
Episode 4411: Criminality Of Zuckerberg And META; Trump Meets With Bukele ...
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Peter Navarro
World cheats us. They've been cheating us for decades. They cheat us with tariffs, higher tariffs, but more importantly, they cheat us with the so called non tariff barriers. It's the VAT taxes, the dumping, the currency manipulation, the technical barriers that keep our autos out of Japan, the agricultural barriers that keep our pork out of Australia or Europe. They're doing that to the tune of $1.2 trillion of wealth a year that we transfer now abroad and $18 trillion of wealth since we started running deficits. You know how much $18 trillion of America that could buy? So that's, that's the problem we're grappling with. So we, we, we have a strategy here where the President says we're going to charge them what they charge us. And the analytical issue is it's easy to calculate the tariff differential, but the non tariff barriers are so much higher. So that's what we said, knowing full well, knowing full well that a lot of countries would come right to us and want to bargain. We've got 90 deals in 90 days possibly pending here and it was par for the course, actually. It was a birdie for President Trump to do exactly what he did, which was pause for 90 days. And we're going to get this done for the American people.
Steve Bannon
I think that right now we are.
Stephen Miller
At a decision making point and very close to recession.
Steve Bannon
And I'm worried about something worse than a recession if this isn't handled well.
Stephen Miller
A recession is two negative quarters of GDP and whether it goes slightly there.
Steve Bannon
We always have those things. We have something that's much more profound. We have a breaking down of the monetary order.
Stephen Miller
We are going to change the monetary order because we cannot spend the amounts of money.
Steve Bannon
So we have that problem.
Stephen Miller
And when we talk about the dollar.
Steve Bannon
And we talk about tariffs, we have that.
Stephen Miller
We are having profound changes in our domestic order. How ruling is existing and we're having profound changes in the world order. Such times are very much like the 1930s. I've studied history and this repeats over and over again. So if you take tariffs, if you take debt, if you take the rising power, challenging existing power, if you take.
Steve Bannon
Those factors and look at the factors.
Stephen Miller
That those changes in the orders, the.
Steve Bannon
Systems are very, very disruptive. How that's handled could produce something that is much worse than a recession.
Peter Navarro
We had really good news on the inflation front. Both the producer price index, which is wholesale prices, consumer price index had the lowest print since fall of 2023. Really good news and nobody expected that. And the reason why that kind of Thing's happening is because the Trump policies on other fronts, oil's down to $61 a barrel. Okay. Other thing, and this is like should have been in that little package you had at the beginning. The Congress passed the resolution, the budget resolution which lays the groundwork for having the biggest, broadest tax cut in American history before August. Now what does that mean? What does it mean for both recession and inflation? It means that we're going to have a debt neutral tax cut financed by tariff revenues that's going to stimulate growth. It could be worth as much of a point and a half in terms of GDP growth. At the same time it's deflationary, not inflationary. It's unlike the Biden fiscal measures which were just pure debt driven. So there's really good news here. And I predicted 50,000 on the Dow, predicted a broad based S and P rally. I don't know if you know this person, but it was seven A stocks that pulled up the S&P 500 during the Biden years. That's not growing.
Jason Greer
Talk a little bit about the semiconductor tariff that you posted on Social today.
Steve Bannon
What is the timeline for that?
Jason Greer
And I believe it's Jason Greer said today that those will not be negotiable once those tariffs are in place. They're non negotiable. Is that right?
Stephen Miller
But the tariffs will be in place in the not distant future because as you know, like we did with steel, like we did with automobiles, like we did with aluminum, which are now fully on, we'll be doing that with semiconductors, with chips and numerous other things. And that will take place in the.
Jason Greer
Very near future and all the things.
Stephen Miller
And what we did is we want to uncomplicate it from a lot of companies because. Because that's really where it should be ideally. And we wanted to uncomplicate it from a lot of other companies because we want to make our chips and semiconductors and other things in our country. And I will tell you another one is pharmaceuticals, drugs and pharmaceuticals. We want to make our drugs in this country and by placing a tariff on the companies that are not in this country, they're going to move into our country and we're going to have our drugs made in the United States so that in case of war, in case of whatever, we're not relying on China and various other countries to supply us with drugs, which is not a good idea. And it'll happen very fast. It'll all happen very fast.
Jason Greer
You know what rate the semiconductors can.
Stephen Miller
I'm going to be announcing it over the next week.
