Aug. 12, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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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. | ||
| I got a free shot on 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 line? | ||
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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. Vance. | |
| Welcome to The War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie G. Winters hosting today, Monday, August 12th, in the year of our Lord 2024. | ||
| You guys know the origins of this programming trace back to the first impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, part of the broader nullification project, as we dubbed it here in The War Room. | ||
| You guys know that started not just On January 20th, but the months preceding and of course the months and years after, I'd argue what we're seeing with lawfare is the culmination, if not the radical intensification of all that. | ||
| But someone who is, of course, a good dear friend of this show and has sort of a front row seat to what is the administrative state, the permanent political class, the in-your-face state, as Steve likes to call it. | ||
| None other than Jeff Clark, who joins us now to walk us through what I think is a really important story in terms of signal and not noise coming out in Politico showing, you know, I'll just read the opening sentence. | ||
| It has to do with a bunch of radical environmentalists at EPA already working to obstruct President Trump's would-be agenda. | ||
| Here's the opening sentence. | ||
| Ex-EPA officials and environmentalists gathered in a living room about a week after President Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2017 to discuss how they might combat the incoming administration's agenda. | ||
| Seems like they're already re-upping those efforts. | ||
| Jeff Clark is both a scholar on all things legal, but also the administrative state. | ||
| Can you walk us through the sort of the signal not noise of this article? | ||
| Sure, Natalie. | ||
| So it's great to be here, although obviously all of these opportunities on War Room now, while Steve is sadly in prison, are, you know, situations where, you know, he's missed as much as I love appearing with you. | ||
| Just every time it happens, I just kind of wince inside about the fact that they've locked Steve up and they, you know, they've done that deliberately right before the election. | ||
| And look, I think he'd love to hear about this and see this story. | ||
| It wouldn't surprise him. | ||
| My background in the Trump administration and in the Bush administration is having these folks at EPA as so-called client agencies. | ||
| I didn't work at the EPA. | ||
| I didn't work at some other client agencies that do environmental things ranging from the Commerce Department to the Energy Department to the Interior Department. | ||
| But the EPA people actually are the ones who are most to be feared and are the ones who spend the most time trying to sharpen their knives to make it difficult for political officials who are in charge of running EPA or running any agency to actually advance the president's agenda. | ||
| And certainly I saw that in the Bush administration. | ||
| I think they were quieter generally as I interfaced with them in the Trump administration because I think they realized that there was a new breath of freedom, a new breath of energy that came with the Trump administration. | ||
| And so I heard them raising a lot fewer objections legally or factually or based on administrative records than they raised in the Bush administration. | ||
| In the Bush administration, I mean, boy, did they manage to block or slow down all kinds of things. | ||
| So the fact that they've set up this pre-potential Trump administration to resistance effort is not surprising to anyone who studies the administrative state and certainly not surprising to me. | ||
| And let me tell you a quick anecdote about that so you have a sense of how bad it was. | ||
| And this one's actually about the Trump administration. | ||
| So there is a new lawyer, political appointee, who goes over to EPA at the start of the Trump | ||
| administration. | ||
| And there's a career official that that official that shall be unnamed, political official | ||
| that shall be unnamed, goes to meet with. | ||
| And the career official says, hey, I want to introduce you to the agency, and I want | ||
| to talk to you about what your priorities are, et cetera. | ||
| And, you know, strangely proposes a weekend meeting. | ||
| And as I understand it, the relevant person, the political appointee, goes over to a bar in DuPont Circle in D.C. | ||
| And there, this is a new mother, essentially, or an expectant mother at the time, I forget the precise chronology, who goes to this place. | ||
| She doesn't even know what it is. | ||
| It turns out to be a gay bar. | ||
| And this subordinate career lawyer meets with her. | ||
| He's wearing a resistance t-shirt. | ||
| And he talks to her about how the Trump administration is going to be resisted by the career officials. | ||
| I mean, this was truly shocking to me when I heard this story. | ||
| No one who worked for me as a career official at the Justice Department would ever have tried anything remotely like that. | ||
| But that shows you that people at EPA have a whole other level of daringness and brazenness. | ||
| And this is, you know, entirely contradictory to the whole idea of having a career civil service, right? | ||
| They're supposed to follow the instructions of the political officials because those are the ones who have legitimacy, political legitimacy, that traces back to the president, who is an elected official, whereas they're just in a career bureaucracy. | ||
| They're not elected by anyone. | ||
| So hopefully that gives, you know, the War Room Posse a sense of the kinds of things you need to deal with if you're a political official of any kind, whether you're high-ranking or mid-ranking or even low-ranking. | ||
| It's, I think, the kind of thing that people for many years had no understanding of and hopefully what's happened to President Trump with the law fair and with the internal resistance efforts and people like Anonymous, you know, the Chief of Staff. | ||
| at DHS who came out against Trump. | ||
| Hopefully people are awakening to that, Natalie. | ||
