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April 15, 2026 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 5301: I Am Your Retribution; Going After The Lawfare Against Christians

Bannon's War Room Episode 5301 exposes alleged DOJ weaponization of the 1994 FACE Act against Christians, citing fired prosecutors and Biden-era charges against Don Lemon. The episode contrasts this with Trump administration inaction, debates DHS deportation figures versus Mass Deportation Coalition goals, and analyzes Iran naval blockades alongside China's suspected missile transfers. It further critiques Sinn Fein's dominance over Irish anti-EU protests and touches on Ukraine impeachment hoaxes before promoting Mike Lindell merchandise and an upcoming AI show. Ultimately, the segment frames current legal and geopolitical shifts as evidence of systemic bias against conservative groups and religious freedom. [Automatically generated summary]

Transcriber: CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026, sat-12l-sm, and large-v3-turbo
Participants
Main
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bradley thayer
13:35
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mike howell
07:37
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natalie winters
08:19
Appearances
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anderson cooper
cnn 00:31
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camryn kinsey
03:30
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donald j trump
admin 00:46
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fallon gallagher
msnow 02:24
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joe allen
00:43
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joe scarborough
msnow 00:30
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joyce vance
01:08
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mika brzezinski
msnow 00:44
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mike lindell
r 01:38
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scott anderson
01:14
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todd blanche
admin 01:04
Clips
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jake tapper
cnn 00:09
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jim vandehei
00:20
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steve bannon
r 00:27
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Speaker Time Text
Weaponizing the FACE Act 00:04:49
fallon gallagher
Yeah, in this report, the DOJ is saying that the Biden administration, that DOJ, politically targeted anti-abortion, uh, opponents for violating, uh, for, sorry, for expressing their freedom of religion by blocking abortion clinics.
Now, of course, these are violations of the FACE Act, which is a 1994 law that expressly prohibits blocking the access to any reproductive rights clinics like this.
Now, ironically, this is the same law that the DOJ has actually used to charge Don Lemon and 38 others For that St. Paul church protest.
But they're saying that the Biden administration's use of this law, which is on the books for this reason, is politically motivated and a violation of those rights.
Now, the president did pardon dozens of people who were convicted under this law, and they're using this 882 page long report to justify those pardons.
And in this report, they lay out the various examples of these cases as proof of weaponization.
But I want to make it really clear that these are cases that were brought by career prosecutors in the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
And presented to juries, and the juries found these people guilty of violating the FACE Act.
So these are people who are convicted of these crimes.
These are people who are career prosecutors in the Civil Rights Division.
And as my colleagues, Carolenick and Kendallanian, reported, we know that four prosecutors were fired for their involvement in these FACE Act prosecutions, including the man who oversaw this whole team.
He was a longtime veteran of the Civil Rights Division.
He had been put on leave in March as this investigation was swirling up about the apparent weaponization of the use of the FACE Act.
So, we know that he and his, presumably his team, are the four prosecutors who were fired from this.
Now, this just creates a bigger vacuum where there was already a vacuum because this is a DOJ under the Trump administration that has been completely gutted.
You talked about the team that worked on Iran, but there have been dozens and dozens of prosecutors who were fired for their involvement in January 6th prosecutions and the president's own prosecutions into both his Mar a Lago case and the election case.
But then at the same time, we've seen a wave of resignations.
Of course, there are some high profile ones like the former top.
Prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia who refused to pursue charges against Letitia James.
These are people who are resigning under apparent pressure to bring charges against the president's perceived enemies.
todd blanche
I do, and I disagree not because it's just my opinion.
I disagree because of the work that we did over the past year at the department, understanding what happened that led to these completely inappropriate results.
And prosecutors have a big say in sentencing in the federal system.
The judge ultimately imposes sentence, but what we saw is prosecutors.
Prosecutors arguing for really harsh sentences, inconsistent with what they should have been doing, and inconsistent with what they were arguing when it was exactly the opposite.
And we saw internal emails, internal correspondence, which is now part of the report, where Department of Justice prosecutors are working hand in hand with NGOs and nonprofits to target and go after pro life individuals who were not breaking the law.
unidentified
Okay?
todd blanche
And I'll tell you what, there's no emails in my inbox.