Christina Pushaw
Well, as President Trump has said, he's dispatched his team, Scott Besant, Howard Lutnick, Jameson Greer, to have conversations with these countries and to explain to them their egregious trade abuses, how they've manipulated their currencies, how they have illegally subsidized their industries and how they balloon the trade deficit. And that's going to lead to a bilateral process with each and every one of these countries. And I'm not going to prejudge that result. But the 90 day pause before the tariff rates snap back gives us an opportunity to have that conversation with each of these countries and to deal with these long running severe and systemic abuses while at the same time and very importantly focusing all of our attention and the attention of the entire international community on how China has distorted the entire global trading system through decades of intellectual property theft, trademark theft, copyright theft, industrial espionage, currency manipulation, illegal subsidization of critical industries, targeted dumping to destroy core manufacturing capacity in other countries so that they cannot protect and defend themselves in a time of national emergency. These are state led policies from China that require redress. And the only scandal is that it took so long for us to finally have a president and Donald Trump who will protect and defend America from these abuses while every other president, Democrat and Republican, allowed China to plunder us to a degree that was so savage and so total it honestly eclipses the imagination. Have you gotten calls from any of your former counterparts that are either allies.
Steve Bannon
Or enemies or others trying to understand what's going on?
Christina Pushaw
And I'm curious if you have what you tell them.
Peter Navarro
Well, I have had a few meetings and the truth is I honestly don't know what to tell them because these are huge. I've said self inflicted wound. To me, President Trump is taking his sledgehammer. Not only that he's pounding our allies with this, but he's pounding the US Economy with this sledgehammer. And I don't understand the rationale for the tariffs. Most economists would say if you're, if what you're trying to do is to reduce the trade deficit, imposing tariffs is not going to be successful and is not the way to go about doing that. The best approach there would be greater fiscal discipline which we're not likely to see and perhaps it's to bring back American manufacturing. But I really think that's a, that's a pipe dream and not something that is likely to be accomplished. And we could even raise questions about whether or not in a broad based way that's a desirable goal. And it's really hard to predict where this is going. The escalation with China could have very significant global implications.
Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. Putin's not got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
Stephen Miller
It's going to happen.
Christina Pushaw
And where do people like that go to share the big L MAGA media I wish in my soul, I wish.
Steve Bannon
That any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Stephen Miller
War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Steve Bannon
It's Monday, the 14th of April, year of our Lord 2025. There are decades in which nothing happens, and then there are weeks in which decades happen. I think we're in another one of those weeks following last week and the week before. Ray Dalio kind of lays it out there. It is about the global monetary order that is the roiling in. This is two things. Massive overspending by the federal government, these massive deficits that we have to continue to finance, plus the trade. The international global trading system, which President Trump, as Stephen Miller and Dr. Peter Navarro so eloquently lay out, is about a rigged system that the elites in this country have basically sold out the nation to the Chinese Communist Party. And that has to be redone. And it's going to be redone. And people are not going to back off this. This is more. And if you want to hear the running dogs for the sociopathic overlords on Wall street, just, just go to. You just have to cut on mainstream media, msnbc, read the New York Times, see the Washington Post, see CNN about tariffs. Oh, they're going to raise prices, raise prices, raise prices. Never talk about the hollowing out of this country. Let's go to do I have Caroline Wren, who's broken a lot of news on this in the last 10 days from her White Lotus tour of Southeast Asia, is now in Dubai. Caroline, breaking across the wire as we come. As you predicted, Xi is now in Southeast Asia. His first stop is Vietnam. It should not be lost on people. The very first call that President Trump took and set up a meeting with Scott Besant was, wait for it. Vietnam. She's in Vietnam. It just came across the wire. I think Walter Bloomberg, that Twitter feed said they are in the process of signing 45 agreements, arrangements. We know the Vietnamese want to do a deal with the United States. They're the very first one to call. What's your assessment?