| And this new story that came out from Politico, E! News, is an illustration of that. | ||
| You know, for all the rhetoric that we heard, oh, don't normalize Trump, don't normalize this, | ||
| they acted like it was about the rhetoric and the tweets, but I think deep down it was his ability to confront | ||
| and be hostile towards the kind of Washington policy consensus. | ||
| I mean, you read this Politico piece, there's another great quote, I think, it's a credit to EPA, the director of this group, says that the people who've worked at the agency for years are so committed to its vision that when you see the agency being threatened, even people who really didn't always agree on different policy things understand how important it is. | ||
| to have an institutional EPA, in other words, be immune to who's ever elected, of course, | ||
| coming from the same side of people who champion democracy. | ||
| But Jeff, I think this brings me to sort of the bigger question when we try to wrestle with the | ||
| idea of, you know, deconstructing the administrative state. How much is it a | ||
| problem of the individuals who are In other words, they are so committed to their climate change, cultist, radical agenda, or is it just a function of the way these administrations, these agencies are set up? | ||
| How do we best tackle it? | ||
| Well, Natalie, I think it's both. | ||
| It's not just one or the other. | ||
| It's a structural problem that needs a structural answer, and it's also a problem of particularized personnel. | ||
| And look, the folks that get hired, they're supposed to be hired on a nonpartisan basis. | ||
| But the career bureaucracy, the administrative state, is very clever at devising ways to try to circumvent that. | ||
| They try to do that is they try to develop seemingly neutral sounding principles for hiring that when you actually look at what they do will attract a particular kind of person who tends to be a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat who's going to give any Republican political official who tries to change the direction of any given agency a hard time. | ||
| And those kinds of things have to end. | ||
| I remember that when I started in the Bush Justice Department in 2001, just a short time before 9-11, I was shown the training exercises that were being used with new enforcement lawyers and it was clear that the entire tenor of the training exercise Was designed to sort of paint anyone who worked in industry, whether industry lawyers or those who are actually making products for the national economy, as bad guys who wore black hats and that the good guys wearing the white hats were the environmental enforcers at the Justice Department and at EPA and other agencies. | ||
| And that's just the wrong way to look at the world, right? | ||
| Sometimes companies will wind up getting caught up in some kind of Legal enforcement action because there was a mistake made or that there were lower officials who did something wrong you know, there's there should not be some kind of assumption that a company is always trying to violate the law and Maximize profits. | ||
| I mean the people who wind up working in companies are Oftentimes, you know and they're your your neighbors, right? | ||
| there are people who want to be responsible to their community who don't think that a You know, polluting or, you know, engaging in whatever kind of conduct violates the relevant regulatory regime is a good thing. | ||
| And yet that was the presumption. | ||
| And the reason why that was the presumption is because this was training for new so-called honor grads hires at the Justice Department. | ||
| These are new lawyers who are coming in either fresh out of law school or off of a clerkship of a year or two. | ||
| And so they were indoctrinating them in a particular vision of the world right from the start and they'd chosen them through the hiring processes in that way. | ||
| So as one example of this, how could they stack the hiring? | ||
| They would ask questions that were designed to assess whether someone was committed to | ||
| the purpose of the relevant litigating division at the Justice Department. | ||
| So for the Environment Division, that meant, are you committed as an environmentalist, | ||
| right? | ||
| And that's not the kind of question that should be asked at all. | ||
| The issue is, can you enforce and defend federal agencies under the law based on the directives | ||
| that are set by the then President of the United States and those who report to him | ||
| and to whom you report. | ||
| That's the right approach. | ||
| And so you can't have these stacked, you know, politically oriented, you know, sub rosa, like beneath the table kinds of ways of getting everyone in as a Democrat. | ||
| And that's why when they do surveys, they often find out that 90, 95% of the lawyers at the Justice Department are Democrats. | ||
| Shocker! | ||
| I mean, the system's structurally stacked. | ||
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| And it is stacked in terms of the particular hiring decisions that are made on an individual | ||
| basis. | ||
| So how do we fix that? | ||
| President Trump obviously promulgated a proposed rule for Schedule F to try to ensure that | ||
| any official who exercises policy discretion essentially has to follow the policy direction | ||
| of the president on down in the political chain. | ||
| And if they're not doing that, they should be separated from the agency. | ||
| Also, you know, we need to hire political appointees who are not going to be afraid | ||
| of being intimidated. | ||
| By career officials, they're going to use their powers in order to ensure that they get the help they need from the officials who report to them who oftentimes are more familiar with the bowels of the relevant agency than the newcomer coming from the outside world. | ||
| And we can't be in a spot where those career officials just try to wait out the end of an administration so they can get back to what they view as normal, which to them is what the Democrats want to do. | ||
| And I'm just curious, it seems like a lot of these, you know, personnel subversion efforts are typically more clandestine, right? | ||
| You don't really hear about them. | ||
| It's unique, I think, to give such glowing coverage to these groups coming out, admitting that they're going to be sabotaging the Trump agenda. | ||
