Nov. 16, 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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This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | |
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room. | ||
| Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| You're in the War Room. | ||
| It's 15 November in the year of our Lord, 2024. | ||
| And it just came to me as I was listening to that intro. | ||
| Maybe we should change it from War Room Battleground to War Room Retribution. | ||
| What do you guys think about that? | ||
| I think Rachel Maddow would probably really enjoy that. | ||
| I guess we want to make Rachel Maddow's life easier since it's been so difficult for her these last few days. | ||
| Our thoughts and prayers are... | ||
| Actually, they're not. | ||
| And frankly, I don't think she'd want them anyways. | ||
| We know what she says about Christianity and Christian nationalism, so we'll spare you, Rachel. | ||
| Warren Posse, I am happy... | ||
| Well, I guess not happy... | ||
| It's bad news. | ||
| There is a color revolution brewing and we're going to spend the next hour breaking it down. | ||
| The money, the people, domestic, foreign. | ||
| We know enemies are not just within, but they're abroad too. | ||
| A lot of exclusive reporting that you're only going to get here on War Room. | ||
| So make sure you get the battle plan for what the left is trying to do. | ||
| Not going to try to do. | ||
| They're already working on it. | ||
| To try to nullify and neuter President Trump's America First agenda. | ||
| Because like we were just talking about in the previous show, they have shown themselves to be traitors and treasonous elites. | ||
| And you can tell it that they already have their go bags packed, ready to flee this country because they are not patriots in any sense of the word. | ||
| Frankly, they're loyalists, if you want to harken back to our revolutionary war terminology. | ||
| And frankly, they're so dense, they don't even see what they're doing. | ||
| You know, we talk about a shadow government here on The War Room. | ||
| When we say it, they say we're evil, crazy, deranged conspiracy theorists. | ||
| Of course, shadow government is an actual term over in the UK. | ||
| They actually have one of those, though I guess it's lost on Democrats that, I don't know, we fought a whole revolutionary war to be free of British control. | ||
| So maybe we shouldn't import all of their policies. | ||
| I don't think the Quartering Act or the Stamp Act or any of that stuff, though I guess you could make the argument that the migrant invasion, the taxation and inflation they've imposed on us are sort of the 2024 rendition of the Intolerable Acts. | ||
| But all that aside, Democrats are now openly admitting that they want to create a shadow government to tackle President Donald Trump. | ||
| That's a direct quote. | ||
| What I'm about to play for you is a CNN segment. | ||
| segment, I'll give you the trigger warning. | ||
| This is not a deep fake. | ||
| This is not AI. | ||
| They actually aired this. | ||
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Okay. | |
| I think I've teed this up sufficiently. | ||
| It's so maddening. | ||
| It's so enraging. | ||
| Denver, let's roll it. | ||
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A shadow government, similar to the UK, a group of lawmakers that mirrors the cabinet and publicly challenges them. - Hey, Senator-elect Adam Schiff as Shadow Attorney General, Congressman Gregory Meeks, Secretary of State, or Colorado Senator Michael Bennett as Treasury Secretary. | |
| Well, that idea isn't just coming from a strategist, but a lawmaker. | ||
| And joining me now, the man behind this idea, Congressman Wiley Nickel, a Democrat from North Carolina. | ||
| No dream music needed. | ||
| You're in person with us. | ||
| Congressman, why do you think this is the way to possibly challenge this administration? | ||
| First of all, this is something we can do. | ||
| This is something that definitely can happen. | ||
| And they've been doing it for over 100 years in the UK. So this is an idea that time has come. | ||
| And if we do the exact same thing against Trump, we're going to get the same results. | ||
| We have to... | ||
| Step up our game. | ||
| We have to go toe-to-toe with Trump. | ||
| And it's not just about saying, you know, what we're against. | ||
| It's about saying what we're for and putting our best messengers out there to go toe-to-toe. | ||
| You know, they put Elise Stefanik at the U.N. We should have someone going one-on-one with her, talking about, you know, what we would do better and why the choices they make are wrong. | ||
| So what would this look like? | ||
| It would be somebody who acts as if it was, say, the union, a response they would give every time there is a major speech or press conference or they'd have their own issue or white papers. | ||
| What would this look like in practice? | ||
| First and foremost, it's about accountability. | ||
| It's about keeping... | ||
| Public pressure on every member of the cabinet. | ||
| When they step out of line, you've got someone who is there ready to call them out. | ||
| That's something we don't have. | ||
| You've got an issue with the EPA. You've got the spokesman taking a counterpoint right away on your show. | ||
| That's the point of it. | ||
| Something where leadership, Hakeem Jeffries, Schumer, they could appoint folks, and we've got a ready match to go toe-to-toe. | ||
| And it's worked well in the UK. There are some who would look at this and criticize it and suggest that you'd be delegitimizing this administration, not simply giving an alternative accountability vehicle. | ||
| What do you say to those who'd question this as a ploy to try to undermine a decisive victory? | ||
| I think it's about making sure that they're accountable. | ||
