Oct. 31, 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. | ||
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unidentified
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This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | |
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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unidentified
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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. | ||
| It's Wednesday 30, October, year of our Lord, 2024. | ||
| a couple of three days uh before the mass mobilization next tuesday tyler boyer is our guest natalie winner is going to co-host with me this hour got jane zirkle mose with me riding shotgun raheem's going to join us a lot to go through so tyler this massive effort you guys have done turning point usa charlie kirk you the leadership it's been enormous all over the Arizona's a particular... | ||
| Great example of your efforts. | ||
| Carrie Lake's not governor of Arizona because on Election Day a couple of years ago, they had massive problems in Maricopa County about actually processing people. | ||
| My understanding is that the industrial analysis on processing voters they did with, I think it's a two- to four-page ballot in Arizona, that the calculation was that it would take people eight to ten minutes to To get into the voting booth, to go through the material, to actually figure out everything and leave. | ||
| But that the average in the early voting has been 18 to 22 minutes. | ||
| Now this would mean potentially you've got hours of waiting and we already know last time that it didn't work and this is the reason Carrie Lake's not governor. | ||
| Tell our audience what is going on and particularly what folks out there either legally or operationally are doing about it. | ||
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Yeah, I mean, I'll start with your second point, which is there's not a whole lot that we can do because of the horrible people that have been operating our elections, particularly in Maricopa County, for the past few election cycles. | |
| The good news is that we made swift work of Stephen Richer in this primary, and he no longer will be the recorder, but we still have the same elections department in Maricopa County, which They've moved into the vote center model, | ||
| which we know has led to these problems, which are long lines, fewer polling places, and people now with large ballots, when you have these situations happen, it's taking longer and it's making enormous lines. | ||
| This may be the first time that we see a ballot of this length in the vote center model, which is part of the reason why it's flawed. | ||
| So going back to the question and And we looked at this and we said, you know, it looks like if there was somebody nefarious trying to cause problems, particularly for Republicans who turn out at a much larger number than Democrats on Election Day, you would encourage these problems. | ||
| You would encourage these backups, these things to happen. | ||
| And so the only solution that we have as it stands in the law is go and vote in person early. | ||
| And now people having those Reservations about voting early by mail can do so in person at these locations. | ||
| But, you know, this is the reason why is we don't need everybody to do it, but we need a lot of people to do it in order to create balance so that we don't give them as much rope to hang us with on Election Day as we saw in 2022 with what happened to Kerry and Abe Hamideh. | ||
| Okay, but Harmeet Dillon and Gina Swoboda, I think, are taking a legal aspect of it. | ||
| You guys are trying to work with people. | ||
| It looks like nothing's happening right now by the Democratic regime out there that runs this deal. | ||
| What else can be done? | ||
| In Pennsylvania, the RNC and the campaign went in Lancaster County, and now we have voting extended, right? | ||
| Was it in-person mail voting, believe it or not, extended until 5 p.m. | ||
| on Friday. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Is there anything that could be done? | ||
| Because you say, hey, get it done. | ||
| When does voting actually stop in Arizona? | ||
| And how much could be expanded? | ||
| Because at 18 to 22 minutes, bro, you're just going to have, people are going to have to know, the Republicans and Trump supporters are going to have to know, pack a lunch. | ||
| Because it could take a while. | ||
| And it's not supposed to, you know, working people have got to get to work. | ||
| Moms have got to drop, you know, go pick up the kids. | ||
| People have things to do. | ||
| Voting Day is not a national holiday. | ||
| So this could be the difference. | ||
| We've got to win Arizona. | ||
| I'm not so sure there's a model that exists that does not have us taking the White House by winning Arizona. | ||
| Actions being taken in Pennsylvania, what are your thoughts on what can be done to get an extension right now in the great state of Arizona? | ||
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Well, look, I think having more in-person voting prior to Election Day and demanding that extension past The close, which is next Friday, would be fantastic. | |
| I don't know if we're going to get it. | ||
| Again, I hate being the bearer of bad news, but we have not great judges in this state, and we've seen that time and time again. | ||
| And so that's part of the reason why we put so many bodies on the ground right now, is we are doing the absolute hustle work to get as many people out before Friday. | ||
| This is not a, let's wait until Friday and then Pull the fire alarms. | ||
| We've been pulling the fire alarms now for basically two months saying, hey, we have to have this. | ||
| We have to statistically make sure that we're on a good pace leading into Friday, November 1st, which is when that concludes, and then heading into Election Day, of course, on November 5th. | ||
| That's part of the reason why you have to have the amount of groundswell with bodies the way that we do right now in order to help facilitate that. | ||
| And I think the Democrats have been taken off guard by this. | ||
| Mainly because we're already seeing days this week where polling places at times have had over 100 people waiting in line. | ||
| That just tells you that is going to be a dramatically Terrible situation on Tuesday. | ||
| So more people have to turn out now. | ||
| There's more locations that opened just this last week. | ||
