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WarRoom Battleground EP 599: Ballot Warfare
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steve bannon
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.
It's not about Tim Walz, right?
natalie winters
You're up against a system that frankly is funded primarily by dark black money, right?
That you can't really even see.
It's not about Harris.
And I think we've seen the politicization of elections, sort of election warfare in a sense.
And I think you're already starting to see Frankly, what I would argue, smoke signals from the establishment media when it comes to shenanigans, eccentricities, whatever you want to call it, around the election in the sense that they're already starting to say there's shortages of election workers.
They're already starting to say that you need to expect delays in election results.
That's a direct headline from the Washington Post, at least when it comes to Pennsylvania.
I mean Cobb County in Georgia is spending $50,000 taxpayer dollars to buy panic buttons
for election workers.
Talk about stolen valor and LARPing.
But there's this narrative that's developing that election offices, election workers, elections
as an institution, right?
Sort of I think the logical extension of the democracy critique of President Trump are
under attack.
And I think that that is a narrative independent of Kamala and what she's saying that RSI needs
to take very seriously because it's not really about the polls and the sense of Kamala versus
Trump who can handle inflation better, who can handle immigration better.
You're dealing with a highly politicized election that is about to start soon, and mail-in ballot signature verification.
All of that is going to be something that I think has much more considerable weight
in terms of impacting the election than any speech or policy platform or position that they could put out.
Welcome to War Room Battleground. It's Friday, August 23rd in the year of our Lord 2024.
Now we're going to start off this very serious show by addressing the elephant in the room,
which is that yes, I'm wearing the same dress.
It's because I'm traveling and I wasn't expecting to do this show, but nonetheless, here we are.
We're rolling with it.
Nice blue dress, maybe hat tip to Monica Lewinsky.
Now, apparently, I don't know if you guys saw this, one of the speakers at the DNC, they said, we don't stand for sexual assault.
We don't think that anyone who talks about that should be affirmed or have platforms.
That was the night after they had Bill Clinton give his wonderful address, but I guess the Democratic Party is It's full of hypocrisy, but as easy as it is to mock them as, you know, bumbling, cackling, vapid idiots or wine moms, whatever line of attack and angle of attack you want to go with, there's also a very serious threat there.
I think we're so accustomed to the politics of a person.
In other words, our RNC, our Republican Party, is shaped so intimately around President Trump, as it should be.
But the Democrats are dealing with the politics, or rather the power of politics, right?
The power of an institution that is the Democratic Party.
And you see this, I think, evidenced in the fact that it was 19 times in the DNC codified platform that they referred to a potential Harris administration as a second Biden term.
And sure, you could chalk that up to just crappy copywriters over at the DNC, but I also think there's a metaphorical significance there, which is that the people, the players, are interchangeable within the democratic apparatus so much
so that they can run effectively dead people, cadavers known as Joe Biden who
are compromised beyond belief, or woefully unpopular people who even when they beta test
them through their own electoral processes and primary season like Kamala Harris, they'll
still ram down the throats of their voters because it doesn't matter because they know that they have
backup.
The cavalry is coming in the form of election fraud.
And I say that word intentionally.
Sometimes it's actual outright, you know, illegal fraud, but it's also sort of this category, which I would almost classify as legalized fraud.
And I think you guys have seen that, particularly in the 2020 election, when you're dealing with the Zuckerberg type groups, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, all of these shady NGOs that are plowing billions of dark money dollars To not just privatize the election, I think that's too euphemistic a term, but to really astroturf and artificially manipulate how our elections are run.
And I think that that is the genius, right, of President Donald J. Trump.
He has blown up and shown how politicized, how weaponized so many facets of this country are.
Not that we didn't know before, we all had that inkling, but it's just so in your face,
right, whether it's the politicization of the Secret Service, the mainstream media,
the political debate committees.
But I even think you see that with the administration of elections here in this country.
So why I wanted to do this show, you guys know I deal in the Democrat axiom that is
you accuse your enemies of what you're guilty of, right?
Like I say, they held their frickin' convention in Chicago.
Saul Alinsky is a mentor to all these people.
Hillary Clinton, Obama, you name it.
That's one of his guiding axioms, and I think you see it every day with the democracy narrative, so much so that you see one of the DNC's premier speakers accusing us of being the crazy ones because we're apparently weaponizing the judicial system to go after our opponents.
