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During a media appearance outside a Washington courthouse, Steve Bannon complained of a “populist uprising.”
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Bannon claimed the MAGA movement will win an “80 to 100 seat pick-up” in Congress.
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“We will rule for a hundred years after we have won a hundred seats,” Bannon said.
During a media appearance on Wednesday in Washington DC, Trump ally and adviser Steve Bannon falsely claimed that the MAGA movement will take over the US and rule for a hundred years.
bannon addressed the media on June 15 outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse after a three-hour trial in which Bannon sought to drop the charges against him for criminal contempt of Congress. Judge Carl Nichols rejected Bannon’s challenge and gave the green light to the trial of the former Trump adviser. Bannon will be tried on July 18 on two charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to serve on an affidavit or to give reports to the selected House committee investigating the Capitol riots.
On Wednesday, Bannon claimed unsubstantiated that the US will soon experience a “populist uprising” of “Hispanics, African Americans and working-class people” and that MAGA-affiliated candidates will hold government positions at the state and federal levels.
“We’re winning everywhere, we’re getting 55-60% of the Hispanic vote in November, we’re getting 50% of the African-American male vote in November,” Bannon said.
He added that he thought the MAGA movement will win an “80 to 100 seats in the House of Representatives”.
Bannon also made the unfounded claim that MAGA candidates will win victories in the Senate, school boards and state legislatures, and fill the seats for “all secretaries of state.”
“You are witnessing a political realignment like 1932 right now. And we will rule for a hundred years after we win a hundred seats,” Bannon said.
Bannon may have been referring to the 1932 event described in Senate history records as a “political tidal wave,” in which Franklin Roosevelt won the presidency and the Democratic Party won 97 seats on Capitol Hill, beating the Republicans three to one.
Bannon was asked by an off-screen person if he wanted to rule as a one-party government.
“I believe we will destroy the Democratic Party as a national political institution,” Bannon replied, swearing at Republican representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, whom he described as “neoliberal neo-cons.”
Wednesday’s performance isn’t the first time Bannon has suggested the idea of a MAGA takeover of the US government. On a December 2021 episode of his podcast, “War Room: Pandemic,” Bannon discussed with Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz the possibility of an “army of patriots” and “shock troops” taking over the US government.
Over the weekend, Bannon heard on his podcast ranting about the possibility of impeachment against Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Bannon echoed Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election and threatened to impeach “everyone in the DOJ,” including Attorney General Merrick Garland, if Trump were charged.
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