Caroline Wren
Sure. Yeah, we. I've been tracking this now for a couple of weeks. President Xi in China seem to be going all in on a regional strategy here. And he's President Xi. They're going all in on Southeast Asia. And today, in one of the public speeches he gave, he called on Southeast Asian countries and specifically their Vietnam to join him in resisting against President Trump's, quote, unilateralism and protectionism. And this is as President Xi is starting as what is a propaganda tour to attempt to present Beijing and the CCP as a more reliable ally and trading partner than the United States. And the reality is that these countries, they have to. I mean, President Xi is coming. They're your largest neighbor. They're a very scary neighbor, like Vietnam. And he goes off next to Malaysia and then to Cambodia. They cannot say no. What they're saying privately, and I've been in all of these countries over the last two weeks, is, please, please, President Trump and the United States come in, save us, help us. We want to deal with the United States. We do not want to deal with China, but we have to be mindful and aware of the reality of these countries and what happens with this. And the strategy here, I think, is that China is trying to insulate itself against Trump's tariffs, and their best strategy to do that is with the neighbors in Southeast Asia. And that's because Southeast Asia has become China's largest trading partner at 17% of their exports, versus only 14% to the United States. And so I think China sees this as critical to shore up trade relations with Southeast Asia. And then that also is because they use these Southeast Asia countries to escape Trump's tariffs. They manufacture these products in China, then they send them to get 100% of Vietnam or made in Cambodia stamp. Then those products come to the United States. And so that is what Trump. That's why, you know, Cambodia was. Got a 49% tariff. Vietnam got 46%. It was high because China is using them as pawns. And so now we have to reaffirm our, you know, our interest in the region.
Steve Bannon
The same thing. The same thing is with Mexico. Same thing you do in Mexico. That's why it's much more than $500 billion, $600 billion. Hang on for one second. The East Asian countries. President Trump already laid out the top five in Besant, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and India, they've already had a coup. The Chinese Communist Party have led a coup with our allies in South Korea to take out the conservative, the pro Trump. Taiwan is under, you know, military exercises threatening an invasion. Vietnam, they're there today trying to crush Vietnam. Japan, they've infiltrated Japan so badly that the Japanese reach out to us for help and to say we're your ally. But the CCP is all over us. And of course we know Modi standing tall and India says he's going to do a deal with the United States today, El Salvador, because also the CCP is trying to flood and invade not just the Caribbean, but Central America. This is why Hegseth went to Panama. And today El Salvador comes to the White House. We got Frank Gaffney, we got Mike Rogers just announced he's running for the Senate. Caroline Wren's going to stick around. We're going to go to the White House live next. Then back at 11 o'clock when the President of El Salvador shows up. The Supreme Court's got something to say about President Trump being commander in chief of the United States military in a time of war. Short commercial break Johnny Khan's gonna Take us out. It is World War 3, the early years this morning in the war room. You don't go out and buy a life jacket when the boat is already sinking and you don't buy gold when the economy has already collapsed. Clearly others are heeding this advice as gold hit an all time high the first part of 2025 multiple times. It's not too late for you. The company I trust to help you diversify into physical gold is Birch Gold, the company I buy my gold from. 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Stephen Miller
Okay.
Steve Bannon
The, let me get, okay, right there. That's a live shot of the, of the, the White House, of course, this big ruling last night. Let me just get my glass on right there. There's the honor guard. They'll be coming out. The president of El Salvador will be with the president running a few minutes late. We're supposed to be here at 11. We do know that Brian Glenn, our own Brian Glenn, I think is now going to be in the press pool, which is always great. Brian will definitely get a question in, I think what's going to happen right now, especially 11 o'clock. But the president of El Salvador will come. President will meet him traditionally on the West Wing at that entrance. They'll go in, they're going to have a bilat for about 30 minutes and then supposed to have lunch. There's the honor guard right now. Looks like getting in place. I believe they're going to do a press avail, either in the Oval Office or they're going to have lunch in the Cabinet Room, which is right off the, right off the Oval Office. He's going to have lunch and maybe he brings the cameras in then at some time, maybe not during our show, but hopefully, but maybe not maybe later in Charlie's or Jack or not Jack's, maybe in Charlie's. There will be a press avail and obviously this is going to be very important given the issue on the unitary executive or if you want to call it Article 2 powers, particularly about being commander in chief. The Supreme Court has weighed in over the weekend and wants certain people to be returned. President Trump, I think, is saying right now I'm not so sure they're complying with that immediately. I think there's up in the air and some discussion of that that'll maybe come up today. Stephen Miller gave a press avail this morning that he went, you know, first order of magnitude off. Look at that beautiful