| There will be more locations that open up on Friday. | ||
| There will be more locations that open up on Monday, on November 4th. | ||
| And so we have to make sure that we get out our people. | ||
| And this is why starting early with the low propensity voters matters so much. | ||
| What concerns me in some of these other states is we're going to have similar consequences happen Outside of Arizona and places that we need to win. | ||
| And you're right, Steve, we have to win Arizona. | ||
| Arizona, I tell people all the time, is the Republican version of the Democrats in Michigan. | ||
| There's not a lot of pathways that you can win the country without Arizona if you're a Republican for Trump. | ||
| So we have to get our people out this week. | ||
| But there's places outside of the state that I'm looking at Pennsylvania right now, and they do not have a history of early voting in any kind of case in person or by mail. | ||
| And they don't have the mechanism to get everybody out in advance of Tuesday. | ||
| And so we have to tell people now, mentally prepare yourself for Tuesday. | ||
| Mentally prepare yourself to be there. | ||
| Like you said, pack a lunch. | ||
| Be prepared. | ||
| Vote like our lives depend on it because they do. | ||
| This is not having to go to war, but this is our war that we've got to fight right now. | ||
| And for us in Arizona, we have the concierge program. | ||
| We have the people who are here helping people make sure that this gets done way in advance. | ||
| And we're being successful at it too. | ||
| And Natalie, is this it's hang on for a second. | ||
| We're bringing Natalie in. | ||
| He's talking about Pennsylvania. | ||
| At least they're trying to expand this. | ||
| Is this psychological warfare? | ||
| I mean the opposition knows that traditionally they were caught by surprise of the great job, Elon Musk, the great job that Charlie Kirk and Tyler have done to get voters out now. | ||
| But traditionally, we vote on Election Day. | ||
| We vote on game day. | ||
| Is this part of the psychological warfare of the color revolution to basically mess people up beforehand, get them depressed, or say, hey, maybe I can't spend two or three hours in line? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And it's lawfare, too. | ||
| And I just want to break some news on the show. | ||
| Reports coming out now that a non-citizen from China was just caught voting in Michigan, saying that they used their student ID to register to vote. | ||
| And that that ballot will likely count per the Secretary of State's office. | ||
| This, of course, coming on the heels of another story out in Colorado, where they caught, I believe, 12 ballots that were part of a fraudulent operation. | ||
| But three of them will count towards the overall total in the 2024 election. | ||
| But that aside, it obviously is psychological warfare. | ||
| It's all they have. | ||
| And just remember, too, I think Arizona... | ||
| It's important to bring up who the election monitors are there. | ||
| And you're dealing with entities like, for example, the Carter Center, who's not just funded by, you guessed it, the Chinese Communist Party, the Open Society Foundations, Pfizer, the military industrial complex. | ||
| But that was the same entity who in 2022 was responsible for conducting pre-election audits, right? | ||
| Saying that there was no issues, that the election would be carried out seamlessly. | ||
| Then what did we see? | ||
| A shortage of ballots, particularly on game day, right? | ||
| But they gave it the all clear, and then post-election they said they found no shenanigans either, but I guess if it's the same entity that's certifying election victories in Venezuela, that's what you're going to get. | ||
| But look, Steve, it's the same characters, right? | ||
| It's the same people who were frankly involved in the first impeachment of Donald Trump, who are the people who are now hitting the airwaves to sort of push back against this narrative, whether it's Victoria Nuland, Norm Eisen, Fiona Hill, And when you have that pattern recognition, when you see these same interests representing themselves again, it's the same playbook. | ||
| It's just a little bit of a different spin on what exactly they're pushing. | ||
| Tyler, you're a solution provider. | ||
| Where do people go for turning point? | ||
| What do they need to do? | ||
| What do they need to sign up for? | ||
| What is the solution here? | ||
| People got to kind of get mentally tough now. | ||
| If you haven't early voted in states like Arizona or early mail-in in Pennsylvania, and you're going to vote traditionally, you vote on Election Day, you have to understand that this thing may not go right now as it looks. | ||
| As smoothly as possible. | ||
| It may look like 2022 in Arizona in a lot of places. | ||
| What are people to do? | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| How can you guys help? | ||
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Well, this is the reason why we built what we built, Steve. | |
| And I'm happy to share this last week. | ||
| We've had astounding numbers. | ||
| In fact, you know, we've been praying for you, obviously, while you've been unrighteously taken away from us here. | ||
| But prayers alone aren't going to win the election. | ||
| We have to have the bodies out to do the work in order to win. | ||
| And so we we had this last week record numbers of people turning in votes, getting votes cast in person and making sure that they get in their low propensity. | ||
| We've been doing this program. | ||
| The most simple way is download the Turning Point Action application. | ||
| And right on there, if you input your information by tapping the top left hand corner, you can immediately start knocking doors, making calls, sending text messages. | ||
| We make it so easy. | ||
| And then in addition to that, we have our Commit 100 program. | ||
| So whether or not you're in Arizona or Wisconsin or Pennsylvania or Georgia or Michigan, you can sign up at tpaction.com slash 100. | ||
| That's tpaction.com slash 100. | ||
| You'll see the Commit 100 button right there. | ||
| You click on that. | ||
| Our team will assign you 100 voters that we need to still chase in order to win. | ||
| Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and other states. | ||
| Go to tpaction.com to get involved now. | ||
| Our team is standing by. | ||
