Bannon's War Room - Episode 5333: DOJ Indicts Comey For Threatening To Kill Trump
Aired: 2026-04-29
Duration: 49:04


=== Comey's Life Threat Indictment (06:32) ===

[00:00:00]  What do we understand this indictment to be about?
[00:00:04]  We are told by a very good source that this indictment relates to an investigation into the allegations that former FBI Director James Comey had made threats against the president's life when he posted something on Instagram, which was a picture of some shells arranged in a certain way, which he took to be a political message.
[00:00:26]  He captioned it, oh, interesting message here.
[00:00:29]  It said 8647.
[00:00:32]  He was interviewed about this by FBI agents as he drove back from a beach trip, and this investigation went on.
[00:00:41]  And now we understand a grand jury has returned an indictment for him making this threat against the life of the president.
[00:00:49]  Legalese on footing?
[00:00:50]  Lisa?
[00:00:50]  It's hard to say because the Supreme Court has upheld a statute that penalizes making threats against a president.
[00:00:58]  People said, for example, in the 1960s that this was an infringement on First Amendment rights.
[00:01:02]  The Supreme Court said, no, the statute is constitutional.
[00:01:05]  But it has to be a true threat.
[00:01:07]  And by that, what some people have interpreted that to mean is that a reasonable person looking at all of the evidence would themselves understand it as a threat.
[00:01:16]  Political hyperbole, said the Supreme Court, is not a threat.
[00:01:19]  Something made in jest is not a threat.
[00:01:22]  So I think there is somewhat of an uphill climb here for the Department of Justice in establishing that Jim Comey actually meant this as a threat against the life of the president, as opposed to a statement about getting rid of him from office or having the country be rid of him as a political scourge.
[00:01:40]  Not as a threat against his life.
[00:01:42]  The District of North Carolina returned an indictment against James Comey on two counts.
[00:01:48]  The first count is that on or about May 15th of last year, he knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States.
[00:02:00]  Count two, same day, May 15th, 2025, that the defendant, James Comey, knowingly and willfully transmitting in interstate commerce a communication.
[00:02:10]  That contained a threat to kill the President of the United States.
[00:02:14]  Both of these counts carry a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years.
[00:02:19]  8647 arranged with shells on a beach and posted to Instagram.
[00:02:25]  Do you see that, Eugene, as a threat against the President's life?
[00:02:29]  Well, you know, Katie, I think I'm a reasonable person according to the Supreme Court standard.
[00:02:36]  And no, my understanding of what 86? means is to kick someone out.
[00:02:44]  And in the context of talking about a president, in this political context, it means you kick him out of office.
[00:02:52]  And that's a perfectly normal thing to say if you were a political opponent of President Trump and certainly would be protected speech.
[00:03:02]  So again, Lisa is the expert on how the Supreme Court might slice this very Thin slice of potato, but I just think it's a stretch.
[00:03:17]  I mean, it seems obvious to me that they were looking for something to charge Comey with or something else to charge Comey with, having failed the first time around, and they think this is it.
[00:03:29]  Earlier today, a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina returned a true bill indicting Mr. James Comey with committing two felonies.
[00:03:40]  Count one, he knowingly and willfully made a threat to kill.
[00:03:45]  And to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States in violation of 18 USC 871A.
[00:03:55]  Count two, he knowingly and willfully transmitted an interstate and foreign commerce, a communication that contained a threat to kill President Trump in violation of 18 U.S.C. 875C.
[00:04:14]  Mr. Comey will be given every form of due process all citizens are entitled to receive, to include a trial by a jury of his peers.
[00:04:27]  In the Eastern District of North Carolina, it doesn't matter who you are.
[00:04:31]  We take all threat cases seriously and prosecute anyone who violates federal law, regardless of title or status.
[00:04:41]  Investigators work methodically.
[00:04:44]  They are career agents, career prosecutors who work these matters.
[00:04:47]  They call the balls and strikes in the field as they see fit, pursuant to the facts of the case and the law.
[00:04:52]  They took that information and made a presentment to a grand jury.
[00:04:56]  a jury of peers in the district in which the alleged crime took place, and that grand jury spoke, and that grand jury returned a two-count indictment against James Comey.
[00:05:06]  James Comey allegedly threatened the life of the President of the United States, and as you all now know, shortly after posting that threat, he deleted that threat and then issued an apology.
[00:05:19]  All of that information was presented to the grand jury, and Mr. Comey will have his day in court and his ability to speak to a jury of his peers.
[00:05:27]  Thank you.
[00:05:28]  The Justice Department in this filing today also issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Comey.
[00:05:34]  Is it your belief that he is a continued public threat?
[00:05:39]  And is there a request also for detention that you anticipate will be made in this case?
[00:05:45]  So, the Department of Justice does not issue arrest warrants, grand juries do.
[00:05:50]  And so, the grand jury returned an indictment and arrest warrant.
[00:05:52]  I expect that there will be communication with Mr. Comey's counsel, and we'll go from there.
[00:05:59]  This case will proceed like hundreds of others do every year.
[00:06:04]  There will be some sort of arraignment set by the judge or assigned to the magistrate judge.
[00:06:10]  And when that happens, you'll know about it.
[00:06:13]  This is a Department of Justice that has made it clear through the actions and the indictments and the investigations that anybody who the president has gone up against politically or doesn't like or feels they've been unfair to him, that they're in.

