Steve Bannon: Non-Christian nationalists 'all have to be purged' in Trump's second term

Steve Bannon: Non-Christian nationalists 'all have to be purged' in Trump's second term
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Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon called for a purging of people who are not Christian nationalists if Donald Trump wins a second term as president.

On his Monday War Room broadcast, Bannon celebrated author Tim Alberta's warnings about Christian nationalism on MSNBC.

"When you begin to think of America as almost this covenant nation, that God has ordained us, God has blessed us, and you are fighting for God by fighting for America, that is Christian nationalism, and that is what has infected much of the church today," Alberta told the hosts of Morning Joe.

"Sign me up," Bannon reacted. "I mean, I think this is the best recruiting pitch I've heard."

Bannon's guest, My Pillow CEO and election denier Mike Lindell, called Alberta's MSNBC appearance "amazing."

"A nation had turned its back on God, and God's given us grace right now for such a time as this for the greatest revival in history," Lindell said.

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Bannon compared Trump to Roman dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.

"Trump's the American Cincinnatus has come back to fight all this," he remarked. "This is why they're trying to throw him in prison."

The War Room host vowed to play the clip of Alberta all day.

"He's saying the problem in the church — think about that — the problem we have in the church is people love the country too much. No, dude, that's not the problem," Bannon insisted. "That's the sick, twisted people that watch MSNBC that must be defeated so they no longer can infest the government of this country."

"They all have to be purged," he added. "Purged. Right. Anybody who would think that was bad has to be purged."

Watch the video below from Real America's Voice.

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President Donald Trump appeared to get his birds mixed up on Tuesday when he made a snide social media post about wind energy.

On Truth Social, Trump posted a picture of a dead bird in a field of wind turbines. "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" the caption reads. It was amplified by the White House and viewed millions of times on X.

However, the bird in the picture isn't a bald eagle, as the president claims. It's an Israeli falcon.

"Unfortunately for Trump’s effort to sow outrage among American patriots at what he proclaimed to be an image of the national bird laid low, closer inspection reveals the photograph does not show a bald eagle and was not taken in the United States," The Guardian reported after Trump posted the image. "The image actually shows a falcon that was killed at a wind farm in Israel eight years ago."

The Guardian also noted there were clues as to what kind of bird was in the picture that Trump seemingly overlooked "in a rush."

"The first is that the bird is missing the distinctive markings of a bald eagle. The second is that the turbine blamed for its death appears to have Hebrew writing on it," according to the report.

Trump has consistently bashed wind energy, and his second administration has rolled back several Biden-era clean energy programs. In December, Trump halted permits on thousands of new wind energy projects, citing reasons stretching from national security risks to the number of birds that die in wind farms each year.


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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is testing the waters with his social media followers on whether Attorney General Pam Bondi should be impeached.

According to Newsweek, Massie "asked his followers on X whether or not they support impeaching Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Epstein files — tens of thousands responded saying they support the idea."

Massie, a libertarian-leaning Republican who has repeatedly enraged President Donald Trump by bucking the party on various issues, was one of the key sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA).

Bondi has been the focus of bipartisan ire for months over her handling of the Epstein sex trafficking case; she initially promised a thorough review of the issue, which was a core campaign promise of Trump's, but kicked off a firestorm in her own party when she concluded by denying the existence of a "client list" she had previously said was on her desk for review.

Congress overwhelmingly passed Massie and Khanna's bill, compelling a broader release of files, although the administration has dragged its feet past the deadline and has yet to release everything legally required of them, potentially putting Bondi in legal jeopardy.

Trump, for his part, has lashed out at Massie, calling him a "lowlife."

Massie, undeterred, has responded, "Imagine celebrating a blessed Christmas with your family… suddenly phones alert everyone to the most powerful man in the world attacking you… for fulfilling his campaign promise to help victims!" and leveraging the attack into a fundraising boost for re-election.

The CIA reportedly has a bone to pick with President Donald Trump after he let slip details of a secret strike on a dock in Venezuela.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that some CIA officials expressed unhappiness that Trump publicly discussed an operation typically meant to be kept secret with no obvious ties to the U.S. government.

Trump this week indicated the U.S. carried out a strike on a dock facility along Venezuela's shoreline as his administration ramps up pressure on alleged drug trafficking in the country.

“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump said during a meeting in Florida with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area and that is no longer around.”

He added: “I know exactly who it was, but I don’t want to say who it was. But you know it was along the shore.”

His comments irked the CIA.

“There was near-universal dismay among former intelligence officials that President Trump chose to disclose what almost certainly was intelligence community covert action,” Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA operations officer, told the Journal.

Polymeropoulos said such operations generally allow for plausible deniability, with the overarching threat that further action could come.

Trump’s decision to use the CIA for the strike could be due in part to resistance from Congress over whether he needs lawmakers' sign-off to conduct military operations against Venezuela, Geoff Ramsey, who follows Venezuela at the Atlantic Council, told the outlet.

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