| That's the whole point of it. | ||
| And, you know, like anything, you start it from scratch. | ||
| You get to do it our own way, our own American way. | ||
| You know, they certainly have done it for a while, again, in the U.K. But, you know, what I want to do is I want an answer. | ||
| I want a message on our issues. | ||
| I want to talk about the stuff that we want to do. | ||
| So in the next election, we say, OK, you know, Trump is Deporting, you know, families. | ||
| This is the policy we would put in place. | ||
| And that's what you get with the shadow cabinet. | ||
| Let me put this in plain and simple English. | ||
| So like I said, even the 10 plus million foreign invaders that you guys welcomed, aided and abetted with open arms into this country can understand, you lost. | ||
| And you lost by a freaking lot on November 7th. | ||
| These are the same people who I don't think you could turn on MSNBC for more than, what, Two minutes without hearing the D word democracy be hurled and levied against this audience as people who are actively working to kill, murder, and assassinate any semblance of democracy here in the United States. | ||
| And now that they lost because of this audience, because you didn't let them steal it, now they can't handle that and they want to set up a shadow government. | ||
| Now, I don't want to say I told you so, but we did tell you as much on the war room. | ||
| I think we called, what was it, two days ago that they were going to push forward with a shadow impeachment, right? | ||
| They might not have the traditional levers of power or superstructure to actually impeach Donald Trump, much to, I'm sure, the heartbreak of Jamie Raskin. | ||
| So they're going to do everything they can to bring about a similar effect. | ||
| Because the idea of impeaching President Trump is not about impeachment itself. | ||
| It's a means to an end. | ||
| And the end is to create distrust, division, and to just frankly, like they say, throw sand in the gears and stop the momentum of the ever ascendant MAGA movement. | ||
| And they say this out loud, right? | ||
| They admit it. | ||
| It's in Norm Eisen's color revolution playbook in addition to basically rigging elections, impeachment, and mass mobilization protests, which are something that we've seen on full display here in the United States. | ||
| Those are bedrock principles of how they engage in regime change when they don't like the regime that's been elected. | ||
| Usually we're talking about countries far away where we have to weaponize USAID dollars, but heck, they have the entire apparatus of the United States government at their disposal. | ||
| And yes, we get to change a bit of it with political appointees, but make no mistake, just like civil society is coming for President Trump with a vengeance, so is civil service. | ||
| And this brings me to a very important group that you guys know about very well, and that is the Transition Integrity Project, which, of course, rebranded. | ||
| They said they went away, but, you know, these things never do. | ||
| Came back with even more of a vengeance for the 2024 election, and they're already actively plotting how to block President Trump's agenda, right? | ||
| The steady state, the permanent state, the political class, whatever you want to call it. | ||
| They don't like people who are, shall we say, shocks to the systems or firebrands or frickin' blowtorches like Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth and people of that ilk are because it's not good for the status quo. | ||
| And now the Transition Integrity Project, they're not just holding their war games and tabletop exercises to plot out hypothetically opposing President Donald Trump or hypothetically opposing election integrity efforts. | ||
| They're actually holding this week simulations and phone calls on how they can subvert President Trump from within the administration. | ||
| Barton Gelman, someone who's up at the Brennan Center, that's right, the same group that tried to pull President Trump off the ballot in Colorado. | ||
| They're the go-to source for evidence that non-citizens don't vote. | ||
| I think that tells you everything you need to know about them, but we'll add one more fun fact for good measure. | ||
| They're funded up the wazoo by George Soros. | ||
| Let's listen to this phone call, or sorry, this podcast with Barton Gilman, one of the co-founders of the Transition Integrity Project, outlining this new plan to subvert President Trump to become, let's use a phrase, the enemy within. | ||
| Let's play it. | ||
| What's happening today? | ||
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We have invited Everyone who participated or observed the exercises to join any of three Zoom calls today, Monday and Tuesday. | |
| And we will be taking stock and gathering our resources and coordinating what we all can do in reality now that the reality has come. | ||
| To restrain the abuses of an authoritarian president. | ||
| And I just want to emphasize, this is not some sort of all-purpose resistance. | ||
| We did not test scenarios in which the president had bad tax policy that we disagreed with, or bad climate change policies, or bad foreign policy. | ||
| We were looking specifically Into scenarios in which the president abused his power in ways that were either against the norms of a democratic system or flatly against the law. | ||
| And now we're going to have to, I guess, gird ourselves to protect the law and to protect those norms when the attacks come. | ||
| Yeah, I wonder what the takeaway will be. | ||
| I'll be like, everyone here, phone three friends. | ||
| We're making the democracy coalition. | ||
| Democracy coalition is go. | ||
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Yeah, well, there's strength and unity. | |
| So I think we'll all be encouraging each other to do what we can. | ||
