Steve Bannon’s First Show Out of Jail Should Be a Huge Warning

Fresh out of jail on Tuesday, Steve Bannon, the brains behind Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, was already inciting fear and hatred in anticipation of next week’s presidential election.

Bannon reiterated his claim that he was a political prisoner and cautioned that others could experience the same fate during his first public appearance on his War Room podcast following a four-month stay in federal prison.

He declared, “Let me say something: if you’re not ready to be sent to a federal prison as a political prisoner, then you’re not worthy to be in this movement and to step forward and try to save your country.”. They want to put you in jail, and they will do so. You must realize this. You’re not aware of what they stand for if you can’t accept that. “”.

“They keep saying, ‘He’s going to do this, he’s going to do this,’ and they’re ignoring what they’ve done,” Bannon added.

Bannon broke the law by continuously supporting Trump, but he did not explain this in his vague threats of political imprisonment. As part of the congressional investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Bannon had disregarded a federal subpoena. S. . capitol. He had declined to provide documents pertaining to his role in Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and to appear in deposition before the House Committee looking into the riot.

Bannon’s propaganda outlet Breitbart’s former editor Raheem Kassam joined the Trump ally in boasting about a “wide swath of African American men and Hispanic men” who would join the MAGA movement and help bring the former president victory.

Additionally, Bannon responded to the “rhetoric” that labeled MAGA members “fascists” and defended Trump’s “fantastic, that amazing rally at Madison sq\. Garden,” which has been overshadowed by racist remarks made by its speakers, including comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.

According to Bannon, the speakers at the rally represented a “broad cross-section of American entrepreneurs,” naming Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, and Tulsi Gabbard in particular.

Following his release, the 70-year-old said his prison sentence had left him feeling “amazing, and more importantly empowered.”.

Learn more about Bannon’s release from jail.

A comedian at Trump’s hate rally in New York City made a blatantly racist joke about Puerto Rico, and the campaign is still cleaning up the fallout.

Vance said he hadn’t “seen” the joke when questioned about it on Monday, which seems improbable considering how viral the moment was and that he is a vice presidential candidate.

When asked if the string of racist jokes was establishing the proper tone for the campaign just one week before the election, Vance responded, “I’ve heard about the joke; I haven’t actually seen the joke.”.

“As you mentioned, it might be a dumb, racist joke, but it might not be. “I haven’t seen it,” he added. “I won’t comment on the joke’s specifics, but I’m just so over it and believe that we in the United States of America need to stop taking offense at everything. “.”.

It appears that Trump may lose the election as a result of the jokes that comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made during his rally. Using his stage time, Hinchcliffe made offensive remarks about Latino immigrant families, claimed to have carved Halloween watermelons with a Black man, and—most famously—called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”. “.”.

Vance reacted in a foolish and hypocritical way. Although the rest of us need to toughen up, this is the same guy who was extremely offended simply by being called “weird” and spreading false information about Haitian immigrants consuming people’s pets. The “joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” according to Trump campaign spokesperson Daniella Alvarez, but Vance would not even admit that there was anything wrong with the joke. Although it is too early to tell how these remarks will actually affect the election, Vance’s inconsistency will undoubtedly hurt the Trump campaign.

Joe Rogan says that if Kamala Harris will drop everything and approach him, he is still willing to do an interview.

In response to speculation on both sides, the podcast host took to X early on Tuesday morning to address some misunderstandings regarding the reason behind the non-occurrence of his suggested interview with the vice president. To put it briefly, he will only communicate with Harris on his terms.

Just so you know, the Harris campaign has not decided to do the podcast. I would have had to travel to her, and they only wanted to spend an hour together, but they did offer a date for Tuesday. Rogan wrote: “I firmly believe that the studio in Austin is the best place to do it.” He also stated that his “sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being.”. I sincerely hope we can pull it off. “.”.

With just one week until Election Day and a full schedule of gatherings, interviews, and campaign activities, it appears that Harris might not be thinking about Rogan’s largely Republican and independent young men audience. However, it is evident from Rogan’s apathetic defense that he wants to place all the blame on Harris, even though his stubbornness is also to blame.

As the Republican nominee canceled a number of previously planned events to travel to the Austin podcast studio, Donald Trump may have set an impossible standard with his interview for The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan let Trump lie to his millions of viewers about immigration, the economy, and the 2020 election during their three-hour interview. Trump said, “I won that second election so easy.”. “”.

Instead of making any compromises to interview the current vice president and Democratic presidential nominee, Rogan will now interview Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Wednesday morning due to Harris’s tentative cancellation, which leaves Rogan’s schedule completely open. To be on the show, Vance will travel to Austin.