| We have literally thousands and thousands of people who are out chasing ballots as we speak right now, Steve. | ||
| We're expecting another record day. | ||
| And in your honor, of course, to make sure that we deliver the states that we need to win, including Arizona. | ||
| Tyler, I got to tell you, no one could give me a great compliment. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| Charlie Kirk, Tyler Boyer, the entire team at Turning Point and Turning Point USA and Turning Point USA Action. | ||
| What the work you guys are doing is amazing. | ||
| Can we have one more time? | ||
| I want to make sure everybody in this audience nationwide knows where to go. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
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tpaction.com slash 100. | |
| That's tpaction.com slash 100. | ||
| Or you can just go real easy on wherever you get your apps. | ||
| Go download the Turning Point Action application. | ||
| Not the Turning Point USA. That's our C3. The Turning Point Action application has all, if you tap the top left-hand corner and input your info, you can immediately start contacting voters that we need to contact in your home state. | ||
| Wherever you're sitting, and then help us in the states that we need to win. | ||
| Tyler, what is your social media handle? | ||
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You can find me at Tyler Boyer, that's B-O-W-Y-E-R, anywhere that you get your social media, but Twitter is my go-to. | |
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Godspeed. | ||
| Great work. | ||
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Thanks, Steve. | |
| We appreciate you. | ||
| Glad you're back. | ||
| These are people that are making it happen. | ||
| Mo, I think we need a motivation or call out. | ||
| Look, folks, the reason this show is so powerful is because of you. | ||
| The reason this show makes things happen is because of you. | ||
| We have to understand, we're going to go through some turbulence here. | ||
| If you want to, you just heard Natalie, I'm going to get Rahim on here. | ||
| This is not going to be easy. | ||
| It's not supposed to be easy. | ||
| They're going to make it a lot harder. | ||
| There's designs out there to make sure that MAGA cannot rise to power and cannot win a democratic, you know, in democracy, win an election, 50% plus one vote, and make sure that we can actually take over this government and start to deconstruct the administrative state. | ||
| Maureen, what do folks got to do here? | ||
| Well, we have victory at hand, but we can't take anything for granted. | ||
| And we've done a great job making sure that we have people registered to vote, but you have to have a plan. | ||
| For your vote. | ||
| And you have to understand that the left is going to try and deter us from making sure that our vote counts. | ||
| So it shouldn't be this case, but there might be long lines in order to vote. | ||
| But you need to have a plan Either to vote early on election day, but understand that it might take a while, but you need to make sure that your vote counts. | ||
| As you say, action, action, action. | ||
| You need to make sure, because this is the most influential election and important election of our lifetime. | ||
| Oh, right now, what do we have right here? | ||
| We have something with President Trump. | ||
| Can we go ahead and pick that up? | ||
| Let's cut right to it. | ||
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Is Steve Bannon going to campaign with you? | |
| Is Steve Bannon going to campaign with you now that he's out of prison? | ||
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I don't know, but I think he's a terrific guy. | |
| I think he was treated very unfairly. | ||
| Mr. | ||
| President, you've been talking about Democrats cheating. | ||
| Could you imagine any circumstances under which you would be defeated but not saved if the election was stolen? | ||
| If it was a corrupt election, that could happen. | ||
| They found a lot of smaller things in Pennsylvania, and I think they've been corrupted. | ||
| They were corrupted, but I think it's been taken care of. | ||
| You called for law enforcement to investigate. | ||
| I was going to say, do you anticipate to declare victory on election night? | ||
| I hope they will declare victory. | ||
| I mean, they spent all that money on machines. | ||
| Paper ballots cost 8 percent of what a machine does. | ||
| 8 percent. | ||
| And it's encrypted paper. | ||
| It's watermarked paper. | ||
| It's very secure. | ||
| Your elections would be over 10 o'clock, and that's when you could announce something and there would be no question. | ||
| And we're not talking about more money. | ||
| We're talking about the tiny fraction of the money. | ||
| You want paper, ideally. | ||
| You want one-day voting. | ||
| And I think it's just very important. | ||
| You have to have the country, you have to have voter ID, and you have a great election. | ||
| And you're talking about 8% of the cost. | ||
| It's very sad when you get machines, you pay all that money, and they talk about it three days later. | ||
| I think we're going to have a big enough victory to maybe have it that night. | ||
| We should always have it. | ||
| You know, every night, if you look at France, 38 million votes. | ||
| At 10 o'clock in the evening, it was over. | ||
| All paper ballots, all voter IDs, one-day voting. | ||
| How do you like my garbage truck? | ||
| This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden. | ||
| President Trump, you asked for law enforcement to investigate in Pennsylvania. | ||
| If they find no evidence of cheating, will you accept the results if you lose? | ||
| I guess they had quite a few ballots, 4,600 ballots for the same person. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But if they find no evidence of cheating, will you accept the results? | ||
| Pennsylvania? | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| Oh, if they find no evidence of cheating anywhere, I'll tell you. | ||
| I hope that's going to be the case. | ||
| Win, lose, or draw, I hope there's going to be a win. | ||
| Sir, in Bucks County! | ||
| Listen, I have to do something. | ||
| Because, Red Farm is a great guy. | ||
| He just endorsed Green Farm. | ||
| And he's very important at this moment. | ||
| I mean, you know, he's got a little problem for himself. | ||
| And I was very brave that he came out. | ||
| And I want to go over and see Red Bar. | ||