shot right there of the honor guard at the White House from our military services. See they come down, they're coming down from the gate now actually to the West Wing and of course, the various service members peel off with the, with the state flags right there. Incredible. Very beautiful. Running about 30 minutes late so far. But it was scheduled for the morning which was and the lunch was scheduled 11:30, which is very unusual for President Trump Things don't, doesn't really not having lunch at 11:30 in the morning is not his deal. So I think this thing will be bumped up a little bit. Only other activity at the White House today, public activity is going to be the Ohio State Buckeyes are going to come the team and President Trump is going to spend time with them today. I want to go to so we got so much, not just breaking news, but important things that happen. Number one, obviously not just tariffs and trade, but this is really focus and is much more of a bigger involvement in a really engagement with the Chinese Communist Party. This war they've been running for us, we're going to stay split screen on that. Perfect. Great. Thank you, Denver. The as soon as the president's vehicle comes through the gate, we will mention that, like I said, our reporter Brian Glenn is not there. He's actually in he was not supposed to be in the press pool day, but he is going to join it and Brian will probably get a question. And so all good things happening on War Room and Real America's Voice this morning on a Monday, really engaged in this war. I'm going to come, I'm going to get into that in a minute. The situation with Cash and with Pam Bondi. Yes, it's a huge concern. We actually have another video that Elizabeth over at Telegram has pulled that I want to put up a finton again talking about the FBI. Tom Fenton's idea of the FBI and mine are exactly aligned. I'm not sure you can reform the FBI. I don't know. You should reform the FBI. Certainly I would not be putting up stuff on Instagram every couple of days about, hey, we're leading a new FBI and showing guys jumping out of planes and all that. I'm just not buying that it's not a new FBI. You've put some good people on. I mean, hell, you got Cash and Dan Bongino. You couldn't have two better guys than that at the top of it. But I think that they're only, maybe the general counsel are the only real outsiders that are over there. I mean, it's still the FBI. Maybe you're promoting some better people inside, but it's a systemic problem over there. It's not a personnel, not simply a personnel problem. It's what's happened to that institution over many decades and it's much too politicized today. And I have been a believer you have to bifurcate the law enforcement side of it from the counterintelligence, intelligence, counterterrorism part of it. You have to break that up right away. And I think the FBI ought to be much smaller. In fact, I'm not so sure. You couldn't take the law enforcement part and somehow with the Justice Department, work out something with the US attorneys that it was more tightly worked with the US attorneys at that level throughout the country and maybe with Main justice, and then take the counterterrorism piece. What I'm saying is essentially break up and shut down the FBI, which I've been a proponent of. I would also take. I would not give the building. I would not put it up for sale. I would not give the building and let it become a museum for the deep state. I would. I think that building's got an incredibly negative vibe about it. And I'm a huge believer in, you know, what hangs around buildings and things that go on in buildings stay there. I would actually take the building apart. First off, it's brutalist architecture. It's one of the ugliest buildings in Washington, DC. And Washington DC's got a couple of three very ugly buildings that were done on purpose, not randomly. I think the FBI's headquarters got to be taken apart. And I would salt the earth around it. And I would just put a plaque there to say, I would let that real estate. I mean, look at 36 trillion in debt. We want to save every penny, but, you know, selling that space or putting another federal building up there, we're not going to miss it that badly. And I think it's very important symbolically, to just put a plaque there and say, you know, at a point in time, a free people rose up against this and took this down. It's like Bastille Day. That'll be like the Bastille, the prison in Paris. Very symbolic. And I totally disagree with this thing of the FBI that, oh, we can have some pictures jumping out of planes, we got a new FBI. You don't. And I honestly don't think today that the people that supported President Trump and got folks in there, as they told Tom on Saturday, when Tom had really dropped the lawsuit, is that. Or put the lawsuit in progress against the DOJ, you know, arresting the top 10, the 10 most wanted, hey, that's important. But it's that that is not fundamental to what we need to do. We got a period of time, we got to get this done, and Congress is going to fight you, like, all get out. So you have to confront it, and you have to get the congressmen that are on your side to be on your side. You have to Take this one on. This is not going to be easy. The FBI has the FBI and the CIA. If you talk about deep state, they're everywhere in the system. And the FBI is kind of the reign of terror. They're kind of the secret police. They're kind of gestapo. We're going to get the FBI on you, you know, and I'm not doing this personally because I don't have anything of vengeance or revenge. Just not. I'm not the way I'm built. However, I know the power of this and it can't. Because if we don't take this apart in President Trump's term, if it doesn't get done, we're going to regret that. This nation will regret it because you're leaving something in place that