even worse than that. | ||
| So what we found, you can read our report at the Foundation for Freedom online, four of the biggest global advertising agencies, leading members of GAM, receive billions of dollars in U.S. | ||
| taxpayer money, your U.S. | ||
| taxpayer money, in government contracts. | ||
| So things like military recruitment ads, public health service announcements, collectively making up billions of dollars. | ||
| These are the same agencies, the same companies that are pushed for online censorship through gum. | ||
| So once again, US taxpayers are funding their own censorship. | ||
| Is this sort of, I think, one of the precursors to the lawfare that we've seen go on against individuals now? | ||
| But can you, again, as someone who's worked in Conservative media Breitbart has certainly been on the receiving end of, you know, advertiser boycotts. | ||
| How impactful this trend has been in terms of shutting down alternative media? | ||
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Oh, well, it's been devastating to the revenue of any platform that that wants to provide a platform for free speech, any media outlet that wants to prevent a non-establishment point of view. | |
| I mentioned already, you know, with X, they saw their revenue fall almost, I think, maybe even more than half as a result of these advertiser boycotts. | ||
| And it wasn't the first time either. | ||
| The advertisers also went after Facebook in 2020 because of media or establishment media outrage over Facebook not censoring enough Trumpists. | ||
| So this has been going on for a long time. | ||
| And Garm was sort of how The industry institutionalized this power that they had over social media platforms and over the online news ecosystem. | ||
| And it's interesting, if you look at some of the material obtained by the Judiciary Committee, you can really see the ideological biases of these advertising agencies. | ||
| This is not some sort of – they like to present their stance on online speech as, you know, a politically neutral concern about brand safety. | ||
| They don't want the advertisements of their brands to appear on next to politically polarizing topics or next to extremist content. | ||
| They always present in very politically neutral terms. | ||
| But if you look at their internal emails, which Jim Jordan and the Judiciary Committee was able to obtain, you can see they're looking for any excuse to to tell the brands that they advise not to advertise with news websites that they personally dislike. | ||
| You have emails from top advertising executives saying, well, we hated Breitbart, so we were looking for any sign that they violated our brand safety guidelines. | ||
| Imagine a police officer who decides he really dislikes one person, so he's going to watch him 24-7 to see if he jaywalks. | ||
| And every time he jaywalks, he's going to have the book thrown at him. | ||
| It's essentially the same thing. | ||
| They have these brand safety guidelines, but they only apply them to the news sites that they dislike and the social media platforms that they dislike. | ||
| And Alan, can you walk us through just one more time this report, this sort of action? | ||
| You guys really, I think, had a devastating blow to an industry that otherwise, as much as it pains me to say it, has emerged pretty victorious over platforms like War Room, sites like Breitbart, people like yourself and Mike Benz. | ||
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Yeah, and I think I think part of the reason why they've been so successful for so long is because there hasn't been any serious pushback or investigation. | |
| And I think that's that's now sort of just in the past two weeks we've seen a ton of counter pressure against the The advertising industry's support for online censorship. | ||
| We've seen the Judiciary Committee come out with an investigation. | ||
| We saw Elon Musk come out with his lawsuit, followed by Rumble. | ||
| And the Foundation for Freedom Online, we've been exposing their massive government contracts, which I think is a big problem, but the advertising industry is going to be politically partisan. | ||
| And clearly the effects of what they've been doing have been politically partisan, overwhelmingly hitting websites that are to the right of center, and overwhelmingly hitting platforms that support free speech and that progressives don't seem to like very much. | ||
| I don't think it's possible or at least very risky for them to do that while at the same time being funded by U.S. | ||
| taxpayers. | ||
| Of course, 50% of them are part of that. | ||
| At least 50% of them have those points of view that the advertising industry has effectively been demonetizing and censoring. | ||
| And Alan, like I said, you guys have been uniquely effective on this issue. | ||
| I know that The Posse loves Mike Benz, too. | ||
| If people want to follow you, stay up to date with your work, support the Foundation, where can they go to do all that? | ||
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Just go to thefoundationforfreedomonline.com. | |
| You'll see all our reports there about the advertising industry and its role in censorship. | ||
| Alan, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
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Thanks, Natalie. | |
| We're joined by Steve Friend now. | ||
| Like I said, this Friday's stretch of War Room Programming is very spicy and I'm proud to be a... | ||
| At the helm, commanding it, Steve Friend brought to my attention this morning really a concerning development, I think, on a story that is already concerning at face value, having to deal with the FBI letting illegals into this country just to sort of have a pretext for, sounds like I'm talking about January 6th, but certain narratives. | ||
| Can you walk us through the developments while just walk us through this story? | ||
| Sure can, and thanks for having me on. | ||