| What do you think is the impetus behind that? | ||
| We've got about a minute. | ||
| I think it's that these people in the press can't even hear themselves. | ||
| They think that President Trump is doing something wrong by putting his stamp on the federal bureaucracy, and that is not the way our government is set up. | ||
| That is fundamentally a-constitutional, fundamentally unconstitutional, and we have to get control of the federal bureaucracy or we're going to be living essentially in a kind of bureaucratic slavery, Natalie. | ||
| Jeff Clark, we stand in solidarity with you here in the War Room. | ||
| We don't use that the way the left uses it. | ||
| But if people want to follow you, support you, support CRA, where can they go to do all that? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So CRA, the Center for Renewing America, is at AmericaRenewing.com, Natalie. | ||
| I'm Jeff Clark, U.S., on Getter and X, and at Real Jeff Clark on Truth Social. | ||
| He's a must-follow. | ||
| Jeff Clark, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| Great to see you, Natalie. | ||
| Thanks a lot. | ||
| Likewise. | ||
| And Denver, real quick, let's get the audience even more fired up. | ||
| Can you play the Fauci clip? | ||
| Or not? | ||
| Okay, never mind. | ||
| If we can, roll it. | ||
| We'll roll it. | ||
| Can we roll it? | ||
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I got infected about two weeks ago. | |
| It was my third infection, and I had been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times. | ||
| Vaccinated and boosted a total of six times, yet you still got COVID for the third time. | ||
| I may not be that good at math, but as Steve Bannon would probably say, make it make sense. | ||
| I don't know if you can. | ||
| We'll have Mike Benz, who will help us make sense. | ||
| Not of that, because you can't make sense of that, but of the latest censorship wars that continue on in some WHO news reports. | ||
| Truly, we'll be right back after the break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| We'll be joined shortly by the one and only Mike Benz. | ||
| In the meantime, you should check out birchgold.com slash Bannon to get the latest installment of The End of the Dollar Empire written by the one and only Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| A lot of news coming in today. | ||
| The news cycles are so hard to keep up with. | ||
| I never know what to focus on, just this one hour of programming that I have. | ||
| But Mike Benz always has the ability to, I think, distill what we need to take away, right? | ||
| Signal, not noise. | ||
| I think epitomized. | ||
| Particularly on the front of what is going on in the UK, the ramifications here, how we see Christopher Steele, a name the War Room Posse may recall, in context of Russia, Russia, Russia, and Russiagate, Kind of using the same tricks and tactics against another ally of the war room, that is Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson. | ||
| Mike, if you want to walk us through this truly mind-blowing story. | ||
| Well, what they're doing right now in the UK is they are Russiagating the Nigel Farage political movement and this sort of Tommy Robinson, right-wing populist street movement in order to bring the full force of Britain's most powerful spy agencies Uh, to use them in a kind of thummy war sneak attack against their own domestic political adversaries. | ||
| And the key to this is to create a counterintelligence predicate. | ||
| What you do is you say that we can't normally use MI6 against British citizens in the UK. | ||
| We can't usually use the CIA against American citizens here in the US. | ||
| But if you say that you are spying on them and using the dirty tricks department, those spy agencies are licensed to have in order to stop foreign spies. | ||
| Or a foreign intelligence operation, then you can treat our own citizens just as though they live abroad. | ||
| This is what they did with Russiagate in 2016. | ||
| This is why there was such a focus on creating that fake mythology around Trump being a Russian asset. | ||
| It's because that is what allowed the CIA and the State Department and the U.S. | ||
| military and the NGO blob and the full force of our regime change apparatus abroad to be deployed inwards. | ||
| Now what's so fascinating to watch happen right before our eyes as we speak is just yesterday the Guardian put out a headline citing Christopher Steele, no less than Christopher Steele, the former MI6, that's again the UK version of the CIA, the exact former agent who was used to establish the Steele dossier To Russiagate Trump with. | ||
| That is what gave rise to the CIA determination that Russia had interfered in the US election and that Russia was potentially bankrolling the Trump campaign and that whole three-year witch hunt. | ||
| Well, Christopher Steele came out yesterday in The Guardian and said that there is no doubt that Russians are backing the UK populist Street protests against against crime in their communities and against the runaway globalist institutions who are not answering their grievances And then you know so I tweeted about that yesterday saying do not laugh at this. | ||
| This is not a silly thing This is a predicate being laid down to use the full weight of Britain's spy agencies against Nigel Farage and lo and behold not even 24 hours later today a It was announced that the British government is now looking into the finances of Nigel Farage for any traces of a Russian connection. | ||
| And that could be six degrees of Kevin Bacon. | ||
| Some business that some random oligarch invested in 14 years ago You know, moving to another business, moving to another bank account. | ||
| And, you know, this is what they did to Trump with the whole emoluments thing. | ||
| But this is going to rack up millions of dollars in legal fees for the Farage camp. | ||
| It's going to saddle them with these, you know, spy allegations. | ||
| And it has that same debilitating effect. | ||
| But it's just amazing how it's not only the same playbook with Russiagating, but the very same players with Christopher Steele and that whole U.S.-British intelligence nexus. | ||
| How is there any legitimacy left with these allegations? | ||
