'The hell with that!' Steve Bannon flips out at Trump DOJ over handling of James Comey

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lost it during a live broadcast after former FBI Director James Comey avoided the media and photographs before pleading not guilty to criminal charges brought by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice.

Bannon began his War Room broadcast on Wednesday with a live shot of the courthouse where he expected Comey to turn himself in.

"Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on," Bannon announced. "I got breaking news. They slipped Comey into another entrance so he didn't have to come through here."

"This is bulls---!" he exclaimed. "I don't know who at DOJ and who at the FBI, or I hope the White House understands this... The problem is, the system is rigged on these guys' side. Okay? It's got to stop. Is Comey going to be shackled? Is Comey going to be strip-searched?"

Bannon noted that he and Trump adviser Peter Navarro were confronted by the media when they faced charges of contempt of Congress.

"But I'll be damned if we're going to sit here and allow Comey, who is a total scumbag," he insisted. "And you already see this deck is already, they've already stacked this deck right now. Why is Comey not coming in from outside?"

"The hell with that!" Bannon said. "He should be shackled, strip-searched... But no, to have a scumbag like this. And Comey's a little frail."

"And this is just not acceptable. We needed that photograph today."

Bannon faulted Trump's Justice Department.

"We got to own this one," he told Navarro. "It's not good enough. And I hope that the chief law enforcement officer and the chief magistrate of these United States of America, I hope his head is blowing up because it should be. Not acceptable."

"It was going to be historic," Bannon complained.