Oct. 30, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. | ||
| It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| We've told you this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, welcome. | ||
| It's Tuesday. | ||
| A little off-camera chat there here in our live studio in the world's financial capital, New York City. | ||
| It's Tuesday, 29 October in the year of our Lord, 2024. | ||
| Kind of a red letter day here in the war room. | ||
| I did my jailbreak today. | ||
| No, that's actually not correct. | ||
| I was let out by the Bureau of Prisons. | ||
| 40 days late, but hey, we'll talk about that later in the week. | ||
| We've got business to get to. | ||
| You're here in Battleground. | ||
| I want to thank Monica Crowley and Captain Maureen Bannon. | ||
| For co-hosting the first hour, along with, obviously, Natalie Winters. | ||
| Natalie's going to be back and join us at the bottom of the hour. | ||
| We've got a lot to get through, and as soon as I get a show clock, it's going to really help me run this. | ||
| I've got Gavin Wax. | ||
| Gavin, we're reading it here on a Tuesday in New York City. | ||
| Talk to me about New York Young Republicans. | ||
| I want to know, they're saying that What happened on Sunday was a fascist rally. | ||
| It was America First, 1930 division. | ||
| The American-German Bund met. | ||
| You're a guy that keeps your hand on the pulse of what's happening in New York City. | ||
| What really happened? | ||
| Well, first, Steve, I've got to say it's great to have you back. | ||
| You're looking svelte. | ||
| You're looking tanned. | ||
| You look great. | ||
| Now you're back in New York City. | ||
| Prison yard ready. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| And this is my first time doing this show in person with you after all these years being on. | ||
| Everything else was by Skype? | ||
| Everything by Skype, so it's great to be here in person. | ||
| But listen, we had a fantastic rally at Madison Square Garden in the Bleeding Heart. | ||
| Of the liberal city of New York, the liberal capital of the United States. | ||
| Looked like MAGA went on the offensive, came to New York City, made our voices be heard. | ||
| We had about 100,000 people flooded into Midtown, packed all the bars, packed all the streets. | ||
| Haven't seen anything like that. | ||
| Oh, you mean the spillover? | ||
| I don't think people know that. | ||
| You had 19,500. | ||
| You sold out the garden. | ||
| Probably more. | ||
| Probably squeezed a minute until the fire marshal. | ||
| Okay, so 20-plus. | ||
| And you had how many? | ||
| You said 100,000 showed up. | ||
| And enjoyed themselves in the watering holes in Midtown. | ||
| The energy is on our side. | ||
| I think it shows that there's a certain defeatism going through the ranks of the left and the DNC. They really weren't even putting up a fight in their own – on their own terms. | ||
| People remember the 2004 RNC convention here where they shut down the city. | ||
| If you think about President Trump's victory in 2016 where there were 15 or 20,000 people on Fifth Avenue for a week. | ||
| I think we had a bunch of protests for you and we've hosted you every week. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| At the club. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Nothing. | ||
| Nothing for this. | ||
| I think it just – again, it just goes to show they've given up. | ||
| They are surrendering on all fronts, and I think we're on an offensive right now into the closing stretch of this campaign. | ||
| I think you said it best today. | ||
| We've got to act like we're 20 points behind, and I think we're fighting for every voter. | ||
| That includes the metro area. | ||
| That includes New York City. | ||
| That includes Pennsylvania, the Rust Belt, Appalachia, the South, wherever it may be. | ||
| You conceived of the Bodega Run. | ||
| Vish worked with you. | ||
| I think you were very tied up in the Bronx. | ||
| Is President Trump obsessed with winning New York and New York State? | ||
| Is that realistic? | ||
| Listen, I think in the state of New York, you get a third of the vote in the city, you can make the state competitive. | ||
| That's how the numbers usually work in terms of the electoral math. | ||
| I think coming to New York, the first few stops we did, he was stuck here. | ||
| He was dealing with, like you were, a political prosecution. | ||
| And, you know, he had to make the most of his time here. | ||
| And I always said, make a run for the mayor of New York while you're here, in all but name. | ||
| You know, you have microcosms of the whole country here. | ||
| You know, we have a In economic crisis, we have the impact of the crime wave, the light on crime mentality of the radical left. | ||
| So all these major issues that he's making the center point of his campaign are right here in New York City. | ||
| You could speak to them going to Harlem. | ||
| You could speak to them going to the Bronx. | ||
| And I think he did it masterfully. | ||
| And then you talk about the demographic cohorts that exist in this city, particularly the outer boroughs. | ||
| You talked about working class Hispanics, working class blacks, working class whites. | ||
| They exist here in big numbers. | ||
| They're readers of the New York Post. | ||
| They like President Trump. | ||
| They like his New York energy. | ||
| They like his New York flair. | ||
| And he spoke to them. | ||
| And those same voters exist across this country. | ||
| You can reach them in New York, being the media capital, and he did that brilliantly. | ||
| Talk to me about African-American men and Hispanic men. | ||
| Do you see this divide that I've seen? | ||
| And do you think this is going to play out next Tuesday? | ||
| Well, look, for decades, the RNC, the establishment, the RNC of old, they always tried this sort of game chasing after the... | ||
| The Hispanic vote chasing after the black vote using their typical pandering lines, but it never worked. | ||
| What really moved the needle was President Trump's grassroots populism. | ||
| He was able to speak to them on a different level. | ||
| And it's not all about policy. | ||
| It's not all about substance. | ||
| It's about how you come across, how you address them, how you speak to them, the rallies you put on, the cultural movement you're a part of, UFC, whatever it may be. | ||