I think that's you guys.
I think that's actually probably why I'm sitting here in this chair filling in for Stephen K. Bannon.
But I digress.
But I saw this article pop up in The Guardian about a week ago.
It was titled, A Different Level Than 2020.
Trump's Plan to Steal Election is Taking Shape.
Now, they quote Mark Elias, because of course, the legal hatchet man for the left, who was recently just brought back into the fold, joining the Harris kind of election integrity team.
Like I said, always accuse your enemy of what you're guilty of.
Election integrity is doing quite the heavy lift there.
But I encourage you guys to read this article.
Because if you go through it, you look at the experts that they're citing and they're talking to, they're all saying that basically we are going to do what the Democrats did in 2020.
So much so to the point they cite an expert from the Soros-funded Brennan Center.
They're hanging the hooks to later hang their hat on.
Now what is Sean Morales-Doyle of that wonderful left-wing think tank talking about?
He's basically saying, and they're honing in particularly on this Georgia election law, which we'll get into because that was sort of the spark that lit the fuse on this whole thing, but they're saying that we're trying to create narratives that the election is insecure, that the election is not going to be verifiable because non-citizens will be voting, and that that's how we're going to have, you know, another January 6th type either in practice or just Ideologically, or at least on the court level, the local level, come to fruition again.
Now, why this is so interesting, like I said, they deal in projection.
And if you continue to go through this article, it really is so wild, some of the quotes, and I'll read some of them again.
These are all coming from the Mark Eliases of the world, accusing this is what our side is guilty of doing.
It's all part of creating sort of a pretext to say, oh, we need to throw out this set of ballots, or we can't really know who the real winner is.
I think much of it won't stick, but I think the point is to have enough of it stick to
create enough uncertainty for that critical post-election period, to which I would say
to this individual from another Soros-funded non-profit, I would love to see a left-wing
article that doesn't go right to quoting people from Soros World, but then I think you'd probably
just see a test pattern.
But we should be throwing out votes if they're from non-citizens and there's no chain of
custody and it's not verifiable.
There's nothing ridiculous about that.
But what this shows you is they're accusing us of creating this sort of systemic campaign that there is going to be election fraud, there's going to be irregularities, so much so that we're going to have to contest the election results.
Now, the polls all suggest that they're going to be the ones who are going to be doing the contesting of election results, right?
So it's an interesting accusation to be making.
And what really tipped me off in this, I know we had Cleta Mitchell on the show discussing the law change that they had in the county election level in Georgia.
Now, really, the big smoking gun there So much so that it prompted Rachel Maddow to come out writing an op-ed in the New York Times.
You want signal not noise.
They are rolling out, wheeling out their most sacred cow to write to be the frontline of defense on this issue.
It's of course Rachel Maddow.
But they don't like this law because it's going to give, it's going to frankly empower election officials to have more time To verify ballots and not certify the election just instantaneously.
Now, for people who I think support democracy, like the left claims to, I think the logical question there would be, what are you guys so afraid of us uncovering if we have more, if we have an extended version or timer to actually go through and verify ballots, right?
It's sort of a Asinine, I think, policy position and conclusion for them to come to, which you compound, and I think it gets quite interesting, with this already predetermined narrative that people like myself, people like you, people like our production staff, we're all crazy conspiracy theorists because we're questioning the election results.
We're questioning the integrity of elections.
Well, I would think you would want as much transparency and as much sunlight as possible, right?
But no, and I think that's where you really start to see the sinister nature of this whole play kind of roll out.
Even so much so, you guys know, my background is in Chinese Communist Party infiltration, but they engage in the same information warfare and psychological warfare, manipulative tactics that the Chinese Communist Party does.
I mean, you even get that, I think, in the headline of Rachel Maddow's article, particularly on this Georgia issue.
What worries me most about election night?
Rachel, you should be worried about a lot on election night.
I think the least of your concerns is going to be the patriots that are down in Georgia making sure that, say, you lived in that state, your ballot was not stolen by an illegal alien, and that the signature that you put on there, well, it was actually verified and belonged to you.
Now, this is part of a much broader trend, but like I said, the Georgia stuff is what they're really pouncing on.
But this goes back really just to the heels of the 2020 election.
Now, back in 2023, you already started to see a barrage of stories coming from CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, The Washington Post.
