Steve Bannon: “We want retribution and we're going to get retribution”
Bannon: “They need to learn what populist nationalist power is on the receiving end. I mean investigations, trials, and then incarceration. And I'm just talking about the media.”
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From a December 15, 2024, livestream of the New York Young Republicans Club Annual Gala
STEVE BANNON: Mike Davis will tell you, Matt Gaetz will tell you, the fight is going to start on November 20th. I mean, it's already here now. And we have to be relentless. There has to be — not retribution. President Trump looks at retribution of turning this around, getting the economy growing again, jobs for everybody, to redo the economy of 2018 and 2019. OK? Because President Trump is leader of all the people. He's President of the United States, he's got a kind heart and a big soul.
But that's not us, right? We want retribution and we're going to get retribution. You have to. It's not personal. It's not personal. Think of what they did to this country. Think of what the corporate CEOs did with the DEI programs and think of the de-banking and cut off of credit cards. Think of how they try to destroy every person in this audience. If you stepped up and said, remember we used to have this at other places and we'd have police barricades and the left was out there and the media was goading them on, right? Because you know why? They never in a million years thought we'd be back in power and they need to learn what populist nationalist power is on the receiving end. I mean investigations, trials, and then incarceration. And I'm just talking about the media.
Should the media — Mike, where's the viceroy — ahould the media be included in the vast criminal conspiracy against President Trump and his followers. Should Andrew Weissmann on MSNBC and Rachel Maddow and all of them. We want all your emails, all your text messages, everything you did. You colluded in a conspiracy with Merrick Garland, Matthew Colangelo, Lisa Monaco, and Jack Smith.
This is not me saying it. Bennie Thompson's on TV saying give a committee a pardon. Lock them up and throw away the key.