Steve Bannon celebrates “blanket” pardons for January 6 insurrectionists
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From the January 21, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): This is really such a joyous moment and I really, really have to praise President Trump because this was not an easy decision to make, Steve, as you know. There was pushback. We had Republican Senators as late as last —
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Hold on.
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This was brutally hard.
KELLY: Yes, absolutely.
BANNON: People have to understand this It's the Julie Kellys of the world — and his respect for the Tucker Carlsons and the Steve Bannons and the Jack Posobiecs and Charlie Kirks and others that gave a platform to Julie Kelly.
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The pressure against President Trump was incredible, incredible not to do this.
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KELLY: I saw Vice President JD Vance last weekend, he quickly sort of clarified his comments there. I think he became a big supporter of the blanket pardon. So I know my work helped.
BANNON: Hang on. Hold on.
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Don't skate over that. We've got to — because of this audience and other patriots — we love JD, but when he was on Fox and going a little wobbly like Fox wants to — Fox didn't support this at all. Murdochs don't support this. Nobody over there supports this. He got a little wobbly. He got blown up. That was the inflection point, folks, because of this audience and others like you that follow this and follow Julie Kelly and subscribe to her Substack and say: hold on, hang on for a second, yo, the word is blanket pardon. All of them. Not some of them. All of them.
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BANNON: All or none. What did we say? All or none. And yes, you're going to take some heat but you've got to power through this because look at this scum that took a blanket pardon for themselves. They know they're criminals and now we're going to get to the bottom of the fedsurrection.