Oct. 4, 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 at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega 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. Bamm. | |
| You're in the War Room. | ||
| It's Friday, October 4th in the year of our Lord 2024. | ||
| It's Natalie G. Winters hosting, coming at you live still from Washington, D.C. | ||
| Now we know it's October, so there's obviously a lot of October surprises inbound. | ||
| Although I think for me today the October surprise was just MSNBC hitting a new low | ||
| with Morning Joe, the deranged idiocy of the people over there having the nerve to say | ||
| that they're wary of a second Trump term because Stephen K. | ||
| Bannon may throw President Trump's opposition in jail. | ||
| Now, frankly, I think that's a stellar policy proposal, but a little out of touch. Joe, | ||
| or shall we say Mika, we'll put the emphasis on her in honor of Stephen K. Bannon, who is in jail. | ||
| That's why he's not in this chair. But I get it, maybe a little low IQ over there. We're trying to | ||
| connect with Lee Smith. My student is going to tell me when we get him up. But until then, | ||
| there's an important story that I want to flag for you guys. | ||
| I know we focus so much on weaponization here in the war room, specifically under the | ||
| auspices of the Department of Justice. | ||
| But I think it's happening in the Department of Defense, too. | ||
| There was a new directive that was released just a few days ago. | ||
| It's a word salad headline, but I'll read it for you. | ||
| DOD intelligence and intelligence-related activities and defense intelligent component assistance to law enforcement agencies and other civil authorities. | ||
| Now, if you drill down and you read this report, which I did, you can see that the Biden regime on September 27th went out of their way to revise guidelines that is on domestic work here, potentially against civilians, on assassinations. | ||
| curious timing, I would say, but when you drill down and you read the changes, the quite | ||
| substantive changes that they made, it gets a little concerning. As of November 9, 2020, | ||
| it was, quote, under no circumstances shall any DOD component or DOD employee engage in | ||
| or conspire to engage in assassination. They then went out of their way, in the same way | ||
| that they've gone out of their way to change the text on the page on the DOJ website about | ||
| human trafficking to omit references to human and child sex trafficking as a crime, but | ||
| we can pause the discussion on that for a second. September 27, so just a few days ago, | ||
| They revised the document to say, no DOD civilian employee or member of the armed forces will engage in or conspire to engage in assassination. | ||
| Now, if you saw that picture up on screen, you can see, first of all, they stripped it of the under no circumstances portion. | ||
| But even worse, they omitted DOD component and whittled it down to merely DOD civilian employee or member of the armed forces. | ||
| Now, I don't exactly know what this means, but I don't think it bodes well, especially when you see individuals with ties not just to, shall we say, the DOD through the form of the Azov Battalion in the case of Ryan Ruth, who actually received funding from the Pentagon or people like Thomas Matthew Crooks. | ||
| Who, of course, has some level of Fed involvement, it seems, from social media accounts or group chats. | ||
| I think this leaves a lot of people's heads scratching. | ||
| Now, if we have Lee Smith up, I'd love to go to him. | ||
| We don't? Okay. Because he has a brilliant new piece out, which we will get to at some point, talking about how Governor Gretchen Whitmer, that whole Fed-napping plot, there's a lot of striking parallels to this new Iranian assassination plot. | ||
| I don't know if I'll call it a hoax yet, but maybe we'll get there. | ||
| But Denver, let's roll the clip of Joe Biden discussing the hurricane and his administration's | ||
| joking response to it. | ||
| Or I guess we're not going to roll that clip. | ||
| We're really on a roll here today. | ||
| Anyways, let's just... | ||
| All right. We have the clip? | ||
| All right. We have Lee. | ||
| This is just a stellar show. | ||
| Lee Smith, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| I want to start with your brilliant new piece, The FBI Entraps Another Fake Assassin. | ||
| I want to just read a line from it because I think this top line assessment sort of gets to the heart of it. | ||
| The plot is reminiscent of the alleged Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping and murder plot in 2020. | ||
| Court proceedings show that the entire scheme was cooked up by federal law enforcement officers and informants. | ||
| We can sort of reverse engineer the piece, but just walk us through why you make this comparison and just sort of familiarize the audience with who we're talking about in the timeline of this assassination plot that was allegedly thwarted shortly before the first attempt on President Trump's life. | ||
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Right. Thanks, Adeline. | |
| First of all, sorry about my internet connection here. | ||
| I don't know what's happening in the southeast. | ||
| It might have to do with the storm aftermath. | ||
| I don't quite understand. | ||
| Look, what happened was that SF Merchant tried to enter the United States in April. | ||
| The customs stopped him from entering the country. | ||
| Then Dallas FBI said, no, no, no, we want him in the country. | ||
| Now, the rationale that they've provided for this is that they had information that Merchant was behind or part of a plot to go after U.S. officials and politicians, and reportedly that is referring to Donald J. Trump. | ||
