Steve Bannon Announces Special To Prep ‘4,000 Shock Troops’ To Deconstruct The Government

On his program on Monday, the recently convicted Steve Bannon announced that he was planning to air a one-hour special in order to prepare "4,000 shock troops" on how to deconstruct and otherwise dismantle the federal government. This was in response to the recent report from Axios that a group of Trump loyalists are prepping orders that would allow Trump, if he gets back into the White House, to fire tens of thousands of workers at the DOJ. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses Bannon's disturbing comments and what they mean.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Steve Bannon, as we all know, was found guilty last week on two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress. And he will be sentenced in a few months and could be heading off to prison for an unspecified amount of time. We have to wait till that October sentencing date to find out what exactly's gonna happen to him. But in the meantime, now that the trial's over, uh, Steve Bannon's acting like nothing's happened. He's going on with business as usual and business as usual for Bannon is of course, trying to overthrow the government of the United States, apparently on his show yesterday, Monday, Steve Bannon hosted former Trump advisors, Steve Cortez, where the two of them had this exchange with regard to that massive Axios report from the weekend that showed that Trump advisors, former Trump advisors and Trump allies are trying to get the former president. If he gets back into office to, uh, be able to fire 50,000 DOJ workers and replace them with Trump loyalists.

So Bannon and Cortez had this exchange started with Bannon saying, you have to deconstruct it. You have to take it apart. Brick by brick, Cortez chimes in it gets my deplorable blood going on a Monday morning to hear Jonathan Swan talk about a purge, a purge of the administrative state. Of course, he means that to be an expose, to be a hit on our movement. We took it exactly the opposite and wear it as a badge of honor, to which Bannon said, we're going to have a one hour special on, on the Jonathan Swan Axios article. I want everybody to understand deeply exactly what we're doing here, okay? Because you are going to be part of it and particularly want people stepping forward, say, Hey, I wanna be one of those 4,000 shock troops, or there's going to be lots of other opportunities. This is taking on and defeating and deconstructing the administrative state.

Now the administrative state is essentially the, the government of the United States. Let's, let's be real clear about that. Steve's because that's what's happening here. You want Donald Trump to be able to go into the DOJ, fire up to 50,000 people and replace them with only Trump loyalists and folks. There can only be one reason why Donald Trump would want the DOJ packed full of his political loyalists. And it's because he wants to weaponize that agency and go against his political enemies. He wants prosecutions. He wants everybody to be held accountable and he knows he can't get that. If he only has a few thousand appointees running the DOJ, he needs about 50,000 to go after people on trumped up charges and throw them all in jail. That's what this is

About. That is what Bannon wants. And again, we're not talking about people with careers in law enforcement or careers in the legal field. We're talking about Bannon's shock troops. Those are the people that just listen to Steve Bannon on a daily basis. They know nothing about how politics actually works. They know nothing of the law, but those are the kinds of people that Donald Trump and Steve Bannon of course would put into the DOJ. And they'd go after you they'd go after me. They'd go after anybody who they believe is a political threat or an honest, you know, a, a, a person fighting against him. And those people could in fact, end up, locked up for one reason or another. That's what this is all about.