Serious concerns were raised about the extremely racist jokes that Donald Trump’s campaign permitted when they allegedly prevented comedian Tony Hinchcliffe from calling Kamala Harris a “c*nt” onstage during his rally at Madison sq\. Garden.

On Monday, The Bulwark revealed that Trump’s campaign had examined Hinchcliffe’s set, despite the former president’s team claiming they hadn’t examined every one of the comedian’s comments.

According to four senior campaign insiders who spoke to The Bulwark, when Hinchcliffe’s speech was entered into the teleprompter, one particularly offensive joke was noticed.

One campaign insider who participated in conversations regarding Trump’s rally at Madison sq\. Garden claimed, “He had a joke calling Harris a ‘c*nt.'”. Assume it was a warning sign. “”.

When Trump’s staff asked, Hinchcliffe took the joke out of his set. Hinchcliffe’s other extremely offensive jokes, such as comparing Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage,” making fun of Latinos for not using birth control, claiming to have “carved watermelons” with his Black “friends,” and referring to Palestinians as “rock-throwers,” nevertheless, managed to make it onto the set.

Following the rally, Vianca Rodríguez, the Trump campaign’s and the Republican National Committee’s deputy director of Hispanic communications, stated that “they don’t have absolute control” over the remarks made by the rally’s numerous speakers onstage.

Since all of the other offensive punchlines were ad-libbed, the campaign sources told The Bulwark that they had failed to notice them. Even though some of the lines, like Hinchcliffe’s racist comment about a Black man in the audience, seemed like riffs, the comedian could have still planned them.

It is evident that Trump’s campaign exerted some control because they stopped Hinchcliffe from using foul language. And the terrible joke about Puerto Rico that dominated Trump’s entire appearance was something they did permit.

The previous evening, Hinchcliffe reportedly rehearsed that joke at The Stand, a comedy club, where it also didn’t go over very well. During his Saturday night performance, he allegedly stated several times that his jokes would receive a better response “at the rally tomorrow.”. “.”.

Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, said in a statement on Monday that Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico “does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.” The other racist comments were not addressed.

Many derogatory comments were still made about Harris without using the c-word. One speaker was David Rem, a sanitation worker who was described as Trump’s childhood friend (although Newsweek claims that they only met two weeks ago). Rem referred to Harris as the “Antichrist.”. “.”.

The use of the slur does not appear to be entirely opposed by Trump’s campaign. Harris was repeatedly referred to as “the c-word” in a 34-second advertisement released by Elon Musk’s America PAC on Monday.

Donald Trump is prepared to begin stealing.

Trump started casting doubt on Pennsylvania’s election results just a few days into early voting in a Truth Social post late Monday night.

He wrote, “Wow! York County, Pennsylvania, received THOUSANDS of potentially FRAUDULENT Voter Registration Forms and Mail-In Ballot Applications from a third party group,” obscenely misrepresenting a routine process.

The Office of Elections in York County did indeed receive thousands of applications for mail-in ballots and voter registration forms. Nothing extraordinary is taking place. The Voter Registration Project, also known as Everybody Votes, is a nonpartisan organization that dropped off the forms.

York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler told the York Daily Record, “As with all submissions, our staff follows a process for ensuring all voter registrations and mail-in ballot requests are legal.” The county will review the applications and forms to check for any potential fraud. “At this point in time, we must do our research before leveling accusations without supporting evidence. “.”.

In the meantime, Trump propagated false information about neighboring Lancaster County, claiming in the same post that the county had been “caught with 2600 Fake Ballots and Forms, all written by the same person.”. Very awful stuff. “What’s going on in Pennsylvania? Law enforcement needs to get to work as soon as possible! WOW!”.

Trump is once more emphasizing a routine procedure for maintaining election integrity and portraying it as a massive, evil plot by Democrats. In order to spot any warning signs, Lancaster County officials are going through 2,500 last-minute voter registrations. The local election board released a statement stating that law enforcement was notified after concerns “were raised during the staff’s normal process to review and enter applications into [a state database]” after discovering some forms with fictitious names and similar handwriting. Trump claimed that thousands of forged ballots were “all written by the same person,” but there is no proof of this.

Expect more of these extreme exaggerations from Trump and his Republican allies as Election Day approaches, particularly in swing states.

Just one week before Election Day, a prominent Trump supporter who was released from federal prison says he feels “empowered.”.

Following his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, Steve Bannon, a self-described “political prisoner” and former Trump campaign official, was released from a Connecticut Federal Correctional Institution on Tuesday. In 2021, Bannon disregarded a subpoena and failed to provide the requested documents as part of the House January 6 committee’s investigation into the uprising. In 2022, he was convicted.

After serving time, Bannon told Axios that he felt “amazing and more importantly empowered”—scary words from a man too hostile and bigoted for even Trump’s inner circle. The man who has a reputation for fervently endorsing white nationalists and making divisive claims about Muslims, immigrants, and others could inject even more chaos into the already obscene Trump campaign with his conspiracy-filled podcast.