| Those are the things that are really going to reach some of these low-propensity voters, and I think that's the name of the game here. | ||
| They are low-propensity voters. | ||
| The face of the election by changing the electorate, bringing out new voters, first time voters, getting people who never vote Republican to come out for you. | ||
| That's how you break a blue wall. | ||
| That's how you make big shifts to the right even in a place like New York City. | ||
| I think he's doing it masterfully. | ||
| I think these groups feel that they've been left behind. | ||
| By an increasingly, you know, feminist, woke Democrat Party that doesn't care about the issues of the working man regardless of race or creed. | ||
| I think President Trump speaks to them. | ||
| I think his policies are backing that up from no tax on tip to all the rest. | ||
| So I think we're going to see a huge movement his way. | ||
| You're one of the leaders of the MAGA movement and one of the leading voices in populism and nationalism in the country. | ||
| Talk to me a minute about the New York Young Republicans Club. | ||
| You've got an apparatus that's on fire, and I want to talk about you've got the gala. | ||
| Last year, President Trump shows up. | ||
| I think it's one of the best nights he ever had. | ||
| He enjoyed himself. | ||
| His talk, he was hanging out. | ||
| I mean, he told stories. | ||
| It was incredible. | ||
| Well, we wanted to give them a hometown welcome, and I think we did just that. | ||
| But look, beyond just the fanfare and the glitz and glamour of our black-tie galas, we are boots on the ground. | ||
| We had a 100-person deployment to Bucks County this past month. | ||
| I was told by the state director there it was their largest deployment yet. | ||
| We knocked on about 10,000 doors, had about 10,000 voter contacts. | ||
| We are the number two phone banking team in the country. | ||
| We're doing between 3,000 and 5,000 phone calls for President Trump and down-ballot Republican candidates, depending on when they're calling. | ||
| We're doing deployments across the city. | ||
| We're helping organize these rallies, these retail stops. | ||
| We're helping move the needle. | ||
| So we're a true grassroots organization. | ||
| You talk about the precinct strategy a lot. | ||
| We're involved with that, trying to change the shape of the Republican Party here locally in New York and across the country. | ||
| And yeah, we're in New York, but we're making a big splash. | ||
| We're pushing the needle forward. | ||
| And this is how populism is won. | ||
| It's on the ground, building institutions, taking over institutions. | ||
| How can people come to the gala? | ||
| Is it open to the public? | ||
| Can they put ticker requests? | ||
| You can buy a table. | ||
| You can buy seats. | ||
| We're going to have the great Steve Bannon there. | ||
| I think it's going to be his first gala appearance post-sentencing. | ||
| I'd be shocked if there's anyone else. | ||
| We'll have to talk to them if that's the case. | ||
| But here's the good thing. | ||
| I spoke about four or five years ago. | ||
| It was a much smaller venue. | ||
| You guys have gone big league now. | ||
| We have. | ||
| We went from the Yale Club. | ||
| I don't want to say that – I think I spoke at the Yale Club. | ||
| I don't want to say that since you went to the bigger venues, I'm sitting at a table. | ||
| But it's good. | ||
| First year, it was Mr. | ||
| Bannon and actually Mr. | ||
| Eric Prince, who was here earlier, another great American patriot. | ||
| And now we're moving to the largest venue in the country, largest freestanding ballroom, Cipriani Wall Street downtown, right off – The heart of the financial chicanery of this country. | ||
| So we're going to be bringing populism to Wall Street. | ||
| I think you'll be there in your prison uniform if they let you keep it. | ||
| And I think it'll be a great, great, great way to end a year with a massive victory on November 5th. | ||
| How do people find out more about the organization and particularly how they come to the gala? | ||
| I think the best party of the year, particularly comes at the end of the year, right before Christmas. | ||
| Everybody kind of lets their hair down. | ||
| It's just fantastic. | ||
| How do people find that more? | ||
| Great revelry. | ||
| We've been doing it for 112 years. | ||
| I think our first speaker was President Taft. | ||
| So we're doing it again this year. | ||
| You can go to the website, nyyrc.com, get tickets today before they sell out. | ||
| It's going to be an amazing event. | ||
| All of MAGA will be there, and like the great Steve Bannon just said, the event of the year, to be sure. | ||
| You're telling us that it was not the American-German Bund on Sunday? | ||
| This was not a fascist gathering? | ||
| Listen, I think they're running out of lines here. | ||
| Everything's fascism. | ||
| Everything's Nazism. | ||
| I think when you get to this kind of stadium, you see all of America there. | ||
| You see all of New York City there. | ||
| You see American Jews. | ||
| You see people putting on tefillin. | ||
| You see blacks, Hispanics, white. | ||
| This was a real New York crowd. | ||
| It was a real American crowd. | ||
| And they have nothing else. | ||
| I mean, are the Knicks Nazis, because they play there regularly? | ||
| I mean, are the Rangers Nazis? | ||
| I mean, this thing is – it's tired. | ||
| It's old. | ||
| It's falling on deaf ears. | ||
| And I believe an internal Democrat Party memo leaked that said that the fascist label is just not sticking. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| It's done. | ||
| We're in a new country nowadays. | ||
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Wow. | |
| If she doesn't have that, she doesn't have much. | ||
| Gavin Wax. | ||
| Sir, welcome back. | ||
| Great to see you. | ||
| Great to be back, and great to have you riding shotgun. | ||
| What we're going to do, we got Naomi Wolf. | ||
| Can we get Naomi? | ||
| Or is she punched out? | ||
| I'm doing my own producing here as we do this. | ||
| Yeah, I'll look at this one right here. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| I've got... | ||
| Let me talk about this for a second. | ||
