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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies. | |
Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
President Trump got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
It's going to happen. | ||
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
Hey, Peter Kay Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
I'm going to be with you Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at least for the next several weeks. | ||
If the posse throws me out, I'll be gone. | ||
Otherwise, we'll see how long that goes. | ||
One of the things I want to do is to have you get to know a little better some of the folks who you've seen there out on the campaign trail, on TV, jousting with the media. | ||
But I want to Do a little bit more personal kind of look, get you to know these folks. | ||
And Daniel Alvarez, I think, is the is precisely the kind of surrogate we need out on TV across the networks to essentially target, better target some of the swing voters, which include a lot of Latinos, which include a lot of young folks and folks in between. | ||
So welcome to Bannon's Worm. | ||
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Thanks for having me. | |
Now, we talked a little off the air and you told me that you're a Cuban-American. | ||
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I am. | |
Did you grow up in Miami? | ||
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I did. | |
Born and raised in Miami. | ||
My family has, in our community, a very typical story. | ||
My mom fled Castro's communist regime. | ||
Was she living in Havana? | ||
Where was she? | ||
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She was in a very small town in Las Villas called Santiago. | |
And was she one of the intellectuals there? | ||
What was she fleeing from? | ||
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My mom was 13 years old at the time. | |
If you remember, Batista was a very unpopular president. | ||
And for a while, Cuban citizens were duped into supporting Fidel, and then all of a sudden he comes down the mountains, Batista flees, and he disavows Catholicism, which is the predominant religion in Cuba. | ||
My family is very Catholic, practicing Catholics, and, you know, embraces communism and socialism, and so... | ||
Suddenly, he started going back on certain promises. | ||
And one of the first things he said was, you know, we're going to indoctrinate all the children as part of the revolution. | ||
And so my mother's oldest sister, you know, was going to be taken into an agricultural school away from her family. | ||
It became so deeply unpopular that that's where that Peter Pan flights took place. | ||
And it was the first born children of many families who came by themselves. | ||
Peter Pan flights? | ||
Who was able to organize those? | ||
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It was the Catholic Church. | |
So as the Catholic Church was expelled from Cuba, a lot of the family said, we don't want our children to be indoctrinated by the revolution. | ||
They didn't have very many options at the time. | ||
And so a lot of young children came by themselves with the church. | ||
If they were lucky, like my aunt was, she got to live with an uncle and move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | ||
But she wasn't reunified with her family until she was an adult. | ||
Did you talk about this with your mother when you were younger, like pre, you know, when | ||
you were in high school, junior high? | ||
Did she give you a sense of those values and what you had to fear if that happened again | ||
here for example? | ||
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Yes, but Cubans are very stoic, and like many Cubans, they kind of left everything behind, including those feelings that they sort of boxed up and came here for economic opportunity. | |
She always told me, she's like, even if I couldn't You know, do much for myself because she was suddenly trying to learn a second language and couldn't finish school. | ||
She said, I wanted you to have every opportunity and every educational opportunity, especially. | ||
So we talked about it lately, and it was only more recently that I sat her down. | ||
I said, your story is so important to me that, you know, I want to know. | ||
And she told me, you know, they took her. | ||
He reneged. | ||
The first child, children left. | ||
He reneged. | ||
And so since she was the second, she got taken to the agricultural camp. | ||
Away from her family and they tried to put her into the youth military and that's when our family said, absolutely not, we've got to go. | ||
I mean, no need to get hyperbolic here, but there are some emerging parallels on the left. | ||
I mean, you could start with the indoctrination of our children. | ||
As a Catholic, there seems to be increasing persecution of Catholics. | ||
What motivates you to get behind Trump? | ||
I mean, what do you see in Trump as a Latina that got you behind this campaign? | ||
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For me, I will be honest, it's a little bit of everything. | |
Again, having that Hispanic heritage, you know, understanding what he did for Latin America and being tough on dictators, you know, standing up to communism, standing up to socialism. | ||
But even at home, it's the strong economy. | ||
I mean, I was married in 2016 and, you know, my generation, when we got out of college, it was tough to get a job. | ||