This summer, Trump told reporters that other people have done “far, far bigger things” and that Bannon’s conviction was “absolutely” motivated by politics. After his arrest, Bannon took the role of “political prisoner” very seriously, saying, “I’m proud to do it if it means standing up to tyranny, opposing the corrupt and criminal Garland DOJ, opposing Nancy Pelosi, and opposing Joe Biden.”. “.”.

He allegedly defrauded donors who pledged funds to build the U.S. S. . -Border wall of Mexico. The trial will take place in December. Bannon has entered a not guilty plea.

CNN banned a conservative panelist the same evening he said he hoped another commentator’s “beeper wouldn’t go off” after they showed support for Palestinians.

A conservative political consultant named Ryan Girdusky insulted Zeteo’s Muslim Mehdi Hasan on Monday, sending a panel on CNN’s Newsnight with Abby Phillip into disarray. * Among other advisory groups for Project 2025, the fascist blueprint for a second Trump administration, Girdusky is a member of the American Moment board of advisers.

Hasan made the argument, “If you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop doing things [associated with Nazis],” during the panel’s discussion of the racist comments made by Trump during his rally in New York City on Sunday. “”.

Girdusky retorted, “You’ve been called an antisemite more than anyone else at this table,” alluding to Hasan’s vocal opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Indeed, indeed. By you?” inquired Hasan.

“By me? No, I didn’t call you antisemitic,” Girdusky remarked.

Hasan shrugged and remarked, “I’m used to it because I support the Palestinians.”.

“Yes,” Girdusky said, “but I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”. His remark was a direct allusion to Israel’s attack in Lebanon, which that country claimed only targeted Hezbollah-held beepers but which killed at least 12 people—including two children—and injured 2,800 more.

Hasan replied incredulously, “Did you just say I should die? Did you just say I should be killed?”.

Girdusky made a desperate retreat when Phillip and Hasan challenged him, saying he believed Hasan had declared he was a Hamas supporter and implied that he believes aiding Palestinian civilians is the same as terrorism. But nobody was taking it seriously.

“Are you?” Girdusky inquired.

“No, I don’t support Hamas, of course. Hasan retorted, “Are you a violent, racist individual inciting violence against me?”.

CNN posted a statement on Phillip’s social media following the panel, stating that Girdusky would not be invited back as a guest. The statement declared that “racism and bigotry have no place at CNN or on our air.”.

“We want to encourage meaningful dialogue and debate between individuals who strongly disagree with one another in order to examine significant topics and advance understanding. “”.

How did Girdusky get on the air in the first place, though?

Girdusky is notable for being far right, not just conservative. Posts on Richard Spencer’s X accounts indicate that Girdusky was a former writer for the well-known neo-Nazi. Girdusky also once made fun of Gavin McInnes, the founder of the far-right neofascist group the Proud Boys, for being anti-Islamic.

Girdusky was formerly employed by JD Vance, Trump’s running mate. Prior to that, he founded Project PAC in 1776, which organized against the teaching of “critical race theory” in public schools. At the time, Girdusky had no children.

Being banned did not sit well with Girdusky. If you have accepted funding from Qatar-funded media and falsely label every Republican a Nazi, you can continue to appear on CNN. It seems that making a joke on CNN is a requirement. He posted on X, “I’m happy America can see what CNN stands for.”.

Girdusky had been complaining earlier Monday about the “humor police” on X, who took issue with comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes at Trump’s rally. He obviously disregarded his own cautions because a few hours later, he found himself in hot water for a repulsive “joke” of his own.

* This narrative has been revised.

A hit dog will holler, as Donald Trump’s TruthSocial posts have demonstrated once more.

After Michelle Obama, the former first lady, delivered a harsh critique of his disastrous record two days earlier, the former president took to his personal social media platform on Monday to vent his disgust.

Obama did make some pointed jabs at the former president during his speech on Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She cited Trump’s history of sexual abuse accusations, his “obvious mental decline,” and his former chief of staff John Kelly’s warning that he is “fascist to the core.”. She also expressed her displeasure that some voters are “choosing to ignore Donald Trump’s gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every turn” and warned about the grave danger that Trump poses to American women. “.”.

However, Trump’s feud with Fox News raises the possibility that he didn’t pay attention to the network’s coverage of the rally, which was primarily critical of Obama’s speech. He continued by accusing his most sympathetic media outlet of hiding the polls that show he is winning Michigan “by so much” and airing more pro-Democrat ads than Republican ones. “He isn’t. As Election Day gets closer, expect to see more absurd accusations and meandering Truth Social posts.

Read more about Michelle Obama’s speech here.