From NGOs telling me what to do.
And it's disappointing.
And look, I hope the American people can see the work that we did over the past year trying to understand what happened.
But once they see it, I think folks will be frustrated and disappointed.
fallon gallagher
What does this mean for abortion clinics?
And is it possible that now the application of the FACE Act may not be enforced as heavily as it has been moving forward?
joyce vance
You know, that looks like the trend here.
Unfortunately, in the wake of Dobbs, the decision that overruled Roe versus Wade, there had been at least the beginnings of an uptick of violence and of these acts of intimidation at clinics.
But this Justice Department instead is focused on the religious access part of the FACE Act and also is using the clinic access portion of the statute to protect clinics that are providing information and alternatives to abortion.
And look, that's fine.
That's within the ambit of the statute.
But doing that while not prosecuting, while not engaging in cases that involve clinics, just sets an atrocious example in communities, in essence, enabling this violence.
You know, in 1998, I was one of the first prosecutors on site when an abortion clinic in Birmingham was bombed and a police officer was killed, a nurse was seriously injured.
As prosecutors, we use the FACE Act to protect our communities.
These statutes provide a great deterrent effect, but only when they're used.
So abandoning the statute means that our communities will be less safe.
donald j trump
We don't have free press.
We don't have free anything.
Accountability in Deportations 00:14:48
donald j trump
In 2016, I declared, I am your voice.
Today, I add, I am your warrior.
I am your justice.
And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
I am your retribution.
steve bannon
the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on these people.
Here's the thing I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
MAGA Media.
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
steve bannon
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
natalie winters
In the war room, it's Wednesday, April 15th, in the year of our Lord 2026.
Natalie Winters hosting.
I know I don't usually do the morning shows, but here we are, don't go anywhere.
We, of course, have a packed show.
I want to bring on our first guest to walk us through that cold open, a new report coming out of the DOJ talking about, it's no surprise to this audience, the weaponization against pro life groups.
Um, everybody sort of on that spectrum getting just ridiculous punishments.
We've got Mike Howell, who I think probably leads the What quasi NGO that is probably blowing up Todd Blanche's inbox.
I don't know if maybe he needs to read his emails a little closer.
Um, but if you can walk us through what exactly this report outlined, nothing new, but um, is the DOJ actually going to do anything about it?
mike howell
Yeah, unfortunately, it doesn't look like it.
I mean, to set expectations here, it's the Department of Justice, not the Department of Marveling at how the liberals kicked our backsides in when Biden was in the White House.
Okay, so a report great.
Understanding how the left put Christians in jail, okay, use the force of government to target us, particularly Catholics across the country and at scale.
That's what happened and that deserves justice.
That's what President Trump said when he said, I'm your retribution.
And so we're well over a year in.
People already know what the Biden administration did to them.
They voted for consequences, for accountability, not for reviews.
And so I'm disappointed.
Of course, these emails are interesting.
They prove more of what we already knew, but everybody in this country, Everybody who is a Trump supporter and wants to get activated for the midterms is asking, where is the accountability?
And that interview was really illustrative because you have Acting Attorney General Blanche, who I wish well, but he's got a lot to do, just marveling at how the Biden administration and Merrick Garland used the DOJ for their version of accountability.
And he is proclaiming, yeah, they worked with a behemoth external structure and a compliance bureaucracy to push through at scale their version of justice.
But this Department of Justice just is going to foreclose.
Working with external parties who want to achieve the same things that the president promised.
And I'm kind of sitting here wanting to find hope in what's happening.
But I stand with everybody who wants accountability for the 2020 election, for the persecution of Christians, for what they did to anybody who fought for election integrity down the list.
Those are the people who showed up to put Trump in the White House instead of a jail cell.
And that's what we need to see done.
natalie winters
Yeah, there's this weird almost like fetish with being a victim, the way that they talk about it with the glee of, oh, look what the left has done to us.
We don't need to give them more free, unearned, or I guess, yeah, unearned media on conservative television stations, hour after hour, talking about how wonderfully and epically they were able to not just shepherd government resources, but their entire, probably taxpayer funded NGO apparatus to throw all of a lot of the war imposter, including Steve, in prison.
