Steve Bannon: “Esper is guilty of treason, he ought to be brought up on treason charges as soon as we take over”
“Esper is guilty of treason, and he'll be tried for treason, and Milley too.”
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From the May 10, 2022, edition of War Room: Pandemic
STEPHEN BANNON (HOST): Okay we just laid out the lie right there, it has nothing to do with his duty, this is, and the great team of the War Room production staff and of course our partners at Real America's Voice in Denver did a magnificent job with the last second cutting of this, what we did is took the Morning Joe – Esper's lies on Morning Joe. Remember Esper's lawyer is Mark Zaid, who is the lawyer for [Alexander] Vindman, and the people that brought up the accusation of the first ridiculous impeachment trial, a left-wing lawyer, right.
Esper is guilty of treason, he ought to be brought up on treason charges as soon as we take over in November. He’s a thoroughly bad guy.
And it's time for Mike Pompeo, time for Dave McCormick up in Pennsylvania to come out and condemn this. OK? It's time for Mike Pompeo to come out – Mike, it's real – it's ok – you go out there and say Trump supporting a national security threat in Oz. Is your buddy, who you got the job for – is Esper a national security threat? It's a coup against the president of the United States.
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Esper is guilty of treason, and he'll be tried for treason, and Milley too.
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This guy was a low-level – a lobbyist before Dave Urban and Mike Pompeo forced him on the president.
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Did the superintendent of West Point either read the book and agreed with it was ok to go to the sacred space of West Point to talk about his treason and his coup?