| We're very proud, if you know the War Room... | ||
| We've had hundreds of guests over the last couple of years, and we're actually doing a new book called Outlaws. | ||
| Timing is great that we released the book today when I'm coming out of a federal prison. | ||
| The book is really, since it's just out today, it is jumping up the The charts of Amazon. | ||
| I think it's the 200th book in the country. | ||
| It's number one in portraits. | ||
| Dan Fluitt's been my longtime producer. | ||
| Dan is... | ||
| I call him the Matthew Brady of the MAGA movement. | ||
| The... | ||
| These things are absolutely extraordinary. | ||
| The portraits are extraordinary. | ||
| You'll love it. | ||
| It's a coffee table book. | ||
| It's a great Christmas present. | ||
| And joining me here in a moment is going to be Naomi Wolf. | ||
| Now, we had Naomi's book. | ||
| I actually got this book delivered to me at Danbury Federal Prison. | ||
| I let a bunch of guys read it and then put it in, donated my copy to the library, the Pfizer Papers, which people thought was just absolutely, absolutely extraordinary. | ||
| We're going to get her set up here in a second. | ||
| I can already tell this is not working, but that's okay. | ||
| We're doing it on live TV. We got it. | ||
| The great Naomi Wolf, as soon as I get my cameraman back. | ||
| I like this. | ||
| I'm kind of producing. | ||
| I'm directing now. | ||
| I'm doing... | ||
| Harry's out having a couple of drinks. | ||
| Oh, there's Harry. | ||
| There's Harry. | ||
| Oh, there's Cameron. | ||
| There's Will. | ||
| There's a great producer team. | ||
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Guys, anytime you want to jump in and help out here, would you just... | |
| Man, you know, I'm a little rusty. | ||
| I haven't done this in four months. | ||
| How you doing, hon? | ||
| Good. | ||
| Now, first off, the book, we're obviously limited time, but something happened the other day. | ||
| Did you actually endorse President Trump? | ||
| This is a hard thing for me to do, but yes, I did. | ||
| I'm saying it. | ||
| It's public. | ||
| Yes, I did. | ||
| I posted and I sent to you in prison my tweet or my ex post saying... | ||
| You know, at a certain point you have to stop supporting the fascists. | ||
| The people I voted for silenced my voice, they killed thousands of people, and they put the man who tried to help me save the lives of thousands of people in prison, and at a certain point you just have to stand up for what's right. | ||
| But hold, these are people you've worked with professionally. | ||
| You've known them all your life since you were at Yale. | ||
| How is that? | ||
| Tell me how that works. | ||
| How is something you've believed so deeply? | ||
| Was it the pandemic? | ||
| Was it what happened in the vaccine? | ||
| Is it what's happened over the last couple of years? | ||
| What would actually take someone who is so renowned, really in kind of the feminist movement or the progressive movement, and now you're endorsing the arch... | ||
| I believe this moment has arrived. | ||
| No, no, the arch. | ||
| The great Satan. | ||
| The great Satan, the patriarch. | ||
| I mean, Rachel Maddow's head's blowing up. | ||
| My head is blowing up. | ||
| What specifically drove you this? | ||
| Because this is not a small thing. | ||
| No, it's huge. | ||
| But it's a number of things, honestly. | ||
| I mean, one of them is a good friend of mine brought me to listen to President Trump speak. | ||
| And it was in Bedminster, and he was speaking to a bunch of Orthodox Jews. | ||
| And he talked to a group of Orthodox Jews about peace in the Middle East. | ||
| And what he had to say about... | ||
| No more wars and about bringing an end to the conflict in that region and the way that these people who have been prosecuted and persecuted and harassed for millennia reacted to his plans for peace. | ||
| I'm Jewish. | ||
| That was very, very moving to me. | ||
| And in person, he's very different from the caricature. | ||
| All of my information about him was filtered through legacy media. | ||
| He's a fascist. | ||
| He's a misogynist. | ||
| He's a racist. | ||
| I saw someone who was Eloquent, articulate, thoughtful, very funny. | ||
| Not every joke he makes I would have endorsed, you know. | ||
| But he was talking about... | ||
| He was serious. | ||
| He was a serious person talking seriously about peace in the Middle East, about saving lives, innocent lives, Palestinian and Israeli, and how can that not be good? | ||
| How can we not, you know, cheer that on? | ||
| I wasn't hearing the same kind of seriousness from Biden-Harris. | ||
| And also... | ||
| Biden-Harris suppressed my voice when I was warning women about serious danger to their fertility from the mRNA injection. | ||
| In June of 2021, two attorneys general with lawsuits revealed that that tweet was lifted out by the Biden-Harris regime at the highest levels, and instead of helping women protect their fertility, their babies, their pregnancies, | ||
| their own health, They lifted it out to silence me, to smear me unlawfully to put pressure on big tech companies like X and Facebook to suppress my First Amendment rights and the First Amendment rights of other, you know, very serious people like Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard. | ||
| But it doesn't matter whether they're from Harvard or Stanford. | ||
| This is the Gray Barrington guys? | ||
| Yeah, but the regime in America is not supposed to strip citizens of their First Amendment rights. | ||
| And then lastly, honestly, this is a very moving moment for me, Steve. | ||
| You and I don't agree on a lot of things, but after my own people... | ||
| Shut me down. | ||
| Didn't let me warn women about real threats to their fertility and their health. | ||
| You're the person who reached out to me and let me bring my concerns to your audience. | ||
| And for months, you let me bring the evidence to your audience. | ||
| You suspended judgment. | ||
| You didn't censor me because we don't agree on various policy issues. | ||
| You cared about women and children and you were acting like a journalist. | ||
| And then You were the godfather, essentially, of this project, the Pfizer Papers book, that brought together 3,250 doctors and scientists to read through these 450,000 documents and bring America and the world the evidence that Pfizer and the Biden-Harris regime and governments around the world... | ||