| The problem is that in the court filings, there was no evidence whatsoever that Merchant was plotting at all, that he had done anything before he arrived in the United States. | ||
| So the reason that I compare it to the Whitmer, the fake Whitmer kidnapping and execution episode, was that it appears that there was nothing here, that this plot was entirely contrived by the FBI. And also it appears that there is a local police department involved as well, because the term that's used in the court filings is not an FBI term. | ||
| It's rather a term used about different law enforcement agencies. | ||
| It appears it may be the NYPD. So that appears to be what happened. | ||
| This was contrived by the FBI with other law enforcement agencies, and there is nothing to, as I report in the piece, I show what actual Iranian plots against American officials look like, what actual Iranian plots against Against the United States look like as well, and this looks nothing like that. | ||
| So it's all in the court documents, but that explains that this whole thing appears to be 100% phony. | ||
| And the problem for the FBI is that the arrest of Asif Merchant was made July 12th. | ||
| That's roughly four months after he entered the United States of America, and the day before the Butler-Pennsylvania rally Where the first attempt on Donald Trump's life occurred. | ||
| So that's what I mean about the FBI's questions to answer. | ||
| Look, the most obvious rationale is that they wanted to boost their numbers, right? | ||
| A big so-called plot like this, everyone gets raises, awards, promotions, and stuff like that. | ||
| It would be bad if it was just about FBI corruption. | ||
| But there's something else at stake here, too. | ||
| And that, again, is the fact that today, after the arrest of merchants, when they let in the country, there was an attempt on Donald Trump's life. | ||
| Well, I think it's damning enough that, as you said, the FBI arranged essentially for his entry into the United States. | ||
| But if we can sort of walk through just the peculiarity, which might be a euphemistic way to put it, but of the actual documents and just the whole situation in the sense, I know you alluded to the fact that they only were talking about his activities in the United States. | ||
| In other words, there doesn't really seem to be any pretext or precursor for the FBI wanting to allow him in in the first place. | ||
| But the bounty... | ||
| It was historically low for most Iranian assassination plots. | ||
| It was, what, $5,000? | ||
| And the guy himself, as you noted, doesn't really even have any real ties to whether it was the Iranian government, the IRGC. Walk the audience through just how laughable the accusation is. | ||
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Well, in 2011, there was a very large plot, an Iranian plot, against the Saudi ambassador in Washington. | |
| The plan was to blow up a restaurant In Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., where the Saudi ambassador frequently dined. | ||
| And looking at those court filings, the bounty on the head of the Saudi ambassador was $1.5 million. | ||
| And the people responsible for that bounty were actual IRGC members in Iran. | ||
| In 2022, in the spring of 2022, there was a plot uncovered against John Bolton. | ||
| And the person who had originated this plot was, again, an actual IRGC member. | ||
| This is what the court documents show. | ||
| And I should point out, because there's been a little bit of confusion over this regarding my story, some people saying the Iranians don't actually want to kill Trump. | ||
| That is not true. The Iranians absolutely 100% want to kill Donald Trump, as well as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Iran envoy Brian Hook, As well as John Bolton and Bolton's successor, Robert O'Brien. So the Iranians definitely want to kill Trump. | ||
| The problem is there is no connection between Asif Merchant, a Pakistani national, and the Iranian regime. | ||
| Apparently, or according to the court filings, Merchant has a wife and family in Iran. | ||
| That's it. There is nothing in the court documents. | ||
| And again, This is not like the other court documents we've seen. | ||
| With the Saudi ambassador plot, with the Bolton plot, they say exactly how the plot originated, where it originated, who was behind it, right? | ||
| There's nothing like that in the merchant filings. | ||
| And again, as you point, the sum is absolutely absurd. | ||
| To kill Bolton, the Iranians were putting a price on his head. | ||
| Of $300,000. | ||
| And there was an additional job that's referred to in the Bolton filings for a million dollars. | ||
| Presumably, this is to kill someone even more important than John Bolton. | ||
| That's likely President Trump. | ||
| So the story here is in the court filings, right? | ||
| This is what happened. And it's also the fact that they let this man into the country. | ||
| And they let him stay in the country for four months. | ||
| I want to connect this to another Politico article that I saw come out today. | ||
| Capitol Police Chief New Intel Bureau is key as Congress threats rise with a quote in there quite damning that the Capitol Police Chief quote emphasized the importance of his department having nationwide surveillance to effectively be the secret service for Congress 24-7 because I think you see a similar pattern where whether it's January 6th or these foreign assassination plots as you were sort of getting to They use it as a pretext to accomplish, you know, another agenda. | ||
| I'm just curious to get your thoughts on this new kind of pitch to get, I don't even know, a nationwide surveillance effort under the pretense of January 6th. | ||