It was tough to buy a home. | ||
It's a lot that this Gen Z generation is also dealing with. | ||
And the economy was strengthened and I was able to buy a home under President Trump. | ||
It's also his support for the military. | ||
My husband served in the Marine Corps. | ||
It's his support for law enforcement. | ||
After he got out of the Marine Corps, my husband became a police officer. | ||
You know, so it's really across the board. | ||
Every facet of life, whether you're white, black, Hispanic, is all of our issues at our | ||
core are the same. | ||
We want a strong economy. | ||
We want safe communities. | ||
We want a better future for our children. | ||
Now that I'm a mom of two, I have a four-year-old and an eight-month-old. | ||
I mean, especially those educational issues are so important to me. | ||
It's why we left DC and came back to Florida. | ||
Explain to folks How more and more Latinos, Latinas are coming to Trump's America because the initial spin and the counterintuitiveness of it is if you crack down on the border with a lot of | ||
Latinos coming across that border, somehow Latinos would need your, oppose that. | ||
What, what, parse that for me. | ||
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And we've seen the polling shows that Hispanics support secure borders. | |
But you tell me why. | ||
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Sure. | |
What's going on there? | ||
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So, again, it's that safety issue. | |
Like, I'll give the example. | ||
Our Hispanic communications director, who's given me permission to tell this story, he was a journalist in Colombia. | ||
And when he was in Colombia, he was speaking truth on his radio program, and he got a hit on him, put on by the FARC, the terrorist organization that the Biden administration removed from the terrorist organization. | ||
They removed that? | ||
Interesting. | ||
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The terrorist, yes. | |
Removed that designation. | ||
And he said, you know, suddenly I had to move with my wife and my two daughters | ||
to the United States. | ||
And I knew, and it was the first time that I knew, that I could come to this country. | ||
And when I kissed my girls goodbye in the morning, I'd give them a kiss when I returned home. | ||
And that's not always something that we see in our countries. | ||
The notion of a free press, the ability to engage in politics. | ||
I mean, we just saw the elections in Venezuela. | ||
But what I'm getting at here is like, okay, you got literally millions of Latinos coming over. | ||
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We want it to happen in a fair process. | |
We want a legal immigration system. | ||
We want a chance to contribute. | ||
We're very entrepreneurial. | ||
And I hate painting with a broad brush, but generally speaking, we're very family-oriented. | ||
We're a very entrepreneurial community. | ||
We're a law-abiding community. | ||
And we want to follow the rules. | ||
And when we come here, we want to be Americans and contribute and be able to build our family, | ||
to build our wealth, to build savings in our pockets, which we can't do now, and to do | ||
so in a legal way. | ||
What do you say to women who might swing to Kamala Harris's side because she's a woman? | ||
What do you say to them? | ||
You go out and you're on whatever, Fox, whichever, whoever you go on. | ||
What's your message? | ||
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For me, it's always about court issues. | |
I'm the person in my household that balances the checkbooks every month. | ||
And it's really painful when, you know, again, I've got two kids and I've got to do groceries every month. | ||
You know, we sit down and we talk about how do we pay our mortgage if you're a renter? | ||
How do you make rent every month? | ||
And I think You know, it's not exclusively a woman's role, but I think women are very attuned to those economic issues and those inflationary issues. | ||
And I would say, you know, what is best for you when you're having those kitchen table conversations with your family? | ||
And then if you happen to be a mom, like I am, you know, How do you hope to raise your kids? | ||
I always look for the opportunity to be the mom who teaches my kids. | ||
It may be a tough conversation, but I want to do that. | ||
I don't want school to take that right from me. | ||
I alluded to this earlier. | ||
It's why I left D.C. | ||
My daughter became three years old. | ||
It was time for her to go to school. | ||
I hate to admit this on air, but I missed the private school deadline. | ||
Not sure that I could have even afforded private school in Washington, D.C. | ||
But suddenly I was in the lottery public school system in D.C. | ||
And for my three-year-old, at orientation, the principal of that school was speaking to about 40, you know, individuals and said, well, part of our curriculum will include gender and sexuality. | ||
For my three-year-old. | ||
I want that to sink in. | ||
Really? | ||
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My daughter was three at the time. | |
They're teaching that to three-year-olds. | ||
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I looked at my husband and I said, we're leaving. | |
Don't make a scene, honey. | ||
Don't make a scene. | ||
No, no, we're leaving D.C. | ||
Yeah, he thought I meant like, we're leaving the presentation. | ||