=== Trump Campaign Retribution (02:44) ===

[00:06:32]  In the line of sights.
[00:06:33]  And I don't mean that violently.
[00:06:35]  I mean just they're going to be investigated.
[00:06:37]  And that goes for people at DOJ who worked on investigations, were assigned them being fired from DOJ or the FBI.
[00:06:45]  It goes to political opponents.
[00:06:48]  It goes to the former FBI director.
[00:06:52]  What is the priority from your position, as you see it, of this Justice Department?
[00:06:59]  I am your retribution.
[00:07:00]  I mean, this is retribution is something that apparently President Trump was.
[00:07:07]  absolutely serious about when he said during the campaign, I am your retribution.
[00:07:12]  I guess he meant I am my retribution because he is determined, obviously now, to get back at anybody who he thinks wronged him.
[00:07:25]  And this is like a constant undercurrent now.
[00:07:31]  And this is an engine that churns along regardless of what Whatever else is happening in the world or in the nation.
[00:07:41]  So, yes, we're at war with Iran.
[00:07:44]  Yes, King Charles is here.
[00:07:46]  Yes, this, yes, that, the economy.
[00:07:50]  But retribution just kind of keeps moving ahead.
[00:07:58]  This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
[00:08:03]  Pray for our enemies.
[00:08:04]  Because we're going to medieval on these people.
[00:08:06]  You're not going to have a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.
[00:08:12]  The people have had a belly full of it.
[00:08:15]  I know you don't like hearing that.
[00:08:16]  I know you're trying to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
[00:08:19]  It's going to happen.
[00:08:20]  And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
[00:08:23]  MAGA Media.
[00:08:25]  I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
[00:08:30]  Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
[00:08:34]  If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
[00:08:40]  War Room.
[00:08:41]  Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
[00:08:49]  Tuesday, 28 April, year of our Lord 2026.
[00:08:51]  If you had told me at the beginning of the day, That we would be starting the afternoon war room and it would not be in some sort of breakdown of analysis of the King's speech and President Trump's remarks on the law of the White House, but it would be about an indictment of James Comey on trying to bring harm to the president and trying to kill the president, threatening to kill the president.

=== Democrat Assassination Culture (15:15) ===

[00:09:16]  I would say, whoa, what's the over on that?
[00:09:19]  Mike Davis, and the reason, Mike, thank you so much for changing your schedule to be on here.
[00:09:23]  I know you want to share this posse.
[00:09:25]  This is about two things.
[00:09:27]  Number one, There's a different, I'd like, as you know, and I know that you're a big fan of his too.
[00:09:35]  The cut of Todd Blanche's jib, we like the cut of his jib.
[00:09:41]  He is totally turned this department around.
[00:09:43]  And look, not a hit on Pam.
[00:09:45]  He's just a former prosecutor from SDNY, and he's on top of things.
[00:09:49]  But this just has a whole different feel of it, particularly what is happening down in South Florida to what's happened in the last couple of days.
[00:09:58]  But this is a blockbuster, is it not, sir?
[00:10:01]  Yeah, and I want to say cheers to both Pam Bonday, who started these investigations, and Todd Blanch, who is pulling the trigger and bringing these indictments.
[00:10:12]  There's no one who deserves to be held accountable more than former FBI Director James Comey.
[00:10:19]  He's smug.
[00:10:20]  He politicized and weaponized our FBI, our intel agencies, our law enforcement to go after President Trump.
[00:10:27]  He helped make up the Russian collusion hoax.
[00:10:31]  He lied about it.
[00:10:32]  He was responsible for taking out.
[00:10:34]  General Michael Flynn with the bogus investigation and indictment.
[00:10:40]  James Comey can go to hell.
[00:10:42]  And in the meantime, he can go through this criminal prosecution in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
[00:10:50]  You're going to have a different jury and judge pool in the Eastern District of North Carolina than he did in the Eastern District of Virginia, the suburbs of DC, where all the Democrat judges and Utah Party Republican judges protect their own.
[00:11:07]  He's not going to have that same treatment.
[00:11:09]  In the Eastern District of North Carolina.
[00:11:12]  So I'm very pleased with Todd Blanch, the acting attorney general, with FBI Director Kash Patel, the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
[00:11:22]  These are all stars.
[00:11:24]  President Trump has an all star team at the Justice Department.
[00:11:28]  They've been working on these cases for a long time and they're really firing on all cylinders right now.
[00:11:34]  James Comey thinks it's acceptable for the former FBI director to.
[00:11:40]  Make threats against the president of the United States.
[00:11:43]  And that's exactly what James Comey was doing.
[00:11:47]  This is after President Trump was reelected.
[00:11:51]  He's in the White House and it's 86 47.
[00:11:56]  There's no question that was a threat, an encouragement of deranged people to take matters into their own hands because they disagreed with the election and to assassinate the president of the United States.
[00:12:12]  James Comey can pretend like he didn't know what that meant.
[00:12:14]  He knew exactly what that meant.
[00:12:16]  He's the former FBI.
[00:12:18]  Director.
[00:12:19]  And so he can say that his speech was not intended to be threatening or it was political speech or it wasn't a true threat.
[00:12:29]  Those are good arguments that he can make to an Eastern District of North Carolina jury.