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Well, you know, the big job of Capitol Police, I mean, only one of its smaller job is actually to protect the Capitol. | |
| The big thing it does is it investigates threats against Congress, against the representatives | ||
| of the American people, and there are a lot of threats against both Republicans and Democrats | ||
| alike. | ||
| So that's the big job that Capitol Police does. | ||
| So when they ask for more money, people on the Hill are going to give it to them, because | ||
| they fear that Capitol Police are the only law enforcement agency best equipped to protect | ||
| them from people who make threats against them. | ||
| But absolutely, the fact that there are good congressmen, threats are made against them in their home district, in California, or Nevada, or Florida, or New York, wherever it is. | ||
| So Capitol Police goes to these different places, and this is a pretext, exactly, to establish another Another intelligence collection agency. | ||
| And you would think that Congress would have a reason for saying, no, actually, I don't want these guys snooping around in my backyard and I don't want to give them any more power. | ||
| But again, Capitol Police has them over a barrel because these are the people who are also investigating threats against U.S. American representatives. | ||
| And Lee, if you can hang with us through the break, there's a new, I guess, also damning DHS report showing that, quote, high-risk non-citizens. | ||
| It's the actual report from the federal government saying that they're being allowed to fly all over the United States because ICE, I guess, isn't doing their job, and I guess neither is. | ||
| Mayorkas, but what's new there? | ||
| Warren Posse, you got to be checking out birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| In the meantime, texting Bannon to 989898, giving Philip Patrick a call. | ||
| Stock market's getting a little bumpy. | ||
| Gold has always been a hedge, so make sure you check it out. | ||
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We got Lee Smith, the latest on Joe Biden's botched hurricane election and that it will be peaceful. | |
| Two separate questions. | ||
| I'm confident it'll be free and fair. | ||
| I don't know whether it'll be peaceful. | ||
| The things that Trump has said and the things that he said last time out when he didn't like the outcome of the election were very dangerous. | ||
| If you notice, I noticed that the vice presidential Republican candidate did not say he'd accept the outcome of the election. | ||
| They haven't even accepted the outcome of the last election. | ||
| So I'm concerned about what they're going to do. | ||
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Are you making any preparations? | |
| 1,353 days into taking office, Joe Biden, or what's left of him, decided to go into the press briefing room and surprise reporters to both joke about reentering the race and say that violence is coming ahead of the election. | ||
| Although I guess that's actually probably a stunning level of mental acuity for that man. | ||
| We're going to get into the latest on the hurricane stuff after this. | ||
| Lee, while I still have you because I think it connects quite curiously, shall we say, to your new piece, today there's a new Inspector General report out, and I'll read the quote. | ||
| Under current processes, CBP and ICE cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk non-citizens | ||
| without identification from entering the country. | ||
| The report goes on to say they're actually roaming around freely, too. | ||
| I know we've all always been critical, of course, of, you know, Biden and Kamala's open | ||
| border here. | ||
| I think we always sort of took the non-citizen critique in terms of them voting. | ||
| But it almost seems like when you look at the broader plot to, you know, get Trump, | ||
| that there's almost a more sinister angle there. | ||
| I'm curious your thoughts on this new reporting. | ||
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Well, I'm I think that the open borders Policy, if we can call it that, certainly connects to national security. | |
| I mean, I think we have to see that this was designed to compromise American national security. | ||
| And then we look at both Obama administration and now Biden administration policies, and what would be the national security policies of the Harris administration. | ||
| These people have committed us not only to Violence would have committed us to relationships with very dangerous regimes, including the Iranians, including the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| So if you look at it that way, that open borders is partly designed to deter the United States from acting against American enemies. | ||
| This is one of the issues. | ||
| This is one of the things that people have been saying since the Israelis killed Hassan Nasrallah. | ||
| Well, we're in danger now. | ||
| I mean, by the way, I think it was a thing to be celebrated. | ||
| That the Israelis killed this terror madman. | ||
| But people have been saying, well, now we're vulnerable to Iranian risks and Hezbollah risks. | ||
| Well, that should not be the case. | ||
| This is one of the first things that a national security establishment should do, should protect the homeland. | ||
| But instead, exactly the opposite has happened. | ||
| They've compromised the security of the homeland. | ||
| And one of the reasons for that is, undoubtedly, To allow our enemies to deter American actions abroad. | ||
| So the idea that it's not only felons who are here, but there are also terrorists and there are also foreign intelligence services here. | ||