| I don't think I've ever heard a more unappealing voice to listen to, but I guess maybe decades of treason will do that to you. | ||
| Restrain abuses. | ||
| Didn't know it's so abusive to put America first. | ||
| So abusive to, I don't know, suggest that young American men and women shouldn't die on foreign battlefields, that trade deals should, I don't know, benefit American workers and not multinational globalist corporations, or say that, hey, maybe our immigration policy shouldn't just benefit billionaires and big donors and special interests, but maybe we shouldn't have an immigration policy where the corollary is that American cats and dogs are getting eaten. | ||
| And Americans' jobs are getting so flushed down the toilet in terms of their salaries and wages because of the influx of massive cheap foreign labor. | ||
| Is that what abuse is to you, Barton Gilman? | ||
| Is that what the Brennan Center's weird Soros-funded DA perversion of abuse is to you? | ||
| Because if so, I guess it's quite telling. | ||
| You guys have become the defenders of the institutions. | ||
| I don't really know if those are institutions that I would want to defend. | ||
| But you've chosen your dog so you can fight the fight. | ||
| If you want to defend the DOJ, the FBI, what they've done to this country, I guess you have to because it's your own people who are running it. | ||
| But he did say an interesting word there too, right? | ||
| Norms. | ||
| The norms. | ||
| President Trump is going against the norms. | ||
| Well, I do think it is quite funny. | ||
| I guess central casting or I guess analytically God just has a sense of humor that Norm Eisen, of course, color revolution extraordinaire, has a new report out. | ||
| The American Autocracy Threat Tracker, Norm Eisen, of course, of Transition Integrity Project Fame 2, But here's why this report is so imperative, because it shows you that they're already working. | ||
| We're going to get into the money, the financing of all this in the second half of the show. | ||
| But they're already assembling, in this case, a 267-page report. | ||
| Of all the ways that they're planning to counter President Trump and his agenda. | ||
| I think there are over a baker's dozen worth of mentions of War Room and Stephen K. Bannon, so that's how you know we're at the tip of the spear. | ||
| But some other buried leads is that they bifurcated their approach to combat President Trump into two distinct periods. | ||
| The transition period and the post-inauguration period, right? | ||
| The four-year term. | ||
| Buried lead there, being that they're already working, right? | ||
| They already view this transition period as giving them essentially a time to either trump-proof or go out of their way to kneecap and handicap and sort of create, you know, throw landmines into the White House, into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to make it extremely difficult for President Trump to govern. | ||
| Remember, Norm Eisen is the same guy that thinks Bragg and Mershon should continue with their cases against President Trump because he doesn't think it would be, quote, unreasonable or too much of a burden for the commander-in-chief to be busy dealing with lawfare. | ||
| Yet tell me you know nothing about national security and that you don't care about this country in any other way, shape, or form. | ||
| I don't think it could be more blatant. | ||
| By the way, in that same podcast that we just played, Barton Gelman is very disappointed in Jack Smith for not continuing his persecution of President Donald Trump because he thinks that once Trump leaves office, that they should just pick that case right on up and continue to prosecute Donald Trump. | ||
| That's the level of deranged depravity that we're dealing with. | ||
| But I want to walk you through this report. | ||
| One of the first headings is titled, Bipartisan Actions to Counter Autocratic Threats. | ||
| Two important takeaways from that. | ||
| Of course, the first word, bipartisan. | ||
| Interesting modifier. | ||
| But it goes to what we've been exposing on this show. | ||
| The enemy within, shall we use that term? | ||
| Shout out to you, Rachel Maddow. | ||
| Isn't just applicable to Democrats. | ||
| They're aided and abetted by establishment Republicans, too, and this lefty lawfare NGO-type apparatus is extremely reliant on these weak-willed, weak-kneed Republicans to sort of join their crusade to come after President Trump, with the other operative word there being autocratic threats. | ||
| Because it used to be all about democracy, democracy, democracy, democracy, but now if you really listen to what they say, the new word, right, since apparently President Trump was going to be the death to democracy, I guess, rest in peace, democracy died November 7th, although I'd posit we gave you a master class in democracy in the form of, I don't know, seven swing states? | ||
| That's right, seven for seven. | ||
| But these people are now pivoting to the idea that President Trump is an autocrat because it's by laying that pretext, that predictive programming framework in the minds of millions of Americans that they can justify waging a full scale color revolution. | ||
| Just ask people in foreign countries abroad, maybe, I don't know, Ukraine and their color revolution in 2014 in the form of Victoria Nuland. | ||
| Remember, all of these ex-Biden staffers are going to go have to get a job somewhere. | ||
| Even the ones that have made millions off of the Chinese Communist Party, right? | ||
| They're not just going to pack up and go home. | ||
| They're going to set up new think tanks and NGOs and advisory groups that are peddling in censorship and lawfare and lawsuits against President Trump, right? | ||
| We are creating a monster. | ||