I looked at him when we got in the car and I was like, no, no, we're moving back to Florida, honey. | ||
I want that opportunity. | ||
That's my right as a parent. | ||
My children are not children of the community as Kamala would have you believe. | ||
They're my children. | ||
And I'll choose the community, and I'll have those tough conversations. | ||
Hillary, it takes a village. | ||
It starts with the parents. | ||
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I will choose my village, though. | |
The school is not going to tell my children that they, at three, are learning about gender and sexuality. | ||
So what do you tell a woman? | ||
Maybe your age who is just going to vote for the other side on the abortion issue. | ||
What do you tell him? | ||
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Well, I think that the president's been really clear that this issue needs to go back to the states. | |
And so that gives, that moves. | ||
The abortion issue and the pro-life issue much closer to each voter. | ||
It's a very federalist approach. | ||
And so you get to decide instead of congressional members who, you know, we know Congress really struggles to get anything accomplished, anything done. | ||
But, I mean, you know that you're asking them to move to out of their red state to a blue state. | ||
It's got to be more to it than that. | ||
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We move those issues closer to voters. | |
And, you know, the president has In addition to saying that he, you know, supports this as a state's issue, he has said that he supports exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. | ||
And it's much more in line where voters are. | ||
I mean, really, and we talk about this all the time, it's Kamala Harris and Democrats who are very radical, who, you know, if there's a botched abortion, they have supported bills to prevent life-saving care for that baby. | ||
If there is a botched abortion, And they're all for the late term. | ||
Abortion until the ninth month. | ||
And in some cases you've heard really extreme rhetoric about abortion, you know, partial | ||
birth abortion and beyond. | ||
So I think the challenge that exists is cutting through the noise, right? | ||
And you always hear people say, do you... We banish signal, not noise, right? | ||
Yeah, you know, cutting through the noise, actually, you know, and making sure to really listen to those substantive issues, right? | ||
Because Kamala now is like in this honeymoon rebranding phase where luckily we have folks like Rav and War Room, but mainstream media is All honeymooning with Kamala Harris and making sure to look at her record, because despite the fact that she may want to rebrand herself and say, well, she was never the border czar. | ||
She was. | ||
We have headlines. | ||
They had to put out their own memo saying, please don't use this phrase anymore. | ||
You know, she's trying to rebrand herself and talk about what she's going to do on inflation. | ||
She's not just tied to the Harris-Biden administration as a whole. | ||
People forget that she was the deciding vote. | ||
We had a 50-50 Senate. | ||
We had a 50-50 Senate. | ||
Twice. | ||
She had to go from the Naval Observatory over to the halls of Congress and cast that deciding vote that rocketed us into inflation. | ||
So it's not just kind of like this loose tie. | ||
She is responsible for these failures. | ||
And it's our job to hold her. | ||
We're gonna come right back. | ||
We are in Stephen K Bannon's war room with Danielle Alvarez from the Trump campaign. | ||
We'll be right back. | ||
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Down the CCD! | |
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Hey, Peter K. Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
I want you to stay for the bottom of the hour here. | ||
I've got Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
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All right, let's get back with Danielle Alvarez from the Trump campaign, one of the folks who I think will be one of the most effective messengers to the people that we need to reach in the now less than 90 days. | ||
We talked a little bit about a bunch of issues. | ||
What I want to want to do, though, is talk a little bit about your your A husband who is a Marine. | ||
Where is he based? | ||
What's he do? | ||
How long has he been in the Corps? | ||
And all of that. | ||
And I want to do that within the context of this thing with Tim Wallace, the Minnesota governor. | ||
Kind of get your What went on at home when all that went down, as it were? | ||
So tell me a little bit about your husband. | ||
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So my husband served in the Marine Corps. | |
He did four years. | ||
And during that time, he was a body bearer, world-famous body bearers. | ||
And so he was stationed at 8th and I in Washington, D.C. | ||
Wow. | ||
Wow. | ||
And when he left the Marine Corps, he— What year was that? | ||
Oh gosh, he got out in 2016, I believe. | ||
Okay, okay. | ||
And so, basically for those who don't know, a body bearer is essentially a pallbearer, and he ran all of the funerals at Arlington. | ||
Does he be the one carrying the... He was. | ||
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Oh boy, wow. | |
So yeah, a couple hundred funerals of any Marines killed in action, or you know, any veterans who passed away during his four years of service. | ||
I mean, when I was in the White House, I was there for all four years. | ||