| So the FBI was very happy and glad to put out a press release that they had arrested this Pakistani national for attempting to assassinate public officials and parenthetically implying that it was going to be Donald Trump. | ||
| But actually reading through the affidavit and some of the reporting that's gone on, It's pretty clear that they, one, ran the playbook, which is identify a vulnerable person and then use undercovers and informants to encourage them to do something that they are not predisposed to do and agreed to engage in some sort of terrorist activity or act of violence. | ||
| And then once that entrapment is complete, then arrest them and take credit for it. | ||
| But the extra wrinkle today on this case from the Pakistani is that the FBI actually facilitated his travel from Pakistan to the United States. | ||
| And then sponsored him coming across with Customs and Border Patrol and said that he was a significant public benefit, essentially trying to set the narrative that they were investigating him before and that once he came into our shores, then they would arrest him. | ||
| But what wound up happening from reading the affidavit is they let him roam free for three months and then proceeded to build this case. | ||
| And looking at the case, this was not a sophisticated person. | ||
| He had these illusions of grandeur, like he was going to assemble a cohort of 25 people and have all these rallies as cover while they were doing reconnaissance, and they were going to steal sensitive documents. | ||
| And all the time this guy doesn't have the wherewithal to do operational security where he has people put their phones in a drawer thinking that that's going to be some sort of secure way to communicate in private. | ||
| And he doesn't have funding. | ||
| So all this is sort of indicating to me that the playbook is well and alive but the extra wrinkle is now that the FBI is willing to import terrorism and put the public at risk. | ||
| And it just reminded me a lot of the Fast and the Furious scandal that we had a decade and a half ago, | ||
| where the government allowed guns to walk, knowing that they were being straw purchased, | ||
| so that when they were inevitably used in a crime of violence, the government could get credit | ||
| for seizing those guns back. | ||
| And this is very much the same, except the consequences can be far greater. | ||
| And Steve, when you're going through this again, I think it brings up the age old question | ||
| that we would always try to answer here in the war room, which is as a result of intentional malice. | ||
| Or is it incompetence? | ||
| And I think you can kind of see that through line even to the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump's life. | ||
| I'm just curious your thoughts again, you of course, were one of the leading FBI whistleblowers. | ||
| But do you think that this is an agency that is plagued, you know, by DEI hires and just bad ideas and poor policy? | ||
| Or is there something with Darren Beatty on in the 5pm hour talking about the whole pipe bomb hoax? | ||
| Is there something more sinister going on? | ||
| I think it's a combination of both. | ||
| It's not if or it's and also. | ||
| The FBI has a tremendous problem with the employees that they bring in. | ||
| They're definitely all in on the DEI. | ||
| They're definitely all in on the 30 by 30 initiative, which essentially is doing things like talking down the need to have physical fitness or job knowledge tests. | ||
| But there is the other element to this where it is on purpose as far as this type of case goes with this Pakistani national because the FBI has a quota system. | ||
| It's called integrated program management. | ||
| There is incentive to create these cases because they want to get the check marks. | ||
| They want to be in the gold, not just the green and the red. | ||
| And yes, there are color schemes for this. | ||
| And then finally, it's being pushed by the senior executives because their compensation is tied to hitting these quotas. | ||
| And there's a tremendous demand politically for terrorism in this country. | ||
| And we're very blessed to live in a relatively safe country where the terrorist threat is not what the FBI Implies that it actually is. | ||
| They're doing that to justify their existence as a bureaucracy, which is why they've also evolved the mission of national security from being the sentry on the wall to homegrown violent extremism, domestic violent extremism, and now the latest is agave, anti-government, anti-authority, violent extremism, which the FBI has defined as someone with a perception of government overreach or negligence. | ||
| So the FBI and CISA put out a joint press release, which I would say is a very concerning development there. | ||
| Those are two of probably the most rogue actors, but saying that, hey, ahead of the election, there may be some cybersecurity attacks and DDoS attacks, but by the power invested in us by the American people, we certainly guarantee that it's not going to affect the results of the election. | ||
| It's not going to have any impact on your vote. | ||
| What do you say to their sort of what I think is this beginning surge of a narrative developing that, you know, cybersecurity ahead of the 2024 election is something that is weak, of course, on the heels of the CrowdStrike attack happening. | ||
| Where do you think they're going kind of narrative-based when it comes to election security? | ||
| Well, I've been concerned about this for a long time. | ||
| I think that the FBI is likely, more likely than not, to put out some sort of public service announcement. | ||
| and say, look, we're really concerned about polling locations | ||
| because of a heightened terrorist threat or a heightened threat from Russia. | ||
| And we're gonna suggest that we move and transition entirely to mail-in ballots, | ||
| especially in places like Michigan and Pennsylvania and Arizona. | ||