| Now, it's the fight we've always wanted to have, but these people are not going, shall we say, quiet into the night, though we know democracy dies in darkness and good riddance if it's the Washington Post's rendition of democracy. | ||
| But here's why this report is so concerning. | ||
| It was created basically with a coalition of groups, including the Atlantic Council, Democracy Forward, and Protect Democracy, with a common through line there being that they're all funded by none other than George Soros, because, of course. | ||
| But I want to read you some quotes. | ||
| Most importantly, quote, one of the authors of this tracker has co-authored a comprehensive guide to this subject globally and to the relevant scholarly literature, the Brookings Institution, the Democracy Playbook. | ||
| Now, for all the times that we've had Darren Beattie on and Mike Benz on, whenever you've heard them talk about color revolutions, this is a term that was essentially coined but then retrofitted and refurbished in this book. | ||
| Giving Norm Eisen, who believe it or not was the ethics czar under Obama and then he became ambassador to the Czech Republic, but basically used this playbook on a bunch of Eastern European countries to wage color revolutions. | ||
| So the fact that he's finally admitted that out loud not just shows you frankly how ahead of the curve this show has been, but it's an omission that they're getting ready to wage that same exact style warfare, which is kinetic by design, though they peddle more so in information warfare, here at home, and they already are. | ||
| And when you keep reading, I'd posit that a lot of their strategy is going to come down to lawfare. | ||
| They float the concept of a private attorney's general, which just at face value is absolutely absurd and, shall we say, anti-democratic. | ||
| It doesn't matter what AG you elect. | ||
| We're just going to put up some Soros-funded lackey to say, nope, justice means letting a bunch of BLM rioters go for... | ||
| Oh, wait, I guess they're already doing that. | ||
| We're just going to see more of that. | ||
| And we have a clip to that point that I want to play for you, where it shows Elizabeth Warren talking about how they're really going to weaponize judicial confirmations and lawfare in the last, what, 60-some-odd days of Biden's primal scream of a dying regime to ram it through the court's So they can impede President Trump as much as they can. | ||
| Let's roll this from yesterday's morning Mika. | ||
| But particularly with the Gates appointment, it's the reminder to the Democrats right now who are in charge for the next 50 days that we have a responsibility to help take care of Of the judicial system, to help strengthen our court system. | ||
| We've got 28 judges out there who have been nominated, who are through the process. | ||
| We need to spend every single minute making sure that those judges get confirmed. | ||
| Look, I get it. | ||
| Supreme Court has been captured by a radical wing. | ||
| But this is about the courts of appeals and about the district courts. | ||
| These are lifetime appointments. | ||
| Donald Trump cannot remove them. | ||
| And it helps bring a little more stability to our legal system. | ||
| This is what the Democrats need to be spending every minute on until we get those judges confirmed. | ||
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What about... | |
| And the convergence of this entire narrative comes in the form of, I believe, yesterday, Democracy Docket, which is Mark Elias' big lawfare, hatchet, apparatchik-type legal organization, put out a long report about how you guessed it. | ||
| Supreme Court justices are just autocrats in fancy robes. | ||
| Again, remember that word, autocrat. | ||
| You're going to start seeing it a lot if you really pay attention for it, because it's how they lay the pretext. | ||
| Usually I'm talking about laying a pretext for a pandemic, but in this case, it's laying a pretext for a color revolution. | ||
| And of course, a very important, very critical part of color revolutions are playing and toying around with elections and electoral systems. | ||
| Of course, we gained a lot of ground in the fact that we won the popular vote, so they can't hit us with the typical drivel of, Oh, well, the popular vote, it's an anti-democratic institution. | ||
| It's a relic of the past. | ||
| Yeah, we'll save all that for another time. | ||
| But they're already talking about how they can, let's say it, rig the 2028 and 2026 election. | ||
| But this note in particular, of all 267 pages, which remember, all you lefty NGO types, I read all of your work and I find great pleasure in doing it. | ||
| I want to read this for you. | ||
| International actors can commit to observe elections together under the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe or other international umbrellas to meet basic standards of universal access, equality, fairness, freedom, transparency, accountability, and privacy in voter submission. | ||
| In other words, opening up the floodgates for something that I think our colonial ancestors probably would have rebelled over a heck of a lot quicker than we would, letting globalist institutions, by the way, that's all code word for the United Nations, which they had actually pushed back that's all code word for the United Nations, which they had actually pushed back in 2020, having the UN come in and But this shows you how they're already looking to rig forthcoming elections, right? | ||
| They know they can't win because in order to win they would have to admit that the reason that they lost is because we saw the ball on the ground picked it up and realized that populism and maximizing the value of citizenship and the American dollar and the idea that being an American citizen means something Well, they just kept punting that can down the road because the Democratic elite, the Democratic establishment, could never go there. | ||