It seems like there's sort of a pattern.
I know just a few days ago is why I wanted to have you on the show.
You know, you've got DNI Gabbard releasing information related to the Ukraine impeachment hoax.
There's no shortage of topics that you can, you know, whatever the statute of limitations, just dive into and find, you know, stuff that basically confirms what I think we've been reporting here in the war room for a very long time.
But it seems to kind of follow this similar pattern where, you know, interesting information is thrown out there, the media rounds are done, and then it's done, and nothing really happens.
Are you of the mindset that, you know, nothing is going to happen?
I'm sure there's some of the audience who would say, now they need to be patient.
You're too young, you need to give them time.
But do you think this is a function of time, or do you just not think that we're seeing the gears actually grind toward justice?
mike howell
Well, we're certainly not seeing the gears grind towards justice.
I think, could it happen?
Yes, absolutely.
I mean, there's an opportunity with the shuffle atop of DOJ to either say what happened in the past year and a half wasn't sufficient and this is kind of a change in tactics, or it'll be taken as an opportunity to kind of rebrand and continue the same with, you know, cosmetic modifications at the top.
I think that is the fight and that is the decision.
That ultimately rests with President Trump.
Do you like how things happened the past year and a half, or do you want more?
Do you want the accountability and points sticking on the board?
And people need to make their voices heard on that.
I mean, this is one of the most, if not the most important job in the administration.
And with it comes massive expectations.
It's a difficult job.
I sympathize with it.
It is a hostile territory at DOJ and the FBI.
But to declare victory prematurely that these bureaucracies have been reformed and just naming things that everyone already knew about is victory.
Won't get us to where we need to go.
And you're so right, Natalie.
There is this deep seated psychological defect amongst our elites, quote unquote Republicans, that just pointing to our victim status is somehow fulfilling.
And I don't know where it comes from, but it certainly doesn't get us anywhere.
The left doesn't have that problem.
They put points on the board and they did it in dramatic ways.
And they veiled themselves of all options to achieve their version of twisted accountability, which of course persecuted so many people.
And what we're asking for isn't that.
We're asking for a correction to the system for the people who did that to be held accountable.
And that is a very binary test.
And right now, we're not passing it.
But could it be passed?
unidentified
Yes.
mike howell
Does it require changing taxes massively?
Yes.
Does it require a political overhaul on how we're going about things, an overhaul in legal strategy, and ditching these self congratulatory document dumps that are not landing and just confirming things we already know?
unidentified
Yes.
mike howell
And so, this fight is ongoing.
I'm not giving up.
The oversight project's not giving up, but we're certainly not popping the party poppers and celebrating because some documents that should have been released a year ago hit the internet.
natalie winters
Yeah, I mean, I would posit that a lot of the outrage and uproar against the sort of, you know, podcast media, I think that's supposed to be a denigrating term.
I would rather be podcast media than the legacy media, but it's because we sort of shift the goalposts, right?
For what accountability looks like.
People used to just, you know, go on Fox and cry and complain about what was happening.
And that's how you get Trey Gowdy's Benghazi committee.
But now we actually have power through this audience to change these outcomes.
Even as, you know, Vice President Vance said in that clip talking about, oh, if there's something the administration does that we don't like, we should let our voices Be heard.
So you're sort of the expert in shepherding all those voices as they're directed energy towards some bigger agenda.
unidentified
What can we do?
natalie winters
What can the audience do if they want to see something actually happen on the front we were just talking about or any of these?
unidentified
Yeah.
mike howell
So the first thing is these narratives are meant to divide, right?
The truth of the matter and the power we should stand in is President Trump promised a lot of things and the people agreed with them.
And we fought to get him back in the White House to achieve those things.
And you're seeing big money campaigns like legacy media and others trying to rewrite the history books of what was promised and what was needed to be delivered.
The base will determine the midterm elections.
The things we fought for, whether it's accountability or mass deportations, are the thing that'll decide turnout.
It's not what the K Street lobbyists will say about tax cuts.
