Steve Bannon appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday night in his first-ever TV interview. The full interview, which Charlie Rose defined as the one in which “Bannon declared war on the GOP“, can be watched, with a full transcript, below (link):
Here is Charlie Rose’s introduction:
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, during his brief tenure in the West Wing and his few months as CEO of President Trump’s campaign, earned many nicknames among his admirers and his ever-expanding list of enemies. He was the “great manipulator,” “Trump’s Svengali,” “the Grim Reaper,” “Propagandist-in-chief.”
He describes himself as a “streetfighter.” And he proved it in this, his first-ever television interview. Bannon is back running Breitbart News — the website where the alt-right and conspiracy theories meet conventional conservatives. The streetfighter, shiv-in-hand came ready to brawl, and not with liberals or Democrats.
… but with the “Republican establishment.” For those pressed on time, courtesy of Axios, here are Bannon’s most notable quotes, starting with his war with the GOP: “The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That’s a brutal fact we have to face.”
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- On ‘the establishment’: “In the 48 hours after we won, there’s a fundamental decision that was made. You might call it the original sin of the administration. We embraced the establishment. I mean, we totally embraced the establishment … Because ya had to staff a government.”
- On his relationship with the president: “I think I’m a street fighter. And by the way, I think that’s why Donald Trump and I get along so well. Donald Trump’s a fighter. Great counter puncher. Great counter puncher. He’s a fighter. I’m going to be his wing man outside for the entire time, to protect [Trump]” and “to make sure his enemies know that there’s no free shot on goal.”
- On Trump’s Charlottesville remarks: “I was the only guy that came out and tried to defend him.”
- On the “Swamp”: “The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That’s a brutal fact we have to face.”
- On Gary Cohn’s critical interview with the Financial Times: “If you don’t like what [Trump’s] doing and you don’t agree with it, you have an obligation to resign.”
- On Republican criticism of Trump’s national security strategy: “That’s the geniuses of the Bush administration. I hold these people in contempt, total and complete contempt … They’re idiots, and they’ve gotten us in this situation, and they question a good man like Donald Trump,” Bannon said, naming Condoleezza Rice, Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell.
- On Economic Nationalism: “”Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system. Right? We go back to that. We look after our own.””
- On the Russia investigation: “It’s a total and complete farce. Russian collusion is a farce.”
- On Trump’s tweets: “He knows he’s speaking directly to the people who put him in office when he uses Twitter … [General Kelly’s] not going to be able to control it either because it’s Donald Trump.”
- On campaign discussions following the Access Hollywood tape’s release: “Trump went around the room and asked people the percentages he thought of still winning and what the recommendation. And Reince started off and Reince said, ‘You have two choices. You either drop out right now, or you lose by the biggest landslide in American political history.’ … And I told him as he went around, I was the last guy to speak, and I said, ‘It’s 100%. You have 100% probability of winning.'”
- On the Catholic Church: “Because unable to really to come to grips with the problems in the church, they need illegal aliens, they need illegal aliens to fill the churches.”
I agree that economic Nationalism is a winning hand but I didn’t watch the 60 minutes interview. Trump has way too many Liberals Progressives surrounding himself. Bannons ideas will probably be pushed to the side .I hope I’m wrong.
Bannon’s right about everything – especially the Catholic Church.
American System of Economics
That’s the key to destroy the financial power of the Bankers and Globalists.
For anyone wanting to know more about it, read “Web of Debt by Ellen Brow”
Bannon can, and is, doing more from outside the White House than he ever could have from inside it.
“We totally embraced the establishment”………..youbetcha.
On a scale from 1 to 10…… fukkin 10.
Bannon is correct about everything, but it’s too little and too late. Whether Trump is Trump or a Trojan Horse for “the establishment”, nothing he does is going to change what is headed our way. The Empire America is in full collapse and anything that he does to try to reverse it is just like handing out life preservers to the passengers on the Titanic. The end result will be the same.
I never expected it to change.
I voted Trump in hopes it could be mitigated enough for us to survive after it arrives in full force. We will either still be here or we will not when it is over.
Whether we survive or not, at least a try is being made. Better to go down fighting than whimpering.
FWIW, there were survivors on the Titanic.
I suppose if Bannon’s time on 60 minutes was able to persuade the average sheeple watching 60 minutes that he may be on to something and not just a loose cannon cray alt-right guy, then he will end up suffering some sort of mysterious death. Perhaps he will choke himself with his own barbell, or maybe just have a heart attack (probably while allegedly watching child porn with a rope tied around his neck or a bag over his head).
I’m afraid Bannon’s dose of truth will not be received by the masses. That is bad for us, but maybe good for Bannon.
Note that Charlie Rose is a member of the Rockefeller CFR, along with Bill Clinton and George Soros. CBS has been a CFR mouthpiece since its inception. Why would they allow Bannon to get on his soapbox in front of a national audience to “declare war”, unless it serves their interests?
He can throw tomatoes at CFR members like Condi Rice, Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell. But other CFR members including Herbert McMaster and Dina Powell are still calling the shots, just like they have in every administration since WW2.
See the lists of members, directors and sponsors in the CFR annual report.