This is the CNN headline.
A tide of election worker resignations raises alarms ahead of 2024.
Now, if you go through and read this article, it's your fault that these weak, spineless, feckless election officials are stepping down because they're scared that they got a strongly worded letter from you guys.
Now, I think we should definitely take the blame, or I would say credit, for making all those feckless Republicans up on Capitol Hill step down and not run in their primaries again.
Looking at you, Kevin McCarthy.
But when it comes to these election officials, I mean, that's an absolutely absurd narrative.
You guys always, as Steve says, color within the lines, but they know that that's not even
true.
They're just throwing that out there.
But what they're trying to make, I think, the play with that article and that whole
narrative, which like I said, turn on MSNBC, you'll see it blasted all over the place now.
It's that there are going to be shortages in election workers.
There's going to be shortages in people who can verify signatures.
There's going to be shortages in whatever else operations that they're running, and
And that is going to cause delays, right?
And we know that it is in that delay, it is in that time period where they always seem to find ballots that, like I always say, seem to only go one way with statistical patterns and figures that are more anomalous than getting struck by lightning 18 times in a row or, you know, Thomas Matthew Crooks making it up on the roof.
Oh, wait, that happened.
But I guess if the Secret Service is in on it, maybe that's why.
When it comes to the delays, you're already starting to see the logical extension of this narrative be plastered across the mainstream media.
The Washington Post running the headline just a few weeks ago, Pennsylvania presidential election results could again take days to count.
Florida came out with a similar story not too long ago, and this is compounded by the fact that we're going to be relying on mail-in ballots.
Now this story, again, state election, this is an AP, state election directors fear the
Postal Service can't handle expected crush of mail-in ballots.
And it talks about how all the state and local officials, the bad ones, are warning the evil
postmaster general that was appointed by President Trump, kept by Biden, that he hasn't done
his job and that there's going to be significant delays.
Ergo, oh no, we're going to have delays in election results.
And I think that this story in and of itself, there's a lot of buried leads.
One is that whenever, for instance, I will probably get so much blowback from doing this
I'm sure everyone in left-wing Twitter will quote tweet me whatever.
I could care less.
Share my Big Mike rant too.
But it's very interesting because when I dare to talk about election integrity, or even I remember back when we were at Lindell Cyber Symposium and we read directly from the 2018 report that Nancy Pelosi commissioned about how our election machines could be hacked by foreign countries and we're connected to the internet and we're very vulnerable, when we repeat those talking points, we're demeaned as conspiracy theorists, as crazy people, right?
But it's very interesting how the media can engage in a coordinated campaign to systematically undermine the faith of Americans in their election systems by saying there's going to be delays, shortages in election workers, there's so many threats.
Oh no!
Panic button!
We'll get to that in a second.
But it's very interesting too because in this article, the variable that they identify and call out and really hone in on as being the problem is that there's going to be delays in mail-in balloting.
Now, any logical person, I think, would come to the conclusion, if you weren't so
reliant on that form of voting to win elections by, you know, fraudulently winning them,
that you would then explore the efficacy of mail-in balloting holistically, right?
You would say, well, actually, if there's going to be delays in the mail process, maybe we shouldn't use vote by mail.
The fact that it's rife with fraud and that any country that's ever adopted it has basically put it to bed and killed it because it doesn't work.
It allows for mass fraud, though I guess that's probably why they want it here.
But there's never any meaningful discussion of that, right?
It's just sort of an interesting, I think, critique, at least coming from me, of how the media covers election issues.
and that they point out these problems, but they never actually try to get into the solution,
which to me means that there are journalists, there are narratives that they're developing
in these newsrooms where they want to undermine the confidence in this election,
because like that Brennan Center expert said in that Guardian article that we started with,
they're hanging the hooks to later hang their hats on.
Though I guess maybe for Democrats, it would be more applicable to say
they're hanging the hooks to later hang their masks on, maybe masks and hats, but to the level to which they're
going to perpetrate.
Like I said, this is psychological warfare.
This is information warfare.
One of my favorite stories, which came out around the same time that the, you know, blasphemous Georgia election law of giving our elected officials more time to verify ballots.
Imagine that.
Now, this is this is psychological warfare.
If I've ever seen it, this is the headline.
Local Georgia officials equip election workers with panic buttons to combat rising threats.