| had knowingly tried to roll out an injection that was disabling people, sterilizing women, damaging the fertility of men, killing people, you know, causing endless damage. | ||
| And then they put you in prison, you know, a political prisoner. | ||
| So at a certain point, how do you support the fascists, right? | ||
| And it's not just that. | ||
| I'll stop, I promise. | ||
| But President Trump did something very smart. | ||
| He aligned himself with a number of luminaries, people who are very thoughtful and serious across the political spectrum. | ||
| RFK Jr., whom I respect so much, Telsey Gabbard, Elon Musk has joined. | ||
| And he's being more inclusive. | ||
| His in-person events, in spite of some missteps by surrogates, which always happens in a campaign, as you said earlier in your press conference, he's speaking out to the concerns of Black people, white people, Puerto Rican people, Hispanic people of all kinds, women, men. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| You guys have become the unity party. | ||
| And he's leading the unity party. | ||
| And I would be an idiot if I didn't recognize that. | ||
| How do people get the book and how they still go to your site? | ||
| Because there's a lot of work to do here. | ||
| I know we've got lawsuits going on all over the place. | ||
| But I want to start with getting people access to the FISA papers. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| Go to Amazon. | ||
| That's the best place to order it from right now and help us move it up the bestseller list. | ||
| And, you know, just keep supporting War Room. | ||
| Your team did an amazing job in your absence and they deserve so much credit. | ||
| But also, we're so happy to have you back. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We're going to have, we'll have Naomi on later in the week too as we roll up to November 5. | ||
| You know how important it is to get the grassroots totally motivated and of course the Pfizer papers are a huge part of that. | ||
| So thank you so much for putting it together. | ||
| It now has a place of honor in Danbury in the library. | ||
| That is awesome. | ||
| So the inmates there can share it. | ||
| That's beautiful. | ||
| I want to thank you so much. | ||
| We're going to have you back. | ||
| Daily Cloud, where do they go? | ||
| Go to dailycloud.io and also we've got a place where you can upload your ballot. | ||
|
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Wow. | |
| Yeah, third party verification. | ||
| So check the map to make sure it's legal so I don't get arrested and I don't replace you and your cell in Danbury. | ||
| But many states it's legal. | ||
| There is a woman's low security and a woman's camp there. | ||
| I'd like to stay out of that. | ||
| It's a central complex. | ||
| But you can upload your ballot, and then we at least have some archive to check the vote. | ||
| Okay, Naomi Wolf, and we're going to have Naomi back as we continue to drive these lawsuits against Pfizer. | ||
| Eric Metaxas, because Naomi joined us today. | ||
| Eric Prince joined us today. | ||
| Eric Metaxas joined us today. | ||
| Eric was quite upset. | ||
| He's going to join us here in a second. | ||
| He was very upset about the behavior of the journalists. | ||
| Eric, come on over here and grab a seat. | ||
| We're going to get... | ||
| I think we just do Eric without an earpiece, right? | ||
| Because it's just us? | ||
| Eric Metaxas, you're one of the great writers in the country, particularly on topics of spirituality, ethics, morals, philosophy. | ||
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You were quite upset today about the press conference. | |
| Why? | ||
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Because I have a soul and a conscience. | |
| Because I love America. | ||
| Listen... | ||
| I don't normally hang out with journalists. | ||
| And after today, I realize, I guess that's intentional. | ||
| It's not just, you know, because I don't hang out with journalists. | ||
| But what I saw in the room, I mean, I just, you know me, I live, I grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. | ||
| We could talk about that another time. | ||
| But I just happen to be in town today. | ||
| I live in New York City. | ||
| And I thought, oh, I can be there. | ||
| And I wanted to be there to greet you as an American hero whom I love. | ||
| I have tremendous gratitude to you. | ||
| And so I come into the room. | ||
| I did not expect a gaggle of journalists. | ||
| But I sat there and I watched what I rarely get to see. | ||
| But the level of hostility... | ||
| It was utterly despicable. | ||
| Their contempt for the truth, their contempt for the American people. | ||
| It is despicable, Steve. | ||
| It's despicable to be denounced with everything we have in us because their job, theoretically, once upon a time, was to have curiosity about what is true, to ferret out the truth. | ||
| They sat there And I thought to myself, first of all, you'd think that they would give you five seconds of grace. | ||
| You just got out of prison. | ||
| And these pampered, perfumed fools treated you... | ||
| Like scum. | ||
| They questioned you in a way. | ||
| We are scum. | ||
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But this is my point. | |
| This is the group they call the fascists. | ||
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This is the point is that they're not even slightly open-minded. | |
| In other words, you would think that you're doing time, literally, in a prison, would give them a moment to say, does he have something to say? | ||
| Might I learn something? | ||
| Is there a perspective? | ||
| They were all... | ||
| Just extraordinarily hostile. | ||
| And it was like they were playing the role of journalists in some awful movie. | ||
| They seemed to have no humanity. | ||
| And even though I expect that... | ||
| I kind of dug it. | ||
| I feed off of that. | ||
| I feed off... | ||
| The hostility was a physical presence, was it not? | ||
| A material presence. | ||
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I think you've been in prison too long. | |
| You're messed up, man. | ||