| And just even in the kind of context that we inhabit now, where I think a lot of these censorship organs have been exposed, right? | ||
| You named the censorship industrial complex. | ||
| How do you think they're still able to perpetrate these lies? | ||
| Well, they don't have legitimacy among, I think, the lion's share of the population. | ||
| I think a lot of people may have had some faith in a CIA assessment of an intelligence threat before 2016, but I would say probably at least half the U.S. | ||
| population now automatically assumes the opposite, and they're correct to do so. | ||
| These are not just spy agencies, they are lie agencies. | ||
| Remember, the CIA has a license to lie. | ||
| Plausible deniability is the name of that doctrine, just like MI6 does. | ||
| These are operations outsourced to spy agencies because forward-facing, public-facing government agencies like the State Department and U.S. | ||
| Pentagon are not allowed to lie, but the intelligence agencies are, and so they're the ones who end up doing this dirty work. | ||
| But the fact is, the reason that they still have power, although they may lack legitimacy, is because they're in control of the institutions. | ||
| The fact is, As long as they are in control of the Justice Department or the Crown Prosecution Service in the UK, as long as they are in charge of, you know, the FBI here or the UK Metropolitan Police or MI5 there, they can get away with it and then they can also launder it into their allies, the sort of mockingbird media assets that they have who serve as stenographers for, you know, for state organs. | ||
| And so that gets disseminated, and a critical component of the population perceives the legitimacy of what's effectively just an intelligence operation to end run the very bedrock of democracy. | ||
| And speaking of outsourcing censorship, there's a letter that I think has kind of made the Bible rounds on X today, showing how it's now the EU that's trying to bully Elon Musk into censoring and fact-checking President Trump, can you walk us through that sort of pressure campaign and the interesting overlaps there? | ||
| Yeah, this started long ago, and I really want to caution people, do not look at this as an EU letter. | ||
| This is coming from the U.S. | ||
| State Department. | ||
| This is coming from the U.S. | ||
| Pentagon. | ||
| This is coming from U.S. | ||
| intelligence agencies. | ||
| The whole blob, that trifecta of state Military CIA that defense diplomacy intelligence apparatus that stretches the US UK and NATO, you know Brussels and this is this has been a long time in the works and Natalie you and I have covered this issue of the NATO censorship law the EU Digital Services Act Several times actually over the course of this year I've been screaming for several years that it's the number one most severe existential threat to freedom in the Western world | ||
| And this has been a plot that's sort of reaching its crescendo now, but started about seven years ago. | ||
| When Donald Trump won the 2016 election, you had all these high-ranking State Department officials who were expecting to be promoted up into the National Security Council when Hillary Clinton, who was the Secretary of State, became President of the United States. | ||
| And it all came crashing down when Donald Trump won You know, an election victory that even the New York Times said he only had a 10% chance of winning on election day. | ||
| Now, those State Department exiles didn't just sit still and take it and let the chips fall where they where they may in a democracy. | ||
| They took a very special set of skills that they had, which was diplomatic engagement with their partners in Europe. | ||
| You see, these same State Department exiles, these are the folks like Dan Freed, many others around the Atlantic Council, had developed this set of skills for pressuring European governments to change their own laws during the 2014 Crimea annexation kerfuffle. | ||
| When the U.S. | ||
| overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine, and then the eastern half of Ukraine broke off, and then the U.S. | ||
| persuaded, coerced, shall we say, but persuaded might be the gentler way, all these European countries to pass sanctions on Russia. | ||
| Now, these European countries did not want to do so because sanctioning Russian gas and Russian oil meant their own economies got crushed. | ||
| This is what's happened in Germany, for example, by passing these sanctions and now their industry, their middle class | ||
| and working classes are all devastated by these U.S. effectively imposed sanctions. | ||
| But what they did is they took that same dirty diplomats roadshow that they did for sanctions | ||
| in 2014 and they ran it back for censorship. | ||
| And they got these European countries to begin passing all of these censorship laws. | ||
| Next. | ||
| DG was the first one in Germany in August 2017. | ||
| And now you've got things like the UK online harms bill and basically in every NATO country you have formal government censorship laws that have been effectively foisted by this shadow State Department cabal. | ||
| And they have been, NATO has also been applying top-down pressure to the EU because NATO perceives its biggest threat, not a military invasion from Russia, but domestic populist political groups rising to power across NATO and simply slashing funding for the military, slashing funding for foreign aid, slashing funding for intelligence work laundered under the banner of democracy promotion. | ||
| And this is what they're doing to Nigel Farage. | ||
| Nigel Farage put up a graphic two days ago. | ||
| About how he was campaigning to slash UK foreign aid by 50%. | ||
| That's not foreign aid, by the way. | ||
| That's international bribery money. | ||
| So that countries from, you know, from Colombia all the way to Zambia to Myanmar remain under British influence. | ||
| And that's the carrot that feeds the blob monster of the British Empire. | ||
| And so Nigel Farage you know what they're doing is is that their | ||
| nato proceeds for us rising to power in the u k is being of more | ||
| a larger and more proximal threat to nato than russia and so they're using this proxy attack of a rush to get | ||
| by going to hang with us through the break is actually a guy and so that it | ||
| teaser on a new piece on how this all relates to the olympics or boss you know you should check out public | ||