is not good. It's way off its original mission. And if you want to have some sort of law enforcement part, federal law enforcement, which I think that even has to be thought through, right? And a lot of these, lot of these RICO laws, like I said on Bill Maher the other night about prison, one of the problems of prison, one of the reasons it's so dangerous is these kind of RICO charges, these conspiracy charges against these young men on drugs. I'm not saying they didn't do anything wrong, but I'm saying the sentences these judges give them of 15, 20, 25 years is one of the reasons that prisons get so, so violent. And that all part of that all comes from the FBI. So I think it really needs a very deep rethink. Now. The Justice Department, Pam, is doing an incredible thing on some things. What they're doing, like on antitrust, it's extraordinary. Gail Slater and the team over there is in her deputy have just done amazing work. What's happened to the FTC is amazing. What's happened to the FCC is amazing. These are true Trump MAGA people that are looking to basically are worried about the concentration of power. They call this group neobrandeisians or brandisians about the concentration of power. Are we. I'm have to do my own play by play because Brian Glenn is both inside the. I can do this. Just got it. Okay. There we go. How's that? Beautiful pageantry right there. Isn't it great? President Trump's White House activity here we come right now. I think we're about to go. This is going to be very important today. The press meeting with the president of El Salvador who has done heroic work in turning that country around. Of course, they call him a dictator. So all the media today is all obsessed about the two dictators meeting, that would be President Trump and the President of El Salvador. What is quite interesting is the obsession of the media on this topic. That and there, and look, I think it's a 9010 polling project that the American people want these criminal gangs out of here, they want these terrorist gangs out of here, they want them out of the country and they want them in prisons out of the country. And yet the Democrats, all they're doing all day long is arguing for the rights of these terrorists, the rights of these criminal groups. And they're all over President Trump. But with everything going on in China, with everything going on throughout the world, on this great war with the Chinese, and you had Ray Dalio say, hey, he's concerned this is going to upset the very social, the very monetary order that we have. And I think that that's very true, that this monetary order predicated upon the dollar, a dollar based system. And it's not about trade, it's not about reorganizing the global trading system. That has to happen. Why? Because the United States, if you look at everywhere around the world, we have commercial relationships, we had trade deals, we're upside down everywhere. What did Mike Rogers just say? It was very powerful. You look at the map back at the turn of the century, in the year 2000, before the full integration, Clinton had gotten China into the World Trade Organization and had gotten, and had gotten most favored nation. But it really started to kick in. So you go back to the year 2000. This is after the Clintons were taking bags of cash from the Chinese generals coming to the West Wing. If you looked at the map we had, you're having surpluses all over the place. And the Chinese are very small, small deficit. Now you look and the map's totally changed. The Chinese Communist Party are everywhere. One, they've stolen all the intellectual property. Two, currency manipulation. Three, non trade barriers. Four, just they've had the money of Wall street in, the law firms in Silicon Valley support them, support them. And what they've turned us into is like a, we're like a colony. We send them soybeans and sorghum, right? And pork. They come over and buy the Smithfield ham. So they got the Chinese company owns all the pork. We're like a, we're like a colony. We send them, you know, now timber and, you know, natural gas and coal, right? This is what we send them. We send them natural resources. Very, very little. Finnish manufactured, factored product. And what we send is very little. So they've got us, you know, They've got us exactly where they want us. And so President Trump, this is a hard throwdown. And what Ray Dalio says is that, hey, this could upset the entire monetary order if you continue on at the same time and trying to redo the global. There we are right here. Here we come. President El Salvador coming, arriving at the West Wing. This is the more of the working entrance. This is not a state visit, a formal state visit. This is the head of nation, head of state, but not the formal pageantry you have when they come to the main entrance of the White House. There will not be a press conference in the East Room today. There we go. There's his vehicle coming up. There's the Executive Office building in the background, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building called the eob. He's coming up to the portico right there. There is the President of the United States to meet him. And what has become a very familiar President Trump coming to meet his guest. Look at that. Very. There's a lot of chemistry there. President Trump thinks very highly of the President of El Salvador. Little photo op right there. President Trump now they go to work. So they're going to go. There's a little reception room where they walk in. Then they go right past the Roosevelt Room into the Oval Office. From this little reception area, they will. Now, the order of battle here is that they're supposed to have a bilad. Bilad is called, is a bilateral, short for bilateral. That is two heads of state sitting there and talking about confidentially what's going on. Normally the president wants