Conservative podcast host Steve Bannon explained why his audience is compared to fascists who voted for Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
On his Tuesday War Room broadcast, Bannon said that efforts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot were proof the former president was feared by political elites.
"If he had not returned and now returned and crushing the opposition, so they have to frame it in that he is a totalitarian," Bannon said.
"Basically, they're gonna say this is 1932, and he's Hitler. ... The German people voted Hitler into office. That's what they're gonna say. They voted the fascist in Italy into office."
"You're the fascists, you're his supporters, and they're dark days ahead for America," he added, suggesting the message the elites would push.
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade praised "slave owners" because he said the United States of America would not exist without them.
Kilmeade made the remarks on The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday while promoting his book about Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt.
"But for the most part, we are a country that was born, like every other country, every continent had slaves," Kilmeade said. "In the South, most houses, most plantations had slaves. Nobody condones it. But without those slave owners, we don't have a country. So you make your choice."
The Fox News host said he was on "a mission to win the war on history."
"Because the 1619 Project was the formal first salvo," he claimed. "I mean, I'm older than you, and in 1976, I was in grade school, and they launched this thing called Roots, the most successful miniseries ever, averaged 60 million a night. It was the story of slavery and all its brutality."
"Nobody was ever ducking our past," Kilmeade insisted. "I don't know what people were talking about. And no one ever said, oh, segregation, not that bad. Slavery, well, it happens."
Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon on Monday called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to create a new Jan. 6 Committee, which he predicted would prove the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
During his Monday podcast, Bannon said "elites" were guilty of "treason" because they were prepared to enforce digital ID cards and refused to seal the southern border.
"They run the country, are guilty of the worst crimes of treason in the history of this nation," he opined. "And Speaker Johnson must step up to the plate."
"We need immediately a new J6 committee to get to, and I think [to] get to the bottom of the stealing of the 2020 election and a place to adjudicate the facts, wherever the facts may go," he continued.
Bannon also suggested a new committee would discover that federal agents were behind the "fedsurrection" on Jan. 6.
"It's the only way we're going to get to the bottom of this," he added. "And Speaker Johnson has the full ability to do it."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has also pushed Johnson for a new Jan. 6 select committee.
Former President Donald Trump decided to lavish praise on "wheels and walls" at an event near the Texas border.
While speaking to a crowd in Edinburgh, Texas, on Sunday, Trump claimed that "our country is going to hell."
"And nobody really knows the answer because who could object to voter ID? Who could object to a wall?" he asked. "I was saying before wheels and walls. They work. Wheels and walls. Everything else gets old and tired and obsolete very quickly."
Trump said mobile phones were an example of something that becomes obsolete quickly.
"Everything," he continued. "But wheels and walls, they work. And we don't need the wheels, we just need the walls. And it worked. So we had the safest border in our history."
CBS host Margaret Brennan fact-checked Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) after he suggested President Joe Biden's possession of classified documents was more severe than former President Donald Trump's hoarding of national security secrets.
On Sunday's
Face the Nation program, Brennan noted that CBS has reported that the special counsel's office is not expected to bring tax fraud charges against Biden's son Hunter.
"Well, this will be certainly devastating, continuing to be devastating to the Department of Justice and to the Biden administration with their two-tier system of justice," Turner opined. "You know, Biden has been found to be a serial classified document hoarder over a 10-year period."
"He's been taking classified documents, some of the most sensitive, that threaten our national security home without any protection and certainly, you know, able for others to be able to access them. There needs to be consequences," he insisted.
Brennan responded by reminding Turner that Trump was accused of severe crimes regarding classified documents.
"Well, as you know, there is a difference with the case against President Trump, who refused to hand over documents fully and violated the Espionage Act," Brennan said. "That's the charge against him because he didn't work with the government to hand those over."
"Biden, Biden, Biden had these documents for over ten years," Turner replied. "You can't hoard documents in your home for a decade-long period, concealing them, taking them home as a Senator and Vice President and then suddenly say, hey, two weeks while I was president, I cooperated and therefore, you know, it doesn't count that I spent ten years as a serial classified document hoarder."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained that her effort to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was a "failure" because eight Republicans voted against it.
