Steve Bannon vows MAGA will destroy 'Gestapo' FBI: 'We are a threat to the American state'

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Source: Raw Story

Conservative podcast host Steve Bannon on Monday declared that his followers "are a threat to the American state."

During opening remarks on his War Room: Pandemic podcast, Bannon argued that the FBI should be defunded because agents served a search warrant to recover classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. . . .

. . . Bannon noted that Vox had recently published a column warning that Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is a threat to the "American state."

"They didn't say the country, they didn't say America as a nation, they didn't say the American people," Bannon argued. "The American state. And they are absolutely correct. You said the quiet part out loud. We are a threat to the American state."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-american-state/

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I remember predicting violence by MAGA between the election and Biden's inauguration. That wasn't difficult, but I didn't predict it would be an organized effort to overthrow the government.

Today we have once again been warned.

[turbinetree]

1. Yeah....... the fascist propaganda minister Goebbels, excuse me Bannon has spoken....

and why he isn't already been thrown in jail is beyond me....preparing to serve his time...as a risk to society....

[Alexander Of Assyria]

13. So we give the man too much credit! Spent force, pissing against the wind. Irrelevant!

[msfiddlestix]

16. Seriously, I'm thinking this fuck is still free to incite and foment treasonous bullshit

[hadEnuf]

30. He's a terrorist, pure and simple.

[Quanto Magnus]

40. Rename him

Osama-bin-Bannon


?

[onetexan]

43. And needs to be treated as an enemy of the state

He's been stoking hate & fascism for far too lpng. They need to round him up & lock him away for a long long time.

[calimary]

77. This.

He needs to be in jail. For as long as possible.

[live love laugh]

52. ✔️

[msfiddlestix]

65. absolutely. I have words, but not here.

[Meadowoak]

2. Fuck off Steve Bannon. Go take a bath.

[Aristus]

9. If Bannon took a bath, you could dry off what was left of him with a postage stamp.

n/t

[forgotmylogin]

56. The FBI tends to run under the radar.

Just because Steve Bannon hasn't heard of the work they do (because much of it is likely classified) doesn't mean they haven't done good things for the nation.

[Wingus Dingus]

3. We know they're a threat to America, you crusty stanky subhuman.

Thanks for admitting they're domestic terrorists, tho, that's cool.

[Traildogbob]

12. The anal pus filled sore

Was in our White House and traveled on our plane. He needs to be held in a terrorist retaining cell, not a prison. He would do too well in prison never be near a shower, and a vector of diseases. Zero threat of a sexual attack. But Terrorist would not be to accepting of his Muslim attitude. His face would actually become more cratered and scabbed over. Five layers of prison clothes would not buffer the ass kickings he would attract with Muslim extremists.

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. Bannon is a virus that needs eradication.

[calimary]

34. This. He is an opportunistic infection.

Why hasn’t he been locked up already? With all his vehicles of communication canceled or otherwise taken away?

[Glorfindel]

5. To quote Dr. Maya Angelou:

“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” I think Bannon has told us exactly who they are. I, for one, believe him.

[Frustratedlady]

6. What's his legal status now? I've lost track of where these clowns stand, they've drug

everything out as far as they can.

He, Flynn, Stone and the rest of the circus need to be behind bars. They continue to plot and plan. They are old farts that want to play war before they die.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. He's supposed to be sentenced October 21, 2022 (2 counts)

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/stephen-k-bannon-found-guilty-jury-two-counts-contempt-congress

He NEEDS TO get the max jail time (1 year) for each count, consecutively, and the max fine. And then get charged for making "terroristic threats".

[Frustratedlady]

21. Oh, yeah. So that was just for the contempt charges. Won't he still have to go through

his hearing/trial? If so, he'll just keep appeals going until he croaks.

There are so many detours on these court cases, it's hard to know what's next. We'll all be lawyers by the time they are done...if ever.

[BumRushDaShow]

61. He was convicted for that last month

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112937587/steve-bannon-guilty-jan-6-committee-contempt-charges

and had been previously pardoned for the "fund the wall" nonsense.

Since he was not part of the administration during the run up to the election and insurrection (was fired in August 2017), then he would be harder to nail due to first amendment stuff given he was mainly blabbering from behind the mic about like Hannity and Carlson and the rest of their ilk, although it would be interesting to see if they try - perhaps for something else like more financial fraud stuff, that they seem to excel at. If anyone, Roger Stone (another who had been previously pardoned for other stuff) would be the one who they could nail for more active participation in planning the insurrection.