a few minutes alone with the head of state. He'll spend 10 or 15 minutes, just one on one, catching up. Then they'll bring in. There'll be more people coming. For a bilat, this is traditional. You'll have, you know, people from the State Department, Defense Department. You'll have some of his staff. You see some, I think his staff coming up right now. Have some of his staff in there. The president of El Salvador, whoever the dignitary is. President Trump has done something quite different than anybody else has done. He just hasn't allowed photo ops. What he's opening up to is what's called press avails, press availabilities. He will basically have the pool. And the pool, we should know now with, you know, the White House press corps a little expanded the pool, they have a selection every day of who's in the pool. The pool's covering the president and the wire services and different ones like that are doing the play by play, Real America's Voice has been quite honored to be in the pool. And that is to be blunt, because of the hustle shown by our own Brian Glenn. Brian is on top of this. He researches the topics. He has great questions. Normally when we had these press avails, a lot of the foreign press, in other words, press from Central America, maybe more Spanish language press given some of the issues that are derived or if it's England, more of the, you know, you'll have the Daily Telegraph and the Times of London. So they'll make it specific. They'll have more of the press representing whether it's France or whatever area of the world the country comes from, including the country's own press. And then all the major media outlets. Real America's voice punching way above their weight is actually, is actually, is actually now included in the press pool a lot. And that's because our own Brian Glenn has done extraordinary. Now is President Trump. President Trump has been known to call an audible to kind of, hey, we're, you know, we're going to take this on the fly and here's what I want to do. So we're going to be available at any moment to go right to the Oval Office in case he opens up to a press avail. Since there's no East Room formal press conference, I think there will be a press avail. President Trump may decide to do it in the lunch. The lunch is going to be right next to the Oval Office in the Cabinet Room. So the way the White House is laid out, you have on one side, across a tiny hallway, the Roosevelt Room, which is kind of for less formal activities, more of the times when the president's meeting people on a business side besides going to Oval, they'll meet there. It's where they have the podium set up. Sometimes you see the great painting of Teddy Roosevelt as a rough rider right in back. That's the Roosevelt Room. And then right across from that and next to the Oval Office, connected to the Oval Office by the little secretaries or the assistants. Where they sit is the Cabinet Room, which is much more formal. They're going to have a lunch in the Cabinet Room today. There's the color guard. Looked like striking color is going to head back. Great camera footage today, guys. Fantastic. The Cabinet Room. I think president may even do a press avail then at the lunch, or at least the beginning of the lunch after he's had a moment to talk. So we're going to play that all by ear today. President El Salvador is there and we do expect there'll be a press avail and so many questions for the president today about what happened over the weekend, particularly with issues on technology, I think to summarize it is that they are on this, on the technology and the tariffs. There is, you know, pulling them totally, I don't think is correct. I think there's a number of national security, you know, 232s, et cetera. You have to go through a process of doing some reviews. I think they're trying to catch up on those processes to actually designate it. I would spend a lot of time thinking about the chips. Oh, we're going to get to John Solomon's got breaking news here. So let's go ahead and go to John Solomon. John, you've got a big breaking story, sir. What do you got for us this morning?
Jason Greer
Yeah, listen. So new documents that we obtained first through a lawsuit and then through James Comer's subcommittee. Because our lawsuit documents were highly redacted, James Comer was able to get the unredacted version. They show that Joe Biden, while publicly in 2014 vowing to punish Russia for its first invasion of Ukraine, actually secretly worked behind the scenes to open a backdoor so that Moscow seems oil and gas could go into Ukraine after the invasion of Ukraine. Think about that. They're out there in public saying, sanction them, punish them. They're terrible guys. But behind the scenes, they actually were arranging for Russian gas to flow back into Ukraine right after the invasion. Now, there's a couple of reasons for it. Perhaps the most significant reason is that the company Burisma, the one that Hunter Biden worked for, did not have enough gas supply to heat the country kind of in the upcoming winter of 2014, 2015. So Joe Biden goes to bat, and it actually is very beneficial to his son in Barisma. These documents were all conducted, all these negotiations, these secret negotiations on Joe Biden's private pseudonym email account. Think about that. He's negotiating with Russia, he's talking to Germany, and the documents are kept off the official books. They're on his private email probably because they were beneficial to Hunter Biden's company. But those documents just broke. The story's up at just the news. And it's another example of Democrats being against Russia until, well, they're for it. We saw it with Bill Clinton in the $500,000 speech. We saw it with Skokovo. And now we see it again in a decade too late perhaps. We're now seeing, once again Democrats on both sides of the Russia equation.
