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Jan. 21, 2025 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4209

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donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens.
		The golden age of America begins right now.
		The golden age of America begins right now.
		From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.
		We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.
		During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.
		I've heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.
		Today is Martin Luther King Day and his honor.
		This will be a great honor.
		But in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality.
		we will make his dream come true.
unidentified		Thank you.
unidentified		Thank you.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		So this is January 6th.
		These are the hostages.
		Approximately 1,500 for a pardon.
unidentified		Yes.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Full pardon.
unidentified		Full pardon or commutations?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Full pardon.
		We have about six commutations in there where we're doing further research.
		Nice to see you again.
unidentified		Thank you.
unidentified		So this is a big one.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Anything you want to explain about this?
		We hope they come out tonight, frankly.
		If you're expecting it.
unidentified		The Republicans feared for their lives that day as much as the Democrats.
unidentified		It's the Republicans that were running and sheltering in place as much.
joe scarborough ▲ ● ▼		As the Democrats, their lives were at risk that day as much as the Democrats.
unidentified		The people who entered the Capitol this day, intent on harming police officers.
		Potentially members of Congress.
		There's this iconic video of former Senator Mitt Romney being redirected away from the mob.
		Can you think of what would have happened if the mob saw Senator Romney?
		They were searching through the Capitol looking for Nancy Pelosi saying, where's Nancy?
		Where's Nancy?
		Last night.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, let's go.
		Let's turn it down.
		I can't take any more of listening to this stuff.
		Can we please do what I'd like?
		Can we please cut a nice thing of President Trump's speech and I can play it?
		You're in the war room.
		It's Wednesday, 21 January, year of our Lord, 2025. What we're trying to do and juxtapose, but it's not the radical left.
		The established order is so triggered by this, as I told you there were going to be, that we have to have a reset here already and make sure we understand our battle plan and how we're going to power through this.
		To start off, I want to thank Rob Sigg, Parker Sigg, Harry, the team in Denver, led by Wendell, our director, and also Cameron and Will, our producers here, and many others, Mo Bannon, Grace Chung.
		Yesterday was a logistics, really tough logistically, because of the bitter cold in the wind up high.
		It was just pulled off magnificently.
		The shots were incredible.
		The location was incredible.
		And John Solomon, everybody that pitched in from the studios, and of course Ben Burquam and others, David Zier and Michelle Bacchus at the arena.
		It kind of came together.
		When you're in that moment, it's very tough to kind of keep exactly what's going on.
		The speech was magnificent.
		And it was a speech where President Trump did two things.
		We're going.
		The sunlit uplands.
		What I call the, you know, the new golden age.
		The new golden age of America.
		And he laid that out and he talked about unifying and pulling the country together, given the victory he had and particularly what that victory can potentially mean on demographic groups and pulling people together and talking about America first.
		In MAGA, the MAGA policies.
		That unifies.
		But then he also, he giveth and he taketh away.
		He put the political class on notice with just some brutal reality of what he's overcome.
		The weaponization, all of it.
		The destruction of our sovereignty.
		He said, quite frankly, we're going to take our sovereignty back.
		Well, in order to get our sovereignty or return to our sovereignty means somebody gave it up, and that was the people sitting there, both Republicans and Democrats.
		In Bush 43, and I realize some traditional Republicans may not like to hear this, but I don't care.
		Bush 43 was part of the problem.
		Not as much as...
		It's gotten worse over time.
		Finally reaching a crescendo with Biden.
		Because we don't know today...
		Even who's calling all the shots.
		And so Trump did two amazing things.
		And this is why it will go down as a classic inaugural address.
		And can we get, I think I gave the Time magazine cover.
		If Denver can get that, if we can't send it to him.
		The inside the Capitol, underneath that magnificent dome, although it was very restricted.
		It was TV lighting.
		The lighting was perfect.
		I think maybe now I understand why we're inside.
		The cover of Time magazine, the cover that's going to come out, it looks like a portrait.
		It looks like a painting.
		It looks like it could go up next to the painting of Cornwallis surrendering to General Washington and Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton.
		Do they have some pretty impressive people at Yorktown?