[00:12:37]  I mean, Mike, it is stunning that an FBI director, there was obviously a lot of tension during the Watergate years, but this is a totally different level, particularly coming off of.
[00:12:48]  The assassination attempt on Saturday night and how the left has revved up the hate speech and the speech of violence against the president of the United States.
[00:12:59]  I mean, I'm stunned on this.
[00:13:01]  What are your thoughts?
[00:13:03]  Did you see this coming?
[00:13:05]  I'm very glad it came.
[00:13:08]  I have to be careful what I say, but I would say this about James Comey.
[00:13:11]  Remember this 86 47 seashell thing that James Comey did was after two assassination attempts.
[00:13:20]  Against President Trump during the campaign.
[00:13:22]  They almost took off President Trump's head during the campaign twice, including President Trump almost getting his head blown off in Butler, only being spared by a millimeter in a millisecond by the hand of God.
[00:13:39]  And then James Comey thinks it's funny.
[00:13:41]  The Democrats are the party of violence, and they have created an assassination culture.
[00:13:47]  We saw this again on Saturday where a deranged Actually, I wouldn't even say the guy's deranged.
[00:13:55]  He was just an everyday Democrat.
[00:13:57]  Yeah.
[00:13:58]  An everyday Democrat school teacher from California traveled across the country, inspired by BS rhetoric of the Democrat Party, and went after President Trump because of this BS rhetoric that this guy actually believed by the Democrat Party.
[00:14:17]  Democrat Party leaders are creating, festering, encouraging this assassination culture and putting.
[00:14:25]  James Comey in handcuffs today is an important deterrent.
[00:14:30]  Mike, hang on for one second.
[00:14:31]  We're going to drill down on this more.
[00:14:33]  Other things.
[00:14:34]  Fauci's deputy indicted.
[00:14:37]  The Justice Department, FBI working as a team, enrolling in a hat tip to Pam Bondi.
[00:14:43]  A lot of this was started on her watch.
[00:14:46]  Todd Blanch pulling the trigger, metaphorically, over the Justice Department.
[00:14:52]  Mike Davis on the other side.
[00:15:05]  Mike Davis, the Viceroy, joins us, who we've been waiting for this day, or really for the last couple of days.
[00:15:10]  Mike, the media was not wildly enthusiastic about this.
[00:15:15]  The people in the room that cover main justice, there are a bunch of questions.
[00:15:21]  One is that, well, you're treating him like a common criminal.
[00:15:25]  You've issued an arrest warrant.
[00:15:26]  And of course, Todd Blanch, the acting attorney general of the United States, said, Hey, I don't issue anything.
[00:15:32]  That was issued by a grand jury.
[00:15:33]  Can you walk us through what you anticipate the process?
[00:15:36]  Because this feels very different than what happened in Virginia.
[00:15:41]  And what happened in Virginia was not because of the talent we had working on.
[00:15:45]  Those people moved mountains, but it's just very different in the Eastern District.
[00:15:50]  I mean, you're basically in DC, which is totally corrupt, right?
[00:15:53]  Because it's all government workers, it's all globalists, most of them foreign born.
[00:15:58]  What is the process from here that Comey faces in the Eastern District of North Carolina, sir?
[00:16:05]  Well, they say that he's being treated like a regular citizen, well, he should be, right?
[00:16:12]  And actually, he should live to a higher standard.
[00:16:15]  He's the former FBI director.
[00:16:17]  James Comey knew exactly what he was doing when he had those seashells and he posted them on social media saying 8647.
[00:16:27]  That is a clear call to assassinate the president of the United States.
[00:16:33]  James Comey knows this.
[00:16:35]  This is the James Comey who sicked the FBI after President Obama's political opponents politicized.
[00:16:44]  And weaponized the FBI to go after Trump, his top aides, his allies, and then lied about it.
[00:16:49]  So, James Comey deserves zero sympathy.
[00:16:54]  This is sanctimonious, James Comey.
[00:16:57]  So, what he faces is he had a grand jury of citizens in the Eastern District of Virginia return true bills on the indictments.
[00:17:07]  And so, he faces federal criminal charges for making a threat against the president of the United States and transmitting that threat online.
[00:17:17]  So he's going to be arraigned.
[00:17:22]  The judge is going to decide whether there's an arrest warrant for James Comey.
[00:17:25]  I presume there is.
[00:17:26]  And then when James Comey comes in and handcuffs the judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina, he's going to decide whether he can get let out on bonds, pretrial bonds before his trial, and what the terms are of that bond.
[00:17:46]  I anticipate that the judge is going to let him out.
[00:17:49]  On bonds, and then he's going to have to check in with pretrial services, just like any other criminal defendant.
[00:17:55]  Maybe he has to go in and do urine testing to see if he's on drugs.
[00:18:00]  The guy's so crazy that who knows.
[00:18:03]  And then he's going to go through a trial, right?
[00:18:06]  And if he could plea out to the charges like other criminal defendants, 95% of criminal charges in the federal system are pled out.
[00:18:15]  Or maybe he takes this thing to trial.
[00:18:17]  Maybe he can get this judge.
[00:18:19]  To drop the charges and saying that these are not true threats under a recent Supreme Court decision in 2023.
[00:18:29]  They seem like true threats to me.
[00:18:32]  They certainly seem like they were true threats to the grand jury, the citizens of the Eastern District of Virginia who indicted him.