| Because I believe in the words of Senator Chris Murphy, he said, populism is bad for our big donor class. | ||
| And there's so much more beholden. | ||
| Don't get me wrong, establishment Republicans are too, but there's so much more beholden to the big farmers of the world, the anti-American lobbyists, the global multinational corporations. | ||
| That's why they're so apoplectic. | ||
| It goes straight to the amygdala, the fear over RFK Jr., But they're beholden to these corporate interests. | ||
| Believe me, these corporate interests, which go global, certainly want to have a hand in our elections and our election administration. | ||
| And they're pissed off at what this audience, the War Room Posse, did when it came to actually securing the election so it became too big to rig. | ||
| But this same civil society, right, that we talk about now, the hotbed, the guardrails of democracy... | ||
| What an asinine term, the resistance, right? | ||
| Those are the same groups that for years they told us were nonpartisan, bipartisan actors who were, catch this, engaged in securing elections and election integrity. | ||
| And now all of a sudden they're saying the quiet part out loud, right, when they're opposing Trump. | ||
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Wait, I thought they were all about election integrity. | |
| No, they're about election integrity when one side wins. | ||
| And to that point, like we've always said, the way they're going to come, for not just this audience, but the entire MAGA movement more broadly, is I would argue they're going to really clamp down on censorship and misinformation. | ||
| Now, they're not going to be able to do it through the traditional vessels of power. | ||
| Right, because they don't control Sissa anymore. | ||
| By the way, defund, defang, disband, salt the frickin' earth around it after you burn it down, Sissa? | ||
| But since they don't control those institutions, they're going to have to go global. | ||
| And so much of the censorship-coordinated campaigns against Americans that you guys have probably been on the front lines of has always emanated from the UK, right? | ||
| Groups like the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Global Disinformation Index. | ||
| So you're going to see truly an establishment style, the outsourcing of these censorship efforts overseas and in the form of NGO, we'll call it what it is, money laundering. | ||
| Out of a job doing basically what they were doing within government doing it from the outside. | ||
| And you guessed it, there's a whole beautiful section in Norm Eisen's report about how they're going to do just that, which we're going to get into in the second half of this show. | ||
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| We will be right back after this short break, all the ways the deep state is waging a color revolution. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| If Trump attempts to weaponize the justice system against his political opponents with Matt Gaetz at the helm, we could see incoming Senator Adam Schiff as our shadow attorney general, arguing against replacing our independent prosecutors with Trump loyalists. | ||
| If Trump seeks to eliminate the Department of Education, Congresswoman Jehanna Hayes, a former Teacher of the Year, could step up as shadow education secretary to loudly defend public education in the United States. | ||
| If Trump orders Marco Rubio to hand Ukraine and much of Eastern Europe to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Congressman Greg Meeks, as Shadow Secretary of State, could be a strong voice in support of maintaining international relationships and protecting democracy at home and abroad. | ||
| Senator Michael Bennett as shadow Treasury Secretary and Congresswoman Susan DelBene as shadow Commerce Secretary could help ensure the middle class and small businesses have a voice in government and call out Trump's proposed tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. | ||
| A shadow defense secretary, Congressman Adam Smith, a great representative for the people of Washington and not a Fox News host, could counter Trump's threat to use military force against his political opponents and work to ensure that the Department of Defense stays loyal to the Constitution and not some wannabe dictator. | ||
| And Senator Tammy Duckworth could argue against cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs that would delay the benefits and care our service members have so rightly earned. | ||
| If Trump hands over the EPA to big oil ally Lee Zeldin, we could see Congresswoman Kathy Castor pushing back for environmental protection and conservation to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink. | ||
| And if Trump pushes to ban abortion nationwide, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro could step in as Shadow Secretary of Health and Human Services to defend women's right to choose and argue against the gutting of Medicare by Trump and his cronies. | ||
| Mr. | ||
| Speaker, new times require new solutions. | ||
| The Shadow Cabinet isn't just about opposing extreme MAGA attacks on our government. | ||
| It's also about making clear what we stand for, not just what we're against. | ||
| You're back in the war room where... | ||
| Let me get this straight. | ||
| It's the wannabe dictator who won, what? | ||
| An overwhelming mandate for victory. | ||
| And like I said, seven for seven swing states and the popular vote. | ||
| He's the wannabe dictator while you guys who lost... | ||
| You got a word I can't say on air. | ||
| That kind of slapped in the face. | ||
| And you think that you get to dictate what government policy is with a bunch of shadow appointments? | ||
| I mean, I guess you could, in the way that whatever that nameless congressman says, you could, but we could also investigate you for treason and we could see how that ends. | ||