		Some people that made a difference where they played the tune The World Turned Upside Down.
		That tune they could have played yesterday at this magnificent event where Trump did two things.
		both talked about the big vision and the big picture of pulling the country together and taking us to a new golden age of peace and prosperity, at the same time putting the political class on notice that we are taking our sovereignty back and we are going to return America to her greatness.
		There's two lessons there for this audience.
unidentified		Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		The first is how we got to that moment.
		And the second, Is how we're going to get to the sunlit uplands supporting President Trump.
		And this gets down to the meaning of populism and the meaning of being a populist nationalist.
		Let's go back in time to the 2020 election, or really even the pandemic, or maybe before the impeachment.
		Look at the history of the show, the arc of the show.
		We started this war of impeachment.
		Just going to be a short-term, we're going to come up for, I don't know, six, eight, ten weeks, however long it took.
		Then we went right into war room pandemic.
		Then we went into war room 2020. One thing led to the other, the impeachment, and then you had the pandemic, and then you had the election, and then you had the steal.
		And then we arrive, after those, we arrive at Mar-a-Lago.
		You know, Boris Epstein sitting on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base.
		Calling into the show when Trump's leaving.
		We're playing Frank Sinatra's My Way.
		He gets down to Mar-a-Lago.
		This is the decision point.
		He can either stay.
		The lion in winter can either stay there, stay caged.
		McCarthy, these people go down every so often to make sure he's in his cage.
		Rupert Murdoch comes out and puts out a memo.
		We are making him a non-person.
		Many of the...
		The Fox host and hostesses, I don't hold this against them.
		They're getting a paycheck from Murdoch.
		I got it.
		I understand.
		I got it.
		All of those, and I mean all of those, were part of the let's not put Trump live for 18 months to two years because Murdoch ordered it because he might talk about the stolen election.
		And what did we do every day hammered here?
		The illegitimacy of the Biden regime.
		And what did I tell you?
		If you hammer enough on this and you hammer enough on this and you put up evidence and you hammer and you hammer and you hammer and you hammer, eventually the Republican Party, but then the independents and then the Democrats and the American people will eventually get to understand that this is an illegitimate regime under Biden.
		What are they doing?
		Concurrent with that was President Trump had the moral courage, the single most important, Decision, I think, by any person in this country, and particularly any political figure, to make a decision.
		And that decision made, I think immediately, in late January 2021, early February, that he was going to return to office.
		What did he say at Amfest?
		I knew I had to run because I had won the 2020 election.
		All this is inextricably linked.
		You can't have one without the other.
		You can't.
		People are going to try to do this opportunists and people that are coming in.
		Yes, I understand that's human nature.
		It's not wrong.
		It's not evil.
		It's just not the thing itself.
		What is the thing itself?
		Is that those followers of Trump, of Trump, a collection of grundoons, A collection of schmendricks, a collection of just common men and women in this country that have always been the backbone of this country,
		and that's been passed down generation to generation, regardless of your ethnicity, regardless of your race, regardless of your religion, regardless of your color, and in your individual agency, because we believe in self-reliance and we believe in individual liberty.
		But it's in that collective intelligence and that collective courage and that collective determination is the key thing of American history, whether it's in the Revolution, whether it's in the Civil War, whether it's in the Great Depression or World War II, those great three big turnings of American history.
		It happens every, I don't know, 80 to 100 years.
		And now, here, now, in this time and place.
		With all the balls and all the parties and all the exclusivity and people going around town, and let's be blunt, you know, Matt Boyle put up the deplorables were not particularly treated well this weekend.
		Horribly, terribly.
		Your determination and your just focus wanting to be part of it, standing out for hours and hours and hours outside of the arena.
		Standing at these balls last night for hours where you couldn't get in.
		Military folks couldn't get in.
		In the long run of history, it's not important.
		It's important at a different level, and we'll address that later.
		But here is the key point.
		It was your decision, and you're backing this man who made a decision of incalculable moral courage to return.
		You had his back.
		That does not go away with this victory.
		The reason it's the most important political movement in history, you, upon your shoulders, your individual agency, your common wisdom, determination, and decency, Trump has returned triumphant.