| We're all going together. | ||
| I assume you're going over. | ||
| I'm going to make a speech. | ||
| We're going to try and beat the weather out because we have some bad weather coming in. | ||
| But I just wanted to let you know that 250 million people, that's what I think the real number is for Making America great again. | ||
| 250 million. | ||
| A real number. | ||
| They don't think in terms of garbage, okay? | ||
| And they don't use terms like that. | ||
| And it's a shame. | ||
| And Joe Biden should be ashamed of himself if he knows what he's even doing. | ||
| And she should be ashamed because she shouldn't let him do it. | ||
| She's the Vice President, but I assume she's acting as the President. | ||
| She should never have let that happen. | ||
| I hope you enjoyed this garbage truck. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you, Pras. | ||
| Thank you, Pras. | ||
| There's the pack of jackals. | ||
| Look at that right there. | ||
| America's finest. | ||
| That's the same crew that was here yesterday for our press conference. | ||
| I think, Natalie, I think I heard Jonathan Swan's Australian accent. | ||
| Jonathan Swan of the New York Times sitting there throwing a question. | ||
| President Trump on a garbage truck. | ||
| Couldn't be better. | ||
| Did you hear Jonathan Swan? | ||
| Did you hear that Australian accent from the New York Times pestering President Trump for a question? | ||
| Hey, he's asking the questions that we all want to know the answers to. | ||
| Can you blame him that? | ||
| And I think, how are you so tan? | ||
| I think that's the other question that people want to know. | ||
| You look so great. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| Look, President Trump, we've got enough to do here at the War Room. | ||
| You've got to campaign. | ||
| We know what you've got to do. | ||
| We've got to help with the mass mobilization. | ||
| President Trump driving the truck, all of it. | ||
| Mo, people have got to own their vote. | ||
| You can commit for the 100 program. | ||
| There's all types of other programs. | ||
| This show has got to lead its effort. | ||
| This is what we're focused on the next couple of days, mass mobilization. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| I completely agree, and not only like I just said before we heard from President Trump, you have to make sure your vote counts, but you also need to make sure that your friends, family, anyone that can hear the sound of your voice has a plan in order to vote, and understands that it might take a while, but they need to make sure that their vote counts, because like I said, this is the most important election of our lifetime. | ||
| This country cannot survive another four years Under Kamala Harris. | ||
| We need Donald J. Trump back in office. | ||
| We were better the four years he was in office than the last four that she was. | ||
| No doubt about that. | ||
| Thank you, hon. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| We're going to get Raheem booted up here. | ||
| Raheem's going to write shotgun for me for a while to join us. | ||
| Natalie, I want to go back to the situation. | ||
| Your full field theory of this, is part of it the psychological warfare We're good to go. | ||
| I mean, it's demoralization, pure and simple. | ||
| And if that isn't a go-to Marxist tactic, then I don't know what is. | ||
| But I think there's also an element of intimidation, too. | ||
| And I think it's worth noting that just a few days ago, the State Department sort of clandestinely announced That they were going to be restricting the visas of anyone in Ghana who dared to quote undermine democracy in their ongoing elections. | ||
| They didn't specify what exactly undermining or democracy constitutes. | ||
| But I think that that sort of shows you right on this sort of alternative warfare level, the levers of power and the mechanisms that they're willing to use to go after people who they view as a threat to democracy. | ||
| And just to enrage this audience even more, like I said yesterday, was not a day of celebration, but rather a day of righteous indignation. | ||
| You have Joe Biden in the very same news cycle where you're let out of prison, Steve, saying that he actually supports, catch this, election audits and thinks that we need to go through, look critically at election results, not in the state of Georgia, but in the country of Georgia with an election not in the state of Georgia, but in the country of Georgia with an election that's sort of going through But that just shows you, right, the double standard. | ||
| We call it a two-tier system of justice, but it's a two-tier system of everything going on here. | ||
| And I think it leads me back to the conclusion, which is a special episode that we did about two months ago, which is what you're witnessing. | ||
| It's not an election. | ||
| Frankly, I'd argue it's the sort of final battle in four years of spiritual warfare, but what you're witnessing is ballot warfare. | ||
| And thank God we have the war room, we have you back on our side, we have our George Washington in Turning Point, but this is not an election that is going to translate quite nicely from the polls that we're seeing, right? | ||
| They're doing everything that they can to ensure... | ||
| But there is not a victory for President Trump. | ||
| And just the last point, Stephen, I think it's important to make this very clear, right? | ||
| The narrative that they are so petrified of, you saw it in the press conference that they had with you yesterday, was that this idea that President Trump will use this idea that he's up in the polls, that he has such a strong suited victory that's likely coming down the pipeline to sort of be able to prematurely declare an election night victory. that he has such a strong suited victory that's likely And in the same way that they've tried to use the foreign disinformation cudgel as a way to, I guess they would say, pre-bunk any actual verifiable claims of election fraud post-election, | ||
| I think it's quite interesting that you see the media sort of leaning into this idea that President Trump is actually up in the polls because that sort of goes counter to the entire Jack Smith theory of the case, which is that is such a underlying bedrock to President Trump's ability which is that is such a underlying bedrock to President Trump's ability to steal the election, right, in quotes the way that they So my point being, they obviously have tricks up their sleeve, and it has always come down to lawfare to the point where even you see it, right? | ||