| Seriously, look, it's one of the reasons everybody loves you. | ||
| Trump has that too. | ||
| You love the battle. | ||
| Trump got it to the 10th degree. | ||
| That's why they hate him more. | ||
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But the idea that... | |
| I mean, listen, because people weren't in the room, even just sussing out these journalists, like looking at how they present themselves, how they're dressed, what their tribe is... | ||
| They live to hate people like you and me and the people that would vote for Trump. | ||
| They have thrown away any semblance of objectivity. | ||
| But to sit there and to observe it, I was astonished. | ||
| I mean, I am not a Boy Scout, but I was astonished at it. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| You see where American politics is going. | ||
| I mean, American politics right now is a blood sport, right? | ||
| We give as good as we get. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| You're a very even-handed guy. | ||
| You're looked at as one of the great moral philosophers of our age, right? | ||
| Why are you shocked by their hate? | ||
| They're part of the ruling class. | ||
| They're part of the, they're the information warfare department of the political class and the oligarchy that controls this country. | ||
| Why would it shock you that they're gonna hate someone associated with Trump and somebody's prepared to come and make a case? | ||
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Has the guy's been in prison or the guy's gonna go to prison or? - I mean, look, In the abstract, it wouldn't shock me. | |
| But to be in the room to see it, I assiduously avoid these creeps and the world in which they live. | ||
| I go out of my way to avoid them because it disgusts me so profoundly that it's better for me not to be near it. | ||
| But to be in that room, right over there, it hit me viscerally and it horrified me. | ||
| But I really do think that Some of them would at least, you know, just the fact that you went to prison. | ||
| And I could see this contempt if you may, maybe you hadn't been sentenced yet. | ||
| But the fact that you did the time, zero respect for that. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| They're upset I'm out today. | ||
| They want it to be longer, right? | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Why does this guy show up six days, seven days before the election? | ||
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Look, Naomi was just here, Naomi Wolf. | |
| She and I were in the same class at Yale, 84. | ||
| 84. | ||
| I know I look young. | ||
| But we were in the same class at Yale. | ||
| Naomi looks young. | ||
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You look like a guy who's in the class of 84. | |
| Okay, alright. | ||
| She doesn't. | ||
| But Naomi... | ||
| And I, what I find fascinating, it is fascinating, you were just talking about it with Naomi. | ||
| She was like a feminist liberal at Yale. | ||
| I was a kind of working class kid who goes to an Ivy League school and my fingers in the wind like, how do they think here? | ||
| So I was not an ideologue left or right. | ||
| And then of course I become a Christian and a conservative and stuff. | ||
| But if you want to know where we are today, The fact that you and I and Naomi Wolf, we are on team reality. | ||
| That's what I call it. | ||
| We're on team reality. | ||
| We care about what is real and what is true. | ||
| And we're actually trying to figure stuff out with some level of curiosity and honesty and humility. | ||
| That was as lacking in that group today as anything I've ever seen. | ||
| And it was horrifying. | ||
| I think it's appropriate to be horrified by it. | ||
| We've got 30 seconds. | ||
| Where do people go to get your latest book, your website, your podcast? | ||
| You're doing everything. | ||
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I would just say you can follow me on social media, Instagram or X, but ericmetaxas.com, everything. | |
| It's at ericmetaxas.com, socratesinthecity.com, and all that kind of stuff. | ||
| You've got so much going on. | ||
| How do we book two Yalies for one hand? | ||
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From the class of 84. | |
| Class of 84. | ||
| What are the odds of that? | ||
| Natalie Winters, University of Chicago, picks it up, and she's got a very special guest, Jeff Clark, on the other side in the world. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | ||
| War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back to The War Room, where I was under the impression that Steve and I were going to be co-hosting this hour, so you are going to get 20 minutes of raw and unfiltered, I think, Natalie Rance. | ||
| We might have Jeff Clark joining us at some point, but in the meantime, I think I just want to run through today, which is such an historic day that shall be remembered, only to be, I would say, outshined by what's going to happen on November 5th. | ||
| So honored to have Stephen K. Bannon back in the saddle where he rightfully belongs. | ||
| But like I said, today is not a day of celebration. | ||
| Shouldn't be categorized as a victory. | ||
| No, it's a day of righteous indignation where we remember what this regime took from us in the same way that Kamala Harris's regime is not a regime of joy despite their best efforts to dupe the American people. | ||
| It's a regime of hatred, it's a regime of desperation, and it's a regime of political prosecutions and persecutions. | ||
| Just think about the last four months, what they took from you with Stephen K. Bannon, but how about the last four years? | ||
| What they took from you, your sovereignty, peace and prosperity, the value of the United States dollar, the lives of countless Americans, and I'm not just talking about the Lake and Rileys, but what about the 13 gold star families in Afghanistan? | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon may have been held in the contempt of Congress, but we the war room posse and the majority of this country holds the people who put them there, this evil ruling class that likes to think of themselves as the intellectual elite, the expert ruling class, which by the way, their idiocracy was on full display today in the Stephen K. Bannon press conference. | ||