Now, I know Tim Walz, I guess, made Stolen Valor and LARPing cool, but I don't think election workers need panic buttons.
You guys should check out this article.
It's on NBC.
They have pictures of the little lanyards.
They're, first of all, very cringe.
But I want to read from this specific article because you can see the way that they are framing this story.
To elicit as much fear as possible and make you guys, the MAGA, the grassroots types, the ballot, you know, the mule watchers, the people who want to be poll watchers, seem absolutely crazy.
So much so that to your low-information voter, it's going to seem like we're coming in and trying to steal the election, when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
But I'll read this story.
Cobb County, Georgia approved nearly $50,000 to purchase the devices, which allowed poll workers to quickly alert authorities and emergencies ahead of the presidential
election.
The two companies partnered nearly a month ago to sell the panic buttons to election
workers this year and are already in talks to sell 1,500 badges in at least five states.
Runbeck, which is the company, approached its existing clients and has been presenting
the product at statewide election conferences.
We thought maybe 10 or 20 counties would show interest, and it's been every county or state
that we've talked to has shown interest in this."
The phrasing of that quote is a little off, I'd humbly posit.
Runbeck CEO Jeff Ellington said in an interview, "...the absolute absurdity of getting panic buttons for
election workers..."
Being run in NBC News to the point where they're spending taxpayer dollars, they're making the CEO jump up and down to say that, oh, every county that we've been in talks with, though I see the contracts, I don't see any other county buying them, saying that they need panic buttons.
That shows you the level to which they are committed to commemorating and reifying this narrative.
That MAGA is the issue when it comes to election integrity, when it comes to election security.
And I want to for a second just go on the meta level here because everything is interlinked as you guys know.
The World Economic Forum, the United Nations, I believe there was an op-ed in the 2020 election cycle.
I think it was maybe in the Atlantic where someone called for actually the UN to come in and be election observers.
Not quite.
I guess we're blessed with having the Carter Center.
For those of you who know, that's the Chinese Communist Party, Soros, Pfizer-funded Carter Center, eponymous Jimmy Carter.
Be election watchers in only swing states here in the United States.
Conveniently interesting, particularly Georgia and Arizona.
Oh, they're also election observers in, you guessed it, Venezuela and China.
Sponsoring the diplomatic mission that BLM leaders went to Venezuela on in 2015 to certify Chavez's electoral victory.
They're saying, oh, the way they run their elections there, it's actually really great.
They also use smartmatic machines.
Sure, no coincidences there.
The same company whose CEO I think was just indicted for money laundering, right?
Yeah, interesting.
But to the point of pull, or rather, I want to stay on the globalism thread for a second.
I got too excited because I was gonna start talking about Adam Kinzinger, but The World Economic Forum just a week ago put up a story saying that we need to expect a quote, era of shock events.
Now, I'm all for being prepared, right?
But it's sort of interesting when whether it's event 201 or even a 2021 monkeypox pandemic simulation, when all these simulations that all these so-called experts that we're supposed to trust are in on, Keep materializing and happening in real life.
Yet when the you-know-what actually hits the fan, it seems like no one actually knows what they're doing.
The only way we craft a response to those emergencies is so Big Pharma can maximize their profits.
But one of the events that the World Economic Forum forewarned of was a cyber security pandemic.
Interesting choice of words.
EM- that's in the headline.
That's intentional.
They don't specify whose intentions in the article.
They also say that climate change is causing young people to have eco-anxiety that's going to make them suicidal, whatever the heck that means.
But like I'm saying, you're just seeing it coming in from all angles and all directions.
When the World Economic Forum is warning you that an intentional cyber pandemic is coming just ahead of the 2024 election, I would take that very, very seriously.
And like I was discussing with Adam Kinzinger in the 5 p.m.
edition of War Room, And Kerry Washington, two speakers at the DNC last night, final night.
That means they're of some consequence, though I would argue not really of much consequence.
They are co-chairing a group, an initiative led by Power the Polls, which is funded by, you guessed it, George Soros, and they are now actively advising election offices On how to select poll workers.
Now, do you understand the complications and, frankly, consequence of that?
In other words, they have the ear of election offices across the country on who they get to choose to serve as poll watchers.
You guys may recall, I believe it was last week, I had a guest on The War Room, Scott Hounsell, who worked on the 2010 DA race for Kamala Harris in California.