| Of course, hospital services are going to send their people across the border. | ||
| When the Americans are virtually inviting them, To come across the border and no one is looking, no one is checking. | ||
| Remember, this is one of the reasons why we have borders and why there are people manning the borders to make sure that hostile actors do not cross. | ||
| It's not just to keep out foreigners who may overstay their visa. | ||
| The primary reason is to protect Americans from actively hostile forces. | ||
| And by dropping all of our defenses, At the borders. | ||
| And as it turns out, it's not just the Texas border. | ||
| It's not just the southern border. | ||
| It's also our northern borders as well. | ||
| So this is what the Biden administration open borders policy has done. | ||
| So the idea there's finally an IG report about this, which is stating the obvious. | ||
| I mean, you know, OK, so it's out in the public now. | ||
| But we've all been talking about this since, you know, I know you guys have been talking about this since January 2021. | ||
| And now finally people are starting to understand the dangers and what compounds it is madmen at the FBI who are ushering across our border, not just criminals, not just felons, but people who are brought across the border to commit acts of terrorism. | ||
| And as I say in my piece, the real danger wasn't necessarily that he was going to kill Donald Trump, but that this lunatic Was going to strike some other American at some other point. | ||
| So, yes, it's a very dangerous time. | ||
| And the problem is not just our adversaries. | ||
| The problem is our ruling class that is partnered with our adversaries, that is compromising not only our borders and our national security, but is making vulnerable every American. | ||
| Lee Smith, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with everything you're working on, where can they go to do that? | ||
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Thank you. They can find me at LeeSmithDC on Twitter, at Lee Smith on Truth Social, and also got a new book coming out in about a week and a half called Disappearing the President, Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic, and it's available for pre-order now directly from the publisher Encounter Books. | |
| Also, of course, from Amazon and Barnes& Noble and your local independent bookseller. | ||
| So, yeah, disappearing the president, and I hope we get a chance to talk about that as soon as it comes out. | ||
| I definitely think we will. | ||
| Lee Smith, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on soon. Thank you. | ||
| I was watching the horrible Liz Cheney Kamala Harris rally yesterday and I saw they had signs and it said country over party. | ||
| I would humbly put forth, you won't have a country under Kamala Harris because you won't have borders. | ||
| So I think those signs maybe missed the mark. | ||
| Denver, let's roll the clip of Joe Biden discussing how his administration, or shall we say regime, is handling hurricane relief. | ||
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What do the states in the storm zone need, Mr. | |
| President? What do the states in the storm zone, what do they need after what you saw today? | ||
| Oh, in the storm zone. | ||
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Yes, sir. Doesn't know where the storm is. | |
| Remember, this is the same Joe Biden who, what was it, discussed, quote, the weather with Hunter Biden and his Chinese business partners on the phone. | ||
| He can take time to do that. | ||
| But he can't take time to help Americans who are stranded, if not being left for dead, by his regime after a devastating hurricane. | ||
| I want to put up a tweet from Ron Filipkowski, someone I don't usually quote unironically, but I guess there's always a time. | ||
| Let's see. You see that tweet? | ||
| Now, I disagree with the first part of it, but the second part is great. | ||
| You damn well better start communicating facts heavy and often because you're already late to | ||
| the party and losing on this. He's critiquing the Biden-Harris response to everything that | ||
| is unfolding in North Carolina and Georgia and Tennessee when it comes to the flooding. | ||
| Ron, don't you get it? | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They never did. | ||
| And they never will. | ||
| What's going on in North Carolina is on par to what we saw unfold in Afghanistan. | ||
| Because the secret's out. | ||
| They don't care about Americans. | ||
| Your government hates you. | ||
| They've lost more money as part of Ukraine aid packages. | ||
| Remember all that reporting how the Pentagon was losing billions of dollars that they were shipping over to Ukraine? | ||
| They've lost more money as part of Ukraine aid than they've actually given to Americans. | ||
| Frankly, the White House and Democrats have shown more support for reparations than they have actual hurricane relief effort for American citizens. | ||
| And don't make any mistake, establishment Republicans are in on it too. | ||
| Lindsey Graham was asked on Fox today what he was doing for his constituents in South Carolina. | ||
| And in one of the most, I think, disgusting moments on Fox, which is a pretty low bar, he actually pivoted and said that we need to be more concerned about what's happening in Israel than what's happening in the United States. | ||
| Like I always say, it's not America last, it's America never. | ||
| And President Trump, who has an active bounty on his life, showed up in those areas. | ||
| I think that's a pretty hard perimeter to secure. | ||
| Yet he still showed up, and he showed up before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden did. | ||