Steve Bannon
Hang on a second. I want to make sure I understand this. Where Have. Where were these documents and how did you guys get to Scoop to release them? Where were these stored? How come we haven't seen these before? Why were they suppressed?
Jason Greer
Yeah, because Joe Biden has 89,000 emails at the National Archives under his pseudonym. Email accounts, the fake name email accounts. We sued to get these. We're getting them at about 500amonth. It'll take us 30 years to get them at the way the National Archives is doing it. We got in the latest batch, these emails, but they were very redacted. It turns out that the House Oversight Committee was able to go get us less redacted version, in fact, fully unredacted versions of the emails. And that's how we did it. We did it as a two step. First we sue, we get them under foia. We realize there's something important here that's redacted. We work through sources to get it. And thankfully James Comer and the House Oversight Committee was able to get us an unredacted version of this email. But 10 years the American people have been kept from the secret.
Steve Bannon
Unbelievable. What do you, what, what kind of activity is going to come off of this? Another congressional hearing? Is there criminal. I mean, where do you see this going? Because this is a big one.
Jason Greer
Listen, I think the most important thing that Donald Trump could do right now is to declassify the information of the role that Joe Biden and John Brennan and others in the State Department played in potentially ousting the Ukrainian President yanukovych in late 13 and early 14. There is a growing body of evidence, including in Bob Woodward's book, including in documents that we've gotten, including the sources we've talked to, that maybe the US government throughout the Ukrainian president which created this 10 year crisis in Russia where you've got two invasions and you've got the on and off burisma scandal. I think when you look at this window, it makes no sense that the United States would get into a sanctions battle with Russia and then capitulate and let the gas go in. Unless of course there's a Hunter Biden, Joe Biden connection to it. But this whole period, this entire 10 year history, the two invasions, the loss of life on the battlefield, I think it may all stem from the way the Biden Obama administration dealt with Ukraine and Yanukovych in late 2013 and 2014. I think declassifying what documents are there could be one of the greatest benefits the American people have to understand this decade of extraordinary insanity in Eastern Europe.
Steve Bannon
John, one other question And I realize you're very close to Cash. You're very close to Pam. You know, people all worked up, fit and sued the, the Justice Department. And Pam, I think on Friday, you know, one of the questions I keep getting all the time is why does Solomon and Fenton have to break stories and find scoops when we're supposed to be, oh, we're going to go to the Oval Office, right? Let's go to the Oval Office right now. The President of the United States. Let's go ahead and take it.
Stephen Miller
He's a very young man now. He's just a young man and he's done a fantastic job. Mr. President, it's an honor to have you.
Nayib Bukele
Thank you.
Stephen Miller
You're doing incredibly for your country and we appreciate working with you because you want to stop crime, and so do we, and it's very, very effective. And I want to just say hello to the people of El Salvador and say they have one hell of a president. Okay. And I mean that. And I know him well. I know him as a very young man, Marco, even younger than you. You know, he started pretty young. He'll always be younger, young at heart. But I want to thank you for the great job you're doing. I appreciate it so much.
Nayib Bukele
Well, it's an honor to be here in the Oval Office with the President and leader of the free world. We're very happy and we're very eager to help. We know that you have a crime problem, a terrorism problem that you need help with, and we're a small country, but if we can help, we. And we actually turned the murder capital of the world, that was the journalist call it right, Murder capital of the world, into the safest country in the western hemisphere. And, you know, if they. Sometimes they say that we increase in thousands, I like to say that we actually liberated millions. So, you know, like, it's very good.
Stephen Miller
Who gave him that line? Do you think I can.
Nayib Bukele
And in fact, Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate. But to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. You know, that's the way it works, right? You cannot just, you know, free the criminals and think crime is going to go down magically. You have to imprison them so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorists. Many can be done. I mean, you're doing it already. And I'm sure that people have seen the change in the streets. A long way to go. Because you're just initiating your second term. But it's clear that with the numbers at the border, even in democrat run cities, they get a help from the work you're doing. So I'm really happy to be here, honored and eager to help.