| You know, this goes to something that I was talking about, what was it, a few days ago, when we did a long-form profile on that very interesting, I think we called it a limited hangout, Atlantic piece, titled, There Really Is a Deep State. | ||
| You know, it was so interesting about that piece, because I don't know about you guys, but I thought I've been told for the last few years that, what, if you say there's a deep state, whatever you want to call it, permanent political class in your face state, that you're a crazy, deranged conspiracy theorist? | ||
| That's the opening bid. | ||
| Worst case, they call you, what, a domestic terrorist and lock you up and ruin your family's life? | ||
| But it's quite interesting now that they're so willing to say that the deep state exists and make the argument that the deep state is actually something that's, well, good for the American people. | ||
| And what you just witnessed, and of course that CNN clip too, is the sort of government apparatus extension of that argument. | ||
| The deep state is so good, it's so benevolent and kind, that we need to make sure that it's still there, even should President Trump schedule F all these horrible civil servants away or just sort of have a de facto schedule F by nominating people like Tulsi Gabbard, People like Matt Gaetz, people like Pete Hegseth, right, blow torches to the establishment. | ||
| But that's essentially what he's saying, right? | ||
| They're couching it under the term shadow government. | ||
| But what he's arguing for is the continuation and the longevity of the deep state. | ||
| But we're not going to let them get away with it because if you guys want to make your argument, not just defending the institutions like we outlined in that Vanity Fair piece, but defending a shadow government that no one elected you for, no one elected you to do. | ||
| You think we're mad about a few unelected bureaucrats? | ||
| You want to create an entirely new shadow government? | ||
| Well, that's a fight that we're willing to have. | ||
| Before I get into reading the rest of Norm Eisen's report, just a wonderful thank you to the Sig family, Parker and Rob Sig. | ||
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They were complaining that Steve gives them more shout-outs than I do, so I love them. | |
| They're the best. | ||
| They're watching the shows. | ||
| But back to the censorship stuff, which is what we were getting into before we had to jump to break. | ||
| Is how they will push back. | ||
| In other words, the way that they triage their 2024 loss will dictate their strategy as to how they try to win right in 2026 and 2028. | ||
| And the Democratic establishment will do everything they can to try to prevent them from really realizing that it was populism, that it was the Bannonism worldview of government affairs that allowed us to win and have such a sweeping victory. | ||
| So they'll blame it on misinformation and disinformation. | ||
| You've already been seeing that. | ||
| Like I said, they're going to have to outsource it. | ||
| So I want to read this one, what they call commitment, sourced right out of Norm Eisen's Color Revolution Abroad, the forthcoming here, playbook. | ||
| And that is that online speech is more profitable than polarizing. | ||
| State actors should commit to establishing a common democratic agenda for regulating private industries that have an impact on democratic discourse and processes through close cooperation on regulatory efforts around data protection, content moderation and export control reform. | ||
| Social media companies specifically should support narrowly tailored targeted targeted government regulations that do not infringe on users right to free speech, focusing on mechanisms like political advertising and reduction of disinformation prevalence measures. | ||
| They should intensify cooperation with other platforms to share best practices and establish better information with independent researchers and universities. | ||
| Just a real quick side note on all that. | ||
| I do believe that the Infowars website has been reinstated or reinstalled. | ||
| I guess a judge backtracked on their earlier decision to essentially liquidate the entire company itself. | ||
| It's a developing story, so we'll bring you any news as we hear, but I encourage you guys to go and check that out. | ||
| But you heard it right there, right? | ||
| They're trying to find their new coalition of global partners to essentially help them sort of backdoor the censorship, not du jour, but get de facto censorship, whether it's X, Meta, Facebook, you name it. | ||
| But that's going to be one of the tools in their rather America-last tool belt that they'll use to weaponize against the American people. | ||
| And this brings me back to sort of something that we touched on a little bit earlier this morning. | ||
| But the idea of how they're going to pay for all this and what the actual fleshing out the contours of the resistance looks like. | ||
| And there's two entities that this audience needs to be very up to date on because they sort of create the backbone, though I guess what most swamp creatures don't have backbone. | ||
| So what is it? | ||
| The exoskeleton or whatever it may be of the resistance of the deep state. | ||
| And that is Democracy Alliance and Democracy 2025. | ||
| Enough with the democracy stuff, guys, please. | ||
| Please, you've got to come up with something better. | ||
| Democracy Alliance is something that's been around for a while. | ||
| One of the board members is George Soros, and it's a bunch of left-wing billionaire types who sort of subscribe to that Open Borders, Open Society Foundation-esque worldview that George Soros has pioneered. | ||
| They bankroll a bunch of candidates, but you're talking about the weaponization of hundreds of millions of dollars. | ||
