Steve Bannon Calls For Shock Troops To Deconstruct State As GOP Takes Oval Office
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Donald Trumpâs former White House strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday evoked a dystopian future when he called for âshock troopsâ to quickly âdeconstructâ the state as soon as a Republican takes the Oval Office again.
Bannon made the chilling comments in a phone interview on NBC News after it reported that he had met Wednesday with the party faithful to urge them to be prepared to âreconfigure the governmentâ with a Republican leader.
âIf youâre going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,â Bannon told NBC. âI gave âem fire and brimstone.â
Bannon, who ran Trumpâs 2016 campaign, said the former presidentâs agenda packing the government with loyalists was delayed because he couldnât move quickly enough to fill some 4,000 posts.
Bannon spoke at the Capitol Hill Club Wednesday at the invitation of a new organization called the Association of Republican Presidential Appointees, according to NBC. The group was formed as a resource for future GOP officials to tap into to quickly fill federal jobs.
Bannon told NBC that he wants to see âpre-trained teams ready to jump into federal agenciesâ when the next Republican president takes office.
âWeâre going to have a sweeping victory in 2022, and thatâs just the preamble to a sweeping victory in 2024, and this time weâre going to be ready â" and have a MAGA perspective, MAGA policies, not the standard Republican policies,â he said, referring to Trumpâs âMake America Great Againâ slogan.
Bannon was one of four close Trump associates subpoenaed earlier this week to appear before the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Investigators said Bannon urged Trump to focus efforts to return to the White House on the Jan. 6 action. He rallied his listeners on his âWar Roomâ broadcast that âall hell is going to break outâ that day.
Bannon admitted last week on his podcast that he told Trump before the insurrection: âYou need to kill this [Biden] administration in its crib.â That led Harvard constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe to wonder why the Department of Justice hadnât convened a grand jury to consider sedition charges against Bannon.
It's increasingly hard to see how DOJ can sit on this kind of revelation without convening a grand jury to inquire into seditious conspiracy leading to insurrection, letting the chips fall where they may . . . https://t.co/J1sorUOxLw
â" Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 23, 2021Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Trump social media chief Dan Scavino and former Defense Department official and House Intelligence Committee aide Kash Patel were also subpoenaed by the committee.
Trump early this year pardoned Bannon, who faced multiple fraud counts in the Southern District of New York following an indictment a year ago for allegedly stealing funds from Trump supporters who donated to a charity he controlled, which purported to raise money to help build Trumpâs southern border wall.
For more on the subpoena against Bannon and the other Trump cohorts, check out the video clip up top. The section on Bannon begins at 8:20.
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