| That's always been sort of the cautionary warning that I've been giving out there. | ||
| But they're definitely setting this narrative. | ||
| And they're also obfuscating from the fact that the FBI's election crimes | ||
| is not investigating what the people believe that they are. | ||
| The FBI is not investigating election fraud. | ||
| That is very clear. | ||
| There were discussions between the DOJ and the FBI across the entire field offices, | ||
| across the entire country, that I have moles that have told me about. | ||
| They are not looking at voter fraud. | ||
| They're only going to be willing to look at voter intimidation. | ||
| So they give this sort of broad brush and say, we investigate election crime, | ||
| and you kind of assign to it what you assume that they mean by that. | ||
| The FBI is not looking into the sort of fake ballots. | ||
| They're only saying, well, there could be threats to poll workers, | ||
| or there could be a voter intimidation scheme. | ||
| And they're hyping up what they're doing in that regard to imply that they're actually on top of things. | ||
| But they're really not policing what I think most Americans are very concerned about. | ||
| And that is that there might be some nefarious things going on | ||
| with the actual election and the tampering of the ballots. | ||
| And Steve, if people want to follow you, get the show, stay up to date with your kind of inside baseball analysis, we thank you for Uh, your service in the FBI. | ||
| I don't know how you, uh, you made it out. | ||
| I'm sure that they wish you hadn't. | ||
| Like I said, you're one of the leading voices, leading whistleblowers. | ||
| Um, what was it about, about a year ago? | ||
| I'm sure time, time has flown by for you. | ||
| If people want to follow you, support you, where can they go to do all that? | ||
| I'm on social media at X at real Steve friend is my handle. | ||
| And you can follow the American radicals podcast, which is on rumble rumble.com slash am rad pod. | ||
| And then always Follow the Center for Renewing America, where I'm a senior fellow. | ||
| All the great work we're doing there at AmericaRenewing.com. | ||
| Steve Friend, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And our next guest, well actually, real quick, we're having, it's the 6 p.m. | ||
| hour on Friday. | ||
| We're having a little fun. | ||
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| Steve Friend was telling us the FBI is frankly more concerned not just with their Diversity quotas and DEI hires, but with, I would go out and just say, rigging the election with fake cybersecurity events, like they always have. | ||
| And you got CISA joining them, making sure that you patriots can't say what you want on social media. | ||
| We're joined now by John Zdrozny of the Trump administration. | ||
| Worked very closely on a lot of immigration issues. | ||
| John, I don't know if you were able to watch our last segment, but we were talking about The FBI's sort of involvement in bringing in basically suspected terrorists and letting them roam freely around this country. | ||
| I'm just curious your thoughts on just the clear and flagrant national security threats that are being allowed to enter this country as a result of Biden regime immigration policy. | ||
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Hi, Natalie. | |
| Thank you so much for having me on. | ||
| Yeah, this is something I generally say whenever I'm talking to people about immigration, which is they say, gosh, this Biden administration, they're just terrible at Immigration enforcement. | ||
| And then I have to remind them, you know, politely, this isn't a failure on their part. | ||
| This is an engineered result. | ||
| This has been a three and a half year, 15 to 20 million illegal alien voter importation project. | ||
| And so I think a byproduct of that, Natalie, is that they are more than willing to have some percentage of people be bad people to make sure they have a critical mass for the things they're trying to do. | ||
| So for example, yeah, they'll have some dangerous criminals come in and they'll kill some Americans, but who cares? | ||
| It's a sunk cost. | ||
| They'll have some terrorists come in, but who cares? | ||
| It's on cost. | ||
| It's worth it for the greater good as they view it. | ||
| And what makes some of these stories recently that much more appalling, though, is it's not even like they've made any attempt to stop the really bad people like the terrorists from coming in. | ||
| In fact, we just learned that the Pakistani national that apparently was, may or may not | ||
| have been trying to kill politicians in this country, was let in with special permission | ||
| by the people who should be protecting our borders. | ||
| So they're not protecting the border. | ||
| They're protecting the Joe Biden immigration voter importation project. | ||
| And when you say voter importation project, I want to get for the audience super granular | ||
| on that. | ||
| We were sort of tracking this, what seems to be developing narrative coming from CNN, | ||
| the mainstream media, that voter turnout is going to be so crazy this election cycle. | ||
| Not really sure what that's predicated on, but the poll is it's going to be bigger than | ||
| 2020, which I think if you look at one of the fatal flaws of the idea that Joe Biden | ||
| won in 2020 was that he got what? | ||
| 81 million votes. | ||
| I mean, that's unprecedented, right? | ||
| That's, that's a historical and rather unrealistic. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So when you see these inflated vote totals in part, because you have this massive influx of, you know, 10 plus million people, right. | ||
| I would think that that's sort of a direct result of that. | ||
| But when you say that they're importing voters, Are they wanting these individuals to vote as themselves, in that they are making it easier for them to sign up to vote? | ||