[00:18:39]  Those are arguments that he can make to the court, to the judge, to the jury.
[00:18:43]  And if he's found guilty of any of these federal felony charges, We have the federal sentencing guidelines, and they're advisory.
[00:18:56]  So the judge is not required to follow.
[00:18:59]  But these, Mike, these are very serious charges, correct?
[00:19:04]  Yeah, you're making threats against the president of the United States, and you're transmitting these threats.
[00:19:10]  And we just saw on Saturday night that when you use dangerous threats like this, you inspire people to act on them.
[00:19:21]  That's exactly what we saw in that manifesto from the would be assassin on Saturday nights.
[00:19:28]  This is what we've seen in prior assassination attempts against President Trump, the two prior assassination attempts against President Trump.
[00:19:37]  This is what we saw in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the attempted assassination of Steve Scalise, the House Majority Leader.
[00:19:47]  We have a Democrat Party that has an assassination problem, right?
[00:19:52]  And unless you very publicly hold those responsible for that assassination problem very publicly accountable, you're not going to deter this.
[00:20:05]  They're going to be emboldened that they can get away with this.
[00:20:07]  And so I think Saturday night really rocked.
[00:20:13]  I want to replay something, though, you said earlier because I said it this morning.
[00:20:18]  This young guy is a graduate of Caltech, right?
[00:20:22]  Now, maybe he hasn't had the best career path of a guy that graduated from Caltech as an undergraduate.
[00:20:27]  To get into Caltech as an undergraduate out there with the Jet Propulsion Lab, I'm not saying it's MIT, but it's almost MIT adjacent.
[00:20:37]  And he got a mechanical engineering degree there.
[00:20:41]  This kid, although he hasn't had the best career path, Nothing I've seen says he's crazy.
[00:20:46]  He's been kind of his formation has been because he goes online and sees exactly things like this from people in positions or former positions of tremendous authority in this country, like James Comey, the former FBI director, Mike Davis.
[00:21:02]  Yeah, when you have the Democrat political leadership, including James Comey, smearing President Trump for nine years, saying the worst things about him, including that he is a fascist and he's Murdering people and he has Gestapo ICE agents murdering people.
[00:21:22]  That has an effect, right?
[00:21:24]  And we've seen that in this guy's manifesto.
[00:21:26]  We saw he laid out in his manifesto exactly why he was traveling in a train across the country to Chicago and then from Chicago to Washington, D.C., and then lied and wait in the Washington Hilton Hotel for several days before trying to burst through a Secret Service checkpoint, guns ablazing, to take out the president.
[00:21:52]  Of the United States and other very specific individuals.
[00:21:56]  This is what happens when you have a Democrat party that has an assassination culture.
[00:22:03]  It's led by people like James Comey, who are calling for the assassination of the president of the United States with 8647 seashells and posting it on social media.
[00:22:16]  This guy can play, James Comey can play dumb all he wants.
[00:22:20]  He was the FBI director.
[00:22:21]  He knows, he knew exactly.
[00:22:24]  What he was doing.
[00:22:24]  And I'm very pleased that Todd Blanch, the acting attorney general, and Kash Patel, the FBI director, along with the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of North Carolina, brought these charges today.
[00:22:37]  Enough is enough with the Democrat assassination culture.
[00:22:43]  Mike, the U.S. attorney for Eastern District looked like a very serious guy, and it was a grand jury.
[00:22:51]  They also, Cash let us know it's been one year in investigation.
[00:22:55]  I mean, this is a very serious endeavor, is it not?
[00:22:59]  It is.
[00:23:00]  And I think this U.S. attorney there is a career federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
[00:23:08]  This is a serious investigation, as you said, going on for over a year.
[00:23:12]  Started under Pam Bondi with Todd Blanch moving forward boldly, fearlessly after the Saturday assassination, third assassination attempt against President Trump.
[00:23:25]  The message is crystal clear.
[00:23:28]  That the Democrat Party, including its leaders and its foot soldiers, need to stop their assassination culture.
[00:23:37]  They need to win debates.
[00:23:39]  They need to win elections.
[00:23:41]  They need to change hearts and minds.
[00:23:43]  They need to stop trying to kill our side.
[00:23:47]  Mike, explain to the audience what a superseding indictment is.
[00:23:50]  And you may see a superseding indictment in this situation, sir.
[00:23:55]  Yeah, a superseding indictment is essentially an updated or amended indictment where they can add factual allegations, they can add criminal charges later on down the road.
[00:24:09]  The first indictment.
[00:24:11]  Is brought.
[00:24:11]  Oftentimes these indictments are superseded, and you could bring in new defendants, co defendants, new factual allegations, new charges.
[00:24:20]  James Comey may have dodged a legal bullet in the Eastern District of Virginia because he has Democrat and uniparty judges protecting him.

=== Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy (16:29) ===

[00:24:32]  I don't think that's going to happen here in North Carolina.
[00:24:35]  And I'm very excited that Joe DeGeneva has joined Jason Redding Quinones.
[00:24:42]  Two of my good friends who are in Fort Pierce, Florida today, working on other matters that could involve the grand conspiracy against President Trump that we've been discussing on your show for many years, Steve.
[00:24:59]  If you don't mind, I do want to hold you for a moment after the break because I want to play a clip that just happened when you came on MSNBC regarding John Brennan.