"Eight Republicans joined with the Democrats, Maria, to kill the articles of impeachment I brought to the floor against Secretary Mayorkas," Greene told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "And it's absolutely outrageous."
"I mean, we are wondering how many American, how many dead American bodies are going to have to pile up before Republicans in Congress get serious about impeaching Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas," she added. "But Americans called and called. They flooded those congressman's office with phone calls demanding impeachment of Mayorkas."
But Greene insisted that she would not relent.
"I will bring my articles of impeachment back to the floor after we get back from the Thanksgiving break," she explained. "And this time, the Republicans in Congress better deliver different results."
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) might be urged to resign from Congress after an ethics complaint against him is released.
During an interview on Fox News, McCarthy took a shot at Gaetz, who orchestrated his ouster as speaker.
"Unfortunately, we had a number of members doing the exact same thing they did before, stopping bills from moving forward," the former speaker complained. "We're going to have to come together."
"We do know this is really driven, as you know, and you've had in the show, Matt Gaetz's ethics complaint," he added. "I think once that ethics complaint comes forward, he could have the same problem as Santos has."
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis clashed with CNN host Jake Tapper over Elon Musk's anti-Semitic social media posts.
During an interview on CNN, Tapper noted that Musk had seemingly endorsed a conspiracy theory claiming Jews are trying to replace white Christians in the U.S.
"I did not see the comment," DeSantis claimed. "And so I know that Elon has had a target on his back ever since he purchased Twitter because I think he's taking it in a direction that a lot of people who are used to controlling the narrative don't like."
"So I was a big supporter of him purchasing Twitter," he observed. "I think they're obviously still working some stuff out, but I did not see those comments."
Tapper offered to show Musk's social media posts to DeSantis.
"I know you've been very out front when you see anti-Semitism on the left," Tapper pressed. "Is anti-Semitism on the right something that concerns you as well?"
DeSantis insisted he was concerned about anti-Semitism "across the board." He then lashed out at liberals and blamed anti-Semitism on the right on "fringe voices."
"I don't know how fringe the voices are, to be completely frank," Tapper replied. "I mean, Elon Musk is the wealthiest man in the world."
"And we've seen some major conservative media figures, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and others pushing really, really hateful stuff, backing these nonsensical theories of white genocide, white replacement theory," he added. "And I would ask that major Republican figures like you use your voices as well to stand against it."
But DeSantis dismissed Musk's posts as "blogging."
"But to compare that for how some of these most powerful universities in the country have responded to this, we have Jewish students fleeing for their lives because you have angry mobs, and yet they have not done what they need to do to protect the safety and well-being of those students," he opined.
"I'm just saying Elon Musk is a pretty powerful guy, and he's out there endorsing some pretty hideous anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and I still haven't heard you condemn it," Tapper pointed out.
"Well, because I haven't seen it," DeSantis said. "I know you tried to read. I have no idea what the context is. I know Elon Musk. I've never seen him do anything. I think he's a guy that believes in America. I've never seen him indulge in any of that. So it's surprising if that's true, but I have not seen it. So I don't want to sit there and pass judgment on the fly."
Taylor Swift on Saturday postponed the second night of her Eras Tour in Brazil citing the scorching heat that has stifled most of the South American country in the past few days.
Swift’s decision — which was announced approximately two hours before her show was scheduled to begin — came less than 24 hours after the death of a 23-year-old fan, who fell ill during Swift’s second song Friday night and was taken to a nearby hospital, where she later died.
Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel denied Wednesday that former President Donald Trump has soured on her after recent election losses.
During an interview on Fox News, host John Roberts told McDaniel that Republicans were calling for her to step down over election losses.
Roberts noted that Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy had offered time at a recent debate for her to announce her resignation.
"So that's expected, I think, to some degree from Ramaswamy," the host observed. "But now we're also hearing rumblings that maybe Donald Trump may be going south, too."
"Oh, I'm not hearing that!" McDaniel said, shutting down talk of Trump abandoning her.
