With glee, former Trump campaign chairman Steve Bannon confirmed on Wednesday that he helped former President Trump plan the Jan. 6 insurrection as part of an effort to “kill the Biden presidency in the crib.”
The Trump adviser made the comments on a Wednesday episode of his War Room: Pandemic, confirming reporting in Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book Peril.
Bannon played a clip on his podcast of the two Washington Post reporters discussing the book on MSNBC, in which Costa said that in the days leading up to the insurrection, Bannon “privately told President Trump to have a reckoning on January 6th.”
“And he said to the president, it’s time to kill the Biden presidency in the crib,” Costa added.
Bannon then cut the clip, and said on the podcast: “Yeah, because it’s about legitimacy.”
“Let’s look at the Economist poll, not Revolver, not The War Room – 42 percent of the American people think that Biden did not win the presidency legitimately,” he added.
Bannon’s view, garbled through his own puffery and bizarre manner of speaking, also appears to confirm the book’s reporting that he told Trump that the day should be a “reckoning.” Unsurprisingly, Bannon’s remarks manage to both posit the insurrection as a legitimate revolt while also placing himself at the center of events.
It’s another piece of evidence that further ties Trump to violence at the Capitol, which occurred as Trump gave a rally repeating the Big Lie and telling his audience to go “fight” as members of Congress formalized Biden’s win.
The Justice Department continues to bring charges against individual participants in the Capitol insurrection. Federal prosecutors have yet to charge anyone with the crime of insurrection, however, and they also have yet to bring charges relating to those higher up who organized and ordered the attack.
Bannon suggested on the podcast that the insurrection could have had a dual impact: potentially stopping the electoral count, but also hardening the views of the supposed “42 percent” who bought into the Big Lie on some level.
The Trump adviser then brought it back to the politics of the moment.
“It killed itself,” Bannon said. “That’s why this debt ceiling fight, the CR fight is so important. Thats’ why getting – exposing to the world the Mogadishu situation in Del Rio, Texas – particularly for all the hardworking blue-collar Hispanics in this country, American citizens.”
He went on to suggest that the goal is further chipping away at the Biden administration’s legitimacy in the eyes of the public.
“Just look at what this illegitimate regime is doing,” he added. “It killed itself. OK? But we told you from the very beginning, just expose it, just expose it, never back down, never give up and this thing will implode.”
These types jest can’t keep their mouf shut. Roger Stone must be biting his cheeks with rage: “That asshole, he wasn’t even there. This was my plot! Mine!”
If you sit back and look at the body of political work done by Bannon…none of it successful or amounting to shit…what’s the big rip about him? Jan 6 was a disaster for Trump as was Bannon’s council while he was on the Trump team. I can’t see why anyone…even the dumb asses in Trump world would have shit to do with this fat slob.
A self-confessed, conscious, wide-ranging active and explicit plot to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States. It all becomes clearer by the day. Maybe, er, the government of the United States ought to do something in response?
Instinct for self-preservation, anyone?
Isn’t this admission grounds for his arrest?
Well, it’s certainly putting us much closer to finding out the full details of the plot involving Roger, Flynn, 9/11NounVerb and trump…
There were meetings. We know this. Just need the full content, this is one more drip along the way.