[00:25:10]  But I've got to ask you today, we started the day with FBI, I think 22.
[00:25:15]  Uh, warrants going into various Somalian daycare centers in Minneapolis.
[00:25:21]  Uh, it seems like the Justice Department, FBI, totally new day.
[00:25:25]  Uh, they're hitting on all cylinders, sir.
[00:25:28]  Yeah, they've been investigating Somali fraud for uh many months.
[00:25:33]  And when bold and fearless journalists have gone into Minneapolis and exposed the leering centers, the learning centers, the Somali fraudulent fronts that they're using to build.
[00:25:46]  Hundreds of millions of dollars by these Somali pirates who should not be in our country.
[00:25:53]  These people have IQs of inbred middle time people, and they should not be in our country.
[00:26:04]  And I'm very pleased that Todd Blanch, Kash Patel, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota is starting to hold these Somali pirates and warlords and other fraudsters accountable.
[00:26:18]  These people.
[00:26:19]  Should not be in our country.
[00:26:20]  They do not share our values.
[00:26:22]  They are here to police us.
[00:26:24]  We need to throw their asses in prison and then figure out a way to send them home.
[00:26:31]  Mike Davis, hang on for one second.
[00:26:33]  We're going to bring you back.
[00:26:35]  We've got a clip from Nicole Wallace with John Brennan that I would like to have Mike Davis respond to.
[00:26:42]  Also, Joe Hoft is going to join us.
[00:26:44]  Neil McCabe from the White House, all next in the war room.
[00:27:05]  It is a hubris, John Brennan, in thinking that anyone will be different.
[00:27:10]  Donald Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly, described Donald Trump this way as, quote, the most damaged human being he'd ever known.
[00:27:19]  Jim Mattis, Donald Trump's former Secretary of Defense, described him as a, quote, dictator.
[00:27:27]  Senator Mitch McConnell described him as a, quote, despicable person.
[00:27:33]  JD Vance described him as, quote, America's Hitler and, quote, cultural heroin.
[00:27:39]  Tucker Carlson less than a week ago apologized for his role in getting people to vote for him.
[00:27:46]  But today, Todd Blanch doubled down on him.
[00:27:51]  What does that portend for the department and for you?
[00:27:59]  Well, I think it's been alluded to.
[00:28:01]  Todd Blanch clearly was continuing to audition for the nomination to be Attorney General, and he was signaling his determination.
[00:28:13]  To follow through on Donald Trump's every wish.
[00:28:16]  And he was signaling it to Donald Trump himself and performing in front of this group.
[00:28:23]  And it's clear that, as Michael said, there's not one shred of decency left in Tad Blanche.
[00:28:30]  And again, doing it and hurting people in the process is what I find just so, so reprehensible.
[00:28:40]  But it shows the depth of the corruption that has taken root.
[00:28:45]  In the executive branch and in the Department of Justice.
[00:28:47]  And if the American people cannot count on a Department of Justice to fairly implement our system of justice, the rule of law, everybody should be so, so concerned about it.
[00:29:00]  I've never seen any type of departmental actions like this.
[00:29:05]  And bringing these charges against Jim Comey and the other initiatives that happened away, Pam Bondi couldn't or wouldn't deliver on those wishes of Donald Trump.
[00:29:16]  But it's clear that Todd Blanch is willing to.
[00:29:19]  And I do think it portends more likely initiatives to try to get these indictments and to move forward with prosecutions.
[00:29:28]  Because, again, I think the intent of Donald Trump is to hurt and harm and try to destroy as much as possible any individual that he wants to seek retribution against.
[00:29:43]  Mike Davis, first off, give me your assessment of Nicole Wallace and her.
[00:29:51]  Media response.
[00:29:52]  And then I'd like you to have your observations about John Brennan, sir.
[00:29:57]  I worked with Nicole Wallace in the George W. Bush White House.
[00:30:02]  I think that she has the same level of intelligence as your average Somalian fraudster in Minneapolis.
[00:30:11]  It's amazing to me that she was the White House communications director.
[00:30:16]  I guess President Trump, or excuse me, President George W. Bush was very, very loyal to his bottom feeding.
[00:30:24]  Loyal aides from Texas and brought her from Texas.
[00:30:27]  She's probably the dumbest person on television, as we just saw with that clip.
[00:30:34]  With John Brennan, I'm particularly pleased to see John Brennan there.
[00:30:38]  I think his days as a free man could be numbered.
[00:30:41]  Remember, it was John Brennan, Obama's CIA director, who was up to his eyeballs in the Russian collusion hoax against then presidential candidate Donald Trump, where they politicized and weaponized our intel agencies and law enforcement.
[00:30:59]  To help Hillary Clinton's campaign and hurt Donald Trump's campaign.
[00:31:04]  This is an ongoing criminal conspiracy.
[00:31:07]  There's evidence that John Brennan lied about this grand conspiracy before Congress in 2023.
[00:31:16]  There's not a statute of limitations problem.
[00:31:18]  I know that my good friend Joe DeGeneva has teamed up with my other good friend Jason Redding Quinones down in the Southern District of Florida.
[00:31:26]  You can look at their social media today.
[00:31:28]  They're in front of the Fort Pierce Florida courthouse, the same courthouse where Jack Smith tried to throw.