| It's a slip of the tongue. | ||
| But when Mark Elias says, we're going to make sure all votes count, I've never heard them use the descriptor or the adjective legal preceding vote, right? | ||
| It's just about votes. | ||
| And there's a distinction between ballots and votes, but they don't give two dams about that distinction. | ||
| Rahim, in the summer of 2020, Norm Eisen, you used to talk about this, the color revolution. | ||
| Natalie's brought it up. | ||
| Are these the guys, the architects of this? | ||
| Is this their color revolution, the fulfillment of their color revolution in America? | ||
| Well, I think this started a while back, right? | ||
| This is not something new and it's not something unique to this election. | ||
| The agencies, which Natalie has mentioned, the SISAs, all of the branches that come out from that, they've been working on this for a while. | ||
| I mean, we published a story this summer At the National Pulse talking about the Transition Integrity Project 2.0, which they broadcast even louder than they did four years ago. | ||
| Same characters, same ideas. | ||
| They even put out some of their war games that they had gamed out. | ||
| And it showed, hey, you know, on election day, it's back to Natalie's point there. | ||
| It's about getting, quote, all the votes. | ||
| All the votes. | ||
| Not the legal votes, not the verifiable votes, not the chain of custody votes. | ||
| It's about flooding the zone, right? | ||
| They're going to flood the zone. | ||
| And look, there will be a plethora of these stories. | ||
| We've seen a plethora of these stories today alone. | ||
| Justin Benson in Michigan, she's talking about the Dominion machines, right? | ||
| She says nationwide have a problem with split-ticket ballots and that those problems will not be rectifiable by Election Day. | ||
| Okay, hang on. | ||
| We've got Natalie Winters, we've got Raheem Ghassam. | ||
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Folks, it has already started. | |
| We're going to make sure we deconstruct it and find solutions for all of it. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in Battlegrounds. | ||
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the war room in about a minute or two. - All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, this is a framing exercise right now. | ||
| Let me get Natalie in here and I'm going to bring Raheem back. | ||
| Natalie... | ||
| I think you were at the National Pulse at the time. | ||
| This was four years ago this past summer. | ||
| We went through this entire exercise when Rahim got Mark Elias' memo to people, the election integrity project. | ||
| How can we be in a situation over four years later? | ||
| That we're basically talking about the same actors, but in a much more sophisticated level. | ||
| So folks, this is, and it was, hey, it was Ewan McGinley that broke it down. | ||
| We went nationwide. | ||
| We started at the Republican National Women's Club in Midtown Manhattan, across from St. | ||
| Patrick's, and then went throughout the country, principally at that time because of COVID. But Natalie, how can we possibly be in this same situation four years ago? | ||
| And I'm not trying to upset people, but folks, you've got to understand what's going on here. | ||
| And, you know, every piece of information we're going to put into this frame over the next couple of weeks, because this is going to be a fiasco, ma'am. | ||
| Well, that's the billion-dollar dark money question, I have to say. | ||
| It's so nice to have the band back together again, though I wish we had better enemies and they weren't the Transition Integrity Project still. | ||
| With two, Steve, I think an important distinction about the Transition Integrity Project, this time being that the first iteration of it, they really just focused on election night and post-election scenarios. | ||
| But this sort of second rendition, they have a special kind of appendix where they focus particularly on securing what they call pre-commitments from a myriad of local and state officials to basically promise preemptively that they will not roll out President Trump's they have a special kind of appendix where they focus particularly on securing what they call pre-commitments from a myriad of local and state officials to basically Right. | ||
| It is the concept of Trump proofing the system embodied by the transition integrity project. | ||
| But it's all the same people. | ||
| Like I said, Politico had a long, winding profile piece quoting Fiona Hill talking about how she's smearing President Trump as a dictator, as a fascist, as Hitlerian. | ||
| And I think too, Steve, that there's a deep significance to the fact that so much of this information warfare that dovetails with sort of the modus operandi of the Transition Integrity Project Being outcrops of the military, like John Kelly, like Mattis, like Mark Milley, because that institution, right, represents, I think, a dividing line not between Republican and Democrat, but between the MAGA populist movement and the sort of establishment in the sense that we think the military should be used to advance American interests. | ||
| They treat it like a global protectorate, right? | ||
| So it's quite telling when you see the military as an apparatus being used to come after President Trump. | ||
| Not just, you know, of course, in addition to the Cheneys and the Bushes of the world coming out and the authors of the torture memos, right? | ||
| But there's a significance that you see there, the way that the election is stacking up. | ||
| And frankly, it's the idea, the concept, right, of this permission structure that they're trying to court these sort of, you know, maybe Trump-hesitant Nikki Haley-esque voters to peel them away and come for the Harris ticket, right? | ||
| It's all the same mix of establishment voices and establishment actors. | ||
| Raheem, we started the show today, the team put together a cold open, and we had Chris Krebs on once again saying 2020 was the most secure election in American history and 2024 will be more secure. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, in 2020 we went through this. | ||
| That was President Trump's administration. | ||
| We controlled the government. | ||
| Now we don't. | ||
| But did we? | ||
| Well, ostensibly, right? | ||