Now, that night, they had a margin of victory of 10 percentage points.
And only through challenging signatures or the lack thereof of challenging these signatures, that margin of victory was whittled down I think in just a few hours to about I think it went to 30,000 votes when it was 100,000 or above that.
And Harris ended up winning by a margin of 0.8%.
Again, only through ballot warfare, right?
I would love to be in a position where we could sit here and just talk about polls and candidate quality and say, oh, well, Trump is so much better at handling the economy than Kamala is, so people are going to vote for him.
It's so obvious.
It's clear cut.
We've already won.
Go take a Brad Parr-scale type vacation.
No.
But we can't, because that's not how these elections are being adjudicated.
I don't think polls fundamentally matter, because even if they actually reflect the
sentiment of the American people, they're not translated accurately in the current election
system that we have.
So all of these sort of...
Again, you guys might think I'm crazy.
I remember it was a few years ago, I was sitting in that chair over there and Steve looked at me and was like, pattern recognition.
You're like Rain Man.
And I had never seen the movie, so I just like laughed on air and I was like, oh, thank you.
I later realized, sort of a snub in some ways, but also a compliment.
But the best way that you can understand, not just what the domestic elite here, but what the global elite is doing, is by what stories make it into the mainstream media fold.
Right?
Because it's not just that they lie to us.
They engage in lies of omission, particularly when it comes to the timeline and timing of things.
And to now, all of a sudden, see stories talking about how there's going to be Delays in mail-in balloting, there's going to be shortages of election workers, there's going to be threats to election workers, so much so that they need these gaudy panic buttons around their chest.
It all converges to create the narrative, which then very quickly, because they control all the institutions, then becomes reality.
That is, it is election night.
They say there's delays.
They bring in whatever ballots they find.
I'm sure they're probably all going to be belonging to non-citizens, even those, the dead people, whatever, you know, choose your category.
I know they're very diverse in who they choose to scam out of their vote.
Maybe it's been you before.
But they'll find those votes, and they'll do exactly what Harris did in that 2010 race.
They won't verify the signatures.
I mean, they're freaking out because Arizona has voter ID laws now, but that's how they're going to pull this off.
And the way that we're going to combat it, which I'm going to get into after the break, because there is a way, like I say, there's brains and people much smarter than me to get into this.
I think if I bring anything to the table, it's my media analysis and just understanding how these psyops work, given my work with the Chinese Communist Party, not with them, but against them.
So I just want to raise the red flags now.
That what we are seeing is the same sort of warning signs and smoke signals and weird telegraphic esoteric elite speak that they are getting ready to say there are going to be massive delays in election results and that mail-in ballots are going to be a driving force behind this.
but that also you guys MAGA are going to be squarely to blame and the narrative that they're
running with is because we're so spooked and freaked out about non-citizens voting, which
I always think it's interesting in the tell, at least to me with the left on these kind of
narrative-based issues, is that when they don't ever advance a solution, they just attack us for
being crazy or a conspiracy theorist. That's when you know that we're actually correct.
For example, if you actually really get nuanced in their critiques of the Great Replacement Theory, it's not actually that they say we're wrong demographically, they just say it's racist.
And that's the same thing that they're doing with voter ID laws.
So like I said, you're seeing these converging narratives come all the way through, whether it's The mail-in balloting, the delays, the intimidation and fear tactics, which make no mistake, they will use that last one, probably the penultimate one too, to try to keep MAGA out of the counting room, away from the signature verification.
But it's very important that we start raising the red flags and sounding the alarm bells now because we cannot let them have the pretext or lay the predicate or create that hook that they can hang their hat, their mask, whatever cheeky turn of phrase you want to use, on to say, we warned you, there were going to be delays.
We want to be able, and like I said, I'm going to get into this in the next block, To have the evidence, to have contacted your election officials, to have contacted your representatives to say, you guys don't have shortages of mail-in ballots.
We're not going to have a repeat of what happened in Arizona, right, in the 2022 election when they said, oh yeah, just give us your vote in this tray and we promise it's totally going to go to the candidate you voted for.
We know that didn't happen.
But we need to start laying the groundwork now because I'm telling you, Congress is not going to do it.
I like the SAVE Act, but there's a lot more that needs to be done than just the SAVE Act.
We're going to be right back after this short break.
unidentified
We'll be right back.