[Evolve Dammit]

50. But that would involve a new indictment, no?

[BumRushDaShow]

62. He was convicted at trial last month for Contempt of Congress (2 counts)

Now if someone wanted to get him on something else, yes that would require another indictment!

[Evolve Dammit]

71. I can always hope for sedition and conspiracy charges. Seems pretty straight forward from everything

he foments (like Alex Jones, Mark Levin, Carlson. Hannity, etc., etc). These are the guys with the microphones whipping up the Cult 45 rabble 24/7/365. There are dozens of others, all calling for "civil war." It's all 1st Amendment, but at some point it's a call to arms (like Alex Jones on 1/6).

[BumRushDaShow]

72. They are pretty much permitted to say anything they want

unless it is found to be slanderous (and that is often hard to prove - although you see what it has taken to do so with Alex Jones and the Sandy Hook parents to get as far as they did) or is akin to making terroristic threats/threats of violence that might be reasonably enough to be carried out (vs "reporting about" such).

What might be more instructive is how Dominion Systems handles these guys based on their defamation suits against Ghouliani, the Kooky Kraken Krew, and the Faux Snooze RW loons.

Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels

The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation.

By Jeremy W. Peters
Aug. 13, 2022

In the weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, the Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed to have “tremendous evidence” that voter fraud was to blame. That evidence never emerged but a new culprit in a supposed scheme to rig the election did: Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of election technology whose algorithms, Mr. Dobbs said, “were designed to be inaccurate.” Maria Bartiromo, another host on the network, falsely stated that “Nancy Pelosi has an interest in this company.” Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News personality, speculated that “technical glitches” in Dominion’s software “could have affected thousands of absentee mail-in ballots.” Those unfounded accusations are now among the dozens cited in Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against the Fox Corporation, which alleges that Fox repeatedly aired false, far-fetched and exaggerated allegations about Dominion and its purported role in a plot to steal votes from Mr. Trump.

Those bogus assertions — made day after day, including allegations that Dominion was a front for the communist government in Venezuela and that its voting machines could switch votes from one candidate to another — are at the center of the libel suit, one of the most extraordinary brought against an American media company in more than a generation. First Amendment scholars say the case is a rarity in libel law. Defamation claims typically involve a single disputed statement. But Dominion’s complaint is replete with example after example of false statements, many of them made after the facts were widely known. And such suits are often quickly dismissed, because of the First Amendment’s broad free speech protections and the high-powered lawyers available to a major media company like Fox.

If they do go forward, they are usually settled out of court to spare both sides the costly spectacle of a trial. But Dominion’s $1.6 billion case against Fox has been steadily progressing in Delaware state court this summer, inching ever closer to trial. There have been no moves from either side toward a settlement, according to interviews with several people involved in the case. The two companies are deep into document discovery, combing through years of each other’s emails and text messages, and taking depositions. These people said they expected Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, who own and control the Fox Corporation, to sit for depositions as soon as this month.

The case threatens a huge financial and reputational blow to Fox, by far the most powerful conservative media company in the country. But legal scholars say it also has the potential to deliver a powerful verdict on the kind of pervasive and pernicious falsehoods — and the people who spread them — that are undermining the country’s faith in democracy. “We’re litigating history in a way: What is historical truth?” said Lee Levine, a noted First Amendment lawyer who has argued several major media defamation cases. “Here you’re taking very recent current events and going through a process which, at the end, is potentially going to declare what the correct version of history is.”

(snip)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit-first-amendment.html

[Evolve Dammit]

73. "reputational blow to Fox"? perhaps. Kudos for Dominion bringing the suit and pending "settlement.

Probably won't budge the needle one iota for Faux News viewership though.

[BumRushDaShow]

74. Well Faux got rid of Dobbs over a year and a half ago

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/05/964699913/fox-news-media-cancels-lou-dobbs-tonight

So maybe they can eventually "replace" their "problems".

[Evolve Dammit]

83. Bartiromo next? Ingraham? My Dog they are loaded with Cult 45. Carlson worst.

[BumRushDaShow]

84. Not out of the realm of possibility

Just remembered that they had gotten rid of O'Liely too. And yeah Carlson and Ingraham need to tossed for sure.