No one's talking about tax cuts or marginal tax rates at the bar or anywhere else.
They're talking about the meta things, the things as to whether we have a country or not and whether we have control of it right now.
And those things are abundantly clear.
And inarguable as it relates to whether we could kick people out of the country who came here illegally in the millions, or if we can put people behind bars for what they did to us during the Biden years, and obviously President Trump as well.
Those are going to be the tests that people, when they're deciding whether to get activated, tell their neighbors, their friends, let's do this thing again, let's go out and vote so these things can happen.
We'll decide whether they turn out to the midterms or not, and not let the swamp take over this beautiful coalition, this historic coalition that came together behind those principles.
And so that's the fight.
People need to get loud and not allow these kinds of things you sit in your podcast universe or you're not on the team or you're a panic in.
I'm not a panic in.
I'm selling hopium because it is hopeful that we can do the things that we said we would do.
That is the fight.
And that's what the base should argue and advocate for and organize for every single day.
natalie winters
Mike, if you can hang with us through the break, I want to drill down the latest numbers on all things deportation.
I know the legacy media has told us we didn't actually know what we were voting for on that one.
People apparently didn't actually want.
Mass deportations, but I think the Warren posse would beg to differ.
We'll be right back after this short break.
unidentified
More Warren.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
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We still got Mike Howell.
Mike, before I let you go, I just want to give you some runway to kind of give us the latest on the deportation front.
Deportation that's specified not just of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, but it seems like we might be a fledgling or dying minority of that diction.
So lay it out there for me.
unidentified
Yeah.
mike howell
So, top of mind, there are two things that don't lie one, hits don't lie, and numbers don't lie.
And we're starting to see the deportation numbers, the actual numbers trickle out through some budget documents, right?
Over the last year, we've heard all sorts of numbers bandied about.
They're in the millions.
Millions are self deporting.
And we've kind of called out that that isn't the case over the course.
But now we're greeted with.
An actual number out of DHS, and it's 442,000.
Okay.
And that includes deportations and other things.
And so we know deportations are no greater than 442,000 for last year.
Well, they're probably in the area of 250.
And that is a far cry from the numbers we were told.
So what does that mean?
That means we got a lot of work to do.
The beauty of it is Congress gave Trump $40 billion to do it.
And the vast majority of the population still supports the notion that if you're here illegally, you should be deported.
So there needs to be commas in the numbers.
Those are easy to get to, but it requires crossing one threshold in particular, worksite enforcement.
This is where the fight is.
Illegals congregate, gather, they're at the worksite.
That's how the system works, that's why they come here.
You need to deport them from there.
The issue is the GOP donors and special interests, the same ones funding the Dignity Act, are trying to undermine that.
They're bragging about it publicly that they can influence the admin to turn off worksite enforcement.
So the Mass Deportation Coalition laid out the playbook.
It's a national campaign.
Get involved.
Go to massdeportation.com.
Join up with the grassroots, the people who actually voted for this stuff, so we can outpower the special interests trying to water down the mass deportation agenda to enough.
It is doable.
Trump promised it.
He'll be rewarded in the midterms.
He'll avoid impeachment if it happens.
The numbers need to skyrocket.
This country's been overrun.
A solution is available.
natalie winters
I know it's so frustrating.
I remember reading all the articles talking about how mass supercations are so politically unsalient and bad for President Trump.
This isn't what the people actually voted for.
First of all, the historic landslide victory, I think, definitely suggests otherwise.
But also, do you think the majority of Americans wanted, I don't know, freak transgender folks working in the nuclear energy department, stealing luggage from DCA, running our nation's top energy agencies?
It's like, no, people didn't vote for that.
So we're willing to stick our neck out.
For transing kids across this country, but something that is so foundational to this country, just remaining, I don't know, a country with borders and sovereignty and a national identity that isn't 80 million languages and H 1Bs floating around everywhere.
It's like the most radical thing.
You could want one more time, Mike, if people want to get involved and make sure this issue actually materializes, where can they go to do that?
mike howell
Yeah, massdeportation.com.
unidentified
Sign up.
mike howell
If you're part of an organization, join.
Follow us on X at Phase Two Deport.