"Listen, I would say this to Vivek," she continued. "You know, I understand that you want to take me on. I'm focused on taking on Joe Biden. Joe Biden's ruining this country."
She claimed GOP voters were "sick of us hitting each other and not focusing on the issues and taking on the Democrats, because that's a losing strategy if we're hitting each other."
"I'm going to take the high road and focus on beating Joe Biden," she insisted.
The media isn't properly covering Donald Trump's Hitler-echoing comments, according to his own niece Tuesday.
Mary Trump, a psychologist who has been critical of her uncle and their shared family, said during a conversation with comedian Kathy Griffin that she has pretty much been on "lockdown" since November 9th, 2016, and that she has "lost a lot of friends over politics."
"Your experience just reminds me one of the incredible double standards--Republicans can literally be Hitler," Mary Trump said Tuesday. "And for the corporate media, it's still all about the horse race, not about the danger. When somebody on the left either makes a mistake or does something that you think is wrong, it's not just the people on the right who are going to eviscerate you. It's people on the left too."
Mary Trump went on to say that "people don't pay too much attention or they only pay attention to certain things, which is just exacerbated by the media's insistence upon the horse race."
"The fact that the media doesn't have above the fold in 80-point font that Donald is echoing Hitler in his rally speeches or whatever you want to call them, is insane," she then added. "There should be no other news right now, other of course, than the fact that the Republican party seems absolutely incapable of governing and is going to destroy this country."
She added that, "If you had told me in late November, 2020 that things would be worse and scarier now, I would not have believed you. So, one of the dangers, and again, you're somebody who's sort of in my boat, we've been dealing with this for much longer than most people. How do we survive the fatigue? Because I think the impulse is to ignore Donald and turn away, but we literally cannot afford to," Mary Trump said to Kathy Griffin
She added that the media sites "made Donald the Republican nominee before the first Republican debate even happened."
"They want this race between Biden and Donald. And if you talk about Donald like any other candidate, you normalize all the horrible things that he's done and continues to do. Plus, and you alluded to this earlier, the fact that all of these trials are happening simultaneously and you don't have enough people in the media explaining why that is, people who are basically primed to think this way will think it's a conspiracy. How is it possible that one person could be on trial for so many things at the same time? So, it does look like that. However, I think, and let me know what you think about this, once we have verdicts and judgments start coming in, do you think that's going to change the course of events?"
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained that her voters no longer want to vote for Republicans because they are not radical enough.
"We're literally losing our country and our children's future," Greene told right-wing podcast host Charlie Kirk on Tuesday. "And I believe that we should be standing up with everything we have in Congress fighting the Biden administration because our own voters don't even want to vote for Republicans in Congress anymore."
She insisted Republican voters still stood behind former President Donald Trump.
"But they are done with Republicans in Congress," she said. "We have to fight harder. We have to earn their trust and show them that we will stop the communist Democrat Party from destroying our country."
She also lashed out at Republicans for refusing to pass bills that would keep her campaign promises.
"I think one of my biggest frustrations, Charlie, is before I became a member of Congress, it was easy for me to say, you know, when I'm in Congress, I'll do this X, Y, and Z. And then when I got there, I found out that just being able to do those things is a lot harder than saying it on the campaign trail," Greene revealed. "And that has been shocking to me."
Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon confirmed on Tuesday that he plans to sell merchandise promoting a "Trump Davidians" movement.
ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl first reported on MSNBC that Bannon planned to sell swag with the "Trump Davidians" logo. The slogan refers to the Branch Davidian religious cult that had a deadly standoff with ATF agents in 1993.
"I understand that Steve Bannon's war room is making merchandise now with the phrase Trump Davidians," Karl told MSNBC on Monday. "They're embracing the idea that they are out to get retribution against the deep state, against the communists, the radicals, the RINOs, and the vermin. I mean, they're embracing this idea. The amount of pushback is remarkably little."
On Tuesday, Bannon confirmed the news
"By the way, Grace is working on the merch," he said. "How did they know that? The inside baseball."
Bannon also used the phrase during an interview with Karl.