| The idea was that at least we were supposed to have the oversight, the power, the control of these bureaucratic agencies, but in practice, no. | ||
| I mean, so many of these people came from, well, a lot of them came from RhinoWorld, a lot of them were Obama holdovers. | ||
| A lot of them were, you know, deep state apparatus types who have been there for 20, 30 years, who have, you know, just been shifted around in roles and ended up, you know, falling up, as they often do in Washington, D.C., and into these positions where, hey, look, okay, so let's go back to yesterday. | ||
| We're standing in this room and we have the press conference. | ||
| And you get up there and you're talking about, you know, weaponization. | ||
| You're talking about the economy. | ||
| You're talking about all these things that Kamala doesn't want to talk about. | ||
| And what was the first question you're asked is, hey, are you going to accept the election results? | ||
| And then when you get drawn onto that subject, all of the headlines say, Bannon comes out and immediately starts talking about a stolen election. | ||
| They ask the question. | ||
| You were just answering the question. | ||
| But do they ever ask these questions of CISA? | ||
| Why are they allowed to put out white papers that say, oh, well, you know, after the fact, there may be some foreign disinformation. | ||
| So we're going to have to watch out for that. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| Why do they never ask Kamala's campaign about that? | ||
| Are you going to accept the election results? | ||
| Why don't they ask the moral felon, Mark Elias, that? | ||
| What is Mark Elias' task and purpose right now? | ||
| It is if they lose to mount an overwhelming lawfare campaign to overturn President Trump's victory. | ||
| And if he wants to go around calling people felons, let's call him what he is. | ||
| He is a moral felon. | ||
| You know, I was standing outside yesterday and somebody came up to me on the street. | ||
| We were talking for a while and she said to me, my friends keep asking me how I register to vote. | ||
| Where do I go? | ||
| What do I do? | ||
| Where am I supposed to put my details in? | ||
| In a lot of cases, in some places, it's too late. | ||
| There are, there have been, you know, and I speak to the audience on this because we talk about all of this stuff and the sisters and the government oversight and all that, and they're sitting at home thinking, well, what can I do about that? | ||
| What you can do about that is do what she has now started to do, which is that every guy that hits up her DMs, every person that she's in touch with and texting her about whatever, the first question she shoots back to them is, have you voted yet? | ||
| Have you made a plan to vote? | ||
| Have you voted yet? | ||
| Are you registered to vote? | ||
| And in so many cases, the answer is, well, I didn't know what I had to do, so, you know, I left it there. | ||
| Holly, she's using sliding into her DMs. | ||
| Sliding into her DMs is now a voter registration operation. | ||
| Natalie, I refuse to let you touch that one. | ||
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I'm pretty sure that she was the one who started that. | |
| Me? | ||
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No, that's you. | |
| Oh, yeah, no, that's right. | ||
| I'm the one sliding into DMs. | ||
| Hey, baby, you voted yet? | ||
| The point is serious, right? | ||
| I think everyone in this audience... | ||
| But the point is serious, right? | ||
| I think everybody at home needs to be reaching out to every single person they know at this point in time and being like, hey, seriously, if we're going to continue our friendship, we need to go to the polls together. | ||
| We have to be voting together. | ||
| There has to be no opportunity for people on the day to be throwing their hands up because guess what? | ||
| If the margin of victory isn't such that You know, the Krebs and the Eliases and all those can steal it away from us. | ||
| That the machines, you know, and I say machines, remember, we were not machine people. | ||
| In 2020, when that stuff was happening, I sort of looked at that and went, I don't know really what you're talking about. | ||
| But look, even just if Justin Benson is talking about this thing being a problem, it's a problem. | ||
| Look, as you know here in the war room, the watchword is there are no conspiracies, but there are also no coincidences. | ||
| Why do we have, is it Rachel Maddow bringing Victoria Nuland on the other night? | ||
| To talk about this, you've got Norm Eisen, the whole color revolution in Ukraine, the whole color revolution folks over in the deep state, the administrative state, State Department. | ||
| Robert Kagan, her husband, Victoria Nolan's husband, who wrote the essay on Trump is Caesar and we're looking for a Brutus, he quits the board of the, I think, executive editor over at the Washington Post because they won't endorse Kamala Harris. | ||
| Why do we keep seeing the same actors pop up, Raheem? | ||
| Well, because, actually, just like our side, the bench is not very deep. | ||
| This comes down to a handful of people always. | ||
| You know, last time it was Rosa Brooks, you know, the old Soros Acolyte who set up the Transition Integrity Project. | ||
| You had a handful of people come in from Think Tank World in DC. And it's just the same circuit over and over again. | ||
| I mean, as if these people are going to go anywhere and do any real jobs. | ||
| No. | ||
| I mean, these are the sorts of people that... | ||
| I have the great unfortunate experience of sitting across the patio at Morton's with, you know, time and time again. | ||
| It's a very small, tight-knit group of people. | ||
| They went to college together. | ||
| They married each other's sisters. | ||
| You know, it's that kind of network. | ||
| It's that kind of club. | ||
| And it's, you know, looking at these things now that have come out in the Atlantic, it's the same names that always pop up, the Ann Applebaum's, like, you name it, over and over again. | ||
| Ann Applebaum's got a new piece out there we're talking about. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Our favorite Ann Applebaum. | ||
| She said, I tell you, I love the subheading here. | ||
| The former president is psychologically preparing Americans for an assault on the electoral system. | ||
| And it comes back down to, you know, the same points. | ||
| The idea that the system is incorruptible. | ||