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| I don't know about you guys. | ||
| Getting lectured by Mike Benz for like eight hours. | ||
| That sounds pretty nice. | ||
| Very well informed. | ||
| That's why I was having him here on The War Room. | ||
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| of the end of the dollar empire. | ||
| If like me, you're missing Steve and you haven't read all of those books, you should. | ||
| Just a fun fact, the World Health Organization just yesterday announced that they're looking | ||
| to grant emergency use authorization for you guessed it, monkeypox vaccines. | ||
| I guess maybe that's their insurance plan in case the bird flu pandemic fear-mongering doesn't materialize. | ||
| I'm joined by Mike Benz and rep Bob Good after this short break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| We're still joined by Mike Benz. | ||
| We gotta bounce in about a minute, but Mike, I want you to give the audience just a little teaser about the new story you guys have up on NewsGuard, everyone's favorite censor in the Olympics. | ||
| Yeah, well, we have these Olympics that just wrapped up here, been going on for the past few weeks. | ||
| And there is a very nasty censorship gargoyle firm known as NewsGuard, whose modus operandi is to bankrupt Politically disfavored news sites and and targeting basically anyone who any news site that supports editorially Donald Trump or Nigel Farage in the UK or the Vox party in Spain or the Matteo Salvini's folks in Italy. | ||
| It's basically a cross NATO censorship gargoyle and What they do is they apply these news ratings to label the integrity of news and then run that to their their friends in the advertiser networks and And as folks have maybe paid attention the past week, Garm is one of them. | ||
| They do sort of misinformation auditing in order to bankrupt and deprive independent news sites of having advertising revenue so that they can't be professional outlets like the New York Times or the Washington Post. | ||
| It's basically, you can almost think of it like OPEC, a kind of, instead of an oil cartel, they basically have constructed a news industry cartel. | ||
| They also have these real-time tracking centers now in order to censor information in real time. | ||
| And if folks remember, there was a big scandal about the opening ceremony of the Olympics and many people in the West feeling like it was a betrayal of traditional values or the traditional aesthetics or optics or values emanating from the Olympics. | ||
| Elon Musk commented. | ||
| Many people on the populist right all around the world did. | ||
| And so NewsGuard's response was to open up a misinformation tracking center to track | ||
| misinformation about the Olympics. | ||
| And that then gets filtered into their rating of online news companies. | ||
| So basically if you had the wrong opinion on the Olympics, you have a censorship gargoyle | ||
| with its board of advisors including a former head of, general secretary of NATO, a former | ||
| head of the CIA, former head of the NSA, former four-star general, former State Department | ||
| diplomat and former DHS secretary. | ||
| So we used to call this Operation Mockingbird. | ||
| Now it's just called News Guard. | ||
| But it's all the way down to your opinion on the Olympics. | ||
| They cite the accounts in news sites that that ridiculed the drag queen at the opening ceremony, | ||
| or who pointed out the crime-ridden nature of contemporary Paris. | ||
| But the other thing that's nasty is NewsGuard is deeply connected to the EU Digital Services Act | ||
| and the threat letter against Elon Musk today. | ||
| NewsGuard has a misinformation tracking center for the EU parliamentary elections. | ||
| They're a signatory to the EU revised code of practice on disinformation and basically act as a sort of de facto lobbying for increased European censorship laws. | ||
| This is a US censorship firm with military intelligence and statecraft high ranking officials | ||
| all on its board of advisors. | ||
| So this is a very nasty brew, but it illustrates how this EU threat letter | ||
| is really coming, news card together with many others, | ||
| but from a cabal within the United States itself to use international government censorship laws | ||
| to do the dirty work that's banned under the US First Amendment. | ||
| Certainly, I'm sure people are gonna want Mike Benz, if people want to follow you, support the Foundation for Freedom Online, get that report and so much more. | ||
| Where can they go to do that? | ||
| My ex-handle is at MikeBenzCyber. | ||
| That's probably the best place because I post probably 50 times a day there. | ||
| But then also our foundation's website is FoundationForFreedomOnline.com. | ||
| Mike, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| Thanks, Natalie. | ||
| We're joined by Congressman Bob Good, who you guys and your colleagues are in a tough position thanks to the poor negotiation skills, or maybe I should say intentionally, poor negotiation skills of none other than Kevin McCarthy, it seems like. | ||
| Deja vu, we're already barreling towards another funding deadline, October 1st, is it? | ||
| You guys, speaking kind of on behalf of the House Freedom Caucus, have come out in support of, what is it, a stopgap measure? | ||
| Can you kind of walk the audience through the timeline of events, where you guys stand, and what you're advocating for? | ||
| Well, thank you for having me. | ||
| The number one responsibility of the House is the power of the purse, the responsibility of funding the federal government, implementing our priorities by what we fund or what we don't fund, and protecting the nation's fiscal integrity. | ||
| And obviously, we've fallen far short of that for decades. | ||
| It's been decades since we passed all 12 required appropriation bills before the September 30 government funding deadline where after which theoretically at least there's a partial or a temporary government shutdown really just means a non-essential government services cease until the government is appropriately funded but two years ago the Democrats didn't when they had full control of Congress didn't pass any of our spending bills by September Last year, because of the influence of the House Freedom Caucus, we did pass four by September 30. | ||