Bye.
natalie winters
Welcome back to the War Room.
I don't know about you guys, I'm having a lot of fun doing this.
Next time, I promise, I will not be wearing this dress.
I was up very early for a flight.
Like I said, I only had this to wear, but alas, here we are.
I guess when your media outlet is not funded by George Soros, you know, sometimes it's a little more difficult.
But no, I want to get into I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to have enough stuff to fill this, but luckily the left makes that easy.
I'm going to get into how we can sort of combat this developing narrative and then get into the second part, which is the sort of rebrand of the Transition Integrity Project and how they're already working on a subversive national level to stop and thwart the Trump agenda, which I think in and of itself is sort of an inherent Freudian slip.
That they think Trump could win, which shows you the threat that they think that he actually poses, right?
Because the first iteration of the Transition Integrity Project, which I'll unpack what that is, they never really got into that.
It was really just more about the transition period up until January 20th.
But this second round of it has to do with the actual policies, should he win, which shows you, I think, how much more serious threat that they're taking him as.
But look, like I said, there are much...
More brilliant minds than myself who have wargamed the best ways to counter this.
So I am only positing these suggestions as what I have come up with that are sort of the more niche ways as opposed to just say calling your members of Congress and demanding the SAVE Act.
I don't really think that the SAVE Act is our, no pun intended, saving grace because Had Republicans actually held the line, right, when it came to those debt ceiling negotiations, there wouldn't even be a SAVE Act, right?
They wouldn't be using it as leverage because we wouldn't be in this position where we'd be having to negotiate this.
So if this legislation really was so critically important, I don't understand why they've linked it to another issue and it's not just standing alone by itself.
But like I said, nonetheless, it is important to call and get the SAVE Act through.
But what I'm saying is that cannot be the only arrow in the quiver.
I think the most important thing that we can do, which we had Scott Pressler on talking this week about, is sending emails and calling your county election officials and election board and asking them these questions.
One, do you guys have enough paper ballots?
Can you tell me that there are no non-citizens registered to vote?
Are you guys expecting to have delays in election results?
How are mail-in ballots contributing to that?
And for those of you, and I commend you who are poll workers, I saw on the live chat some of you guys saying you are, I think you guys need, I'm not explaining this to you, I'm not trying to sound patronizing, but you need to look when you're in that counting room that, you know, you are a firsthand witness to massive nationwide fraud.
And you have to be honed in, dialed in and really paying attention.
And you know it's by design that they want to outnumber you and make you stand 20 feet away so you can barely see what's going on.
But those are the kind of questions I think that it's important to ask ahead of time just so you have that predicate, that pretext so when they start to pull, The BS that is, oh, we're having delays in election results.
At least we have the email responses where we can say, you guys told us there weren't going to be or you told us there were.
You said this is how you're working to fix it.
So then at least after this election, at least we can get them out because it shows that they're incompetent at their jobs.
Right.
The other thing that we need to do, I think too, you know, again, this is getting very niche, but if you're reaching out to your county election board or officials and they're not responding to you, they're being non-responsive, you guys got to reach out to us here in the War Room and we will help you get that story out.
These people work for you, right?
You guys are electing them.
Reach out to Grace, to Moe, to any of us on social media.
Write op-eds in your local town newspaper.
Come on War Room and talk about this, right?
They, for so long, have gotten away with pulling this stuff because no one ever holds them accountable.
It's sort of, I think, the age-old critique of the story, the narrative that you saw play out with Anthony Fauci, right?
He was at NIAID for so long he wasn't untouchable because no one dared to because he was part of that ossified permanent political class.
And election workers, I think epitomized by their panic buttons dangling around their neck, they've tried to push them in this class of people that you can't criticize.
And if you do, you're a threat to democracy, which is a very interesting development because that basically leads you down the road of never being able to question the results of the election.
But you're allowed to question these people.
You're allowed to go after them.
Again, always color with inside the lines, and we're not talking anything physical for anyone who's going to clip this.
That's not what we're saying.
Meaningful emails and phone calls showing up to their offices and asking them questions about in-person ballot shortages, questions about when we should expect election results, and saying, I don't know, is not a sufficient answer.
And at least if we have it in writing, on record, at least come election night, whether it helps in court cases or whatnot, we at least have something to go off of that shows that they're lying to us because you know when they control every lever of institutional power in the mainstream media, that it is a Uphill climb, and then some, and then uphill again, and then uphill again, and uphill again.