I would have occasion to go up the wall to read and pass by the workout areas where you'd see men and women missing an arm, a leg, or all their limbs. | ||
It really drives home one of the key Features of Trump's MAGA policies. | ||
It's a strong manufacturing base. | ||
It's a secure border. | ||
But one of the anchors of that is the end of the endless war. | ||
So I can't imagine a job in the military where you would see more of that death up front so poignantly. | ||
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If you've ever seen any of those iconic photos where a Marine is kneeled down in front of a family, one of those may be my husband. | |
Wow. | ||
So when, I mean, what's your read on the stolen valor thing? | ||
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My husband, I mean, blew up at home. | |
Very frustrated. | ||
We've heard from a lot of folks in his community and different branches as well. | ||
My husband comes from a service-oriented family where many members have served. | ||
He's the first Marine but served in the Navy, served as Coasties. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Coasted a lot of times. | ||
I did a lot of work with the Coasties when I was in the White House. | ||
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And, you know, he comes from a very service-oriented family. | |
I'm very blessed to have married into such an incredible family. | ||
Whether it's his friends, whether it's, anecdotally, other folks, colleagues on the campaign that I work with who have served, I mean, just really appalled at that record of lying. | ||
It's the lie, right? | ||
It's the lying about it. | ||
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And feeling so comfortable in the lie, and then continuing the lie. | |
Well, you know, he just misspoke. | ||
How did it end up on his challenge coin? | ||
It was on his challenge coin. | ||
How did it end up on his challenge coin, his rank, you know, his supposed rank when he retired? | ||
I didn't know what a challenge coin is before I went in the White House. | ||
But when you're in the White House and you get visitors come and go, they give you these things. | ||
Explain what a challenge coin is. | ||
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So you'll have a challenge coin. | |
You could have it if you're an elected official, but it stems from my understanding in the military. | ||
And so, you know, once you hit like a certain rank or if you're in a specialized unit, you'll have a special coin made that, you know, kind of has a visual and some sort of memorabilia from, again, either your unit or your rank or your leadership position. | ||
And so. | ||
And I would see them with the cabinet officials. | ||
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Yeah. | |
Just like that. | ||
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You know, they're quite elaborate. | |
you know, so again he is, I actually... | ||
So he, I guess what's equally frustrating to me is how the mainstream media, I don't call them mainstream, they're not | ||
mainstream, Trump's mainstream, they're the corporate media that supports the | ||
extremes. | ||
They're the people who want to offshore jobs and insure illegal aliens, but | ||
it's amazing how How they immediately put up the protective walls and reversed the spin. | ||
How do you cope with that? | ||
Do you do a lot of adversarial media? | ||
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Do you do that? | |
I do. | ||
I actually tend to be more behind the scenes. | ||
I will certainly jump in front of a camera on big moments, right? | ||
The debate or convention or when I get really great opportunities here at the War Room with you. | ||
But I tend to do a lot of my work behind the scenes trying to shape the media. | ||
And we've actually forced the media to fact check. | ||
I mean, even CNN was forced. | ||
How do you shape the media? | ||
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Well, we have a much higher standard, obviously, than the left does. | |
And so, you know, you've got to get Do you call him? | ||
Do you text him? | ||
Yeah, some of my text messages maybe are not as kind as they should be to force the issue because, you know, they will try to get away with it if they can and there's three main issue points here. | ||
The first is that Tim Walz did not retire at the rank that he claims he retired at. | ||
It's a huge issue within the military community and it should be- That's a big deal. | ||
It should be within the civilian community as well. | ||
The second is that he was set to deploy and he was the highest enlisted official and he, you know, decided to retire instead and of course, you know, 20 some years of service, but left his folks high and dry. | ||
Would it be fair to say that when he retired he knew damn well he was going to go to Iraq? | ||
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At this point, that's up in the air. | |
Our research team is definitely trying to look into that. | ||
This is a February-March kind of thing, but my view is that if you're smart and know, the puck's going there. | ||
You know that, so you maybe anticipate and you do what he did. | ||
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Sure, and the claim from their side is that he had filed his paperwork to run for office and then the deployment came and, you know, our team is certainly looking into that. | |
But the third part, which really matters as it relates to that walking away from that | ||