| Or is this, they're using them, their personas, or even as actual physical, you know, people to use and go after people who, you know, are dead voters, basically, or ballots belonging to dead people, nursing homes. | ||
| How does it actually work? | ||
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You know, this is a good question. | |
| I think this is one of the things that's largely unanswered. | ||
| I do think they want some of these folks to vote. | ||
| I think a lot of We know that some states, especially the ones that matter the most, like Wisconsin, like Minnesota, like Michigan, they're not taking any measures to ensure that illegal aliens are not registering to vote, especially the large groups that have entered since Joe Biden entered the White House. | ||
| And I think some of them probably will, maybe accidentally. | ||
| I'll give some of these people a little bit of credit. | ||
| I'm not saying illegal immigration is OK. | ||
| Some of these people have come from really awful parts of the world. | ||
| So when a government official tells you to sign a form to register to vote, you're going to sign a form to register to vote. | ||
| And so I think some of these people may be registering unintentionally. | ||
| I think they don't care if they vote though, Natalie. | ||
| I think they want those live ballots so they can get some Democrat operatives to fill them out and stuff the drop boxes across the country with those ballots. | ||
| Again, like almost everyone else in the Democrat political universe, they're using everyone as pawns here. | ||
| They just want those live ballots and they're even queuing you up. | ||
| Like you said, they said that's going to be turnout crazy this year. | ||
| And also, I don't know if you caught the Department of Homeland Security's advisory about how there might be result misinformation. | ||
| So some of the returns might be delayed coming out, which tells me they're going to need time to, you know, kick in those extra ballots at three o'clock in the morning again before the results come out. | ||
| So they don't get any grief this time. | ||
| And just curious, it seems like immigration was really the cornerstone of the 2016 Trump campaign, right? | ||
| It was what differentiated him, I think, from so many of his Republican predecessors. | ||
| That may be free trade and the foreign policy stuff, too. | ||
| But do you think that that message still remains sort of the top line issue that resonates most strongly with Americans? | ||
| And do you think that the campaign needs to either continue to press on or sort of double down and come back to its roots, focusing on that issue? | ||
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Natalie, that would be my personal recommendation, yes. | |
| If you're asking me if I think this is one of the most important issues, if not the top issue, I think the answer is yes. | ||
| And the reason is I can tell you, having worked in immigration for about a decade at this point, immigration is one of those issues that literally touches everything, impacts everything. | ||
| If you want to know why inflation sucks, it's because we spend so much money and a large chunk of those federal and state dollars are going to non-citizens, including illegal aliens. | ||
| Do you want to know why state budgets are breaking and everyone has to spend more money on government? | ||
| It's because of legal immigration. | ||
| If you're wondering why police budgets are stretched thin and Americans are being killed in the streets, it's because of illegal immigration. | ||
| It touches everything. | ||
| So I really do think that, uh, you know, I don't know president Trump personally, but I strongly recommend you start pounding on this again. | ||
| I think this is the, this is the topic that touches everything and matters the most to everyone. | ||
| And it will make a difference in the fall. | ||
| It is the thing itself. | ||
| And it's why the administrative state I think has always fought so hard and elements of course, within the Republican party to prevent any meaningful changes. | ||
| Um, from happening when you worked in the administration, when you were, you know, in DHS and the surrounding areas that, that touched on immigration, the, the pushback that you saw, whether it was the wall, the, you know, Muslim ban, DACA, birthright citizenship, you name it. | ||
| Um, those forces, how do you think we better tackle them? | ||
| Um, you know, come a second term again, just speaking in your personal capacity, but you understand the problem having, having been there, you know, how do you address it? | ||
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Oh, well, Natalie, without revealing any potential strategery for a second term engagement, one thing is I think the bureaucrats need to be pretty much put on the side and told what to do as opposed to being turned to for recommendations, I think. | |
| And I say this with goodwill. | ||
| I think a lot of us walked in thinking it would be like any other administration. | ||
| And it took us a little too long to figure out it was knives out by really awful people. | ||
| So I think they need to be sidelined and sidelined quickly. | ||
| I think conservatives under the president need to make sure the agenda stuff is implemented quickly. | ||
| We found last time, too, you can go back and look, stuff that was done quickly and early stuck. | ||
| Stuff that took a little while to do wound up getting gummed up in the courts, and then the left delayed as long as they could through the bureaucracy to prevent stuff from happening. | ||
| So assertion of authority, speed, and maybe a little bit of good luck from the Lord Almighty and a few other sources. | ||
| But I think that's what it will take to make some of these things happen. | ||
| And by the way, we're really I think it won't take that much longer to deal with the wall and some of those key things up front, and Americans will see results pretty much quickly. | ||