| Ultimately, because we only passed four instead of 12, that's what led to the former Speaker McCarthy being removed as Speaker. | ||
| This year, we have already passed five, but the current Speaker, Mike Johnson, when he became Speaker last October, promised we would not have the August traditional district work period. | ||
| He wouldn't send us back to our districts if we didn't pass all 12 spending bills. | ||
| But again, we've only passed five. | ||
| There's seven remaining. | ||
| We should have stayed in Washington. | ||
| We should be in Washington passing bills that reflect Republican priorities, that reverse the harmful policies that are destroying the country that are still in place from Biden, Pelosi and Schumer's regime when they had full control of government. | ||
| And we ought to obviously be cutting our spending and then having a fight with the Senate and then have some kind of a meeting in the middle that reflect the fact that we control one half of the legislative branch. | ||
| And because we're unlikely to do that, because the Speaker doesn't want to have a fight over the spending, doesn't want to have a fight over the funding priorities, and doesn't want to risk a government shutdown. | ||
| He demonstrated that already with the continuing resolutions that were passed after he became Speaker. | ||
| What the House Freedom Caucus is taking a position saying, well then let's avoid a Christmas omnibus like happened two years ago in the last lame duck. | ||
| We had a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, some 2,000 pages, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi working together to screw the American people before the last Congress exited the door. | ||
| And to avoid that, let's fund the government with a CR, continuing resolution, into the first quarter of next year. | ||
| So that the people's will, as expressed in the November 5 election, is reflected by how the government is funded next year. | ||
| That means, Lord willing, a President Trump, a Republican House, a Republican Senate would implement our spending priorities and our spending levels instead of what the Democrats would do now if we allow them to do it. | ||
| So let's fund the government now before the expiration at September 30, fund it through the first quarter, And let's attach Chip Royce's bill, the SAVE Act, which would help prevent illegals from voting in the November 5th election because it would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. | ||
| So this story coming out in the New York Times today, how the rate at which people are being granted citizenship requests, I think, is the fastest in a decade. | ||
| The buried lead of the story in the little synopsis, the New York Times says, and these new citizens, they just can't wait to vote in November. | ||
| I think that's saying the quiet part out loud. | ||
| But is that really the messaging that you guys are going to be honing in on in terms of illegals voting? | ||
| And how can the posse help you guys Amplify that message. | ||
| Is it calling their representatives? | ||
| How can they do what they did so expertly with Kevin McCarthy? | ||
| Yes, for 30 years now, since 1993, when Clinton was in office, you've not been permitted to require proof of citizenship to register to vote. | ||
| Imagine that. | ||
| You can't require proof of citizenship to register to vote. | ||
| It is illegal for illegals, non-citizens, to vote in U.S. | ||
| elections, federal elections, but there's no real enforcement to that effect because, again, we don't have proof of citizenship. | ||
| So what everyone needs to do is call upon, particularly the Republican rep, or if they're in a tight state, in a swing district, I should say, Or a border district, they need to call on their Democrat representative to support funding the government until the first quarter and attaching the SAVE Act to that. | ||
| How can Democrats vote against funding the government just because they want to allow illegals to vote? | ||
| Well, we know the real reason is because these illegals streaming across the border are unregistered Democrats, or so they believe, and that's why they don't want to have proof of citizenship. | ||
| But we've got to do our best to try to secure the election, and that way to do that, to help do that, is certainly to prevent illegals from voting. | ||
| So in terms of, you know, stopping illegals from voting, part of it that we focus on in the show is the outright fraud, right? | ||
| Non-citizens voting. | ||
| But in terms of the fight for kind of the legalized fraud, whether it's the dark money groups, the NGO, | ||
| the Zuckerbergs, the Center for Tech and Civic Lives of the world, that though they claim | ||
| they're sort of defunct now or they've rebranded, we know they haven't stopped. | ||
| Have you seen any meaningful pushback or fight coming from your colleagues to really wrangle in that | ||
| spending because it's just as much a threat, I would argue, | ||
| as non-citizens voting? | ||
| Or is that just an issue that it's not a priority for Speaker Johnson, Ukraine funding | ||
| and going on vacation is? | ||
| Unfortunately, the latter is the case. | ||
| Because Republicans have not been willing to have a shutdown fight over the border, | ||
| have not been willing to have a shutdown fight over spending, | ||
| have not been willing to have a shutdown fight over our priorities that we told the American people we | ||
| would implement if they gave us the House majority. | ||
| And so you have what we have today with the government funding and the priorities, the spending parties that are in place, are those that we inherited when we got elected in November of 22 and were sworn into office in January of 23. | ||
| So we've still got the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer policies funding transgenderism, funding abortion, | ||
| funding climate extremism, funding diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory. | ||
| Funding these terrible policies that we run against are still in place because Republicans | ||
| have not been willing to fight. | ||
| And a matter of fact, in the spending bills that were passed this past year, the continued | ||
| resolutions, we actually gave Secretary Mayorkas a $3 billion raise so he could bring more | ||
| illegals into the country more quickly. | ||