		To position ourselves for a new golden age.
		It was your decision.
	All the elites, all of them, were against you and against him.
	They deemed in their judgment and their wisdom he was not worthy.
	In fact, if he returned to do this, he was a criminal and he would be criminally charged.
	He should be bankrupt.
	He should be othered, as you should be.
	Fired from your job.
	Harassed by local officials.
	Othered.
	You can't understand today unless you understand that.
	That's just so much you read and so much you see on TV. It just misses the point or misses the mark, as I like to say.
	Therefore, it's not particularly relevant.
	It's noise.
	It's not signal.
unidentified		Signal is what you determine.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		What you determine It's going to determine whether we drive towards the sunlit uplands or we flinch and blink and turn away.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Short break.
unidentified		I got American power.
		I got American faith.
		In America's heart.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, we have not so ended...
		Endeth the lesson.
		What does this mean?
		Among all the global elites, we're going to get Noor Bin Laden on here in a while.
		She's at Davos.
		Davos not only got it wrong, mocked and ridiculed you, and then went against you.
		The elites here wanted to destroy you and wanted to imprison him.
		How wrong were they?
		Did you notice the J6 committee got blanket pardons?
		All of them.
		Think about that.
		Every night on national TV, all of them have blanket pardons for their criminality.
		Their staffs have pardons for their criminality.
		The chief counsel perjured herself.
		One of the things we've been working on, perjured herself in my trial.
		Perjured herself.
		Okay?
		As a matter of fact, I've rethought that.
		Can we end this?
		We're doing some maintenance here in the war room because it's been very intense lately.
		So the global elites not only got it wrong, they got it dead wrong.
		The American elites here got it 1,000% wrong.
		Okay?
		Got it 1,000% wrong.
		And to the fact of they wanted to shut you down, they wanted to destroy you.
		They wanted to destroy Trump.
		This is not a small thing.
		This is the thing itself.
		They were dead wrong and you were dead right.
		What does this mean?
		This means trust your judgment.
		The reason we do this show and the reason we have a dedicated production team, we have the folks in Denver and Palm Beach and all of it and people, contributors all over the world.
		And look at how many of the contributors, people you've heard every day for four years.
		Look at how many of those are taking senior positions in the government.
		Right?
		That's not a coincidence.
		They were here to explain to you because they understand you're a political power.
		In fact, you are the political power.
		As a matter of fact, you, this audience, you, going to work, listening when you're waking up on the West Coast, in the kitchen, whether you're a housewife, a construction worker, an executive, a 28-year-old kid that's listening on his headphones while he's at work, working on some computer spreadsheet.
		You are the most powerful political force in the world.
		In the world.
		When everybody else was wrong, you were right.
		And more importantly, when the entire forces and structure of the world came down upon you, you did not blink.
		You did not wither.
		You did not curl up in a ball and say, oh, it's too much.
		I can't do it.
		This is what I mean in this modern, what we call political warfare.
		You are combat troops.
		You are a vanguard.
		You're shock troops.
		Everywhere in this nation, and to be brutally frank about it, everywhere in the world.
		This weekend, we put on brunches for the international community, but I've had so many other people that come up from Australia and India, in sub-Saharan Africa, that came to this.
		And if let us know, they watched the show, and that the...
		That populism and populist nationalism is starting to seep into their culture because they're building little cadres throughout the world.
		Not just in Europe, but in Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America.
		Bolsonaro, the Bolsonaro event was amazing.
		We had people from all over the world there.
		In MAGA, with MAGA, learning from you.
		This means...
		Your judgment is not only correct, now you have to learn to trust your judgment.
		Because to the victor goes the spoils.
		Will people lose their way more in victory than they do in defeat?
		And that gets to the second part.
		The first part is you trust your judgment.
	Your judgment is not something that's yours alone.
	It is passed down from generation from generation from the revolution to today, to the modern times, to here today, to the 21st, 21st January in the year of our Lord, 2025. In the 250th year, the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord, which is now, what, 90 days away?
	The 19th is, what, 100 days?