deployment is the claim he has made, and it's both happened directly and indirectly, where | ||
he either has stated it or leads people to believe that he carried weapons of war in | ||
a battleground. | ||
And he- There's no question from that clip. | ||
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He definitely did not. | |
I mean, if you took his blood pressure and pulse at that time, he was like, he was hot. | ||
He was letting people know, I'm a guy that's been there, right? | ||
And that was what he projected there. | ||
And it was a total lie. | ||
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That's just something that you don't do from my conversations. | |
And they say, well, be careful with that because Trump wasn't in the military. | ||
But he didn't lie about it. | ||
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He never claimed to be. | |
He never claimed to be. | ||
He was. | ||
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And so, and by the way, you know, that conversation has happened. | |
This conversation is unfolding before us right now. | ||
And there's so many years. | ||
I think that's probably the best asset, you know, from my perspective, when you say, like, how do you fight behind the scenes is we have them in their own words. | ||
You know, I'm so sorry. | ||
We're out of time. | ||
We'll do this again. | ||
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Thank you. | |
Thank you so much for coming by. | ||
Danielle Alvarez, I would say give her a hand if... Capasi, give her a hand, okay? | ||
In the war room. | ||
Let us know you loved her and we'll have you back. | ||
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Thank you so much for having me. | |
Okay, cool. | ||
Cool. All right. | ||
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We're in a modern day, holy war. | |
Coming after your mind, your body, your soul. | ||
Oh, it's true. | ||
Modern day, holy war. | ||
Any question about what John Kerry's made of? | ||
Just spend three minutes with the men who served with him. | ||
I served with John Kerry. | ||
I served with John Kerry. | ||
John Kerry has not been honest about what happened in Vietnam. | ||
He is lying about his record. | ||
I know John Kerry is lying about his first Purple Heart because I treated him for that injury. | ||
John Kerry lied to his Bronze Star. | ||
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I know. | |
I was there. | ||
I saw what happened. | ||
His account of what happened and what actually happened are the difference between night and day. | ||
John Kerry has not been honest. | ||
And he lacks the capacity to lead. | ||
When the chips were down, you could not count on John Kerry. | ||
John Kerry is no warrior. | ||
He betrayed all his shipmates. He lied before the Senate. | ||
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John Kerry betrayed the men and women he served with in Vietnam. | |
He dishonored his country. He most certainly did. | ||
I served with John Kerry. John Kerry cannot be trusted. | ||
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Swift Boat Veterans, where truth is responsible for the content of this advertisement. | |
Ah, yes, the Swift Boat incident that sunk, pun intended, John Kerry. | ||
There's these TV ads in presidential campaigns that you remember vividly | ||
that almost alone had the ability to change the entire campaign. | ||
As I mentioned earlier in the show, the little girl nuclear holocaust ad That Johnson used on Barry Goldwater to stoke fears. | ||
Goldwater was done at that point. | ||
Once that ad ran. | ||
John Kerry, that Swift Boat ad. | ||
Man, that thing, that thing, that thing sunk him pretty good. | ||
I bet he still has nightmares about it. | ||
And when Tim Walz, when I saw the clips of Tim Walz basically talking about holding a gun and going to war and this, that, and the other thing, and then we find out he's lying about his rank and everything like that, and begins to get hit for what they call stolen valor. | ||
I thought, I thought that by convention time, Walz would be off the ticket. | ||
To me, like historically, but the difference, the difference in this is that The corporate media immediately circled wagons around Teflon Tim, and at least so far, he hasn't borne the appropriate American reaction, at least the reaction which I would think was appropriate. | ||
So, I immediately thought of one of my favorite guests that Steve always has on The War Room, One of the great military historians of our time, Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
I just wanted to bring him in now. | ||
Just talk to me, Patrick, about how you see this incident with Waltz. | ||
On a scale of 1 to 10, what exactly is it or should be, sir? | ||
First, I'd say this is about three things. | ||
Judgment, character, and leadership. | ||
Judgment first. | ||
This is Kamala Harris's first major decision as a candidate, and it was disastrous. | ||
It demonstrates her lack of judgment. | ||
Complete and utter lack of judgment. | ||
This is a guy that adds no value whatsoever to the campaign. | ||
Whereas somebody like Shapiro could have potentially added value in Pennsylvania, as well as some of the other candidates. | ||
This is a candidate that doesn't really add much. | ||
In fact, they doubled down on socialism and their far-left platform. | ||
So in many ways, this is a gift to the Trump campaign, and let's hope that they keep him because he's absolutely a disaster. | ||