| And when you tack on the dark money, you're probably talking about billions, if not tens of billions of dollars. | ||
| All it was buried in a New York Times article having a secret clandestine meeting next week in Washington, D.C. to sort of plot the funding for resistance 2.0 and how they're going to go about doing it with their preferred strategy. | ||
| Less being on the paramilitary shock troop type approach and being more so focused on lawfare, but not so much lawfare that draws it up to the Supreme Court sort of using either it's the private AGs or just groups like the ACLU to file injunctions and just make it a real headache but not so much lawfare that draws it up to the Supreme Court sort | ||
| The corollary to this is sort of more boots on the ground, at least in the lawfare arena, is a new, it's supposed to be sort of a heckle to Project 2025, which is Democracy 2025. | ||
| I would take Project 2025 over Democracy 2025 any day of the week, especially today. | ||
| But to quote this New York Times article, more than 800 lawyers at 280 organizations have begun developing cases and workshopping specific challenges to what the group has identified as 600 priority legal threats. | ||
| And you guessed it, this group is co-chaired by none other than DNC, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Lawfare Hatchet Man extraordinaire, Mark Elias, which is the kind of people they're running with. | ||
| But they're planning to sort of compile a bunch of preemptive legal and lawfare strikes to go after President Trump. | ||
| So that's sort of going to be as opposed to, I would argue, the mass mobilization counter protests. | ||
| Don't worry, you'll see some of that too. | ||
| But they're going to go more so via the courts. | ||
| Just a fun fact, it was buried in another New York Times article today. | ||
| The Women's March, which I'm honored to never have attended and never have been invited to speak at, I hope for the rest of my life it stays that way. | ||
| They've filed their new permit for their Inauguration Day demonstrations, and I believe it's for a crowd size of about 50,000 people, 5% of their 2016 total, which was about 1 million people. | ||
| definitely a shortage of participants or, hey, maybe since they lost control of the federal government, they can't send a bunch of feds. | ||
| But it just sort of shows you, I think, the temperature in the room on the left side of the aisle and how they're working together to sort of create and plan a lot of this resistance to President Trump. | ||
| I want to play a quick clip, though. | ||
| I think my studio knows it as... | ||
| Actually, pause. | ||
| Before we get to that, there's one last point on this. | ||
| The other way that they're trying to do this, which sort of dovetails a little bit intricately with the lawfare strategy, is the concept of burrowing in. | ||
| Which is basically converting political appointees into career civil servants so they're much more difficult to fire. | ||
| This is something that they did. | ||
| It was commonplace during the Obama to Trump transition, which, by the way, I love when they say, oh, Obama was such an upstanding man and same with Joe Biden. | ||
| He sat in the room and said, welcome back to Trump. | ||
| Believe me, left wing media was apoplectic over that. | ||
| Yeah, he may have said welcome back. | ||
| But he's working—well, I guess he's not. | ||
| His advisors are working overtime to embed a bunch of their political appointees into the Trump administration in the form of turning them into civil servants, particularly Ann Neuberger, who has over a decade of experience at the NSA. | ||
| She's really the architect of a lot of this foreign election interference stuff, the Russia, Russia, Russia stuff. | ||
| And even in 2020, saying that claims of election fraud were bogus. | ||
| So naturally, Joe Biden rewarded her with deputy national security advisor. | ||
| So they're trying to embed her now. | ||
| I know this through one of my friends, our network of sources, who basically works in defense territory, military industrial complex land. | ||
| But she's been emailing a bunch of defense CEOs to try to support her nomination and her assent into this role, which would be approved by OPM's Qualification Review Board. | ||
| That's how you could sort of do this conversion process. | ||
| So that's sort of the name of the game right now. | ||
| They're trying to convert as many people as they can into civil servants so they're harder to fire. | ||
| Again, just making it more of whether it's a political headache or a legal headache with all the Schedule F stuff. | ||
| But like I said, Ann Neuberger is a name that we should all be very familiar with because she is making her pitches internally to become the leader of the resistance. | ||
| And I think it'd be a heck of a lot easier of a transition if we didn't have to deal with her. | ||
| But don't worry, I've already been in contact with Trump's NSC transition team and they are working hard to root her out today. | ||
| Denver, if we can, I would like to play probably one of the dumbest takes I've seen on MSNBC in a while. | ||
| And I'm not just talking about the sartorial sense. | ||
| You guys will know it as the guy with the weird hat clip. | ||
| But let's roll that real quick. | ||
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Now, Mark McKinnon, former advisor to George W. Bush and John McCain. | |
| And I wonder what you make of all this. | ||
| Well, Chris, you know, this just adds fuel to voters' distrust about the hypocrisy of American politicians. | ||
| You know, when you get to elected office and you use it as an opportunity to sell merch and to pay off your debts... | ||
| It's no wonder why people have so little faith in the institutions of American politics. | ||