| But we get to put them on trial November 5th. | ||
| Right? | ||
| That's their final judgment day. | ||
| And I hope that we have a resounding hell no. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And it's quite telling. | ||
| When they call us fascists, when they call us Nazis, when they call us Hitlerian, shall I go on? | ||
| Because remember what the attacks used to be against this show. | ||
| It used to be that we were populists. | ||
| It used to be that we were nationalists. | ||
| It used to be that we were then, by extension, xenophobes and bigots and monsters of hate. | ||
| But they know that they lost that fight because you guys, the war room posse, proved that what the majority of Americans want is a populist future. | ||
| That is rooted in the principles of MAGA and rooted in the principles of Bannonism. | ||
| And there's no escaping that, and there's certainly no escaping that now, now that Stephen K. Bannon is back. | ||
| And you see it in the emergence of the idea that they need to Trump-proof the institutions. | ||
| In the same way that President Trump asked what was it Black Americans in 2016, well what the heck do you have to lose by voting for me? | ||
| Well, I think we can now broaden out that question to the rest of America. | ||
| Because whether it's inflation, these endless foreign wars, immigration, legal and illegal, what do we have to lose from these institutions that so desperately need to be Trump-proofed? | ||
| Why do they need to Trump-proof them? | ||
| Because it is anathema for them to put Americans first, in the same way that that was Stephen K. Bannon's only sin. | ||
| And when they melt the frick down about President Trump wanting generals like Hitler, it's not that he wants generals like Hitler, it's that he wants his own generals. | ||
| And he doesn't want to play the game of the deep state or the steady state or the permanent political class or whatever you want to call it, epitomized by the impeachment witnesses against him. | ||
| It's that President Trump wants people who are loyal to him, but more importantly loyal to this country, and there is no better example of that than someone like Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| And I'm honored. | ||
| I think we have Jeff Clark who is up in New York. | ||
| I guess I got the graveyard shift. | ||
| I had to stay in Palm Beach while all of you guys are up partying at the Regency Hotel. | ||
| Fine by me. | ||
| I'm happy to do it. | ||
| But Jeff Clark, give us your rundown of today's events. | ||
| Well, Natalie, it's always good to be with you. | ||
| Sorry you're not here up in New York, but you get better weather at least. | ||
| So today's press conference, I thought, was truly epic. | ||
| And I think, as you heard Eric Metaxas say, the atmosphere from the mainstream media folks just attacking Steve and trying to get in these little zingers. | ||
| You know, you might not have seen it. | ||
| Some people might not have caught it. | ||
| But, you know, Tim Miller was trying to heckle Steve at the end and suggest that he was a quote-unquote recidivist, which is obviously trying to play on the idea that anyone who is MAGA, anyone who supports President Trump, Is a criminal. | ||
| And there was just question after question from Vaughn Hilliard and others about January 6th and about Steve's advice and Steve's perspective on the 2020 election. | ||
| And Steve, you know, stood up for himself. | ||
| He just batted the questions that he got aside very easily and said, look, I'm never going to agree that the 2020 election was legit and that President Trump lost it. | ||
| So, you know, just give that up. | ||
| And it was great to see him in fighting spirit out of Danbury. | ||
| And he can't be operating on very many hours of sleep. | ||
| He's truly amazing. | ||
| He's like President Trump. | ||
| The energy level is off the charts. | ||
| And I think all of the people who came up to support him, like Eric Prince and Mike Davis and Naomi Wolf and Eric Metaxas, myself, and Caroline Wren, and on and on, Everyone was just feeling that energy and so glad to have Steve, both a friend and a patriot, back in the chair. | ||
| I want to get to the news of the day as well. | ||
| You know, Stephen K. Bannon, he'd probably fire me, I guess, now that he can, if we just talked about him for these, you know, 15 minutes that we have together. | ||
| But I am curious, there was a story that we broke in the war room, what was it, about a month ago, about, it's not a usual collection of words that you hear together, but the rape party bus. | ||
| And illegal migrants and Kamala Harris, quite an interesting combination. | ||
| But the Daily Mail, in usual fashion, is about a month late to the story. | ||
| They're breaking it as like an exclusive today. | ||
| Can you walk us through any new revelations, not just on that story, but more broadly, the abysmal prosecutorial record, or lack thereof, of Kamala Harris? | ||
| Sure, Natalie. | ||
| So look, we broke this story. | ||
| It involves a particular illegal alien who came to live in the San Francisco area. | ||
| He is sent to prison because he is engaged in domestic violence against his partner. | ||
| So he's got one strike. | ||
| Then somehow he manages to get hired by a party bus company without checking out his immigration status, whether he even has a commercial driver's license. | ||
| And his job basically is to cart drunk people, just not to put too fine a point on it, around San Francisco from nightclub to nightclub. | ||
| And they're supposed to have wristbands on that will let everybody get into whatever nightclubs are scheduled on the stops. | ||
| But it turns out there are a couple of women who at the first nightclub, they're actually carded and they don't have proper identification. | ||
| So they're not allowed in. | ||
| So that opportunity was pounced on by this party bus driver, the illegal alien, and by his cousin. | ||
| And they drive to a secluded alleyway and the cousin keeps anyone else on the bus occupied, including by sort of standing and holding the door of the restroom, while the party bus driver brutally rapes a young woman who's about 21 years old who actually was married. while the party bus driver brutally rapes a young woman And this, you know, impacts her educational future. | ||