Now we go to the second point, which is character. | ||
The character that has been exhibited here is one of lying, and it's very provable. | ||
You know, the first thing is the rank. | ||
He retired as an E8, or a Master Sergeant, but on his website he listed Command Sergeant Major, as well as on his challenge coin, which recently came up. | ||
You know, it just goes on and on, Peter. | ||
Let me just ask you on this one, because we had Danielle Alvarez, who has a husband, a former Marine. | ||
We know it's a big deal to the military to do what he did on that. | ||
But is it a big deal to anybody else? | ||
Or if it isn't, why should it be? | ||
It should be. | ||
And the next point I was going to make was leadership. | ||
The President of the United States of America is the leader of the free world. | ||
This is somebody that has to lead and lead by example. | ||
Neither Kamala Harris nor Tim Walz fits that bill. | ||
I mean, his leadership has been lacking, according to the men that he served with. | ||
That's surfaced in multiple reports on Breitbart And elsewhere. | ||
And I'm sure as time goes on, there may be a Swift Boat type commercial that demonstrates that in their own words. | ||
Is there anything in military history that you study and studied and written about that has anything to say about his conduct in this matter versus some of the brave Many, many. | ||
I mean, just starting with George Washington, who was the indispensable man of the Revolutionary War that, you know, led by example. | ||
I don't know what the answer is going to be, but I'm just wondering if there's any historical | ||
analogs. | ||
As a historian. | ||
Many, many. | ||
I mean, just starting with George Washington, who was the indispensable man of the Revolutionary | ||
War that, you know, led by example. | ||
He was in combat. | ||
And as an 18th century general, you could literally lead from the saddle, you know, | ||
leading his men at Princeton, for instance. | ||
You know, follow me as they crushed the British at Princeton. | ||
And he was on horseback and bullets literally flew, you know, hundreds of bullets literally flew, but he had, you know, this armor of God. | ||
It was a miracle in many ways that he was never hit by any of these bullets. | ||
And this happened countless times. | ||
You know, from my perspective, I was a volunteer combat historian attached to the Marine Corps in the Battle of Fallujah, and what I saw there is something that is seared in my mind like a branding iron. | ||
I can never forget the bravery and courage of those young Marines, those Lance Corporals, those Corporals, those Privates, that would never give up. | ||
And the most poignant example was on November 17, 2004. | ||
It's the Battle of Fallujah. | ||
We were in the Jolan area. | ||
I was with a Marine rifle platoon in 3-1 Lima Company. | ||
And the platoon was down to maybe 8-10 men. | ||
The casualties in 3-1 were enormous. | ||
60% in most cases or more. | ||
And we had multiple men that literally were wounded multiple times, purple, multiple purple harvests, but they would leave the aid station without the doctor's orders. | ||
They would just go AWOL to rejoin their brothers. | ||
And during the ambush, we were ambushed by Chechens and the Marine in front of me was killed. | ||
He was shot in the eye. | ||
I dragged him out under fire from that ambush. | ||
And his best friend was right next to me after that ambush and He just looked at everybody. | ||
We were positioned, he said, the next house. | ||
And we moved forward. | ||
He just lost the best friend in the world. | ||
But he continued to do his duty. | ||
And this is something that I will never forget. | ||
We had multiple Marines in that unit that Classic example was Private Sean Stokes, the lowest ranking member of 3-1. | ||
This is all documented in a book called We Were One, which is on the multiple commandant's reading list, which is required reading for the Marine Corps. | ||
And he went AWOL right before the battle to protect his family member from domestic violence, tested positive for smoking pot later on, and went back in. | ||
under the rank of private, but he was, he led all of the assaults. He was armed with a shotgun, | ||
and he was the breach man on all of those, on all those units, on all those actions. | ||
The most, one of the most courageous Marines I've ever met. | ||
And after the deployment, he would not, he was not able to re-enlist. This is about a | ||
year later. | ||
That's amazing. | ||
And he wanted to, because of what happened. But he wanted to be a Marine so bad that he, | ||
He was going to combat. | ||
He was going to war. | ||
So they gave him a six month temporary enlistment and he was killed in action. | ||
Patrick, let me make one point here. | ||
And I don't know if I'm right about this, but I think in the minds of many Americans, they don't think that Iraq was As dangerous a war as a lot of them that America has been in. | ||
And I think that perception might come because at the beginning of that war, things went pretty easy. | ||
Sure, there were some casualties, but relatively small relative to some of the other kinds of things. | ||
Yet the real danger came down the road in places Like Fallujah. | ||
And I think when people evaluate the stolen value of Tim Walz, I think they have to do so within the context of understanding that he was sending his brothers into battle where they could lose their life or limbs. | ||
And he made that choice. | ||
And that's reflective of his own character. | ||