| John, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with your analysis, your work, where can they go to do all that? | ||
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Well, I don't really have a social media handle, Natalie. | |
| Are you a Luddite? | ||
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I'm a bit of a Luddite, but I don't really have anything to promote for myself. | |
| But I just think people should pay attention to whatever the President's saying, and I know he's going to be strong on these messages. | ||
| God willing, we'll see a good result in November. | ||
| John, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| I know the audience very much respects your opinion. | ||
| We'll see you in the War Room soon. | ||
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Thank you so much, Natalie. | |
| God bless. | ||
| Of course, likewise. | ||
| Hey, since you can't follow John, maybe you should go to birchgold.com slash Bannon, or you can go to RickardsWarRoom.com, two great avenues for information and resources on all things economy. | ||
| We've got Steve Bannon, latest installment of the End of the Dollar Empire, or Jim Rickards, you guys know, a familiar face here in the War Room. | ||
| That's RickardsWarRoom.com. | ||
| Now, for those of you who know that I've taken over the 5 p.m. | ||
| Eastern Time show, this is of course the 6 p.m. | ||
| show, we really, I think, had a historic week in terms of tracking and exposing and really laying out, I think, a battle plan for how we combat what is the election fraud, the rigging that is going to take place In the 2024 election, we know it's going to happen as much as it's fun to have the happy talk and try to be measuring the curtains and figure out what we want to do in a second. | ||
| That's Rahim texting me. | ||
| Thank you, Rahim. | ||
| It's the 6 p.m. | ||
| hour. | ||
| We have a little more fun in Battleground. | ||
| But, you know, they are not stopping. | ||
| They are doubling down. | ||
| Like we always say, it's not that they ever rebranded the CTCL or the Zuckerberg organizations, any of these far-left, dark-money NGO-type groups. | ||
| They never went away. | ||
| Maybe they were just having a couple more, you know, tabletop-type wargame exercises like the Transition Integrity Project. | ||
| But those people, those individuals and those appetites and those desires To fundamentally transform, and you guys know I use that word intentionally, this country never dissipated, never went away. | ||
| And I think it's very important that we continue calling them out here in the war room. | ||
| Like I said on a few show a few days ago, one of the groups we exposed, the Michelle Obama linked one, literally hours after we had the war room segment on their group, they pulled the website down and changed it. | ||
| So that shows you the efficacy and the impact that you guys have in this audience. | ||
| We'll be back after the break with Will Upton from the National Pulse and I believe Mike Davis. | ||
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Welcome back to the War Room. | |
| It's Natalie Winters, still holding the fort down here in the War Room. | ||
| Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie Winters still holding the fort down here in the War Room. | ||
| We're joined by Will Upton from The National Pulse, one of my favorite outlets. | ||
| We love Raheem here in the War Room. | ||
| But Will, you have a great new piece up for the National Polls, kind of walking the audience through. | ||
| And that's Raheem texting me again. | ||
| For some reason, I have my phone on do not disturb, but he is breaking through the firewall. | ||
| So he's joining us in spirit. | ||
| He's good at that. | ||
| He is. | ||
| He's everywhere. | ||
| But someone who's not very good at, frankly, anything is Tim Walz. | ||
| He has a horrible economic legacy. | ||
| In Minnesota, can you walk the audience through how he's not just a cool, bumbling, idiot-type dad, but he's someone who really has serious ability to wreak havoc on the economy here? | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| Thanks for having me on, Natalie. | ||
| Walls, basically, his governorship of Minnesota has seen the state kind of sink to the bottom in terms of actual rankings for the state economy. | ||
| Right now, in terms of the employment rate in the state, it's about 0.7% is what it grew by the last year. | ||
| It's 42nd nationwide. | ||
| Net out migration from the state is the sixth highest in the country for incomes over $200,000 a year. | ||
| In terms of overall, it's the eighth highest. | ||
| This is a guy who last year he had a $17 billion budget surplus. | ||
| And instead of reinvesting it into the state or, you know, doing tax cuts, he actually raised taxes. | ||
| He enacted a 1% surcharge tax on capital gains. | ||
| That's driven a lot of businesses and a lot of investors from the state. | ||
| And we've seen now in terms of its GDP, it's grown about half the rate of the national average. | ||
| So it's actually, I believe, 43rd total of the 50 states. | ||
| Overall, I mean, he's been bad for business. | ||
| He's bad for taxpayers. | ||
| And it's caused a massive outflow of people from the state. | ||
| I mean, we've seen, you know, upwards of about $600 million in capital leave the state for Wisconsin, even. | ||
| And, Will, I think that, you know, you've worked around campaigns, obviously the National Police working under Rahim. | ||
| You guys always kind of have insight into what's happening in DC world. | ||
| But the sort of current portrayal of Tim Walz as someone who's, you know, cool and we're the weird ones. | ||
| It's an interesting juxtaposition to draw with someone who's extremely radical. | ||