This thing's taken off, it's all over DC.
Right now, in terms of we got bus wraps and signage and trucks, we're going to be running ads, it'll be in your communities, and it's going to break out across the entire country because the energy is there.
This is what we were promised, this is what this country needs to survive.
We need to show strength in numbers that these like swamp lobbyists can't just rewrite the entire central thesis of why we're all together here today.
natalie winters
Indeed, thank you for joining us.
Iran's Naval Blockade Reality 00:06:43
natalie winters
We will move on to the Iran war now.
Deborah, if you can roll the cold open for Dr. Thayer, let's hit it.
donald j trump
I had to divert because if I didn't do that, right now you would have Iran with a nuclear weapon.
And if they had a nuclear weapon, you would be calling everybody over there, sir.
And you don't want to do that.
unidentified
Well, you keep saying was.
Is this war over?
donald j trump
I think it's close to over, yeah.
I mean, I view it as very close to over.
You know what?
If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country.
And we're not finished.
We'll see what happens.
I think they want to make a deal very badly.
mika brzezinski
That the Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops to the Middle East in the coming days.
Officials tell the paper the Trump administration is still considering additional strikes or possible ground operations if the ceasefire does not hold.
President Trump, meanwhile, said yesterday negotiations could resume over the next two days, possibly being held once again in Pakistan's capital.
This all comes as the United States military blockade of Iranian ports continues, now into its third day, in an effort to put economic pressure on Tehran.
U.S. Central Command said yesterday that no ships made it past the blockade in the first 24 hours.
anderson cooper
During the ceasefire, Iran has been working to remove debris, blocking the entrances to underground missile bases.
These are satellite images reviewed by CNN show front end loaders scooping up rubble from the block tunnels and loading it into nearby dump trucks.
jim vandehei
Lessons that we've learned over the last year in watching him is that very rarely does he send manpower or machinery and not utilize it.
And so there's still this assumption that this could get a lot messier.
You watch the markets, it seems to be like everyone has moved on and the war has been solved.
I hope that to be true, but I think people need to be clear eyed that this could still spiral in very bad directions.
joe scarborough
Yeah, and you know, Mika, the Wall Street Journal does, following up on Jim's point, while there is optimism, the Wall Street Journal this morning reporting that the leaders that have been replaced in Iran,
the new group is even more hostile to the United States, if that's possible, even more radical, even more militarized, and also even more extreme when it comes to their view of the world through their religion.
scott anderson
I'm not very optimistic.
I think there's two kind of core questions here.
Who benefits from dragging the process out?
anderson cooper
Time is on the side of Iranians.
scott anderson
It absolutely is on the side of the Iranians.
And the second is which side can endure the most suffering and most pain?
And I think clearly the Iranians have proven that as well.
This idea that the blockade so ships can't come on, and this is a country that's been had tens of thousands of bombs dropped on it in the last month, the idea that it's going to somehow Kneeled down because of the naval blockade, I think, is silly.
anderson cooper
The idea that this is now an economic, potentially economic pain being inflicted on Iran, we've inflicted military pain on them, that hasn't really worked to cow them or have a regime change that actually results in something.
You don't think economic pain is going to do that.
scott anderson
The economy was already in a shambles.
That's what led to the demonstrations and the killings in January.
I think that the regime.
I think if you go back and I think it's important to look at what happened in January that the regime, there were demonstrations against the regime for 10 days that were largely peaceful.
They were metastasizing in size.
Finally, the government reached a point where it thought it was going to go down.
So they killed 30,000 to 40,000 people in one weekend.
They see their back against the wall.
And as Ms. Sherman said, they need to feel like they're getting something out of any sort of negotiated settlement.
And they don't have much to give.
Because they could be overthrown by the people and they don't, you know, they'd be slaughtered.
natalie winters
Back in the war room, lots of noise, not a lot of signal.
I want to bring on Dr. Bradley Thayer to help us distill all of that.
Dr. Thayer, if you can sort of walk us through the latest that we see going down in Iran after the break, we've got a few minutes.
We can kind of drill down more from the China perspective, but just your bird's eye view of everything that's going down the Strait of Hormuz, you know, the prospect of boots on the ground, where do you think we stand?
bradley thayer
Thanks, Natalie.