| Here's the reason that they are in full panic over this right now is because even back in 2020, they never thought we would... | ||
| Rumble them. | ||
| They never thought we would see their game. | ||
| They thought that they would run all these operations, that would run the mail-in ballots, that would run the drop boxes, all of this, and that we would act like Romney Republicans and just throw up our hands and be like, ah, well, good for you. | ||
| You know, I guess you did it after all. | ||
| You beat us. | ||
| That can't and won't happen. | ||
| We'll get you next time. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That can't and won't happen, and it can't and won't happen this time either. | ||
| If there is even a scintilla, which there already has been, If there's something that looks amiss, then we will be screaming from the rooftops about it. | ||
| And no threats of jail, imprisonment, censorship, deplatforming, debanking, any of that is going to intimidate or stop anybody. | ||
| We're walking into this fire on November the 5th. | ||
| We're already there. | ||
| We're walking into the fire and you are not going to stop us. | ||
| Rahim, where do they go from the National Pulse, your podcast, all of it, your voice is now needed more than ever as we're going to enter into a good old-fashioned fight. | ||
| You know, I noticed right back up the podcast charts again, so maybe Tim Miller and those guys will have to reframe their questions for you. | ||
| Is it true that we're back up to number two? | ||
| But hold on, there were two things that happened yesterday that may have contributed to that. | ||
| Well, you came back. | ||
| But I came back too. | ||
| That's very true. | ||
| Raheem came off of his... | ||
| Raheem was not around for the heavy lift of the four months. | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
| Listen, if I don't have you to do the work for me, I ain't gonna do it, okay? | ||
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That's where I got Natalie. | |
| You clear the path. | ||
| You clear the path. | ||
| I'm just a slipstreamer. | ||
| Where do they go for National Pulse in your podcast? | ||
| TheNationalPulse.com forward slash war room to sign up and support. | ||
| You know, all of these things we're going to have reported up there. | ||
| You can see it on the screens now for those who are watching on their televisions. | ||
| The election countdown there on the left side, you've got all the analysis. | ||
| And on the right side of the site, all of the news in brief, in short, fully linked up, fully sourced up. | ||
| TheNationalPulse.com forward slash war room. | ||
| We're going to try to get... | ||
| Natalie is going to make an announcement. | ||
| Natalie is going to join us on the roof of the Willard Hotel on Tuesday. | ||
| We think it's most important to strategically have assets there. | ||
| We're going to have people in Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| We're going to have Jane Zirkle, Moe, etc. | ||
| at the convention center in West Palm Beach. | ||
| A huge operation of Real America's Voice on that day. | ||
| Raheem, thank you so much. | ||
| Jane Zirkle is going to join us. | ||
| But I want to play Nicole Wallace, our favorite. | ||
| Just had Mark Elias on. | ||
| Let's go to the videotape. | ||
| Democracy on my mind today, so I'm going to read to you from Ann Applebaum. | ||
| Quote, Because once you think that's normal, | ||
| then you'll accept the next step, even when the next step is an assault on democracy and the rule of law. | ||
| I read that to you because today you're name-checked by one of the animating intellectual forces of Trumpism, if that's even a thing, Steve Bannon. | ||
| Your thoughts on the attacks on you? | ||
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Yeah, so they have gotten, you know, quite pervasive. | |
| You know, it used to be that once in a while Steve Bannon would pay me a backhanded compliment by saying that, you know, I was such a better lawyer than the lawyers that Republicans had in 2020. | ||
| It feels like in, you know, recent days the attacks from him and from others on the right have gotten much more frequent. | ||
| They're also, you know, a little bit more unhinged in some quarters. | ||
| But, you know, I take it as a sign that the other side knows they are losing. | ||
| And the other side does want to normalize, you know, attacking, for example, a lawyer who is doing nothing other than trying to ensure that everyone can vote and that we have free and fair elections. | ||
| The bigger point, though, I think that you're making is a really important one. | ||
| And it's something that frustrates me a lot with a lot of the media coverage, which is that oftentimes I am asked, well, you know, Donald Trump will claim that he won the election when he didn't. | ||
| And I'm thinking, well, like, but shouldn't that be an extraordinary thing? | ||
| Like, the fact that you say that as a normal fact... | ||
| Is part of the problem. | ||
| You know, people will say, well, you know, he's going to file a bunch of lawsuits that he knows he's going to lose in order to sow chaos. | ||
| And I want to turn back to the reporters and say, but that's not normal, right? | ||
| Like, that should be front page news. | ||
| That should be the news. | ||
| And, you know, this is why I so appreciate the work that you do, because you do point out how abnormal this is. | ||
| But I do worry that there has become, as we head towards Election Day quickly and into the post-election, there's just kind of this, like, this two-tiered system in which, you know, Democrats, we're expected to file lawsuits that are meritorious and win, and the Republicans are permitted. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Because we're pressed for time. | ||
| Animating intellectual force. | ||
| Boy, Nicole Wallace. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Does Mark Elias, so Natalie Winters, was Mark Elias whining there? | ||
| He's never whined before. | ||
| Dude, we're profiling you and you're whining already? | ||
| Natalie Winters, thoughts? | ||
| Look, he's a beta male and you're an alpha male, Steve. | ||
| That's what it comes down to. | ||
| He can't handle the heat. | ||
| But look, Steve, I think we have to take a step back and just realize in the first place why someone like Mark Elias is so important to begin with, right? | ||
| That's because the theater of war that has become elections... | ||