[00:31:35]  President Trump in prison for having presidential records where he declassified Crossfire Hurricane.
[00:31:43]  We've been on your show talking about this for almost four years, Steve.
[00:31:48]  I know that justice is slower than we'd like, but I promise your war room posse justice is coming because I'm not going to rest until it happens.
[00:31:58]  I'm going to make damn sure that justice is delivered for the Crossfire Hurricane.
[00:32:06]  Hoax, and then I will gladly go retire after that.
[00:32:10]  So, I would say buckle up for the next two years.
[00:32:15]  What does Shakespeare tell us?
[00:32:18]  Vengeance is a dish best served cold.
[00:32:23]  Mike Davis, the viceroy, where do people get you and how they go to Article 3 to put their shoulder to the wheel?
[00:32:30]  And this revenge is going to be some rancid Irish stow.
[00:32:33]  So, anyway, it's article3project.org, article3project.org.
[00:32:40]  You can Follow us on social media, donate.
[00:32:44]  But the War Room Posse superpower, as always, is action, action, action.
[00:32:50]  And buckle up, War Room Posse.
[00:32:52]  It's going to be a wild ride for the next two years.
[00:32:56]  Mike Davis, thank you so much.
[00:32:58]  And thank you for all the behind the scenes efforts.
[00:33:00]  Really appreciate you, sir.
[00:33:01]  Thank you.
[00:33:04]  Culmination of a lot of people working on this.
[00:33:07]  A lot of people working on this.
[00:33:08]  And hat tip to Maine Justice, hat tip to the Eastern District of North Carolina, hat tip.
[00:33:15]  To the FBI, who also got Fauci's deputy.
[00:33:21]  We'll get more into that.
[00:33:23]  So much going on.
[00:33:23]  Neil McCabe's at the White House.
[00:33:25]  I want to go to Joe Hoft for a moment.
[00:33:27]  Joe, thank you for joining us.
[00:33:30]  Your brother, Jim, your twin brother, Jim, is like yourself, one of the founders of our movement, one of the giants in the category of Andrew Breitbart.
[00:33:41]  Jim has been ill for a while.
[00:33:42]  I guess, can you walk through?
[00:33:44]  We're going to have some surgery, and I want to make sure everybody knows about it.
[00:33:48]  And can make sure that Jim Hoft is kept in our prayers over the next couple of days.
[00:33:52]  Joe Hoft, what do you got?
[00:33:56]  Steve, thanks so much for having me and for your concern for Jim, my twin brother.
[00:34:01]  Great guy, nice guy, really one of the most compassionate individuals you ever know and absolutely fearless in his reporting as he's been doing now for a few decades.
[00:34:10]  Like you said, Breitbart and Jim Hoft and a few others were some of these pioneers in the new media.
[00:34:19]  Years ago, decades ago, really.
[00:34:21]  And Jim's been battling some heart issues really for about 20, not quite 20 years, but about 15 years.
[00:34:29]  He had some major surgery 15 years ago that was a result of basically had a knee replacement that ended up getting infected and went to his heart and targeted his heart.
[00:34:42]  And he had some really severe surgery at that point in time.
[00:34:47]  I flew back from Hong Kong then.
[00:34:49]  And he was talking to Jim every day, and he just all of a sudden just dropped off.
[00:34:53]  He just got so sick.
[00:34:53]  He was on an event at Ronald Reagan Ranch and just got sick.
[00:34:58]  Came home and had this major surgery.
[00:35:00]  He has, you know, he's been pretty good over the last 10 or so years now.
[00:35:05]  But just recently, the last year, he's really slowed down.
[00:35:10]  Again, it's his heart.
[00:35:12]  He's having some issues.
[00:35:14]  And so there was supposed to be a surgery today, and that ended up getting postponed till tomorrow.
[00:35:20]  So there's going to be surgery tomorrow.
[00:35:22]  And I want to give you a hat tip, Steve, because I mentioned that to you earlier.
[00:35:26]  You called me and said, hey, let's talk about Jim tonight.
[00:35:29]  And I said, well, they've moved the surgery till Tomorrow, and you said, No, that's okay.
[00:35:33]  Let's talk about it tonight so we can get people praying for Jim.
[00:35:36]  And I got to tell you, Steve, that really, really meant a lot to me, and I'm sure Jim as well.
[00:35:40]  The prayers are greatly appreciated.
[00:35:42]  A lot of people know Jim and are grateful for the Gateway Pundit and his reporting.
[00:35:46]  And so we're all praying for him, and hopefully tomorrow will go smooth and we'll get Jim back in action quickly.
[00:35:53]  He's really been behind the scenes, it's really been slowed down this last year.
[00:36:00]  No, I got to tell you, this is.
[00:36:02]  So important.
[00:36:03]  Jim has turned the Gateway Pundit into not just one of the mush reads every day, but tremendous power to drive the grassroots movement, to drive MAGA, and is so essential going forward.
[00:36:16]  You realize you have these people like Charlie Kirk, like Andrew Breitbart, like Jim Hoff.
[00:36:21]  They're really not, although they say graveyards are full of indispensable men, there are people that come along in our movement and are really indispensable.
[00:36:32]  Jim Haas, one of them, given what you guys have accomplished over Gateway Pundit.
[00:36:37]  So, surgery was delayed today.
[00:36:40]  Was that because of any complication or just a timing thing?