| You know, when Iran chants, Death to America... | ||
| And Kamala Harris and Joe Biden go out of their way to give them, what is it, $100 billion? | ||
| It's almost like there's some convergence on the policies there, and with what Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are doing in North Carolina, their policy strapline literally is death to America. | ||
| But wait, what I just told you according to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, that's a rumor. | ||
| They launched, like FEMA actually launched, let's put the tweet up, a new website. | ||
| It's called Rumor Control. | ||
| Yeah, that's an actual graphic that your taxpayer dollars were used to create. | ||
| That's a serious government agency. | ||
| But here's the most telling part about the website, right? | ||
| They say rumor control now I don't know about you, but I've never seen the Biden | ||
| Harris regime miss an opportunity to not use the word misinformation or disinformation | ||
| So there's almost a tacit admission in there that what we're saying | ||
| When it comes to the Biden regime literally not funding Americans not even giving them their seven hundred fifty | ||
| dollars their poultry seven hundred fifty dollars in comparison to | ||
| what the hundreds of billions to Ukraine and Israel and They're not even saying it's misinformation. | ||
| They're saying it's a rumor, which doesn't necessarily negate the truth of it. | ||
| To get analytical, I think that's a quite interesting tell. | ||
| You know, in the same way that Doug Emhoff beating up his girlfriend in 2012 or Doug Emhoff having an affair with the nanny was a rumor. | ||
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Oh, wait. That was true. | |
| But it's quite telling. | ||
| And there's also an implicit, I think, tell here with all of this too. | ||
| Which is that all of those far-left groups, the Zuckerberg-type organizations, who jammed down our throats in 2020, that we needed to secure get-out-the-vote efforts. | ||
| And conveniently, only pro-Biden districts. | ||
| Where in the heck are they now ensuring that North Carolinians and MAGA districts in Tennessee and Georgia can actually vote come November 5th? | ||
| I haven't heard anything from them. | ||
| I haven't heard anything from the people who tell us that democracy and voting is so important, working to get their votes to count. | ||
| Oh no, David Axelrod's too busy going on podcasts celebrating the fact that their votes probably won't be counted. | ||
| Quite an interesting tell. | ||
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We'll be right back after this short break. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| You're back in the War Room where you gotta be checking out birchgold.com | ||
| Empire. | ||
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| And while you're at it, checking out Public Square supporting companies that support you and are actually patriotic. | ||
| I guess they would probably be part of the rumor control operation that FEMA is now running. | ||
| Now, to that point, I want to do something that I don't usually do on air, which is engage in a fact check. | ||
| I guess the tables have turned, but just for the FEMA overlords who are watching, that is when they're not too busy. | ||
| I was reading his bio on the website. | ||
| Putting that aside for a second, let's put up a tweet from FEMA, not that one, the other one, from 2023, where they explicitly say that they give... | ||
| A disaster relief aid to non-citizens. | ||
| And then the best part, a whole graphic that they wasted your tax dollars to create actually gets down into the nitty-gritty of who gets special treatment and who's eligible for disaster relief aid. | ||
| You can put the other one up. Refugees, non-citizens whose deportation status is being withheld for at least one year, non-citizens paroled into the U.S. for at least one year, and a whole beautiful section on the right that says even if you don't fall under those categories, you're still eligible. | ||
| That's what America Last looks like. | ||
| It's, I mean, seriously? | ||
| But I guess they are serious in their hatred for this country and their hatred for you. | ||
| And while you say, oh, well, are House Republicans going to do anything? | ||
| Not quite. I want to put up just another glorious moment of pure idiocy, almost on par with MSNBC from House Judiciary Committee today. | ||
| Why is the FBI stonewalling Congress when it comes to information on the Iranian assassination attempt against President Trump? | ||
| Or the hack, rather. | ||
| Well, Jim Jordan... | ||
| Well, House Judiciary GOP, who what? | ||
| I've still yet to see a statement from you guys on Jack Smith's 165-page filing being released. | ||
| The most blatant example, not just of election interference, but of government weaponization. | ||
| Still yet to see a statement on that. | ||
| But I have an answer why they don't take you seriously, because they shouldn't. | ||
| Because you just gave them $300 million for a brand new, glorious headquarters... | ||
| You didn't even put Merrick Garland in jail for defying a congressional subpoena, and that one hits a little close to home. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon should be the one sitting here talking about this, but it's me because you guys didn't do anything on that front. | ||
| Or maybe we'll give just another alternate option answer to the question. | ||
| It's because your general counsel, Steve Castor, is too busy giving puff piece interviews to The Hill magazine saying that, well, we can't do anything that doesn't have a legislative purpose and our base is just really angry that Stephen K. Bannon is in prison, but whoops, I can't do anything about it. | ||