Resonate? | ||
Is his crime one of cowardice or the lying about having been there? | ||
I think it's about character, Peter. | ||
And as we mentioned, you know, there are multiple demonstrable lies here, but it's also about leadership and leading people by example, doing things as a leader. | ||
And that is lacking here. | ||
According to all the accounts that are up, for many of the accounts that were out there by his own men, there was a lack of leadership. | ||
So that is the issue here. | ||
And you know, we're not talking about... Do you think the corporate media is going to be... We're talking about the most important job in the world, the presidency and the vice presidency. | ||
Do you think this one's going to catch up to him? | ||
What's your take on this? | ||
Is this something only military people who support President Trump anyway care about? | ||
Or is this something that's going to resonate with the broader public? | ||
What's your gut on this? | ||
I think this is a slow leeching thing that is problematic for their campaign. | ||
And he doesn't add any value, as I mentioned. | ||
And the other thing you talked about is how the corporate media has circled the wagons. | ||
And, you know, I wrote this book back here, The Unvanquished, which is about the Civil War and irregular warfare. | ||
But it's also about election interference, and it's about influencing the press. | ||
And one of my favorite lines in that book is how the democracy, which was the term that the Democrats loved to use since the 1850s for themselves, it was a self-aggrandizing term, My favorite term in there is from George Sanders. | ||
It said, the democracy is in possession of the press. | ||
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And that was the case in 1860, as it is now. | |
The democracy, the corporate media, controls the press. | ||
And they are now rebranding Kamala Harris. | ||
And they're also circling the wagons on this situation and providing interference for their candidates. | ||
And what we're doing here on The War Room is trying to cut through that. | ||
Sir, Patrick K. O'Donnell, I recommend all his books. | ||
He is a treasure here on The War Room. | ||
Thank you for joining us today. | ||
And we will see you soon. | ||
And if they do a Swift Boat commercial, we're going to have you right back. | ||
All right. | ||
We'll be right back for the home stretch in Steve Bannon's War Room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
Peter Kay Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
I'm going to be with you Wednesday and Friday of this week as well, 10 to 12. | ||
And next week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 to 12. | ||
Tell you folks, we got a lot of work to do. | ||
What we did today I think was really important. | ||
We basically did a chessboard view of where the campaign is at and what we need to do. | ||
I think the big takeaway is that we're in basically a battle with an extremist and our job strategically and message wise is to point out How to point out that extremism on the Kamala Harris, Tim Waltz ticket. | ||
And one of the things I offered, go back and listen to it and podcast if you missed it is. | ||
How to use Trump Rally 2.0 in an interactive fashion to basically show rather than tell, show rather than tell, just how extreme the Harris-Waltz ticket is. | ||
Want to do just a couple. | ||
We're going to have Michael Lindell to get us out, as we always do, quickly with Kamala Harris's runaway inflation. | ||
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I think the book Can be a really important weapon in the hands of the posse here, because if we're going to take a policy focus on the strategy to beating the extremism and competence and inexperience, | ||
Of Kamala Harris. | ||
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So, New MAGA Deal, newmagadeal.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, it's all about the policy. | ||
Now, what I want to do This week is continue on our policy theme. | ||
But right now, I want to do one minute cold open and we're going to let Mike Glendale wax eloquent after I read him a little bit on something. | ||
So get ready, Mike. | ||
I got a little joke for you, buddy. | ||
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Some in the MAGA world, like Steve Bannon, have huge followings. | |
Others, like Kim and Noel, have a much smaller audience. | ||
But together, they form part of a huge and sustained chorus of election denialism. | ||
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Jake, how are you, my friend? | ||
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Many of them have been shut down on major social media platforms for sharing conspiracy theories. | ||
95% of it is just the Rockefeller Foundation. | ||
Even if he's in jail, he'll get elected president. | ||
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They're part of a new world of social media sites that promote themselves as free speech platforms. | |
Nick DiPaolo, Brian Callen, the Hodgkins, Mr. Guns and Gear, and of course, Alex Jones. | ||
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We're going to bring Mike in right now. | ||
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Go, Mike. | ||
Right on. | ||
Well, yeah, CNN did a big hit job on all of us last night, everybody. | ||
It was in our show, but you're right, it was like a MyPillow commercial or a Frank Speech commercial. | ||
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