[00:36:45]  Not that I'm aware of.
[00:36:46]  I think there are some complications actually with the medical facility as far as getting the right people in place for the surgery.
[00:36:54]  So, that I believe has been taken care of now, the last I heard.
[00:36:59]  And we've been talking to Jim quite frequently throughout the day.
[00:37:02]  And it looks like tomorrow things will move forward.
[00:37:05]  So, Yeah, I could use the prayers.
[00:37:07]  Appreciate your, you know, appreciate you really bringing this up, Steve.
[00:37:11]  It means a lot.
[00:37:13]  No, we want to get everybody in the world posse to pray for Jim Hoff in surgery tomorrow.
[00:37:18]  And Joe, you'll keep us up to date.
[00:37:19]  We want to get you back up with any updates because this guy is not just an absolutely great guy, he's such an important individual in our movement in American politics right now.
[00:37:32]  It just amazes me.
[00:37:34]  Andrew and Jim really started with nothing when they started.
[00:37:39]  When they started, they didn't really step into a family media company.
[00:37:43]  They didn't start the media companies they had.
[00:37:45]  Everything you see at Breitbart and at Gateway Pundit was really created by just these individuals, really from scratch.
[00:37:54]  And it just blows me away of how important these are and how important it is to our country, particularly now when we're at an inflection point of which way this republic goes.
[00:38:05]  So if you keep us up to speed, Joe, where can people get you on social media?
[00:38:10]  Where do they go for Gateway Pundit?
[00:38:12]  Yeah, Gateway Pundit is the Gateway Pundit.com.
[00:38:16]  And you'll find that site across social media.
[00:38:19]  For myself, Joe Hoff.com, where I'll write original pieces there and share them with the Gateway Pundit now as well.
[00:38:25]  So, yeah, thanks again for all your support, Steve.
[00:38:28]  We'll keep you posted.
[00:38:30]  He's got a lot of people praying for him, so we're really hopeful everything's going to go well.
[00:38:35]  Fantastic.
[00:38:36]  Thank you, Joe.
[00:38:36]  Appreciate you.
[00:38:37]  Thanks.
[00:38:38]  Thank you.
[00:38:38]  We'll be hearing your back from him.
[00:38:40]  Jim Hoff, make sure Jim Hoff, if not already in your prayers, Goes into for a surgery tomorrow related to his heart, and you know, you can't take chances on this thing.
[00:38:52]  That's why Jim and you know, Joe and Jim have said he's a little bit slowed down the last couple of months, but he's going to get taken care of.
[00:38:59]  I'm going to go to the White House in a moment.
[00:39:01]  Neil McCabe, who was at the Justice Department for much of 2025, now over here at RAV, he's at the White House.
[00:39:11]  I thought we'd be leading all day with the King and the President's speech.
[00:39:15]  What I'm going to do in the six o'clock hour, I'm going to break down the King's speech and President Trump.
[00:39:23]  President Trump gave pretty damn impressive remarks on the White House lawn.
[00:39:27]  The Democrats were sitting there constantly.
[00:39:29]  And remember, they got no King's rallies, they got no King's.
[00:39:34]  You know, all over the country, they're putting this hate on Trump every second of the day.
[00:39:39]  No kings.
[00:39:40]  America has no kings.
[00:39:41]  Man, oh man, with those Democrats lapping it up today.
[00:39:45]  They couldn't get enough of a king.
[00:39:48]  It shows you what a clown show they are.
[00:39:53]  They had just a total embarrassing clown show.
[00:39:56]  You actually been telling us no kings.
[00:39:57]  America's got no kings.
[00:40:00]  A king comes and you're slobbering all over it.
[00:40:04]  And.
[00:40:05]  The king, I thought some of the remarks were just absolutely incredible.
[00:40:12]  Took a couple of shots.
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[00:41:01]  Talk to Philip Patrick and his team.
[00:41:04]  Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
[00:41:06]  Wow.
[00:41:09]  Wow.
[00:41:10]  Part of the engine room just sent me that Nicole Wallace was a Leering Center graduate.
[00:41:16]  I mean, that's pretty cold.
[00:41:19]  Engine room getting pretty cold.
[00:41:22]  Neil, I want to ask you about the King, about President Trump.
[00:41:26]  President Trump kind of gave a blood and soil, I thought, speech, remarks, the White House earlier than the King gave his remarks, I think almost 30 minutes long speech.
[00:41:39]  And of course, the Democrats have been going around the country doing no kings.
[00:41:44]  You know, we're slobbering all over it.
[00:41:46]  But I got to start with Todd Blanch.
[00:41:48]  Now, my question I think Mike said is the, to your knowledge, is the prosecutor we just saw in the Eastern District, is that a career or is that an appointment?
[00:41:58]  Because the North Carolina Tillis has not exactly been trying to assist the president and staff out the Justice Department, is he?
[00:42:09]  No, he's been putting holds on things.
[00:42:11]  And obviously, he famously blocked Ed Martin's confirmation and committee.
[00:42:17]  Ted Budd, the other Republican senator in North Carolina, strongly endorsed his appointment.
[00:42:24]  But Ellis Boyle has not yet been confirmed by the Senate.
[00:42:27]  So he's just on, you know, his interim appointment expired in December.
[00:42:34]  And so the only explanation is that he's been appointed by the judges, and the judges can do that when there's a vacancy.