| And Republicans have let the American people down, and we needed a way that we can do that. | ||
| If we were to pass now a preemptive funding of the government through the first quarter | ||
| into next year, then it's on to the Democrats in the Senate. | ||
| Are they going to keep the government open and agree to that continued resolution? | ||
| Are they going to shut it down because they don't want to prevent illegals from voting | ||
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if we attach a safe ax to that bill? | |
| And Congressman, just real quick, too, I know the Posse is very maniacally focused on, of | ||
| course, the assassination attempt on President Trump. | ||
| You guys have sort of started your task force. | ||
| I don't really know how y'all are doing that working from home. | ||
| There doesn't seem to be a lot of confidence given how the track record most of your investigations have gone. | ||
| But from your insights, you know, where do you think that investigation is going? | ||
| Well, I'll say again, the Speaker should not have sent us back to our districts because we hadn't passed the spending bills, but he also should have kept that task force in D.C. | ||
| to work 24-7 around the clock. | ||
| Everyone that's on that task force requests to be on that task force, and he should have kept them in D.C. | ||
| or in the field in Butler, Pennsylvania or wherever they needed to be to get their work done as quickly as possible to find out what the breakdown was with the Secret Service. | ||
| Everything we hear about it is more concerning than what we heard the previous day. | ||
| There's good people like my friend Clay Higgins from Louisiana who is on that task force. | ||
| I know he's going to do excellent work on that task force. | ||
| But the Speaker should have kept them in D.C. | ||
| He also should have kept the committees of jurisdiction in D.C. | ||
| to investigate and to hold accountable those who are letting those riots take place. | ||
| Congressman, if people want to follow you, kind of stay up to date with you on this fight that is so important, I think this is where the war room posse shines. | ||
| federal property, there was destruction of property, we should have stayed in DC to hold | ||
| those people accountable as well. | ||
| Congressman, if people want to follow you, kind of stay up to date with you on this fight | ||
| that is so important, I think this is where the war room posse shines, where can they | ||
| go to do that? | ||
| Good.house.gov, at Rep. Bob Good on social media, and BobGoodforCongress.com. | ||
| Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Great to be with you. | ||
| Of course, we'll have you on soon. | ||
| And Warren Posse, like I was talking earlier in this segment, election interference and lawfare takes many forms. | ||
| I think one of the earliest is, of course, pandemic and public health crises. | ||
| Of course, the experts in public health who are vaccinated and boosted six times over seem to contract COVID three times. | ||
| But like I said, don't forget the World Health Organization has just announced that it's now determining and trying to kind of dole out emergency use authorization for monkeypox vaccines. | ||
| This of course, Coming on the other side of this kind of renewed push that a bird flu pandemic is going to materialize. | ||
| It was just a week ago that the WHO in coordination with this Gates-linked globalist NGO group called CEPI Put out a press release saying that we need to be better prepared for pandemics. | ||
| Are you paying attention yet? | ||
| That's what we call predictive programming here in the war room. | ||
| You should also check out Patriot mobile. | ||
| You can go to patriot mobile.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Get nice deal. | ||
| I think it's 15% off a free month of service, something like that. | ||
| But like we always say in the warm, it's great to give. | ||
| Your money to companies that don't hate you for daring to question the results of the 2020 election. | ||
| And hey, it's looking like the 2024 election might require some of that too. | ||
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We'll be joined by Bruce Wade after the break. | |
| That's the bottom line. | ||
| We will not take a single back step. | ||
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White has a controversial past, including family. | |
| White is a controversial and unconventional candidate for Republicans to endure. | ||
| There was a great bumper sticker to sell an issue. | ||
| Minnesota's governor backing Biden. | ||
| Is he fit for office? | ||
| I think he's fit for office. | ||
| Yes, fit for office. | ||
| As someone who has spent significant amount of time with Joe Biden, he is up for this job. | ||
| He's sharp, he's engaged, he pushes us for information. | ||
| To make America so, make America what it is, think about it. | ||
| Every single solitary person eligible for what I'm doing. | ||
| Everything we have to deal with. | ||
| So I've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. | ||
| And now, the baton is in our hands. | ||
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I am now officially the Democratic nominee. | |
| Kamala Harris has made a decision for her running mate. | ||
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Her pick is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. | |
| This election is not about me. | ||
| This is about the idea of being America first. | ||
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And there's something wrong with the school there at first. | |
| We're joined by Royce White now. | ||
| Tomorrow is a big day for Minnesota. | ||
| Royce, kind of make your last pitch to the posse. | ||
| Walk us through what looks like a realistic, I think, outcome for victory for you in the broader MAGA movement tomorrow on many levels and many races. | ||
| Yeah, well, winning here during the state convention and the endorsement with the blessing of our fearless leader Steve Bannon was a huge victory, a huge shift in the momentum of the party at the grassroots level in our state. | ||
| and we're hopeful that tomorrow will be another sign of that shift of our party and of this movement. | ||
| You know, the difference between me and my opponent is my opponent is a neocon. | ||
| He's a forever war neocon and he admits it openly. | ||