| Maybe that's why they're not complying with you. | ||
| Because there's actually no punishment because you guys don't understand how to bring about accountability because you're too busy funding the very regime that is responsible for the demise of this country. | ||
| But maybe you're in on it. | ||
| Because at this rate I hope you are because otherwise you guys are just purely asinine. | ||
| And that's nice. | ||
| That's an understatement. | ||
| The FBI quite literally put an Iranian hitman, allowed him to enter the United States, along with a host of other non-citizens that they identify as being a danger to this country. | ||
| And you guys want to put out a silly tweet saying, well, why won't the FBI do it? | ||
| I hope for your sake that that's a rhetorical question. | ||
| I doubt it is. | ||
| History would suggest otherwise. | ||
| We're not going to give up. You guys thought you were going to put Stephen K. Bannon in prison and you were going to get an easy few months. | ||
| Not quite. We are joined now by Karen Chapman, who wants to flag even more radical policies being pushed by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, when it comes to, you guessed it, electric vehicles. | ||
| Karen, can you walk us through? | ||
| There's a new Politico article out today. | ||
| There's sort of a Preemptively fact-checking President Trump saying that what he's accusing the Harris campaign of wanting to do with EVs, that it's actually not true. | ||
| So that, to me, says that it is 100% entirely true. | ||
| Can you walk us through just how radical some of their policy proposals are? | ||
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Well, if they don't like the term EV mandate, then let's call it what it is. | |
| It's an internal combustion engine ban. | ||
| Because right now, in the policies that they've put forward, both at the federal level as well as California's overreach... | ||
| Is the fact that there's only five plug-in hybrids and EVs that will even meet these standards. | ||
| The internal combustion engine vehicles, the gas and diesel vehicles that we drive today, do not comply with these mandates. | ||
| So if they don't want to call it an EV mandate, then let's call it what it is, and that's an internal combustion engine ban. | ||
| So can you walk us through, though, just why you think they're coming specifically for EVs? | ||
| I almost think in some ways there's something so iconic about American car culture, and I think it's broader, right, than just the economics of it, the environmental stuff. | ||
| They've always sort of used that as a cudgel to go after so many things. | ||
| But what is sort of their rationale for why they're trying to push these bans? | ||
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Well, I mean, I think there's always sort of this idea to rush like kids at a soccer game, rush to the ball, but not really look at a strategic way of how we accomplish the things that we want to do. | |
| And the reality is that our cars that we drive today have more horsepower but consume less fuel. | ||
| We've advanced the automotive industry and the automotive technology that we drive today for the past 40 years, actually the past 100 years, if you even think about what the evolution of the car has been. | ||
| But the fact is that it just has become an environmental opportunity, saying that one technology over all others is what will get us to the point of lowering emissions and bettering the environment. | ||
| And the reality is that the industry has, in fact, innovated better, cleaner, but still more powerful technology as the years go by. | ||
| And it seems like they focus so much on emissions, making climate change sort of their sacred cow when it comes to calculating the policies. | ||
| But in reality, the policies that they're pushing, I mean, are they not basically just a huge gift to the Chinese Communist Party and foreign auto manufacturers? | ||
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Well, I think it's the fact that, you know, again, it's about consumer choice, and they just want to continue to sort of eradicate consumer choice. | |
| From our perspective, we don't care what you drive, whatever technology. | ||
| We believe that government should remain technology neutral. | ||
| So if a consumer wants an EV, then great, have an EV. | ||
| But there's so many other opportunities and options out there. | ||
| And there's also so much in the future in terms of vehicle technology, fuel technologies. | ||
| You have things like hydrogen internal combustion engine technology. | ||
| You have obviously hybrid that has been in the market for, gosh, 20, 30 years. | ||
| And then there's all the stuff that we just don't even know about today. | ||
| But you also look at the fuel companies and the fuel producers and what they've been able to create | ||
| in terms of lower carbon emissions. And so what we're doing is that we're putting, | ||
| from our perspective, is that they're putting American technology and American innovation | ||
| on the sidelines that will then favor, you know, perhaps other actors around the globe. You know, | ||
| you look at the Chinese, they're obviously the largest producers of EVs right now in the world. | ||
| And so the fact is, is that, you know, why are we putting American manufacturing and American | ||
| innovation to the side and American jobs to the side in favor of a policy that really isn't | ||
| workable for American consumers, American manufacturing or American innovation? | ||
| America last at its finest. | ||
| Karen, can you walk the audience through, if this is an issue that they're passionate about, your organization, how they can get engaged, get involved, support you guys, do all that? | ||
