Tag Archives: Steve Bannon

The Washington Post reports: While tens of thousands of supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro camp outside military facilities across Brazil to protest his election loss, members of Bolsonaro’s inner circle are meeting with advisers to former president Donald Trump to discuss next steps. Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, the president’s son, has visited Florida since the Oct. 30 vote, meeting Trump …

Media Matters reports: The majority of 2022 midterm general election candidates that appeared on insurrection coup plotter Steve Bannon’s podcasts lost their respective races. A Media Matters analysis of guest appearances on Bannon’s War Room and War Room: Battleground shows from January 1 to November 8 found: Bannon hosted 48 general election candidates who were non-incumbents. Thirty-three of them lost. That …

“What they oughta do immediately is say, ‘Hey, we’re not gonna give you one penny in the Justice Department.’ And they oughta start the impeachment process on Garland and Mayorkas, day one. “You want a special prosecutor? Then you raise the money yourself. Go raise your money, go special prosecute that. Enough nonsense with these people. They’re criminals. They twist …

Vice News reports: A militant neo-Nazi group raided by Italian anti-terror police this week was ready to carry out violent attacks and had numerous transnational connections, including a member who claimed to have met with Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, according to media reports citing police. Italian police said they had arrested five members of a white supremacist terror …

Media Matters reports: During the November 14 edition of his show, Bannon and his guests repeatedly discussed how Arizona should refuse to certify the midterm results because the election has already been stolen from Lake. Bannon hosted True the Vote’s QAnon-linked founders Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht to comment on the Arizona race. After both True the Vote leaders had …

CBS News reports: Steve Bannon, former President Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist and 2016 campaign CEO, will remain free from serving a four-month prison sentence as he appeals his recent conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. Judge Carl Nichols filed the expected ruling on Monday delaying the prison term after Bannon filed a notice appealing his …

“They’re going to pull every trick in the book. They’re not going to – they will not lose graciously, this is going to be very nasty and it’s going to be very tough and we’re going to be gentlemen and gentlewomen about it but steely resolve. There’s no chance they’re going to steal any of this. This is not happening …

Media Matters has the transcript: The FBI is totally infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party, and we’re going to prove it. And every traitor and yes, I use that word specifically, every traitor in the FBI, every traitor in DOJ, every traitor in the administrative state is going to be turfed out and you’re going to be not just gotten …

Media Matters reports: Nevada Republican secretary of state nominee Jim Marchant and podcaster and former Trump aide Steve Bannon agreed that Democrats won’t win future elections if a pro-Trump slate of secretary of state candidates is elected. Marchant told Bannon that Democrats are spending a lot of money on those races “because they know that they can’t win if we’re …

Media Matters reports: Ronna McDaniel claimed on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast that her organization has now trained at least 79,000 poll workers and watchers throughout the country. She said the RNC’s efforts had gotten a “jump” after she previously appeared on the show to call for volunteers. McDaniel also alluded to “software” and “tools” that RNC volunteers and workers …

The New York Times reports: A man from Colorado who helped loot a charity that privately funded a border wall of the sort championed by former President Donald J. Trump was convicted on Friday in a retrial in Manhattan federal court. An earlier trial was scuttled by a juror who was said to have insisted that the prosecution was a …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE BANNON (HOST): What word of advice would you give to leadership in the House in the next two weeks and then after they take power? KASH PATEL (GUEST): What I’m going to remind these people of that we’re sending to Washington — the Laxalts, the Blakes, the J.D.s, and everybody else — is that …

Media Matters has the transcript: These are going to be fights, but the way you do that, you get into the room and become a poll worker. This is 100% Owen, within our hands to grasp, this’ll never come again. We have a unique opportunity to have something like 1932 or right after the Civil War when you had these …

The Independent reports: Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has issued a threat to Anthony Fauci, saying the president’s chief medical adviser and his entire family are going to “suffer” after the midterm elections next month. “On 8 November, when we destroy the Democratic party as a national political institution and really end the regime, the hunted become the hunters. The …

“The people out there watching the box. They don’t like the way some people are dressed, they don’t like them in cammies, they don’t like them, you know, in Arizona law you can have the open carry, they don’t like that. “They’re running around, it’s not gonna change, you can run, and do anything you want. The camera and people …

The Washington Post reports: In Michigan, a right-wing group announced it had launched “Operation Overwatch” to hunt down election-related malfeasance, issuing a press release that repeated the warning “We are watching” 10 times. Supporters of former president Donald Trump who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen have summoned a swarm of poll watchers and workers in battleground states to …

Mediaite reports: “The whole Justice Department under Merrick Garland has become radically partisan,” Bannon told Tucker Carlson on Friday night. “I strongly believe you’ll see Merrick Garland impeached next year by the new Congress.” “What do you think this says about our system more broadly?” Carlson asked. “You are saying you’re being sent to prison because you advised Donald Trump, …

The Washington Post reports: Eleven allies of and advisers to former president Donald Trump have been convicted or pleaded guilty in recent years to various offenses, with their total sentences nearing 30 years of imprisonment. Those convicted include three top campaign officials, two top White House officials, two former business employees, several campaign and transition advisers, and Trump’s longest-serving informal …

Forbes reports: Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon will serve time in prison for contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the House January 6 Committee, a federal judge ruled Friday, imposing a harsher sentence than Bannon’s attorneys had asked for—but also letting the sentence stay paused until Bannon can appeal his case. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols sentenced …

NBC News reports: Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is likely facing at least a month behind bars when he’s sentenced Friday in a Washington, D.C., federal court for criminal contempt of Congress. Bannon, 68, was convicted in July on two contempt of Congress charges for ignoring subpoenas from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot. Prosecutors have asked Judge …