| It doesn't end on November 5th, right? | ||
| It's a weeks-long process, therefore necessitating and justifying legal lawyer presences like Mark Elias to be boots on the ground. | ||
| And that's just a narrative that I want the audience to pay really, really close attention to, that when you see the disinformation, misinformation, particularly coming from foreign elements, when you see them seeding that narrative, they've added on a very interesting caveat now. | ||
| With this news cycle, it's always after. | ||
| The ODNI put out a long memo saying that get ready for the AI, the attacks on non-citizens voting, dead people voting, that that's all originating from overseas, so much so that in the Axios piece where they were synthesizing the memo, they actually quoted a guy who I think studied or helped investigate the DNC, you know, Russia hack, so certainly a man of stellar caliber. | ||
| Saying that the intelligence community feels a sense of urgency to get something out before the election and hopes to let Americans know to be mindful of what you see. | ||
| In other words, they're trying to get ahead of this show's ability, of President Trump's ability to say on election night, if there are irregularities, that there are irregularities. | ||
| And it's not foreign disinformation. | ||
| It's the truth. | ||
| We're pressed for time, but you've got some breaking news and we're going to get you back on tomorrow. | ||
| Tell us what's happening. | ||
| Yeah, so the Federalist first reported that Kamala Harris is essentially running a propaganda campaign through a Discord server that she has. | ||
| She's instructing, well her campaign is instructing volunteers to basically flood the internet, various platforms, Reddit, X, with her campaign resources to boost their ratings and their message in the algorithm. | ||
| They're also downvoting certain community notes posts on X, so basically they're... | ||
| Is that out of the ordinary in the information war that we fight? | ||
| Well, it's against community guidelines. | ||
| It's against community guidelines on these social media sites. | ||
| But tell me what the penalty is. | ||
| I mean, we're talking here that they're in a major league, lawyers, different government agencies. | ||
| They've got a very well thought through plan. | ||
| Is this just another form of information warfare? | ||
| Is this something so out of the ordinary? | ||
| Would we not do that? | ||
| Is the Trump larger ecosystem not doing that? | ||
| Well, I think you have to put it in context here. | ||
| You know, 2016 was really the first presidential campaign where we saw social media be such a force. | ||
| President Trump absolutely dominated with that. | ||
| The left took note of that and, of course, censored us really into oblivion in 2020. | ||
| The Hunter Biden story notably four years ago happened and the giant censorship campaign took place. | ||
| But as far as our social media strategy goes, we play, you know, the nicer game. | ||
| We are not really using big tech to suppress our opponents, obviously. | ||
| We're also not throwing our opponents in jail, to be fair. | ||
| But I think the thing to remember is that Donald Trump is the biggest force to be reckoned with. | ||
| You know, he will always be the top trending line, and that's why you see when he's going on these podcasts like Joe Rogan, like Logan Paul, he's having these massive impacts. | ||
| But the question is, will these impacts translate to votes? | ||
| We're going to have you back on tomorrow and drill down on this more because they're doing a lot of nefarious activity and we've got to cover all of this and make sure people understand it. | ||
| Natalie, closing thoughts here. | ||
| We're setting the framework for how people are going to be able to look at this and view this and make sure this is just not chaos. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| Well, I think we should also set the framework because we get to set the conditions of victory. | ||
| And for all these people who are saying that, oh, because apparently MAGA supporters are garbage and we're not see that, oh, well, actually taking out the trash is in the form of voting out Joe Biden on November 5th. | ||
| I think we should aim a little bit higher and not just look to relegate him to the dustbin of history. | ||
| But I would go with a federal prison cell, if you ask me. | ||
| And obviously Warren will be at the front lines, edge of the curve, hitting all of these Counter-programming to the information warfare. | ||
| Make no mistake, that's what it is that they're waging as we barrel towards the election on November 5th. | ||
| And by the way, Steve, I'm so glad you're back. | ||
| I haven't had the chance to say that on air. | ||
| We've been just dialed in on the news. | ||
| But I'm so glad and thank you for giving me the chance these last four months to fill in for you. | ||
| It's been a massive honor, so thank you. | ||
| No, you've been on fire, ma'am. | ||
| You've really been on fire. | ||
| We're going to do this all again tomorrow morning. | ||
| Peter Navarro is going to join us in the 11 o'clock hour. | ||
| We're going to have a lot to report. | ||
| Also, what Natalie just said, the Daily Mail, which is one of my favorite papers and favorite sites, has a big article up from Rob Crilley, who was here at the Press Conference Show, so we did a sidebar with him, where I say... | ||
| That Hunter Biden wouldn't last 48 hours in a federal prison. | ||
| Make sure you go to the Daily Mail. | ||
| Maybe Grace will put it up and tweet it out. | ||
| Oh, Grace is on a plane. | ||
| Jane, thanks for joining us. | ||
| We're going to get you back on. | ||
| I want to really drill down on this because there's a lot darker. | ||
| This is kind of the surface. | ||
| There's a lot more going on, and this is going to be an information war, and social media is going to be the tip of the spear. | ||
| I want to thank everybody, the production team. | ||
| I want to thank Real America's Voice. | ||
| We've been on location in the financial capital of the world, New York City. | ||
| Tomorrow morning, we'll be back in the War Room. | ||
| Peter Navarro will be joining us at 11 o'clock. | ||
| I'll have Natalie and everybody up in the 10 o'clock. | ||
| We've got a lot of work to do. | ||
| Natalie, join me tomorrow morning. | ||
| See you then tomorrow morning, 10 a.m. |
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