| So there's no wall anymore between money and politics. | ||
| And when the president himself can sell tennis shoes and crypto and whatever else he wants to, it's just sort of a death spiral of trust. | ||
| And that's the real problem, ultimately, is that people... | ||
| Why wouldn't they think that money can buy you favor in politics when you see the President of the United States, the First Lady, and Cabinet Secretary selling merch? | ||
| Well, Mark, Mr. | ||
| What McCain advisor, we'll push a little merch here on the worm. | ||
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| How about that, Mark? | ||
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| But I love that clip of Mark. | ||
| I think that's his name. | ||
| Mark, Mike, I don't know, all these deep staters kind of look the same. | ||
| Physiognomy, there is certainly a deep state correlation. | ||
| But Mark thinks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | ||
| is a bad pick for For HHS secretary because he, what, sent out an email with a donate button on it and sells Make America Healthy Again hats? | ||
| Well, Mark, if you don't like the idea of people peddling services and goods and products, well, I'll be the first to tell you. | ||
| You're probably going to break down over this. | ||
| The HHS has been essentially converted into, I won't even call it the pimp because it's the prostitute, for big pharma companies. | ||
| And that whole big pharma industrial complex for decades. | ||
| And we need someone like RFK Jr. | ||
| to come in and break it up. | ||
| Screw what Mike Pence says. | ||
| You think what you say has any salience in the Republican Party? | ||
| Frankly, just because you come out against RFK Jr. | ||
| makes me like him 10 times more. | ||
| These same pharma executives that for four years enjoyed a beautiful reign and mandate over your lives as American people, mandating vaccines, saying a harsh, horrible winter's coming if you don't inject your body with who knows what. | ||
| Yeah, those executives are probably now going to be, like, on trial for, what, waging biological warfare against the United States? | ||
| And rightfully so. | ||
| I would love to probe those people about the origins of COVID-19 and how we, I don't know, suddenly overnight came to the conclusions that masks are so efficient and that COVID vaccines, despite having actual trials, worked. | ||
| But it's just so rich and ironic that That they're trying to heckle RFK Jr. | ||
| for selling hats. | ||
| And that's why he can't run HHS. Well, bro, you're gonna freak out when you see who's pulling the strings over at HHS. Let's start with Pfizer. | ||
| We can go down to Moderna, but there's a lot of bodies that have been buried. | ||
| And luckily with someone like RFK Jr., we're going to be able to at least start uncovering some of them. | ||
| In other news, it's just announced that Caroline Leavitt, of course, of New Hampshire congressional race fame and courtroom fame, she's been on quite a lot, has been announced as press secretary. | ||
| I think one of the youngest, I think potentially since Nixon, I believe she's 27. | ||
| It's very exciting for Caroline, who, like I said, has been on War Room many, many times and, of course, is always having stellar performances on CNN, Fox, all the news networks talking about how, indeed, the mass deportations are coming. | ||
| Godspeed to those of you who are making all that happen. | ||
| It looks like Jared Kushner has also been announced to serve as an unofficial Middle East advisor. | ||
| I believe that's the latest that we have in terms of personnel announcements. | ||
| But in the meantime, like I said, don't worry, Steve will be back for tomorrow's morning show. | ||
| But I guess I want to conclude with where we started. | ||
| Which is the idea that a shadow government is here. | ||
| Like I said, in that report, they're not just focusing on post January 20th. | ||
| They're already working in the transition period to try to neuter and nullify anything that President Trump wants to do. | ||
| They have their big money meeting next week, and all of their lawyers are gathering all their papers to get ready to file lawsuits against President Trump. | ||
| I believe we played a clip last week saying they already have the papers filed, they just have to put the names in and hit the print button. | ||
| This is not going to be seamless coasting. | ||
| It's going to be super easy for President Donald Trump to actually reify his mandate of overwhelming victory. | ||
| I was going to say road bumps, but I think they're going to be more like mountains and trenches and valleys. | ||
| But with this audience, just like we saw on November 7th, I think we can get through anything. | ||
| And you're the most powerful political force in this nation's history. | ||
| But we now have a call for, shall I say it? | ||
| Yes, I will, Rachel Maddow. | ||
| A call for battle. | ||
| A call for action, action, action. | ||
| That we're desperately going to need to come to President Trump's support, because as we know, the cavalry in the form of the Republican establishment, and sure as hell not the left wing, they're not coming to save him. | ||
| It's going to be your phone calls, your grassroots activism, frankly, your threats of primaries against these rhino senators that are going to actually allow us and enable us to save this country. | ||
| Full MAGA style. | ||
| Don't worry, Stephen K. Bannon will be back tomorrow morning. | ||
| I hope you enjoyed the last two hours with yours truly, Natalie Winters, holding down the fort. | ||
| It's shesowright.co, not.com. | ||
| I gotta sue for that domain. | ||
| Promo code TRUMP, 25% off. | ||
| And I will see you guys probably sometime next week. | ||
| I like hosting when Steve's at Mar-a-Lago much better than when he's in prison. |
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