Steve Bannon calls for imprisoning Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
Bannon: “Lock Pritzker up. Lock the mayor up. You got to throw down now.”
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From the January 27, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): But go back to what Homan said originally, and I agree with this 100%, if you're a government official or a city official or state official and you're getting in the way of the ICE agents and the federal government to get these criminals, a national security risk, out of our country, that's a crime. Lock Pritzker up. Lock the mayor up. You got to throw down now. This is - folks, you gotta understand, Bove and Homan are as tough as boot leather. That and — I told you Chicago was going to be the place you're going to go and Chicago is emblematic of what's going to happen otherwise, but we pick the fight.
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BEN BERGQUAM (GUEST): First things first, we gotta go after these these governors, mayors, everyone who's running these sanctuary cities and hold them accountable. And to talk about salt in the wound, Steve, Governor Pritzker not only is not allowing these guys in the jail to get these guys, he just announced that they're able to change their names. They're getting driver's licenses and able to change their names so that they can hide more easily from ICE. These guys are traitors. That's what they are. They need to be held — arrested as traitors to this country.
BANNON: I think — I hope and because I know this in the Palisades out in Southern California — you're having a red pill moment where a lot of these progressives now realize what they brought on themselves and how, you know, when you see Bass and Newman, how disastrous, and they're not gonna change, and you're gonna see a lot of MAGA. I hope folks — I know downstate Illinois's MAGA territory — but I hope folks in Chicago see exactly what's going on. People there for your public safety, trying to get the worst of the worst out and being absolutely confronted and thwarted by the mayor, people around the mayor, and the governor, and they're doing it for political reasons. This is why Chicago is so important. You gotta force it here. And, Ben, what you said is so important for the audience. Every tool in the toolbox President Trump's gonna use, every tool in the toolbox.