[Evolve Dammit]

86. What are you planning for the 100,000 post? gotta be BIG (hugely)

[BumRushDaShow]

87. I've been thinking about it

but have to make sure I don't blow past it (have been MIRTing so... ).

[Evolve Dammit]

91. MIRTing?

[BumRushDaShow]

92. ....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/101312510

[Evolve Dammit]

94. Sweet! Thanks for watching out!

[PatSeg]

46. And you know

if I was in any kind of legal jeopardy, the last thing I'd do would be make the FBI my sworn enemy. Shoot, even if I WASN'T in legal jeopardy, I wouldn't poke that bear. It might get him good ratings with the fringe of society, but it will do him no favors in the long run.

I can't believe the arrogance of these guys. Even in court, they show no contrition or remorse. Surely they know this cannot last much longer.

[pwb]

7. Way to go Steve, I bet your proud passing Vlads work on to us all.

You are a loyal Comrade.

[Walleye]

8. We had a political process, an election, you guys lost

[twodogsbarking]

10. I wonder if alligators would eat Bannon.

[IronLionZion]

19. There's only one way to find out

[JohnQFunk]

11. That was a really smart thing to say, fat boy.

"Does anybody ever mention the FBI as being real assistance whatsoever except for marginal cases?"
Yes, you bloated douchenozzle.

[PatSeg]

47. But I'll bet they are really good

at keeping an eye on Bannon and his cronies. He keeps taunting them, giving them even more motivation to bring him to justice. Does he really think he can outsmart the FBI?

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with the FBI

[Initech]

14. My god these people are completely fucking insane.

[Novara]

17. "are a threat to the American state" - you need to be imprisoned, then.

Right. I know we don't imprison people until they break laws, but if you've just stated that you're a threat, then you shouldn't mind some intense surveillance? We have reason to believe you "are a threat to the American state."

[peppertree]

18. Your just try it, Liver Boy

In fact - please do.

[Zambero]

20. Bannon claims to be a "Leninist"

Mother Russia no doubt approves. Ends always justify the means. The "American state" as mandated by American voters needs to be dismantled by any means possible. Elections are an inconvenient stumbling block, and unfavorable results must always be contested. Democracy must be relegated to the ash bin of history in favor of an autocratic leader who is dedicated to core MAGA principles of white nationalism. And if all else fails, violence is the solution toward attaining these goals.

Since Bannon seems to have already written his Manifesto, it seems like he'll be very bored in prison with no new abominations to dredge up from his reptilian brain.

[Traildogbob]

24. Lizard person??? Jones was right.

[Traildogbob]

22. I am sure

We ALL remember Jarod demanding a private secure back channel coms line linked straight to Putin in the first month of trumps installment. So upon be outed. Still without the requested line, Trump and Jarod was just gonna send Rand Paul to Moscow to hand deliver more messages. So, Mary suggesting Jarod may be the mole, only if he has turned to avoid treason charges of his on. Who knows how much they got to Putin over the last 6 years. And every other enemy leader hell bent on bringing down American. The Merry Go Round Golden Ring to them all. And willing to pay for. And it sure looks like Bannon is willing to help it get done.
GQP patriotism. Fuck every damn trumper flying our flag like some damn nation destroying souvenir.

[wildman76]

23. Bring it Bannon nothing but a loser

[Brainfodder]

96. This fellow needs to explain why he likes prison so much?

Perhaps OOF due to bad health outcome?

His behavior feels forced somehow; it is that nuts?

[ColinC]

25. So he admits he is anti American? By saying he is a threat to the American state?

[Stuart G]

26. Just 4 more words: Stupid is ..."STILL STUPID"

[duforsure]

27. Brannon and. His fascist party,

Stand against democracy , the rule of law, the truth, and for violence and fear.

[OhZone]

28. Is'nt making such threats illegal?

[brush]

29. Bannon is nothing but a filthy gas bag spewing deconstructinist...

bullshit he got from, where else, Russia. Alexandr Dugin is a deconstructionist, Russian philosopher who preaches tearing down government institutions and replacing them with fascism. In Europe and Asia he wants a totalitarian Russian Empire to control the Eurasian continent from Dublin to Vladivostok to challenge America and "Atlanticism". And he has Putin's ear, thus the Ukraine invasion.

This is who Bannon gets this crap from. But who the hell would trust Bannon and trump to come up with anything but similar fascism to the max which of course would kowtow to Russia. So Bannon can STFU as even his spews are just copied from someone else. Nothing original about them.