[00:42:44]  Todd, I want to go back to Tillis because this is one of the problems we have.
[00:42:47]  We're understaffed, as you know.
[00:42:50]  At the U.S. Attorney level, we're also understaffed in Maine justice.
[00:42:53]  Tillis is not an ally of correcting those staffing issues, right?
[00:42:57]  He was the guy that really put up the big stink about Eagle Ed Martin, the great warrior we had as the U.S. Attorney in D.C., correct?
[00:43:10]  Yeah, he told Ed Martin that he wasn't going to block him in committee, but he wasn't going to vote for him on the floor.
[00:43:17]  But then, with like 30 minutes before the Judiciary Committee published the agenda for two days hence, when they would vote for.
[00:43:27]  Ed Martin to recommend it to the Senate floor.
[00:43:29]  He dropped the penny, surprised everyone.
[00:43:32]  Grassley's staff, everyone was surprised.
[00:43:35]  And he really had a very sort of volatile meeting with Ed Martin where he basically blamed Ed, who represented some J6 defenders, for being part of this revolt.
[00:43:47]  And he also said that Ashley Babbitt deserved what she had coming to her.
[00:43:52]  And it was a very sort of off center meeting where Tillis really got red faced.
[00:43:58]  And he was really kind of upset and angry.
[00:44:01]  And he's been in trouble ever since, Steve.
[00:44:04]  Very bad guy.
[00:44:05]  Neil, can you hang on?
[00:44:07]  I got more questions about the Comey indictment.
[00:44:10]  I also want to get your take on both the president and also the king today.
[00:44:15]  Mike Lindell, you join us.
[00:44:16]  Mike, didn't you find it odd that people that have gone around the country in these protests and talking violence against the president of the United States for no kings, that we don't have any kings, were slobbering all over?
[00:44:28]  Charles III today, as he gave his remarks in the joint session before the joint session of Congress, sir?
[00:44:36]  Yeah, and yeah, it is something else.
[00:44:39]  And you talk about with these no kings protests, people don't even realize what a king is and what that is.
[00:44:49]  And I'll tell you, Minneapolis has the strictest protest laws in the nation, but yet we're the most abused.
[00:44:55]  But I do have some good news for everybody.
[00:44:57]  Today, according to ABC News, 22.
[00:45:03]  They served 22 search warrants in Minneapolis today for the fraud investigation.
[00:45:09]  So they can protest all they want.
[00:45:12]  And we're getting through that.
[00:45:15]  We're going to get to the bottom of all the fraud here in Minnesota.
[00:45:18]  I'm on my way to another governor event tonight.
[00:45:20]  We had a huge one last night in Two Harbors, Minnesota.
[00:45:25]  And wait for it, Steve.
[00:45:27]  Fox News, it was local Fox, they actually reported, and it was a great report about me running for governor.
[00:45:35]  So, They're actually coming around, maybe in Minnesota and our local media here.
[00:45:39]  And so if you go to mikelindelgov.com, it would really help.
[00:45:45]  They're looking for you to advertise.
[00:45:47]  One thing before we get to talking about what the audience is interested in the deal, how about you running for governor?
[00:45:52]  It's great that the feds went in today, the FBI went in today, Todd Blanchett, Justice went in today.
[00:45:57]  But as governor, you're not waiting for that.
[00:45:59]  You think that's a state, you think, hey, I'm going to be governor.
[00:46:02]  I'm going to go in and Waltz let them run wild.
[00:46:05]  I'm going to go in and clean this mess up.
[00:46:07]  Is that correct?
[00:46:08]  Absolutely.
[00:46:09]  Not just to clean up the fraud and start holding people accountable, but these programs in general in Minnesota, the welfare programs and the programs we have, so many of them are just worthless.
[00:46:22]  They're just frivolous.
[00:46:23]  You don't need them.
[00:46:24]  And there's no return on your investment, even if there wasn't fraud.
[00:46:28]  A lot of them aren't helping people.
[00:46:30]  It's disgusting.
[00:46:31]  And there's many of them.
[00:46:33]  We have at least, I'd say, 20 different programs.
[00:46:39]  That all need to go or be looked at and redone, and redone to the form of, you know, hey, is there limits on them?
[00:46:46]  Remember, we have 80% of the Somalians that are here that are still on one or another of these programs since they've been here.
[00:46:55]  Some have been here 20 some years.
[00:46:57]  So we're just supporting a population that doesn't want to assimilate with us.
[00:47:02]  And that's where banning Sharia law comes in.
[00:47:05]  All they want to do is clash with us on that.
[00:47:09]  But I'm going to get all new commissioners on the first day as governor and start fresh.
[00:47:14]  Here's your foundation.
[00:47:16]  Here's your foundation.
[00:47:17]  And hold these people accountable.
[00:47:19]  Get rid of our politician, crooked Keith Ellison, Tim Walz, Fry of Minneapolis, Amy Klobuchar.
[00:47:27]  It was under her watch, Steve.
[00:47:28]  That's who I'm running against.
[00:47:29]  This was under her watch, too.
[00:47:31]  All Amy did, she ignored the election fraud and just brought in billions of dollars from the feds, only to be stolen here in Minnesota.
[00:47:39]  So it's very disgusting, but I'm looking forward to cleaning it all up and winning this.
[00:47:45]  Mike, talk to me about a deal.
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