	Ninety days, I guess, if I do my math correctly.
	I want you to think about this.
	I want you to think deeply about this.
	Because you haven't seen anything yet about what's about to happen.
	We had the celebration.
	We had the commemoration.
	The outward festivities, some of them were absolutely perfect.
	Behind the scenes was not perfect.
	People came here bitterly disappointed.
	I understand that.
	You should be.
	Understand you're still the vanguard and dust yourself off.
	Just realize, hey, that it is what it is and we go on.
	Matt Boyle, read his Twitter stream yesterday, Matt Boyle's as decent a guy as you've ever met and a guy that never puts himself forward and never asks for anything.
	He's essentially you because you never ask for anything either.
	What does that mean going forward?
	Well, President Trump, yesterday was a day of thunder.
	President Trump committed, and this is why we did nine hours yesterday, seven of those in the bitter cold and two back here in the war room at the end, or maybe three back here, six and three, because it was too cold to actually proceed after people had been out since four o'clock in the morning, the technicians.
	And we thanked them, because you had to be there.
	And President Trump committed, by sundown, I will have changed the direction of this country, and so he did.
	And we have those in many, many, many categories, and we're going to go through those, as we know you want, and you want the receipts.
	But going forward, what this means is that, as I warn people in all these talks I gave over the weekend, these keynotes, one after the other, not to be...
	A spoiler at the party, but to commemorate and celebrate and enjoy yourself.
	Eat, drink, and be merry, because tomorrow we fight, and we're in a fight.
	Like I told you, we would be.
	And it's a fight in two places.
	One is on our side of the football.
	It just is.
	That's just the way things are.
	The other is against the established order.
	Republicans and Democrats.
	Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
	The corporatists and the academics.
	All of them.
	They're not prepared and will not just give this up.
	Of course they wouldn't.
	If we were in their position, we wouldn't either.
	You know that.
	They still command.
	They don't command the moral high ground.
	And they don't command the high ground in the narrative at all.
	We control that.
	But they still control the institutions.
	What was my mantra from the very first day we went?
	Seize the institutions.
	Did I think we could seize them all?
	Of course not.
	But that's got to be the guidance.
	That's got to be the plan.
	This is what we need to do because with that goes true power.
	Power to return this country to her greatness.
	President Trump has done initially what he said he was going to do.
	I think there were something like 200, if you count them all up, there were 200 executive actions across a wide swath, but deep verticals, obviously in immigration.
	And immigration means returning our sovereignty to us.
	The invasion, the mass deportations, the border wall, security, all of it.
	But sovereignty means more.
	We've got the WHO, we've got the Paris Climate Accords.
	All of these now in motion.
	And learning, Trump's learning curve is like that.
	Unlike in 16 when we first took these efforts, understanding that the administrative and deep state was there to block it, but that their power was to thwart these things and do that with as much as people in the White House as in the administration.
	Now with a much more well thought through...
	This is what Project 2025 was all about, and I use that as just a heading for many of those, for the America First Policy Institute, and CPI, and Russ Vogt, and all the team, Jeff Clark, and all the team over at the Center for Renewing America.
	And I just heard that young Miss Cortez, one of the rock stars.
	Steve Cortez's daughter is going to be the spokesman, a complete rock star over at Sierra, is going to be in the comms department at the Pentagon and maybe the spokesman at a mid-level.
	And we're putting them in everywhere because in that, what I call the Project 2025 thesis...
	What do we preach over and over and over again?
	This is the governmental arm, or this is the extraction force.
	Based off the precinct strategy.
	All that combined with your wisdom, that's populism.
	This was a populist revolt.
	A populist revolt that worked.
	When you had no support whatsoever.
	That's the key to populism.
	You don't need the support.
	You will win the support.
	You will force.
	You're a forcing function.
	You force the situation.
	You force the system to react.
	And what is Trump?
	Trump is a blunt force instrument that delivered blunt force trauma.
	What you saw, look at the portrait, if we can put that up in the next segment, from Time Magazine.
	Look at, if you look at the other photos they've got, if you look at Biden and Clinton and Bush and these guys, they're traumatized.
	They're traumatized.