| On gender issues, engages in stolen valor, and loves the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| But it seems like this kind of talk about his truly abysmal economic record is sort of missing from the conversation. | ||
| Where do you think we need to go in terms of defining him as a VP pick, as someone who, like I said, has the potential to, if you just replicate what he did in Minnesota, would do real damage here. | ||
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Yes, I think there's two things to kind of drill down on. | |
| One is the fact that this is one of the only governors in the country to actually raise taxes when they had a budget surplus. | ||
| They're not hurting for revenue. | ||
| This suggests that he basically really does believe in sort of a radical progressive tax regime and wants to punish those that he views as being either too wealthy or too successful. | ||
| The other thing is his environment. | ||
| Your mental agendas actually impacted the economy of the state as well. | ||
| Industrial electrical rates, so the electrical rates for heavy industry, is 27% higher than the national average. | ||
| There's actually an iron foundry that was involved in auto manufacturing in the state called Metal Technologies, Inc. | ||
| They had to close down their shop Because their their electric bill was too high Their annual bill. | ||
| I think there was an estimate that came out was about 1.2 million dollars about 27% of their payroll And Will, if people want to follow you guys, support The National Pulse, all the great work that you guys are doing, stay up to date with your analysis, too. | ||
| If they don't want Raheem's editor's notes, where can they go to do that? | ||
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So, TheNationalPulse.com. | |
| I recommend everybody subscribe, and you can follow me on Twitter at WUPTON. | ||
| Will Upton, a must follow, you guys know I got my start at the National Polls. | ||
| I was never promoted to junior editor. | ||
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That's right, yes, yeah. | |
| I was, I don't know what, I was a senior investigative reporter, so I don't know if that's better or worse. | ||
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That's good, yeah. | |
| That's pretty good. | ||
| I was like 19, so I feel like that's pretty good. | ||
| Like I said, it's the 6 p.m. | ||
| hour in the War Room on Friday, and I'm off of like six hours every day of Claremont Institute lecturing, so I'm a little out of it. | ||
| But Will Upton, you are always on it, just like you guys are at the National Pulse. | ||
| I already asked you that. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We will see you soon for sure. | ||
| Now we're joined by someone who you guys, the War Room Posse, know very well. | ||
| That is Mike Davis, who in the break was adamant that he needed to go put a tie on. | ||
| I told him, it's War Room Battleground and it's Friday. | ||
| You're fine. | ||
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But he insisted that should show you how much he cares about you guys. | |
| But Mike Davis, there's been a lot of developments on the election front. | ||
| My producer was sending me an article talking about election laws. | ||
| In Arizona, the RNC kind of pushing to change those. | ||
| Can you walk us through what's going on there? | ||
| So the Democrats, Biden and Harris Democrats, have been running their lawfare and election interference against President Trump. | ||
| His top aides, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, sent them to prison. | ||
| His lawyers like John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani and Jeff Clark, his January 6th supporters, Trump's January 6th supporters. | ||
| We have been fighting that for two years and fighting it very successfully. | ||
| The left is getting crushed in the Supreme Court. | ||
| Of the United States and the next phase of their lawfare after they tried to bankrupt Trump, they tried to throw Trump in prison for the rest of his life. | ||
| They tried to simply take Trump off the ballot, right? | ||
| And the Supreme Court stepped in and stopped them with presidential immunity, with the Colorado 14th amendment case, with the Fisher case. | ||
| And so what have these Biden and Harris Democrats done? | ||
| They have. | ||
| Well, first of all, they underfunded President Trump's Secret Service protection, denied many requests for Trump's beefed-up security by Trump's Secret Service detail. | ||
| These career officials, the Biden-Harris administration said no, and Biden said to put a bullseye on Trump's head, and look what happened. | ||
| So they couldn't bankrupt him. | ||
| They couldn't throw him in prison for life. | ||
| They couldn't throw them off the ballot. | ||
| They couldn't get them killed. | ||
| And so now they're trying to destroy the Supreme Court of the United States that got in their way. | ||
| And then they're also trying to make it very easy for illegal immigrants to vote in the presidential election. | ||
| And we're seeing that with the case right now in Arizona. | ||
| There's an emergency petition now before the Supreme Court where the Elected officials in Arizona, Republican elected officials in Arizona are trying to stop this. | ||
| They're trying to stop illegal immigrants from voting. | ||
| And that's where the Article 3 project is going to step up over the next several months in this next battle by this Biden-Kamala lawfare. | ||
| An election interference. | ||
| It's election integrity, and it's so important. | ||
| Look, these lawyers are making great arguments. | ||
| These judges should just follow the law. | ||
| But we saw this with the presidential immunity decision to the Supreme Court that with a lot of these judges, unfortunately, not only do you have to have the law right, You have to have the politics right, and so you have to make sure that we steal the spines of these Republican judges, Republican lawyers, Republican election officials, and we send fair warning to these Democrat judges, Democrat lawyers, Democrat election officials, that the Article 3 project is going to be on this, like we were with this lawfare against President Trump and his top aides, his lawyers, and his supporters. | ||