| Her victim impact statement is truly heartbreaking, and she winds up suing civilly against the party bus company, which may itself have also been run by an illegal immigrant from another country, which is why in Sanctuary City, San Francisco, he didn't even want to check out the commercial driver's license status of this guy he didn't even want to check out the commercial driver's license status of | ||
| So, look, we were bringing attention to this quite a while back, as you note, Natalie, and so I want to commend the Daily Mail for actually doing the story because none of the American press have done a story about this, and it's a huge story. | ||
| What they managed to find out that we did not know was that of the three-year sentence that Kamala Harris agreed in the plea deal to give him, he only served two years. | ||
| And so, you know, two years for a brutal rape like this, which is actually a rape conspiracy, is just ridiculous. | ||
| And, you know, it blows up this whole idea that Kamala Harris is some killer prosecutor that's tough on crime and that magically now she's going to be tough on the border, right? | ||
| She was the border czar, but, you know, the border is like Swiss cheese. | ||
| And, you know, then she cuts commercials where she's down at the border wall pretending she's going to be tough on crime because she prosecuted transnational crime, even though it's since come to light that one of those cartels that she says she prosecuted, she said she prosecuted Sinaloa and Guadalajara. | ||
| But Guadalajara actually ceased to exist before she ever really became a lawyer. | ||
| So that's not possible. | ||
| So it's... | ||
| It's full of lies. | ||
| It's, you know, an incredible record. | ||
| It's a big stain on her record. | ||
| I think this party bus case and the really light sentence that was given to this guy, you know, it shows that she wasn't really willing either herself or actually to have her underlings take controversial cases to trial. | ||
| And so she just was like, oh, you know, they offered three years. | ||
| I'll take the three-year deal rather than using a trial. | ||
| And so, look, today I haven't had a chance to read it yet. | ||
| Mickey Kaus reflected it at me on my Twitter feed while I was here up in New York, that the New York Times did a story. | ||
| They say they've located some transcripts of trials, Natalie, so I'm going to see whether I can get copies of those from the New York Times, and then myself, other lawyers, maybe Mike Davis can critique those transcripts, and we can see if we think that they show a harsh, sharp prosecutor like the New York Times apparently is claiming. | ||
| We're definitely going to have to vet to make sure that they're not AI deepfakes or actual Russian disinformation, or I guess Iranian disinformation. | ||
| But no, you're so right. | ||
| All of this comes down to the degradation of the value of you as an American citizen and American citizenship. | ||
| And frankly, that is the theory, the idea that has undergirded so much of Bannonism and his political movement of economic nationalism. | ||
| And economic populism. | ||
| And I think there's a stunning contrast, right, when Kamala Harris adds the word sovereignty to her vernacular for the first time ever when she's speaking down at the southern border in, I believe, Tucson, or at least in Arizona. | ||
| And they've locked Stephen K. Bannon up for essentially trying to force that issue into the American political lexicon for so long. | ||
| I guess it's heresy when he does it, but when Kamala does it for cheap votes so no one's buying the act, despite the Quite convincing camo hats. | ||
| Doesn't quite pass the smell test, no pun intended, Joe Biden. | ||
| I am curious though, Jeff, I believe tonight Kamala Harris is set to have her, I don't even want to call it a rally because that's doing a heavy lift, but her shoddily pieced together closing statement at the ellipse trying to draw the juxtaposition between her and President Trump when it comes to January 6th. | ||
| To me, I think it reeks of her campaign essentially being, I guess, what I'd call a stillbirth. | ||
| In other words, there's no momentum, there's no movement, so they have to look back in the past. | ||
| But what do you make of her impending speech on the ellipse? | ||
| Well, look, I got to watch that at first opportunity once I'm back in D.C. But look, she's clearly chosen this for strategic purposes because sort of J6 and this whole fascist narrative, which isn't working, as Gavin Wax was explaining, and it's collapsing. | ||
| She's just trying to echo that. | ||
| And I remember that she gave a speech inside the Capitol where she said that January 6th was as bad or worse than 9-11, right? | ||
| You know, she's just making totally ludicrous points. | ||
| But I do, before our time runs out, Natalie, I want to tie together, you know, this whole border, porous border issue and the voting. | ||
| Because obviously, in seven days, we're having the most important election of our lifetimes. | ||
| And we're dealing with the Biden Justice Department and Kamala Harris and their Civil Rights Division. | ||
| And they're trying to block states like Texas and states like Virginia with Glenn Duncan and with A.G. Meares to try to take illegal aliens off the voter rolls. | ||
| Let's focus a little bit on this Virginia case. | ||
| You know, there are more than 6,000 illegal aliens who shouldn't be on the voter rolls because that's illegal for them to register and to vote and, you know, it becomes a deportable offense. | ||
| And DOJ is trying to keep them on the voter rolls. | ||
| That tells you a lot. | ||
| That tells you that, again, that this whole mythology of Kamala is going to be tough on the border and she's going to be tough on crime. | ||
| That's not what's happening. | ||
| They had to fake the FBI statistics to make it go away, essentially, in the numbers that crime was increasing in America under the Biden administration. | ||
| And look, they've, you know, took an appeal to the Fourth Circuit after there was a judge who ruled against Virginia, just trying to take this common sense step based on a 2006 statute that was pre-cleared by the Justice Department itself. | ||
| And the Fourth Circuit said no. | ||