	Trump is a blunt force instrument.
	He's given them blunt force trauma.
	And the power of his instrumentality is you.
	You are the backup to that.
	You're the driving force.
	He's in front as the leader.
	The armor-piercing shell.
	We have not ended the lesson yet.
unidentified		Short break.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		So where are we today?
		There is a very, in a terrific book written by a professor, I think from Missouri, John McManus.
		The Dead and Those About to Die.
		This is about the big red one.
		I'm from Virginia, so the Bedford Boys in the 29th Infantry Division at Omaha Beach is the legendary.
		That's what they made Saving Private Ryan about, if you remember.
		But the big red one was also there at Omaha, and Colonel Taylor, who's at the assault brigade, they were caught up underneath, I guess this culvert, I guess it was called.
		It was a concrete with reinforced steel rebar.
		Omaha Beach, and remember, And I think it's McManus that says, and I've always said this, Omaha Beach in D-Day is better known than it is understood.
		It was a slaughterhouse.
		Slaughterhouse.
		Why was it a slaughterhouse?
		In the time they had, remember, Eisenhower was only chosen to be the command leader, I think, in January.
		And they hit the beach in June.
		This is against Rommel.
		And the Atlantic Wall, which they had had for years to dig in after the fall of France.
		This assault, the way to get the beachhead team and the landing team and the beachhead team and then to push through.
		They trained and trained and trained.
		In fact, this is why later they weren't really trained in combined arms warfare.
		The reason they had to get Patton back on board, they were getting slaughtered.
		Deep into Normandy when they got in the hedgerows.
		But when they hit the beach, they realized right away they had a huge problem.
		The Germans were dug in.
		If you haven't been to Omaha Beach, if you ever get a chance to go, and I'd recommend going sometime that's not around the 6th of June where the big commemoration is.
		Go to Pointe du Hoc on the cliff overlooking it and then go on the beach.
		And see what they had to go up against and then go to the cemetery at the end where, I don't know, 10,000 graves, I think, at least.
		But Colonel Taylor, when they were pinned down and they got to the beach and these young boys, essentially, most with very little combat training, most of these folks had not fought in North Africa.
		The vast majority of them had some of the leaders, non-commissioned officers, some of the leaders.
		Had fought in North Africa, had fought in Sicily, because that's really where the army had gotten trained.
		When they're pinned down and getting slaughtered, Colonel Taylor went up and down and said, hey, there's only two types of people on this beach.
		Those are dead, and those are going to die.
		Implication, if you want to live, you've got to go forward.
		That's kind of where we are today.
		You're the landing team with Trump as your field general.
		You're now a beachhead team.
		We've landed and you've got a beachhead into the imperial capital, into the deep state, into the administrative state, into the minds of the Morning Joes and the official apparatus.
		You're a beachhead.
		You're a vanguard.
		You're a cadre.
		You're the war room posse and others, affinity groups like this.
		And metaphorically, politically, there's only two types of people on this beach now.
		Those are dead and those are going to die.
		So we have to move forward.
		We have to breach.
		We have to put the Bangalore torpedo.
		We have to blow up.
		We have to blow a hole.
		Into the, you know, the facing bunker face.
		We have to get a breach.
		We have to breach it and then we have to go up inside the breach and we have to funnel all of our resources and power through and get up.
		That's what's up there.
		Up beyond you is the sunlight, the sunlit uplands.
		It's there.
		The golden age of America is before us.
		It is not restored as of yesterday.
		The predicate for it is restored of yesterday.
		And that is, please, let's get our minds right on this.
		Because you've got a lot of people flapping around and they're like, hey, skipping around.
		And that's fine.
		You're going to have people skip around.
		Look how many people skipped around over the last four years.
		You saw it.
		You felt it.
		Sometimes you were diverted by it.
	You can't get diverted.
	The mission, this is like in 12 O'Clock High.
	What is the mission?
	What is the objective?
	The objective for them was, guess what?
	To get as many payloads over the German industrial, the Rhine, and take out the industrial power of Germany.
	How are we going to do that?
	It's mathematical.
	We've got to get X amount of planes, X amount of payloads on every mission, right?