Great to join you again.
The blockade is holding.
The U.S. military said more vessels are being turned back regularly, including a U.S. sanctioned Chinese owned tanker, the Rich Stari.
The Wall Street Journal reports that eight Iran linked oil tankers have been intercepted since the blockade began on Monday.
So it seems that the blockade is extremely effective at monitoring and stopping.
Iranian shipping, which is so important.
Al Jazeera is reporting, it's just breaking now that the Iranian media are reporting a Pakistani delegation is on its way to Tehran, and that delegation contains a message from the U.S. regarding the war and the prospect of restarting negotiations, face to face negotiations.
And you'll note that.
President Trump told Jonathan Carl of ABC News that the next two days are going to be two amazing days.
So, in addition to what he said to Maria Barromo, he's signaling through Jonathan Carl that perhaps things are going to come to a head very quickly.
At the same time, as you noted, U.S. forces continue to flow to the region.
And that's the stick, right?
That's the coercive element.
If Iran does something in continuing the war, breaks the ceasefire, Attacks U.S. vessels, U.S. military assets, or our allies, prodigious U.S. military powers in the region to restart the war.
And the Iranians have revealed, I'm sure, new military targets in addition to the economic targets which President Trump said he might strike if Iran continues the war.
China's Role in Tehran 00:05:30
bradley thayer
So a lot is happening.
There's the prospect of the resolution which President Trump has conveyed.
Perhaps the message from the Pakistanis are carrying to Tehran will bear fruit, but the stick is there too.
natalie winters
We'll pick up on all that warm policy.
unidentified
Don't go anywhere.
natalie winters
We're going to get to the China question and all that.
unidentified
We'll be right back.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
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You're back in the warm room, Dr. Thayer.
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
I know you were just getting into the sort of second and third order effects of all this.
So feel free to pick up where you left off, but also the China layer on all this, where you see that standing.
bradley thayer
Right, Natalie.
And it's very important, of course.
President Trump did also say that he had sent a letter to Xi Jinping, the leader of China, asking the PRC not to send any military weapons to Iran, and that Xi had replied to that letter saying that the PRC would not send military weapons to Iran.
Now, whenever Xi Jinping says something like that, you always have to apply the Mary McCarthy rule, right?
Every word he says is a lie.
Including AND and the.
We know that the PRC was supplying surface to air missiles, manned portable surface to air missiles to Iran.
There's suspicion that fuel for Iran's liquid fuel ballistic missiles were still being supplied by China during this war.
The Financial Times reports today that in late 2024, China had supplied Iran with a spy satellite.
Which Iran has been using to target U.S. bases and allied bases during this campaign.
So, when Xi Jinping is saying that he's not going to supply weapons, given the poor record of communist China in that regard, we want to look at that, obviously, discount that with a major dose of the Mary McCarthy rule.
He has every incentive to lie, although I'd expect him to be on his best behavior before the meeting in May.
When President Trump and Xi Jinping will meet in Communist China in mid May.
So, the PRC aspect of it is extremely important, not only because of the weapons that China supplied in the past and continues to supply, but also because they're instrumental in backing the regime in Tehran.
So, the Communist China wrinkle element of this is extremely important.
natalie winters
And can you expand a little bit more on the upcoming visit, how you think this sort of plays into all that?
bradley thayer
Well, it's President Trump and Xi Jinping want to have a positive meeting in mid May.
So I would expect that between now and then, Xi Jinping is going to do his utmost to at least provide reassurances that China is not supplying the military weapons, that it's working assiduously with the United States to bring the conflict to an end.
That it's coordinating with the US Navy and other navies with respect to oil tankers exiting or entering the Strait of Hormuz.
So China will be on its best behavior until that meeting.
After that meeting, of course, China is going to revert to normal, which is to thwart us in every way, shape, and form.
And we always want to keep in mind what their promises were, right, with respect to fentanyl or with respect to promises they've made in the cyber realm, right, to stop cyber attacks.
Or to stop penetrations, they have a record of breaking their promises to us, which we should expect because we're dealing with a communist government.