| And just taking a step back on the lawfare front, you know, I think one of the things that keeps me most up at night is, you know, this is what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done on a regime level, knowing that they were up for reelection, right? | ||
| So I could only imagine what they would do if they didn't even think that they had to put forth the pretense to the American people that they don't support lawfare, that what's going on is, you know, fair and even-handed. | ||
| How much worse do you think things would get here? | ||
| And I'm not talking about the economy of the southern border in this instance, but just on the lawfare front, should Harris win and they truly have no constraints I would say this and I think people need to listen to this because it's very important. | ||
| If Kamala Harris becomes president, Kamala Harris, she will almost certainly carry the House of Representatives with her. | ||
| She will almost certainly keep the Senate and these Harris Democrats will nuke the 60 vote threshold in the Senate and they'll lower that down to 50 votes plus the vice president or 51 senators and they will pack the Supreme Court. | ||
| They will add seats to the Supreme Court and they will appoint left-wing | ||
| radicals to the Supreme Court. | ||
| And there goes our country, there goes our God-given rights to speak, to worship, to | ||
| associate, to protect ourselves. | ||
| If you think the lawfare is bad now, just imagine what it would be if there's not a Supreme Court to stop them. | ||
| It is game over America, and I'm not saying that hysterically. | ||
| I mean it sincerely. | ||
| Kamala Harris has been very clear that she is a radical. | ||
| She said that she's a radical, and she's been very clear that she supports court packing. | ||
| She said it. | ||
| And just speaking about, you know, Harris's broader record. You know, I'm just curious. I don't know if | ||
| we've had you on to sort of focus on her and Waltz, but just in general, your assessment on | ||
| Waltz and Harris, just that take it together, what you think that means for the country. | ||
| I had the displeasure of working with Kamala Harris on the Senate Judiciary Committee when I | ||
| was the chief counsel for nominations, helping President Trump confirm a record | ||
| number of his judges. And she was one of the Democrats on the committee at the time. | ||
| She was the tip of the spear on the bogus allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, essentially that he was a gang rapist going back into his teenage years. | ||
| They brought in six bogus claims of sexual assault by then-teenager Brett Kavanaugh. | ||
| They were all debunked. | ||
| We investigated every single one of them. | ||
| Even Christine Blasey Ford's father said that it was reported that her father did not believe her. | ||
| This was garbage and this was Driven by Kamala Harris because she is a vicious radical. | ||
| She will step on throats to get ahead. | ||
| It doesn't matter who gets in her way. | ||
| Look what she just did to Joe Biden. | ||
| She just ran a bloodless coup against her boss to throw him overboard. | ||
| She's not won a single And yet she's the nominee for the Democrats after they just threw out 14 million Democrat primary votes to install Kamala Harris in a bloodless coup. | ||
| I would say this, don't underestimate Kamala Harris. | ||
| I think she's vicious and I think she's dumb, but she does everything she can to win. | ||
| And if she wins the presidency, she's going to destroy our country. | ||
| And the way she's going to do that is by packing the Supreme Court with left-wing radicals. | ||
| And just to sort of link that all together, we had a guest on the show yesterday talking about the dark money groups behind a lot of those, you know, court packing efforts. | ||
| And those are the same people, I believe it's actually the comms director of the Harris campaign, leads or led Demand Justice, which is one of the leading groups behind the Supreme Court protests going to the justices house. | ||
| When we approach the election, though, obviously, it's important to focus on Harris and her record. | ||
| Do you also think it's important to focus on her as a sort of function of the system, which is that we're not actually running against Harris, right? | ||
| We're running against a bunch of dark money groups, shady election laws, and poor enforcement of those election laws. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Brian Fallon is Kamala Harris's communications director, right? | ||
| Look at who Kamala Harris picks for these leading posts, whether it's Demand Justice's Brian Fallon, who wants to pack the Supreme Court with radicals, picking this goofball Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, who wants to make Minnesota the child mutilation capital of America, where if parents object To sex change surgeries for their kids, life-destroying surgeries on their kids that require these surgeries for the rest of their lives, hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for the rest of their lives after they mutilate these kids. | ||
| If these parents object to this, this Tim Walz wants to advocate that these parents lose custody. | ||
| of their kids. | ||
| You know, he wants abortion up until birth, even after birth. | ||
| He doesn't even want to save a baby that's born alive. | ||
| He just wants the baby to lay on the table and die. | ||
| This guy is a radical nutjob. | ||
| He lied about his military service. | ||
| He said he was a combat veteran in Iraq or Afghanistan, wherever he said he went. | ||
| He just lied. | ||
| He's been lying for many years. | ||
