MAGA figurehead Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, demanded Monday that the Trump administration deploy U.S. Marshals to Georgia to seize ballots as part of a relitigation of the president’s false claims that the 2020 election was “stolen.”
This week, a committee of Georgia Senate Republicans pressed Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis over her office’s criminal indictment of Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Additionally, Georgia’s leadership is facing renewed scrutiny from conservatives after it was revealed that some 2020 ballots lacked poll-worker signatures, even though such signatures are not required for a ballot to be considered valid.
Speaking on his “WarRoom” podcast, Bannon championed those inquiring into Willis’ conduct – as well as those inquiring into the state’s signature-less ballots – as “heroes,” and compared them to the “revolutionary generation” that supported Founding Fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Furthermore, he complained about the lengthy process of adjudicating Willis for what some Republicans allege was a politically motivated prosecution of Trump, as well as the lengthy process of investigating why some Georgia ballots weren’t signed, and offered an alternative – and much quicker – solution.
“When you look at what went on, it is so awful on so many other levels,” Bannon said. “I realize you've got to go to court and there's rules... send the freakin’ Marshals down there and just grab the ballots! It's time now you've got to take hard action.”
Bannon also went on to complain how Willis, through her prosecution of Trump and alleged co-conspirators, had bankrupted former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was also indicted alongside Trump.
“[Willis] was sending Trump to prison but she broke so many people; hell, it's one of the reasons Rudy went bankrupt,” Bannon said. “Rudy's beautiful 16-room apartment in New York City, I think he had to sell and didn't take any cash out of the deal because he had to pay it off to other things.”