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Steve Bannon calls defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth “kind of a madman but hey, you need that”
Bannon also gushed over Matt Gaetz's attorney general nomination: “He hits like a blowtorch”
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From the November 13, 2024, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Matt Gaetz is the fiercest of the fierce warriors. He is the firebrand of firebrands. He – Matt Gaetz singlehandedly conceived of, in this very building the Breitbart embassy, conceived of the exact strategy and tactics and execution to take down a sitting speaker – first off, to hog tie a sitting speaker of the House for the first time ever and to do it in January of ‘23 with McCarthy and then to take him out nine months later after he had lied to everybody. That’s the kind of individual that Matt Gaetz is – brilliant, determined, focused, relentless.
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He hits like a blowtorch but he’s got a brain – an ability to think on his feet and speak on his feet, that’s very rare.
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He’s going to hit the Department of Justice with a blowtorch, and that blowtorch is a guy named Matt Gaetz.
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You have some hammers. Yeah, and Pete Hegseth’s never run a big organization and that’s the most complicated, you’ve got to put some people around Pete, there’s no doubt about that – Pete will want that, he’ll need that. He’ll be – a lot of good people– you can do that. But Pete’s a leader. He’s kind of a madman but hey you need that. In this situation you need that.