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natalie winters
And I want to pivot, speaking of communist governments, to what's going down in, uh, in Ireland.
I think you know where I'm going with that.
What is the latest that we're seeing there with the protests?
Um, the, the Odomo Confidence, all that.
bradley thayer
Well, importantly, the protests are continuing.
The protests which began last Tuesday have expanded and they've grown.
Yesterday, the Irish government survived a vote of no confidence and survived it comfortably.
So the Irish government is not going to fall.
They're going to continue to govern and to continue to employ the EU policies with respect not only to Taxation and not only with respect to fuel taxes, which have been temporarily reduced, but also on immigration, which is the key element.
The EU seeks to, of course, import millions upon millions of individuals from around the world into the EU and to Ireland as well.
A nation of five million people, just over five million people, has about at least one in five, if not one in four.
Members of that population are foreign born.
So Ireland's population demographics are changing rapidly and have been changing very quickly over the last decade and a half.
That's being accelerated by the European Union.
In late January of this year, the EU signed with Modi's government in India a pact that makes possible the movement of Indians to the EU.
Ireland is going to be a top destination for those individuals.
The PAC will come into effect next year because Ireland is English speaking.
It's close to the UK.
It's got a tech industry, well established tech industry.
And the possibility of gaining citizenship, EU citizenship, is easiest in Ireland.
So we should expect that the problems that Ireland has demographically.
With respect to rapid population change, are only going to be accelerated by that agreement.
So, the protests which have started, we should expect to continue.
The big problem there, Natalie, is it's very difficult to convert a protest movement into actual political power, particularly because the EU and their minions in the Irish government have done their utmost to weaken populist parties and have also worked very hard to ensure that.
Populist leaders don't rise, don't have an effect.
So there's a very significant gap between the popular resistance, which is massive and which is growing, and the ability to actually affect change in Ireland.
You have in the Irish government Tweedledum and Tweedledee ruling with the two major parties.
Sinn Fein, of course, with a storied history of nationalist resistance to the British.
And elsewhere has become a product of the EU as well, has become a socialist product and is worse even than the two parties that presently govern Ireland.
So, it's very difficult to convert that popular movement into political change.
And that's why it's so important to bring up really a new party with new leaders who are going to be able to combat the European Union.
But time is short because immigration is not stopped, right?
The rule of the EU is endless immigration, seemingly in perpetuity, as they do their utmost to change the population dynamics in Europe.
So, Ireland is at risk of, as many folks have talked about with respect to the UK, it's also true in Ireland.
It's a great risk.
Its stability is a great risk.
natalie winters
Dr. Thayer, can you just give me one to two more minutes on what you think the White House needs to take away from these protests, especially on the immigration issue?
bradley thayer
Well, certainly.
I think there's a warning.
What the White House, I think, is recognizing.
Because there are very good people in the White House and in the State Department who are working on this issue, is that the EU is de facto becoming a destabilizing force for Europe as they accelerate immigration, endless immigration into that continent.
And so that holds at risk the NATO alliance, US commitment to European security, the stability of European states, and also the sustainment of Western civilization.
So, everything upon which the United States really was founded and to which we recognize as a key aspect of our identity, Western civilization is under threat by the EU.
It's not Moscow which is threatening it.
It's Brussels, which is doing its utmost to erase it as the national security strategy of the United States, which was released in early December of last year, identified.
It's a very significant problem, and it is threatening the stability of the Atlantic Alliance.
It's supremely reckless, and it's not the European Union.
Western civilization is not for Brussels, Ursula von der Leyen, and her cadres to destroy.
It doesn't belong to them.
It belongs to the United States as well as Europe, and they don't get to destroy it.
The US gets a vote, and so we should think seriously about if they're going to pursue endless immigration.
There are a variety of economic tools we can bring to bear, diplomatic measures we can bring to bear, and some other elements as well in terms of pressure we can bring to bear.
Tariffing them if they're not going to change their immigration policy makes a lot of sense to me.
So that they're going to pay an economic price if they're going to continue such a reckless and destructive policy.
And it's going to be getting worse, it's not going to be getting better.