| So it's all up to the Supreme Court again, as is frequently the case in America when you're living in these blue states and in the blue circuit courts, and the Fourth Circuit is definitely one of them. | ||
| And we need to get the voter rolls to be pure, and we need especially... | ||
| To take illegal aliens off those voter rolls. | ||
| And it also bears out everything that Elon Musk is saying, Natalie, about the fact that the Democrat Party plan is to import enough voters to turn themselves into and perpetuate themselves as a one party monopoly. | ||
| And Jeff, I think it was just a few days ago that the DOJ intentionally leaked a memo to the New York Times saying that we need to have an election quiet period, we really need to not do anything all that controversial, yet in the same breath they're busy suing to put non-citizens, making them eligible to vote, which I would say seems pretty controversial. | ||
| Your thoughts on that sort of optics angle? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's a complete double standard, right? | ||
| And it's also reminding me of what Bezos is trying to do with the Washington Post, right? | ||
| It's great that the Washington Post didn't endorse Kamala Harris. | ||
| And, you know, it's also delicious to watch the meltdown of the various staff members, whether editorial reporters who are resigning or complaining or resigning positions so they can take other positions inside. | ||
| That's a truly cowardly way, I think, of supposedly venting your views. | ||
| And yet, you know, Bezos is not admitting that the Washington Post has been one of the leading cheerleaders for all of the lawfare against President Trump, for all of the fake scandals like Russiagate, like the Steele dossier, and on and on. | ||
| And so, yeah, of course, you know, they'll cheer along the fact that the Biden Civil Rights Division at DOJ is trying to put back on the rolls illegal voters. | ||
| But they'll say, you know, we otherwise want to keep things quiet. | ||
| In other words, they want to otherwise try to keep things quiet for anything that might help Donald Trump. | ||
| News about the economy starting to weaken. | ||
| News about the stock market, actually, in the opinion of some experts, that to the extent the stock market is holding, it's because people expect at this point that President Trump will be elected. | ||
| But whenever I say anything like that, particularly given all the messages today that I agree with Steve about, we cannot get cocky. | ||
| We cannot get in the position where we think that this election is in the bag for the president. | ||
| It has to be go, go, go, fight, fight, fight, all the way down to the election and the beyond period, because those beyond periods, that's when Mark Elias is going to try to work his magic in the courts, you know, using probably the Biden Civil Rights Division right at using probably the Biden Civil Rights Division right at his back as a flank, as a set of amicus briefs they'll file. | ||
| Use his dark magic, shall we say, John. | ||
| Jeff Clark, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with your hunt for Kamala Harris' transcripts. | ||
| Hopefully we find something. | ||
| Where can people go to do all that? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So I'm at JeffClarkUS on X and Getter and at RealJeffClark on Truth Social. | ||
| And also, Natalie, I'm going to be coming out with a new paper about that very interesting Pentagon directive that came out sometime this week. | ||
| So watch for that on the americarenewing.com website. | ||
| I'm excited for that one. | ||
| I think we forced the Pentagon to put out a whole statement on a story that I broke, which I take as a badge of honor and an entire government report on it. | ||
| So thank you for doing that paper. | ||
| And thank you, Jeff, not just for today's appearance, but for the last four months. | ||
| You've always been such a reliable, dependable guest who I'm now honored having spent so much time in D.C. to call a good friend. | ||
| So thank you so much for coming on. | ||
| Thank you, Natalie, and you've done a real bang-up job hosting, and I hope that you're going to continue even as Steve, you know, takes more of the lead role here in the run-up to the election. | ||
| I'm not planning on going anywhere. | ||
| Jeff, thank you so much. | ||
| I will see you soon on election night. | ||
| Warren Posse, you know they're doing everything they can to make a potential and looming Trump victory, a pyrrhic victory, whether it's Trump proofing NATO, all these globalist institutions, changing the whistleblower legalities so whistleblowers under Trump can potentially do more to subvert his agenda from within. | ||
| We're going to be all over this as Steve gets back into the chair, gets back into, I guess, normal civilian life, but I just want to use the last minute. | ||
| I don't know if Steve is watching, but just to say thank you to Steve for giving me this platform for the last four months, but for always having been such an upstanding guy. | ||
| I know you guys see it on the national stage in his actions as a political leader and political figure, but behind the scenes, he really is such a wonderful man, and you don't find many people like that in Washington, D.C., especially among circles like John Podesta and Bill Clinton and all these evil, horrible people. | ||
| It's rare to have a man of such power, but also caliber and stature, which is Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| So coming from a high school student who watched your Oxford Union address on populism, I never in my wildest dreams would have thought I would have been so blessed to have ended up hosting your show, let alone you ending up in federal prison. | ||
| But you are such a role model and an example of what it means to be a real man and a real patriot in this wonderful country. | ||
| And I am so honored to have you back and so blessed. | ||
| I know we're so blessed that you made it out safe, alive and well. | ||
| You know, the posse has your back, whether it's Tim Miller, the Deep State, Kamala Harris, the Chinese Communist Party, Rhinos, Mike Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, just like you didn't go anywhere and you held the line for Trump. | ||
| We will do the same, and I certainly know I will do the same. | ||
| I love you, Steve. |
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