All posts tagged "Bannon"

Legal expert and Politico writer Ankush Khardori mocked President Donald Trump Saturday for his apparent aspirations to remain in the White House beyond the end of his second term, calling one proposed theory as to how Trump may circumvent the Constitution and remain in office “a ridiculous argument.”

Whether in jest or not, Trump has long mused at the idea of serving more than two terms in the White House, which is prohibited under the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. Recent comments from his former White House chief of staff Steve Bannon, however, suggest the president may be more seriously considering an extended stay in the Oval Office, having declared there to be a “plan” already in place.

One theory floated as to how Trump could serve a third term as president looks to exploit the wording of the 22nd Amendment, which explicitly prohibits an individual from being “elected” to the office of the president more than twice, and not necessarily serving as president. To that end, in theory, some suggest Trump could be elected to vice president, only for his running mate to step down and hand the mantle to Trump....

Former President Donald Trump's longtime associate Steve Bannon has a message for the American people: we will reshape the country in our image.

The segment on Bannon's "War Room" show, highlighted by the Biden campaign account, was discussing Project 2025, the controversial Heritage Foundation playbook to reshape the entire federal government's civil service into an army of far-right loyalists and Christian nationalists with the next Republican administration. Bannon was speaking to Julie Kelly, a right-wing writer who helped promote this week's conspiracy theory that the FBI was plotting to assassinate Trump.

"People realize exactly what's going on here, and we're not going to back off one inch," Bannon told Kelly. "And if you don’t like it then that’s your problem, because we are taking over this country and are going to set a new set of standards, which are the traditional standards, how things have be run."
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Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon chided House Speaker Mike Johnson over his GOP fist pump after notching a stopgap funding measure to stave off a government shutdown.

Johnson had praised himself for delivering a chance for conservative wins to come.

"The passage of today's continuing resolution puts House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative policy victories," he said following the effort to keep cash flowing to some levels of government until Jan. 19 and then others until Feb. 2. ...

The recent House GOP infighting that led to a blow up in the removal of Kevin McCarthy's speakership can reportedly be traced to an ally of the ex-president.

Steve Bannon has been orchestrating several aspects from his "cavelike" podcast studio, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Bannon is a former Trump adviser whose associate was recently sentenced to prison time for a "Build the Wall" scheme they worked on together.

The Times says Bannon "has spent years promoting the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump, railing against coronavirus mandates and what he refers to as a 'criminal invasion of the southern border.'"...