| He is a Marxist in flannel clothes. | ||
| Marxist and flannel clothes, I like that, while also having the nerve to say that we're weird. | ||
| Mike Davis, if people want to follow you and get all your weird takes and support the Article 3 Project, where can they go to do that? | ||
| Yeah, it's amazing, Natalie. | ||
| We don't want to mutilate kids and take the genitals off of kids. | ||
| Look, I've definitely called you weird before, but it wasn't for that. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I mean, it's amazing to me that Tim Woltz and Kamala Harris, of all people, want to call anyone weird because they are the two weirdest people in politics. | ||
| But anyway, I digress. | ||
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| You can take action there. | ||
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| Take a look at that website as we ramp up our election integrity effort. | ||
| You can also follow us on social media at article3projects. | ||
| Thank you for having me on, Natalie. | ||
| Mike Davis, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| I was remarking on another show that if I were Joe Biden, I'd be very offended that my consultants didn't think that I was normal enough to launch the, you know, weird slogan and weird campaign against the American people. | ||
| Obviously it's projection, but then I guess if you take a step back and you think about Joe Biden, the showers with the children, the, you know, aiding and abetting terrorists and treasonous entities to ink billion dollar Deals with your son. | ||
| Maybe you don't really have the moral high ground on, frankly, anything. | ||
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| But with our other wonderful sponsor, who we love so much, that is Catherine O'Neill from Meriwether Farms, who joins us now. | ||
| Catherine, I feel like of all the sponsors we have, I mean, you sort of have an easy pitch because you're talking about steak and burgers and hot dogs. | ||
| But if you have any fun new products or deals for the posse, I'm sure they'd love to hear about it. | ||
| Hi Natalie, thank you so much for having me on. | ||
| I just want to echo something that Mike was saying about the packing of the Supreme Court and how Kamala and Mike Waltz are severe radicals. | ||
| Something that people are really not considering is the fact that our food supply chain is really insecure and these two individuals are very radical on the environment and they're going to be pushing regulations that are going to harm our farmers and ranchers. | ||
| and make it very difficult to make sure that we can put food on the table for people every day. | ||
| So that's something that people are really underestimating. | ||
| That's why I'm out here every single day, making sure that you guys have food to eat. | ||
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| We want to make sure that we take care of the War Room Posse. | ||
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| I've said this a few times before, I usually have 50 to 75 pounds of burger in my freezers ready to go. | ||
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| So that's what we're pushing today, Natalie. | ||
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| Of course, hit the posse with the promo code and where they can go to get it. | ||
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| Catherine O'Neill, as always, thank you for joining us. | ||
| Thank you so much, Natalie. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Maureen Posse, thank you for hanging with me for two hours today. | ||
| It's always fun when I get to do the shows back to back. | ||
| But I just want to echo what I think is the common theme among all of our guests, which is that we cannot just sit back and laugh and enjoy the fact that Kamala Harris, though maybe to us in the echo chamber that we live in, comes off as so woefully unlikable and miserable and Tim Waltz. | ||
| It's clearly allied with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Any man who's been doing business over there for decades, while concurrently serving in the National Guard, seems to be a national security threat there. | ||
| But I digress on that point. | ||
| If we just sit back and relax, victory is not going to happen. | ||
| It is not guaranteed. | ||
| I know this posse is the vanguard, the forefront of volunteering. | ||
| And I just have to say, You know, I've been at the Claremont Institute for the last week, and this is truly some of the most intellectual, bright people in the conservative movement. | ||
| The number one thing, and I get chills saying this because it's such an honor to even host this show, the number one thing that every person who knows the show and knows me has said to me is how wonderful you guys are as an audience. | ||
| They say there's no show that I like to do more than War Room because there's no show that is more impactful. | ||
| And that's not me. | ||
| That's not Steve. | ||
| It's you. | ||
| It's why they're not just coming for people like Trump and me and Steve and Peter. | ||
| They're coming for you because you guys truly have put your shoulder to the wheel and made a difference. | ||
| The prevailing sentiment from every person that I talked to this weekend is that you guys have been responsible for saving the country. | ||
| It certainly has not been any of these people that we've elected or the RNC or any of these fake institutions. | ||
| It's been you guys. | ||
| And you know we don't ever take days off or rest here in the War Room, but I just, I hope you guys know how appreciated you are throughout this movement, and I mean this seriously. | ||
| I know I get the thanks and the appreciation because I host the show, but it's not me. | ||
| It's all you guys, and I hope you know that your efforts, not only are they not going unnoticed, but they are so truly appreciated. |
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