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Sure. So Driving Force Action is a project of SEMA. We are an independent expenditure organization that's educating voters about EV mandates or internal combustion engine bans. | |
| These are really important issues to American consumers because Most consumers, at least before we started, didn't realize what was actually happening, both at the federal level as well as what California's policies have been, because California actually wants to completely eliminate the internal combustion engine and remove consumer choice completely from the state, as well as the other 16 states that follow California's emission standards. | ||
| And so we've been educating voters. | ||
| We started it in Virginia last year during the Virginia state elections. | ||
| Now we expanded that into this year's elections, educating voters Karen, hit us with the website one more time, how people can follow everything you guys are doing on social media. | ||
| Sure. Please join us at drivingforceaction.org. | ||
| You can follow us on social media, check out the website, sign our petition, and keep up with our ad campaigns that we've been running and will continue to run through Election Day. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us. | ||
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Thanks for having me. | |
| Of course. Warren Posse, just to close out what I was ranting about before. | ||
| They nearly spent, if not over, $1 billion crying about how COVID was going to make people unable to vote. | ||
| So we have to use mail in ballots. | ||
| They literally reformed the entire way the United States conducted elections under the pretense and pretext that people were going to be unable to vote because of a public health emergency. | ||
| Now an actual public health emergency, an actual crisis has happened. | ||
| Have you seen any of those voices, the ones that called us conspiracy theorists for saying that they were partisan actors, come out enraged about what's happening in North Carolina when officials on the ground are saying they don't have the resources that they need to conduct elections? | ||
| Do you see the ACLU out there filing lawsuits on behalf of MAGA districts? | ||
| Do you see the Zuckerbuck's organization? | ||
| See Center for Tech and Civic Life, Obama Acolyte, Tiana Epps Johnson? | ||
| You see any of those people? No, I think it's sort of a tell that the 2020 election was rigged and that all those efforts were partisan. | ||
| So yeah, Jack Smith, the 2020 election was rigged and we're going to keep talking about it. | ||
| I don't care how much you criminalize it. | ||
| It was rigged. It was stolen. | ||
| And you guys are getting ready to do it again. | ||
| And War Room, this show, is going to do what we did again. | ||
| And that's fight the fraud. | ||
| You can quote that, MSNBC. Maureen Bannon, Captain Bannon, joins us now. | ||
| Maureen, we've got to bounce in about a minute, but we're going to get into some exciting developments on the other side. | ||
| But just give me a minute. | ||
| How is the one and only Stephen K. Bannon doing? | ||
| He's doing great. | ||
| Ready to be out of Danbury and very much looking forward to being back behind the mic and getting very much involved in this fight. | ||
| He has done that since he's been in Danbury, but very much once he gets out hitting the ground running. | ||
| Captain Bannon, hang with us through the break. | ||
| I know you've got a new event coming up, but we're in posse. | ||
| In the meantime, you've got to make sure that you are checking out Patriot Mobile. | ||
| It's patriotmobile.com using promo code Bannon to get a nice hot deal. | ||
| I think they have some great deals coming up ahead of the election. | ||
| It's patriotmobile.com slash Bannon. | ||
| While you're at it, use your Patriot Mobile phone to call 202-225-3121. | ||
| Maybe you can answer House Judiciary's question for them, why the FBI isn't playing ball with | ||
| them, not just on stonewalling information about Iran hacking the Trump campaign, but | ||
| also Tim Walz's ties to the Chinese Communist Party, which I would know because I was cited | ||
| in the letter that they sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray that he never responded. | ||
| So if you guys want to use my work, why don't you actually make it worthwhile and put a | ||
| little bark behind the bite of your strongly worded letters. | ||
| Because this country wouldn't be a country if the Declaration of Independence just stayed a strongly worded letter. | ||
| Frankly, if people like Steve Castor were there too. | ||
| We'll be right back after the short break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| We are joined by the one and only Captain Maureen Bannon. | ||
| I miss your dad. | ||
| That's all I have to say, as I'm sure you do too. | ||
| But in the meantime, you are certainly helping to keep War Room chugging along. | ||
| Hit us with everything we're working on, the Get Out the Vote stuff, events. | ||
| Okay, thank you, Natalie. | ||
| So the main focus my dad has, he has two main focuses, but the top priority is the War Room posse. | ||
| We need to get out to vote. | ||
| We need to focus on the get out the vote effort and we need to get everyone that we know registered and get them to have a plan to vote. | ||
| So if Denver can show the first slide. | ||
| So everyone needs to go check to see when the last date to register to vote is in your state. | ||
| On Monday, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, In Texas, that is the last day to register to vote. | ||
| Tuesday is New Mexico. | ||
| Wednesday is Missouri. | ||