	As we lose pilots, lose planes.
	But you have to stay in formation.
	If you pull out a formation, even if it's for your best friend to protect him, you're off the objective.
	You're off the mission.
	Your best friend doesn't count.
	The mission counts.
	That's what's here.
	If you want to take your country back, you're going to have to take it back.
	You're not going to be able to sit there and go, oh, let's just take it back and let's put some funny red hats on and let's go dance around.
	That's fine.
	There's a time and place for that.
	Right now, that's not the time on the morning after.
	The morning after is to get maniacally focused on what is at hand and what President Trump has said.
	He's laid it out.
	Let's start a new golden age of America.
	Yes, that golden age is upon us if we do our part and we deliver.
	Now, what does that mean in practicality?
	The, because right now what they're focused on is the J6 pardons and the J6 prisoners.
	And they're good because they want to build up things.
	Trump's an autocrat and this is all.
	He's got these oligarchs and he's an autocrat and he's letting out the brown shirts and the brown shirts are going to organize again.
	He's got street dogs that can go out and do it.
	Of course it's all a lie because that's all they do is lie.
	Have they told you anything true?
	Just step back and look at it.
	Look at the arc over the last four years.
	I could go back to the beginning of the Trump presidency, but let's just go back to the stolen election.
	And yes, the election was stolen.
	And why do they signal that to me every day?
	Not noise, but signal?
	Because they just pardoned the committee that are all criminals, and their staffs are criminals.
	Now, I'm trying to get Tom Fitton.
	I can't get him strong again this afternoon.
	He's saying their pardons are worthless.
	I tend to agree.
	I think there's got to be a full investigation of all that, including the staff.
	They've sent the signal.
	They couldn't have sent a bigger flare-up that they know what the weakness is in their chain of command is the staff.
	I know for a fact.
	I saw someone perjure herself in open court.
	Yep.
	Perjure herself.
	And we know where the perjury is.
	Never brought that up.
	Wasn't important to bring it up.
	Because it's all going to be investigated.
	Still going to be investigated.
	Why is Kevin McCarthy turfed out?
	Of course Kevin McCarthy was turfed out for the terrible debt deal that he did.
	Awful.
	That put us in this horrible financial situation when we didn't need to.
	But in addition, there were other things.
	And those other things were he never rescinded the committee.
	This is what John Solomon would try to get John up in the second hour and Tom Fitton.
	The committee should have been totally rescinded at the beginning of 23 when we took over.
	It was not.
	Why was it not?
	Please understand this.
	The donor class didn't want it.
	It could have been done with a stroke of a pen.
	Why wasn't it done with McCarthy going down there saying he's such a buddy of Trump and the media, they're such good friends and he's such a buddy.
	Think a match harm came out of that.
	Jack Smith came out of that.
	The criminal referral of those people on Trump is the, as they say in Hollywood, that's the initiating event where the action starts.
	It was that that lets so many other horrible things and the J6 people being imprisoned.
	The central point in taking your sovereignty back, that's part of it, but the more importantly is Your sovereignty, your territorial integrity, the self-determination of your people is obviously immigration, or part of it's immigration, the border, all of it.
	And you've got, as Todd Bensman, when I talked to him earlier this morning, he started going through things in the executive orders.
	It's powerful.
	President Trump's doing what he promised to do.
	Forces are in place, including the military going to the border.
	They're up in arms, but they're not leading with that.
	Always look at what they're telling you.
	They're not leaning with that.
	All they're doing is J6, J6, J6. One of the reasons is they're not totally in place to have their deportation porn, which they're going to have.
	They're just getting their sea legs on that.
	The reason they didn't lead the shows today with immigration and the border and the CP1 being shut off and all that, the American people support it in closing of the...
	The crossing in El Paso and many, many other things.
	Deployment of the military.
	Ultimately the National Guard.
unidentified		Why?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Because the people agree with that.
		They've got to go to J6. These are brown shirts.
		And this is Trump's brown shirts.
		And Trump's an oligarch.
		He's got all these oligarchs around him.
		They want to use brown shirts.