I know that firsthand.
And any little bit of help, research, just evidence, firsthand knowledge, questions or answers to questions that typically these people aren't confronted with, I'm sure they probably won't even be able to answer your questions.
I think that that is a very helpful strategy.
Now, I guess maybe we'll have to do another kind of one of these episodes.
I want to get into the Transition Integrity Project because this is something that's very important.
Now, I want to play a clip, but I'm going to just explain who's talking.
This is Barton Gelman, I believe is his name.
It's the guy that they added.
It used to be Rosa Brooks and Nils Gilman, the latter tried to execute or said we should execute Michael Anton of the Trump administration for daring to support Trump.
So you're dealing with some real wonderful people who are also all bankrolled by George Soros and linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
But they ran those infamous tabletop exercises in 2020 to basically say that Well, if Biden doesn't win, it's because the election was stolen, like I always say.
Projection is how they operate.
Even though they sort of disbanded because a lot of the work that Rahim and I did over at the National Pulse, they're back and they're back with a vengeance.
Like I said, they're now focusing on how to subvert the actual policies of a Trump agenda.
What I really want to drill down on and what you're going to see in this clip is the ways that they're going about doing that.
But their new strategy, this is all revealed in the Washington Post op-ed, is seeking and gathering, quote, pre-commitments from various elected officials.
The state level, the local level, the federal level, because they think morally, if they commit to things before the fact, they're more likely to follow through on their promise to rig the election.
I don't quite know what the logic is there.
But they want to get pre-commitments from these people that they will, you know, speak out if President Trump says, oh, there was election fraud and non-citizens voted.
This, of course, going and transpiring all the way into a potential Trump term.
But this is the level to which they're coordinating.
And frankly, I would add, when you ask these people, when you call your election officials, ask them if they have been in contact with people from the Transition Integrity Project.
That right there is a story in and of itself that I would happily love to discuss on Warren, because that is actual collusion.
I know they love to masquerade as an independent, nonpartisan, you know, NGO.
Yeah, George Soros, so nonpartisan.
The only Republican he backs is Adam Kinzinger, and I guess that basically makes him still a Democrat.
But this group represents a real problem because this is sort of, like I always say, the elite smoke signal that they're doing something right.
It's just the tip of the iceberg, though I guess icebergs are melting according to climate change extremists, so I guess that would make them go even more underground or underwater.
But the fact that they are doing this in public should raise red flags because you know underneath this
apparatus they're doing so much more. So let's play this clip of Barton Gelman, one of the lead
Transition Integrity Project guys, talking about just what their group is doing. Governors and
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other state officials like state attorneys general and like mayors and sheriffs and
legislators have a lot more power than they may know to defend against federal abuses and they need to be
researching the boundaries of their authority vis-a-vis the federal government.
and we'll see you next time.
We found that even former governors in our games were not sure whether they could do this or that, or what if the federal government did this?
Well, I don't know.
Actually, that's never happened before.
Well, it might happen, so...
They need to do some thinking about it.
We think public opinion, mobilized by an effective communication strategy, will be one of the most important restraints on an authoritarian president.
Trump does care about his votes, and friends of democracy are going to have to have a very powerful, effective, and unified communications plan for that.
We're going to need to get ready to defend ourselves and each other from From a sort of weaponized federal government, we need lots of volunteer lawyers and accountants and cybersecurity experts and physical security experts to be ready to come to the aid of universities or politicians or civil servants.
NGOs, journalists who are targeted by an authoritarian president. And one last thing I'll
mention is something that Rosa has emphasized a number of times. It's to try to inoculate against
the natural human instinct to cave under pressure because people don't really want to stick their
heads up when the time comes.
But if you get pre-commitments, if you get people to say, if this specific thing happens, I'm going to do that in protest or as an effort to try to constrain it, And then you remind that person that they're not alone, that lots of people have made those kind of commitments.
And now the time has come, they can take courage from their previous convictions and do what they said they would.
There's lots more to talk about, but I'm going to pass it now to Kim for a conversation.
Yes, thank you so much, Bart, for that.
And Rosa, I want to turn to you before we get into more of the specifics about the exercises.
