Bannon Rails Against Flake, Romney At Rally For Roy Moore

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a rally for U.S. Senate hopeful Roy Moore, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Fairhope Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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At a rally for GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on Tuesday night, former White House adviser Steve Bannon singled out Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Mitt Romney in a rant about the Republican establishment.

He mocked Flake for donating to Moore’s Democratic opponent in the race, Doug Jones.

“Let’s talk about Jeff Flake — did he sign a check today, $100, to Jones, right? What did he say, ‘Put country ahead of party?’ Come on brother, if you’re gonna write a check, write a check. Don’t give the man $100,” Bannon told the crowd.

“Flake has hated Donald Trump from day one, Flake has hated this movement since day one. He wrote a book, the anti-populist, the anti-economic nationalist book, trashed all the deplorables, trashed all the silent majority, trashed everyone associated with this movement,” Bannon continued.

He also went after Romney over the former presidential candidate’s Monday tweet that backing Moore is not worth the GOP losing its “honor” and “integrity.” Bannon took a dig at Romney for not serving in the Vietnam War while noting that Moore did.

“You hid behind your religion. You went to France to be a missionary while guys were dying in rice paddies in Vietnam. Do not talk to me about honor and integrity,” Bannon said.

Watch parts of Bannon’s speech via NBC News:

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  1. I thought they didn’t like outsiders in Alabama. We are told again and again that Dems can’t bring in Obama or Biden or Warren because they don’t like outsider’s down there. Isn’t Bannon an outsider? The right is so filled with liars and unbelievable hypocrites. What scum these Rs are. Low-life scum. Low-life racist homophobic pedophilic scum.

  2. It bears repeating, Bannon’s scam lays bare. There’s no populism. There are no jobs coming back or renewed greatness. His plutocratic agenda is no different from Flakes’s, except for the cult allegiance to the pro-NAZI, religious hypocrite, treacherous, sexual harasser, crook.

  3. “You hid behind your religion. You went to France to be a missionary while guys were dying in rice paddies in Vietnam. Do not talk to me about honor and integrity,” Bannon said.

    Donald: “Don’t mention the War !”

  4. I hate Bannon, and hope that the Mercer-funded would-be Goebbels suffers a miserable fate, but he’s right about one thing: Flake’s $100 is more than a day late and a dollar short. Flake clutches pearls and then votes for the latest Republican outrage every damn time.

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