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‘Chilling audio’: Ex-Trump WH Press Secretary on new Bannon tape

Former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham reacts to audio of Steve Bannon discussing Trump's plan to declare victory in the 2020 election regardless of the outcome, three days before election day. #CNN #News

Loose-Lipped Steve Bannon Suggests Another Facet Of Trump's Central Role In Capitol attack

Evidence presented in Tuesday's January 6th hearing appears to fit a pattern of Steve Bannon talking on his podcast about Donald Trump's plans immediately after Bannon talks with Trump - and another possible indication of Trump's direct role in the attack on the Capitol.

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‘Enraging’: How The Willful Blindness Of ‘Team Normal’ Enabled Trump’s Coup

Chris Hayes: Trump was not shy about the fact that he would never accept an election loss. And just because some people, like Pat Cipollone, lied to themselves and collaborated with this monstrous sociopath who almost ended American democracy, that does not mean that it was a hard thing to see.

So, what does 'Team Unnormal' look like then?  And, what is going on with Meadow's chin? It looks like he was literally stuffed into that Western suit by 'Team Normal'?

Former Mueller prosecutor has major issues with Merrick Garland’s Jan. 6 investigation

Weissmann, in his Times op-ed, had a lot to say about two separate investigations of the January 6, 2021 insurrection: the one conducted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 select committee, and the investigation being conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland. As Weissmann sees it, Garland — in light of all the revelations the committee has presented during its series of hearings — needs to be more aggressive.

In his Times op-ed, Weissmann wrote, “The tenacious work of the Jan. 6 committee has transformed how we think about the Jan. 6 rebellion. It should also transform the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Before the hearings, federal agents and prosecutors were performing a classic ‘bottom up’ criminal investigation of the Jan. 6 rioters, which means prosecuting the lowest-ranking members of a conspiracy, flipping people as it proceeds and following the evidence as high as it goes…. But that is actually the wrong approach for investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. That approach sees the attack on the Capitol as a single event — an isolated riot, separate from other efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election.”

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I think Malcolm is dead on with his analysis!

The Ukrainians Are Going To Win, I'll See You On Victory Over Russia Day Says Malcom Nance

The threat of America faces from the far right is detailed in the new book, ‘They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency,’ by Malcolm Nance, Executive Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project, and who is currently on leave from the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. Malcolm Nance joins Joy Reid on his new book, and how he believes Ukraine will win its war against Russia’s unprovoked aggression.

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/rightist-militias/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/rightist-mass-shootings/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/racist-bullying/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/military-subverters/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/police-rightist-bias/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/voter-suppression/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/karenism-(a-k-a-ethnic-profiling-by-civilians)/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/right-left-(judeo-)christian-divergence/
Related:   https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/duginism/
               

The urge to return to a place of "normalcy"--to forget about Trump and his followers--though emotionally understandable, is the worst possible response we can have to potential future dangers. — Malcolm Nance

The Trump insurgency in the United States is well underway! - Nance

This insurgency has very long legs and we've only seen the start of it... - Nance

Reid does not understand that rightists are Judeo-Westerners through and through though...

Perhaps 90sRF is absolutely correct, either real Americans exterminate them first, or they win!?

We should take Bannon's threats seriously. Do you think he would merely put us in prison for 1-2 years if he captured us? Then why should we merely put him in prison for 1-2 years (following which he will get right back to doing the same thing again)? The correct response is to execute him ASAP.

They still don't understand that the only correct way to deal with Bannon is to execute him:

Steve Bannon warns Jan. 6 committee staffers 'there's going to be a real committee,' hours after contempt conviction
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Bannon warned committee staffers that Republicans would have their own committee if they returned to power.

"We have to have a real January 6 committee, including to get to the staffers now and see about the lies and misrepresentations they put on the national television to defame people," Bannon said.

"I would tell the  Jan. 6 staff right now: preserve your documents because there's going to be a real committee, and this is going to be backed by Republican grassroots voters to say we want to get to the bottom of this for the good of the nation."

The Trump ally said that Republicans need to take offensive action if they take back the House in the midterm elections.

"We have to really govern, and I mean govern on offense. Every committee in the House needs to be an oversight committee. We have to go after the Biden administration, which is illegitimate," Bannon said.

Bannon unrepentant after Congress contempt conviction: ‘​​I am not backing off 1 inch’
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The verdict was “a win for the MAGA Posse,” surmised former Trump official and Bannon associate Boris Epshteyn, arguing on Bannon’s War Room podcast that the proceedings against Bannon were evidence of judicial corruption.
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By 5 p.m. on Friday, Bannon was back at the microphone, predicting a “massive landslide” for the Republican Party — and Donald Trump — in 2024. “The key is victory,” he said. “That’s all we have to focus on.”
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“If I go to jail, I go to jail,” Bannon said. “This is an ideological war, and we cannot lose,” he added, reiterating his support for Trump

CPAC should now stand for "Coup Political Action Conference":

Bannon, now the host of the “War Room” podcast, brought his bellicose message to CPAC, appearing as the headline speaker at the convention’s Friday night ball. “We are at war,” Bannon told the MAGA faithful. “We are in a political and ideological war.” Repeating the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, Bannon insisted that Joe Biden is an “illegitimate imposter.” Calling on Republicans to send “shock troops” to Washington, Bannon promised the crowd they had an opportunity to “shatter the Democratic party as a national political institution.” He alleged that the party has been overrun by “radical, cultural Marxists” and “groomers” who “want to destroy the Republic.” Bannon insisted the GOP must pursue absolute victory over “power-mad and lawless” Democrats, asserting: “There can be no half measures anymore.”
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Posobiec took his turn in the spotlight to promote the New Right (effectively the latest rebranding of the hateful “alt-right”). And he, too, painted the coming conflicts of the culture war in militaristic terms: “Are you ready for new ideas to actually take the fight to the front lines,” he asked, “because that’s where we live and we’re not stopping.”
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Kari Lake, the GOP nominee for governor in Arizona, directly threatened confrontation with the federal government over immigration at the Southern border should she win office in November.

“We have an invasion at the border,” Lake insisted, referring to undocumented immigrants and refugees. Lake then vowed that, after being sworn in, she would mount a military response, even lacking approval from the Biden administration: “As soon as my hand comes off the Bible, we’re going to send the Arizona National Guard troops to the border,” Lake said. Insisting on the “sovereignty” of the states, she insisted: “We will take the fight to the federal government. We’re not going to be victims of what they’re doing to us.”
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While damning the Democrats in terms that seemed to encourage political violence, CPAC speakers consistently minimized the actual political violence perpetrated by the MAGA movement on Jan. 6. Avowed “Christian nationalist” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), for example, slammed Liz Cheney — chair of the committee investigating the Capitol insurrection — for pushing a “lie about Jan. 6.”
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Driving home this down-is-up worldview of justice — insisting that participants in an attempted coup directed by former President Trump are being mistreated by the justice system that’s attempting to hold them to account — the CPAC convention hall also presented a novel performance art installation.

It featured a caged man in an orange jumpsuit — meant to symbolize the Jan. 6 defendants — weeping over the injustice of his incarceration while wearing a MAGA hat. Convention attendees could don headphones to listen to testimonials from actual alleged rioters. This already-surreal scene got turned up to 11 in the late afternoon, when Greene spotted the installation and entered the jail cell to comfort and pray with the actor portraying the weeping man.