One thing that I thought was interesting was the conclusion is when these anti-democratic attempts are made in our government, it's probably not going to look like a lot of people fear.
There won't be violence in the streets.
There won't be, you know, military immediately dispatched into U.S. cities, it might
look just like life is normal. Talk a little bit more about that and what perils that in itself
may pose if there is an attack on our democracy. It might just look like life is normal.
natalie winters
That's the point.
They engage in fifth generation warfare, information warfare, psychological warfare, legal warfare, lawfare, all the forms of warfare.
Although who knows, it'll turn kinetic, you never know.
But to wage warfare on you, to wage warfare on your vote, I always say the great replacement theory, it's not just coming for this country, it's coming for your vote.
Especially this year.
Barton Gelman says a line there, I don't know if you heard that too, literally verbatim from his Washington Post op-ed, like I always say, when you see people regurgitating the talking points that closely, you know someone is feeding it to them, right?
There's sort of a weird thing there, I don't know, I guess maybe he's scripted, not all of us can do hours of television without teleprompters, but it's very weird when you start seeing people use these same phrases, right?
Safe and effective, safe and effective, safe and effective.
Well, in this case it's inoculate against the human instinct to fold under pressure by seeking pre-commitments from potential allies.
Those pre-commitments, specifically on the front of elections, I think are very concerning.
I wanted to, frankly, use the rest of the show to get into how this is going to impact a second Trump term, but I guess until then I'll have to digress because we're running out of time.
But I think what's really concerning about this is the second part of this paragraph in this article, which is, civil servants and other guardians of the public interest should carry on with their essential work. Friends of constitutional government should
counsel them against resigning, stiffen their resolve to follow lawful procedures, educate
them on whistleblower channels, and offer legal support against retaliation. Now, this is not meant
to be a Black Pill or Doom and Gloom episode, but in 2020, at least President Trump was
president. Now they control the federal government.
Now, the critique to that is, well, they always did.
It was the administrative state.
But still, we still had some level, or at least marginally more of an upper hand than we do now.
And these same civil servants that are being poked and prodded along to, you know, comply and obey their masters, their Soros-funded masters who do not want President Trump to return to the White House, These are the people who now run CISA and now run DHS and now run all the agencies that are going to be overseeing this election and sort of the post-election fallout.
And that's a real problem because you had CISA and FBI release a joint press release
just about a little under a month ago saying that, yes, there were going to be DDoS and
cyber security attacks on our election.
It was actually the Trump-Elon Twitter space that was stymied and halted or hindered rather
because of a DDoS attack.
And they warn that DDoS attacks are coming.
They don't even say may come.
They say they're coming for this election, but oh, it's not going to affect the results
And by the way, the same people who are going to be affecting, or they would claim not, the results of the election are going to be all the rogue bureaucrats.
This time it's the political and career appointees.
Last time was really just the, I guess, career and some of the political appointees, the bad ones.
But they now control all the levers of power to agree that they didn't in 2020.
And these groups like the Transition Integrity Project, they're bold enough or dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud, but there are Groups like this replicated multiple and many times over that are engaging in the same behind-the-scenes shadow warfare, not just to strip President Trump to make his victory a Pyrrhic victory, and that's something I want to burn into your minds.
They are doing everything they can to make President Trump's victory a Pyrrhic victory.
So even if he wins, he can't do anything.
He'll be hamstrung by fiscal issues, can't withdraw from NATO.
You've seen all that legislation go into Congress or a pandemic treaty.
But they want to strip you of your vote.
I'm going to strip you of your vote by making election results come in days after the election and outpacing and frankly outsourcing, like they always do, your vote to a non-citizen somewhere, a dead person on some voter roll that we can't cure because if you dare to ask people about the integrity of the elections here in this country, they want you to be scared.
That's why they've made a mockery and a model out of people like Stephen K. Bannon, like John Eastman, like Jeff Clark, and like they want to do to this audience.
Now, I can't believe we're already at the end of the show.
We're going to have to do this again, but I really hope that you guys take what I'm walking you through, like I said, this information warfare, this calculated campaign, and ask your county election offices, are there going to be delays?
Do you have enough paper ballots?
Are mail-in ballots going to cause a problem?
Has the Transition Integrity Project reached out to you?
Have you made these pre-commitments?
And most importantly, are we going to have a secure election?
Until Monday, Natalie Winters out.
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