[bringthePaine]

31. I don't get why this refuKKKchicken is still on the streets...

[calimary]

36. Yeah, me too.

[flying_wahini]

32. Anyone like to take bets that Bannon's fingerprints are somewhere in the TopSecret docs?

[MarcA]

33. Wall Street Grifter and Con using the Rubes

to get whatever he wants.

[Aviation Pro]

35. Keep talking, convict

You'll soon be locked up and fucked up.

Fuck him up!

[Sneederbunk]

37. May want to remain silent until your sentencing.

The sentencing judge has ears and can read.

[Maeve]

38. Blowhard sez what? Eom

[lees1975]

39. Arrest this criminal now.

This is beyond the protection of free speech.

[ashredux]

41. Stevie, Stevie, Stevie, you're playing with the big dogs now. Are will lose a hand if you keep going

[IronLionZion]

42. When "America First" means destroying American institutions

and "back the blue" means beating up the blue.

[dlk]

44. We are in the middle of an insurgency

It didn’t end with the failed coup on 1/6.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

45. His B.O. certainly is.

[nini]

48. Why is he not in solitary confinement somewhere?

I don't get why he is allowed to continue fueling hate and violence.

[Kablooie]

49. The goal is to destroy the American state? Yeah! Sign me up!

I so want to tear the country down and live in a world of chaos and destruction!

[CaptainTruth]

51. Can you imagine being a person who listens to this guy?

I just can't imagine spending my time listening to an ignorant loser like him, never in my life.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

85. Can you imagine being a person in the cell with this guy ?

I give him 72 hours.

[blue-wave]

53. Once again

Bannon has Putin and Xi Jinping rejoicing.

[Botany]

54. Steve these people do not fuck around.

BTW don't you have an appointment to go to prison?

I wonder if your kind of talking might get that time could be moved up?

[thenelm1]

55. What is the threshold for this law to start being used? Are we there yet??

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

[whathehell]

58. Yes, why is this being permitted?

Some legalistic hair splitting?..I don't get it either.

[llashram]

57. this fool

[LudwigPastorius]

59. Why is this POS not in jail now?

And/Or, why does it take 3 months for a sentence to be handed down for his contempt conviction?

[KPN]

60. Why isn't he locked up already? He was found guilty

as charged on two counts of contempt IIRC. If it’s been me — or most anyone here at DU, I’d have been in jail a month ago.

[Ilsa]

63. I wish the ghosts of Patriots Past, Present, & Future would pay

people like Bannon a visit. And then take them away.

[Mz Pip]

64. Bannon sure has an overblown opinion

of himself, his influence and his power.

[Wounded Bear]

66. Yeah, and how'd that work out for Jeff Davis & Co?

[Heather MC]

67. How is this not considered inciting terrorism?

Considering the men that are willing to go and shoot at FBI agents, this is extremely irresponsible and he frankly should be in jail

They're literally trying to get FBI agents killed

[DonCoquixote]

68. Funny, the right wing loved the FBI

when they were actively oppressing, Gays, leftists Blacks, Hispanics and anyone not like the mostly white males they hired. Rest assured, if we lose in 2024, watch for a "NEW" fbi, run by the likes of some hard ass fascists.

[LymphocyteLover]

69. he's such a blowhard piece of treasonous shit who REALLY belongs in jail

[bluestarone]

70. Question

Couldn't this judge have him brought into the court, because he's NOW considered a THREAT to our Government?

[kimbutgar]

75. Why isn't he arrested for trying to overthrow and threatening our law enforcement agency ?

If it was you or me we’d be arrested by now.

[AntiFascist]

76. Imagine the "gestapo" we will have if Trump takes power again...

[Hassler]

78. Sounds like Nikolai Bannon is telling the FBI he's a threat and

Needs to be eliminated.

[elleng]

79. We KNOW 'that his followers "are a threat to the American state."

[pfitz59]

80. Throw this cock in jail already

and muzzle him. Freaking traitor.

[SouthernDem4ever]

82. +1000

[imavoter]

81. isn't this encouraging violence?

How is this legal??

[The Jungle 1]

88. Poor wittle bannon he hates our democracy.

No way should everybody be allowed to vote.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

89. How?

Is Bannon going to chug then puke all over them?

[Ladythatvotesblue]

93. Send soap!

He is going to need it in Federal prison.

[librechik]

95. Arrest that TRAITOR! nt