Also his family
I don’t know how many listeners Steve Bannon has but I do know that all the top luminaries of the Republican Party appear on his podcast. In that respect he’s picked up where Rush Limbaugh left off as an important megaphone for the GOP to speak to its base. (Limbaugh single-handedly poisoned the discourse but I don’t recall him literally making threats against public figures. I may be wrong about that though.) Therefore, despite the fact that he’s an incredible scumbag, it’s important to keep up with what he’s on about.
We know that he ginned up the flock before January 6th and was in on whatever planning went into the violence. And almost immediately afterwards he was exhorting his audience to start running for local election offices and harassing the existing officials to ensure they can cannot lose.
Here he is threatening Fauci:
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has issued a threat to Anthony Fauci, saying the president’s chief medical adviser and his entire family are going to “suffer” after the midterm elections next month.
“On 8 November, when we destroy the Democratic party as a national political institution and really end the regime, the hunted become the hunters. The whole Fauci family is going to be welcome to the investigations. The entire family,” Mr Bannon said on his War Room podcast on Sunday.
A clip of his podcast was shared on Twitter by attorney and analyst Ron Filipkowski.
“Remember, War Room was taken off Twitter because of comments I made about, wait for it, [FBI director] Christopher Wray and Anthony Fauci that their day was coming… they took the War Room account off Twitter. Paybacks across the board on all that, a big move,” Mr Bannon said.
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This is not the first time Mr Bannon has lashed out at Dr Fauci.
The director of the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, who is set to step down soon, had faced a slew of attacks from Mr Bannon and several other right-wing commentators during the Covid pandemic.
In November 2020, Mr Bannon said a second term for Donald Trump should start by displaying the severed heads of Dr Fauci and Mr Wray on the White House “as a warning”.
“Now I actually want to go a step farther, but I realise the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man,” Mr Bannon had said. “I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the programme or you’re gone – time to stop playing games.”
Dr Fauci has had a security detail since April 2020 amid threats from supporters of Mr Trump and far-right groups that have opposed Covid public health measures.
This is so sick I don’t know what to say about it. Bannon got a slap on the wrist for defying a congressional subpoena and nothing will be done about him publicly threatening a health official and his family because well … we are apparently just prisoners of these fascist monsters and it’s no big deal.
This man hosts the top officials of the GOP. Here’s Ronna McDaniel, chair of the RNC. They are endorsing his toxic swill:
Violent threats from major right wing figures is just a normal part of life now. Gee, I wonder where that might lead?