| And he's one of those, you know, run of the mill, you know, central casting Republicans that, you know, | ||
| gets run all over this country to lose. | ||
| And what they say are deep blue territories like Minnesota. | ||
| We're seeing at the presidential level, the polling is great for Donald Trump, and there's no reason that that shouldn't be reflective in our Senate race as well. | ||
| So, you know, we have a huge task ahead of us to beat Amy Klobuchar, but it's possible. | ||
| And if you don't believe that, and this goes for Republicans all across the country, if you don't believe we can win, then there's a problem with our faith, not the Satanists and the Communists. | ||
| As far as CD5 goes, there's a special strategy taking place in CD5. | ||
| Laura Loomer and myself spoke about it this past weekend, where if you are in CD5, if you are in Ilhan Omar's district, She only won her last primary in 2022 by about 2,000 votes, so we're asking that Republican-registered Republicans cross over in an open primary, which is legal, and cast their vote for Don Samuels, her primary opponent, and to be sure that they cannot cast a vote for me at the statewide level and Don Samuels. | ||
| They have to either vote in the Democrat primary or the Republican primary, be it the The patriot that I am, I'm willing to sacrifice those votes down there in CD5 to see Ilhan taken out. | ||
| Royce, one more time. | ||
| Tomorrow, for people who live in Minnesota, what can they do to support you and, like I said, support all the MAGA candidates down ballot? | ||
| Yeah, well, spread the word. | ||
| The force multiplier is still going to be the best way for us to get things done tonight, even tomorrow morning. | ||
| Make sure you text, call, email everybody that you know. | ||
| Don't assume that they understand what's on the ballot or who's on the ballot. | ||
| Make sure that you spread the word and obviously make sure that you go and you cast your vote if you're in CD5. | ||
| Don Samuels, so we can get Ilhan Omar out during this primary process. | ||
| If you're in the rest of the state, Royce White for U.S. | ||
| Senate. | ||
| That'd be a nice win. | ||
| I like the sound of former Congressman Ilhan Omar. | ||
| Royce White, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on soon to walk us through the results. | ||
| Until then, good luck. | ||
| Action, action, action to the war room posse. | ||
| Thank you, Natalie. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| You too, of course. | ||
| We're joined by Mike Lindell, who has some breaking news. | ||
| Apparently Keith Ellison, who also has some interesting ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, but I digress, doesn't like what you guys are doing at the Lindell Foundation and the Lindell Recovery Network. | ||
| Can you walk us through how you're, yet again, a victim of lawfare? | ||
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Yes, it is really. | |
| It's disgusting, everybody. | ||
| If Steve was out for this one, he would be going crazy right now. | ||
| He'd love the LyndaleRecoveryNetwork.org. | ||
| I set it up years ago. | ||
| I put in millions of dollars of my own money into it to help addicts. | ||
| It's free. | ||
| It's online. | ||
| I just got off the phone with my lawyers. | ||
| He just served his papers in a corporate office in Minnesota. | ||
| He's going after it. | ||
| There's all these questions. | ||
| It's almost like an audit about the Recovery Network. | ||
| He's going to be in for a rude awakening. | ||
| I'm the only one that's never put money in there other than a few dollars, maybe $500 or $5,000 over the past years. | ||
| And I put millions into it and it's free and it helps addicts. | ||
| So I don't know what he's up to in the foundation. | ||
| Same way with that. | ||
| So it's just to me, it's another attack, another distraction to try and keep me away from getting, addressing our elections, our election platforms. | ||
| By the way, everybody go there at Lyndellplan.com. | ||
| We're never going to let up on this, everybody, and we're going to We look forward to next week. | ||
| We're going to be at the Democrat Convention. | ||
| Frank's speech all week long in Chicago. | ||
| We're just planning that today, too. | ||
| They can attack all they want, Natalie, but we're going to keep fighting and we're going to keep giving out deals with my pillow. | ||
| Anybody that watched the CNN piece last night, it was like, Let's go after my pillow. | ||
| Let's go after my pillow. | ||
| They're using promo codes. | ||
| Well, yes, we are. | ||
| We've been using them for 15 years. | ||
| That's how we track sales and how we give you great specials, like the one here at the War Room Posse. | ||
| Today, we've expanded the one with Peter Navarro, the big R pillow, the body pillow that's two pillows in one. | ||
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| These are our classic collection. | ||
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| Use that promo code WARROOM, and there's all the exclusive War Room Posse towel specials. | ||
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From beach towels to bath towels to kitchen towels, it's all there. | |
| And our biggest special of our new product is our My Mattress Topper. | ||
| Free setup for kale sheets and free shipping, everybody. | ||
| Use that promo code WARROOMFIGHTBACK. | ||
| It's a win-win-win. | ||
| You're supporting my pillow and my employees. | ||
| You're supporting those call center people, 800-873-1062. | ||
| Remember, they were attacked last year that they couldn't work from home. | ||
| Well, we won those cases. | ||
| We can work from home. | ||
| And it's disgusting. | ||
| They keep coming after us. | ||
| But you guys, this is a win-win-win. | ||
| My pillow, the war room. | ||
| We're going to break records by Steve's end. | ||
| We promised them. | ||
| And they're going to help you get the best sleep ever! | ||
| It means you're just over the target like we are always here in the War Room. | ||
| Mike Lindell, thank you for joining us. | ||
| Warren Posse, thanks for hanging with me. | ||
| Tomorrow I think we're going to be joined by a whistleblower from a congressional committee, the one on the debacle that happened in Afghanistan. | ||
| How Republican leadership is failing yet again. |
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