		Nothing's further from the truth.
		But let's bring up something in addition.
		We've had moral clarity, and we've had clarity about what we had to do in this.
		Go back in time, through the primaries, when they put up all the established order, threw up all kind of candidates, and some had, you know, came at it from, let's get rid of the woke.
		You had Ron DeSantis, you had Nikki Haley, you had many, many others.
		Do up many alternatives.
		That was the established order in reaction to Trump and seeing how they can siphon away the power of his populist movement.
		It didn't work.
		Why didn't it work?
		Let me be blunt.
		Because of this show.
		Because of you.
		You dug in hard.
		Fox, for two years, then really a third, pushed an alternative.
		Tried to ram DeSantis and then Nikki Haley.
		And had Yunkin in the background and a couple, three others that could nurture, but those two were the big ones.
		That DeSantis was the first flare that went up, and he fizzled immediately.
		By July, he announced in May.
		By July, he was finished.
		It was over.
		You could tell the polling kept collapsing as they're pounding tens of millions of dollars into it.
		You could see that was over.
		They wouldn't quit.
		Should have pulled out, but they didn't.
		Then you had Nikki Haley, and she took it all the way to the bitter end to kind of get that corpus of the 15 to 20 percent that said, I'm never Trump.
		I don't think he's going to win.
		Remember, two-thirds of those people was not that, you know, Trump, I can take him, but he can't win.
		He can't win.
		You were dead wrong.
		Not kind of wrong.
		You were dead wrong.
		Dead wrong.
		Dead wrong.
		Not just win, but win in a sweep.
		And now those forces are joined by other voices.
		Remember, we would not be here if some of those voices had not come in and backed our play, your play.
		The precinct strategy, the get out the vote, the Scott Presslers, the canvassing, the MAGA Base Plus strategy.
		It's pretty powerful when they back your play.
		And they put cold, hard cash in back of it.
		Like I said, they get you a seat at the table.
		I don't believe that table should be the cabinet room, and I don't think you should be at the head of it, but it gets you a seat at the table.
		It just does.
		That's just modern reality, and we're going to have to live with that.
		But where does that take us, our policies, and our program, and the direction of this thing?
		We cannot waver.
		Populism has proved the beta site test worked.
		It worked.
		It is modern American politics and the lazy and shiftless and feckless establishment for eight years or ten years have had to analyze this and look at it and they didn't do anything because they never thought you would be back.
		They never thought you could actually fully deliver.
		Short break.
		Okay, there's so much to go on, but we've got to get this straight first.
		We don't get this straight.
		You're going to have a lot of zigging and zagging, and we ain't going to zig and zag, folks.
		There are two types of people on this beach.
		Those are dead and those are about to die.
		So we're going to get off this beach.
		You've landed.
		You're a landing team.
	This is what a vanguard is.
	This is what a cadre is.
	What do you think this last four years has been to harden you?
	You are revered and feared in this city in account of the trumpet.
	You're revered and feared because you are relentless.
	You will not give up.
	How do I know that?
	Pete Hegseth, yesterday, 14, 13, at the committee, voted to send his nomination to the floor of the Senate.
	He will be the next Secretary of Defense.
	Pete Hexner was 50 minutes away from being dumped about a month ago until you got up on the ramparts, fixed bayonets, and let's roll.
	Pete Hexner is going to be Secretary of Defense because of you.
	They were all ready to change him out for DeSantis.
	Last week, you were magnificent.
	All of those people, Scott Besson, 1611. The Hassan in New Hampshire and Mark Warner in Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, just voted for Scott Besant, your war room contributor over the last couple of years, to be Secretary of Treasury.
	And look at Scott.
	Scott was magnificent.
	The thing of Scott, of prepping for a thing, was just say, hey, you know more about finance and capital markets than all the Democrats combine to the 10th power.
	And just be kind like you are and be accessible like you are.
	And when one steps up, like Ryan Wyden, right out of the box, and mouths the insanity, he and Bernie Sanders, all the insanity that they talk about that makes no sense, that the Democrats and the Bernie bros have all bought into, and that's why you're nowhere.
	And this is why Fetterman's going to flip to become a Republican.