All of the governments in Europe, the Irish government doesn't have to face an election until January of 2030.
Kir Starmer's government doesn't have to face an election until August of 2029.
Kearney's government in Canada, not until 2029 as well.
So these policies are going to continue if the Trump administration, working with good folks in Europe, aren't able to reverse them.
natalie winters
And Dr. Baird, just give me one more minute.
before I got to let you go.
Why is the legacy media really covering this at all?
bradley thayer
Well, obviously, because it's part of the agenda, right?
They don't want to call any attention to these, whether the protests in Ireland or the demographic change in Europe or in Canada and Australia and in the United States as well, because they work in lockstep really with the political movement which is executing these changes.
You're not going to have these issues discussed.
You've got good folks like Mike Howell and the Oversight Project and Rosemary Jenks, of course, and other good folks who appear on the war room and who are working this issue globally.
But we can't rely on the media, of course.
They're not going to call any attention to it because they want it to continue and they want to facilitate it.
So that's why they're celebrating Orban's loss this Sunday and why they ignore.
So many critical stories.
It's one of the largest stories, of course, of the last decades, the population change in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia.
And yet, of course, as you identified, Natalie, they don't cover it.
They want to ignore it because they want it to continue.
unidentified
Of course.
natalie winters
If people want to keep reading your stuff, stay up to date with everything you're working on, real quick, where can they go to do that?
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bradley thayer
Natalie, great to join you.
Brad Therrett X or Bradley Therrett Truth and on Getter.
natalie winters
Thank you, sir, for joining us.
We'll be right back.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
natalie winters
You're back in the boardroom.
We're going to have Joe Allen taking over the second hour.
So don't go anywhere, all things AI.
But before we get to that, we got Cameron Kinsey who's joining us, who has a message, rather a timely one.
But it's tax day, what, yesterday or today?
I don't know.
Give us the latest.
unidentified
Yeah.
camryn kinsey
Well, thank you so much for having me on, Natalie.
It's good to see you again.
unidentified
Yeah.
camryn kinsey
Tax day is today.
I don't know how well too many people are doing right now.
Obviously, it's a really stressful time.
And so I just want to reemphasize this message that I told Steve yesterday.
It's so important to have professionals in your corner like Tax Network USA.
You know, we've been getting an influx of calls recently, specifically from our war room posse.
And it's the same thing over and over again.
They don't know their options, they don't know the resources available, how to fight back against government enforcement, keep that hard earned money in their own pockets.
And a lot of people think that they can get away with these filing requirements because President Trump is in office.
They think that they're going to lean up.
They're not going to be running as efficiently.
And they couldn't be more wrong.
I mean, the IRS has a mandate to collect revenue.
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Output transcript Out because as soon as the deadline passes, that's when these penalties are going to stack up in the less options that you may have.
Now, there are so many options available, and we tell people this all the time, but the IRS isn't going to do free advertisement for those options, right?
So that's why it's so important to connect with the people at Tax Network USA.
We have CPAs, we have licensed attorneys, we even have former IRS agents, Natalie, who know the tax code inside and out, and they know how to help each individual.
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So, if you're interested, you can call us at 866 513 5516, or you can go to tnusa.comslash Bannon.
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Again, I'll repeat that number because I know that we changed it for the War Room posse because we were getting like such an influx of calls.
It's 866 513 5516.
You can tell them that Cameron or Natalie sent you.
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We also get too many people who panic or are too embarrassed.
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Obviously, me and Natalie don't.
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natalie winters
Cameron, thank you so much for joining us and for that message.
Everybody should go check it out.
We'll have you back on soon.
Yep.
camryn kinsey
Thanks, Natalie.
unidentified
Of course.
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Handing Off to Joe Allen 00:00:42
joe allen
I am here to lighten your mood with a lot of news on AI.
As it turns out, As I've said many times, the public is not behind the current AI revolution.
Anytime you're told that this is the future, never believe that this is the future that the people of America or even the people of the world want.
You are not alone in this resistance.
We'll be back with Daniel Cochran of the Heritage Foundation, with Brendan Steinhauser of the Alliance for Secure AI.
And even a special message from Mo Bannon.
So stay tuned.
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