| And then Friday, Idaho and North Carolina. | ||
| Please make sure to go check to make sure you are registered to vote. | ||
| You need to call your friends, family, and your neighbors, everyone. | ||
| Make sure they are registered to vote. | ||
| There's only 32 days left. | ||
| I know the tracker that Rav has says 31 and 7 hours. | ||
| 32 days left to vote. | ||
| You can go download the Get Out the Vote apps, Easy Vote Action, Turning Point Action, and specifically, if you're in Nevada, Nevada GOP, you can also sign up at talk.DonaldJTrump.com to get a script if you want to call people to make sure that they are registered to vote and have a plan to get out and vote. | ||
| If you have any questions regarding that, you can reach out to War Rooms Grassroots Liaison, JoJo. | ||
| You can See on the screen her x slash getter handle and then also email her jojo wfma at proton.me. | ||
| So please, just because you were registered to vote doesn't mean the work stops there. | ||
| You need to make sure everyone has a plan to get out and vote and so that we can have a sweeping victory for Donald J. Trump on November 5th. | ||
| And also, speaking about getting out the vote, I am going to be working on Getting out the vote efforts this weekend. | ||
| And I will also be in the great state of Minnesota on Sunday for an event with the United States Senate candidate from Minnesota, Royce White. | ||
| And if you want to attend that event, you can go to thefutureofmaga.eventbrite.com to purchase your tickets. | ||
| The event starts at 6.30. | ||
| It's a 6.30 to 7.30 VIP reception and then 7.30 to 9.30 main event. | ||
| But I highly encourage if you are in Minnesota and are able to attend to grab your tickets. | ||
| And also, really quickly, Natalie, I want to talk about two of our sponsors, sacredhumanhealth.com. | ||
| If you go, I know my dad talks about the grass-fed beef liver. | ||
| I personally like their sleep and also the magnesium and vitamin D3. And if you want to get as jacked up as my dad was on air before he went to Danbury and jacked up like I am now, go to Warpath.coffee and you can get a bag of Warpath coffee. | ||
| I'm finishing up my summer blend. | ||
| I know it's into the fall already, but I am finishing up my summer blend before I start the fall pumpkin pie blend that they have, which is amazing as well. | ||
| Captain Bannon, if people want to follow you, I would say the future of MAGA looks bright with you in it. | ||
| Where can people go to do that? | ||
| Thank you. They can go to find me on X and Getter at Maureen underscore Bannon and also on Instagram at RealMaureenBannon. | ||
| Captain Bannon, thank you for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on. Thank you for having me on. | ||
| Of course. Look, Warren Posse, as I always say, the cavalry is not coming to save you. | ||
| Speaker Johnson, all these weak Republicans on the Hill, they don't want Trump to win. | ||
| They admit it off the record to Politico. | ||
| Right? And I always say it's not just that you have to vote for yourself. | ||
| If we want this election to be too big to rig, I want you to move your internal goalposts to not be, I'm registered to vote. | ||
| You and someone else, you need a whole group. | ||
| Shall we say a whole migrant caravan worth number of people bringing them, not migrants though, actual registered citizens who can vote coming with you to outvote the fraud, to outvote the non-citizen vote, to make a stand about the way that they have cheapened what it means to be an American citizen. | ||
| I'm not just talking the endless foreign wars and the trade policies and the CBP1 app and all that. | ||
| But they want to take your vote away from you. | ||
| Right? They want to take your ability to even think that an election is stolen away from you. | ||
| CISA, the same entity, the Democratic Intel Senate leader, just demanded that they allocate more resources to combat misinformation and disinformation ahead of the election. | ||
| Well, they actually have a rumor control website, too, when it comes to elections. | ||
| There's a lot of symbolism going on right now. | ||
| And just imagine, right, it's November 5th or whatever day we get the election results in. | ||
| And if President Trump doesn't win, you think those Liz Cheney types, you think they're just gonna sit back and let MAGA continue to be ascendant? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| They're going to fight tooth and nail. | ||
| To return the Republican Party to their old tradition of endless foreign wars, tax cuts for the wealthy, and do anything they can to kill populism. | ||
| That's why Liz Cheney campaigned at the birthplace of the modern GOP in Rippon, Wisconsin yesterday. | ||
| Right? There's a lot of symbolism there. | ||
| And they're going to say that it was because we dared to talk about immigration, like what's going on in Springfield, That that's where we went too far. | ||
| And they will push a 2008-style amnesty report like they did with McCain, with Romney after every election cycle, saying that we need to be more open and receptive to illegal and legal immigration. | ||
| And with amnesty comes the death of this country. | ||
| And when I say death to America, though it might sound like I'm quoting Iran, I think I'm actually just quoting the policies of the Biden regime. | ||
| Because that's what we're getting in North Carolina right now. | ||
| Right? That's what we're getting on the southern border. | ||
| That's what we're getting in Afghanistan. | ||
| That's what we're getting in communities affected by opioid and fentanyl use. | ||
| That's what we're getting. Because they don't care. | ||
| That's why they want non-citizens to vote. |
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