	Yeah, if he flips, it's because of his very reason he realizes there's no there there on thinking of populism on the Democratic side.
	And, Scott, all you've got to do is school one, and the rest will shut up.
	Folks, did you not watch the hearing?
	They all shut up after that.
	Because they don't want to be humiliated by somebody who actually knows what they're talking about.
	Like Marco Rubio, Senator Rubio.
	Who's the first one to confirm?
	He's the Secretary of State.
	Let me refer to him as Secretary Rubio.
	The Secretary of State, the first one yesterday.
	The opening, that was America first.
	No pushback by the Democrats.
	He says the post-war international rules-based order is finished.
	It's been used.
	The system's been gamed to destroy the middle class, the United States of America.
	Gosh, where have I heard that before?
	Where have you heard that before?
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	On this podcast I watch.
	No pushback by the Democrats at all.
	The pushback was by Republicans, the last of the established order, and that was just powder puff derby.
	You're on the beach.
	You've got to get off the beach.
	You want to get to the sunlit uplands.
	We've got to get through the barricades.
	We've got to breach the seawall that's in front of us.
	Then we've got to pour up in the back of that seawall, we've got to breach the wall, and then we've got to push through the breach.
	And that's what these next couple of weeks or months are.
	Whether it's on the border, whether it's J6, whether it's taxes, whether it's economic policy, whether it's debt, whether it's getting out of Ukraine, on every vertical we've laid out.
	You are at the forefront of that.
	You're at the vanguard of America first thing, the practicality of politics, of how one organizes.
	The right has never had this.
	The left has always had it.
	This is why Obama was president.
	This is why Obama beat Hillary Clinton in the primary.
	Back in Iowa and those places, this is why he was organizing.
	He was an organizer.
	You have self-organized into an actual political entity that has immense power.
	immense power, potentiality impractically.
unidentified		Thank you.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And now it's coming with us.
		This is the fog of war.
		200 things got happened yesterday.
		You got to step back and say, okay, where are we driving?
		What's important?
		Where do we go?
		Part of that we're going to lay out in this show.
		But using the Socratic method, I'm not here to wet-nurse you.
		You have to think it through for yourself.
		Next man up, you have to think it through for yourself.
		Populism is built upon people that have their own self-determination, use their own agency.
		I'm not going to spoon-feed you.
		I'm not going to nurture you.
		I'm not going to pat you on the head and say, you're great.
		Oh, and this is tough.
		They're going to call you things.
		They're going to try to shut you down.
		No, you're better than that.
		You're tougher than that.
		You're more relentless than that.
		But we got to fight.
		President Trump's got to fight.
		I told you, as soon he had, you know, he put him on notice, but he had the big picture, and he tried to unify, and he called in Martin Luther King, the image and symbology of Martin Luther King.
		He did it all in that beautiful setting, with TV lighting, not outdoors in the bitter cold and on the massive stage, but in a smaller stage, but a grand stage.
		Epic.
		To do it.
		And to call the nation together.
		And then by the afternoon, when he's signing the executive orders, not just on Capitol Hill, but when he goes to the Capitol Center and signs the executive orders and then holds the best for last to go to the Oval Office, which just, it just, it's so, it's so enraged them to see him there.
		It so enraged him.
		And what did he promise?
		He committed to you.
		One simple thing, when this whole commemoration and celebration weekend started on Wednesday or Thursday, President Trump committed, by sundown on the first day, we will have changed the direction of the country.
		By sundown on the first day.
		And by God, he did it.
		Executive orders, executive actions, firing people, dismissing people.
		Sending a new energy.
		A new hope.
		You're on the beach.
		Now we're going to get off the beach.
		You know what determines that?
		Do you have the right stuff?
		That's what separates out Americans from everybody else.
		Do you have the grit?
		The determination?
		The steeliness?
		The decency?
		That's what Tom Wolfe was writing about, the Mercury astronauts who had been the test pilots and fighter pilots in World War II and thereafter.
		They had the right stuff.
		And that right stuff came from their parents, who were not test pilots and not fighter pilots.
		They were deplorables.

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