Stephen Miller
Well, we had a terrible thing happen. We had an administration that allowed people to come in freely into our country from not only South America, but from all over the world. Many from the Congo in Africa, Asia, all over the world, Europe, rough parts of Europe. And they came from prisons and they came from mental institutions and they came from gangs and the gangs of Venezuela and other places. And hundreds of thousands, and even millions of them came, 21 million people altogether. But many of the people that came, just a tremendous percentage of them were criminals, in some cases violent criminals. We had 11,088 known murderers. Half of them murdered more than one person. This was allowed by a man who. What he did to our country is just unbelievable. So we're straightening it out, we're getting them out. But what they did and what that party did to our country, open borders, anybody could come in. As soon as I heard that, I said every prison is going to be emptied out into our country. That's what happened. And we're straightening it out. And we just had numbers. We had the highest recruiting numbers in the history of our country going into police departments. And a year ago we had the lowest numbers. You couldn't hire a biggest change. Nobody's the lowest of the highest. And the military now, Marines, the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, every slot is. I mean, we have the best numbers we've ever had. We call it recruitment, recruitment numbers. And we've never had anything like it. We had records on every single, at every single level. But very important, the policemen. The policemen are joining forces now that we really were having a hard time with policemen because we weren't protecting our police. And we cherish our police. The police are great and the firemen and everybody else, but we have the highest numbers that we've ever had. The most enthusiasm, great enthusiasm. And on trade and other things, we're doing great. We're taking in billions and billions of dollars we made two weeks ago. I gave them a little bit of a pause because, you know, you have to show a little flexibility. But we go back to what we have to do. The markets have been very strong once they got used to it. But we were losing $2 billion a day. There's no company big like this but lose the big, biggest deal ever made. Now we're making $3 billion a day. We're a great country, but we had stupid people running this country. And I can say what they've done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It's a sin, what they did. And you are helping us out, and we appreciate it.
Nayib Bukele
Thanks.
Stephen Miller
Thank you.
Nayib Bukele
Actually, what. What you're doing with the border is remarkable. It has dropped, what, 95%. It's incredible.
Stephen Miller
As of this morning, 99%. 99.1%, to be exact.
Nayib Bukele
Why are those numbers not in the media?
Stephen Miller
Well, they get out with the fake news, you know, like cnn. CNN over here doesn't want to put them out because they don't like. They don't like putting out good numbers. They only like putting out because I think they hate our country, actually. But it's a shame. You're right. Isn't that a great question? Why doesn't the mediator. Why don't they put out numbers?
Nayib Bukele
Yeah, 99%. I mean, it's crazy, right?
Stephen Miller
We're doing it.
Nayib Bukele
It's a crazy turnaround.
Stephen Miller
Christi, could you maybe say a couple of words about the border, how we're doing?
Caroline Wren
You know, it's just been absolutely phenomenal. What a great leader can do. Clear direction. Our laws matter. We should only have people in our country that love us and the border patrol and our ICE off officers and law enforcement officers have done fantastic work. So we're proud of them. Now we just need to get the criminals and murderers and rapists and dangerous gang members and terrorist organizations out of our country. So, Mr. President Bukele, we thank you very much for your partnership. It has been wonderful for us to be able to have somewhere to send the worst of the worst and someone to partner with. And we'd like to continue that partnership because it's been a powerful message of consequences. Mr. President, you wanted people to know that there was consequences if you break our laws and harm our people and endanger families. And this is a clear consequence for the worst of the worst that we have somewhere to put them.
Stephen Miller
Thank you very much.
Nayib Bukele
Yeah, we even had this gang member from Venezuela, one of the ones you sent, and we interviewed him just to get some information, if et cetera, from them. And he said, oh, well, you know, I got arrested six times, but they released me the six times, so I should be released again. And then we said, well, what's the last thing you do? And he said, well, I shot a cop in the leg, but I didn't kill him. I just shot him in the leg. And we're like, this guy was arrested six times here in the United States. Six times. He was released six times. And in the last. No, he was released five times. And the last time he. He was sent to El Salvador.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Nayib Bukele
So he's not getting a release. But the last time he shot a cop, actually, and he shot him in the leg. So these are, you know, like you said. Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's something broken.
Stephen Miller
The liberal establishment, but they're not running things anymore in this country. And we're run by. And I don't say conservative, I don't say anything. We're run by people with great common sense.
Nayib Bukele
Yeah, common sense.
Stephen Miller
Because it's all common sense. It's not liberal conservative. It's common sense.
Nayib Bukele
Exactly.
Stephen Miller
Like, do you allow men to play in women's sports? Do you allow men to box your women and boxes. I know you have a lot of boxes.
Nayib Bukele
That's violence.
Stephen Miller
That's. That's abusive. It's abusive. But we have people that fight to the death because they think men should be able to play in women's sports. And some of those sports, it wouldn't matter much, but it still matters. But some of them are very dangerous for women.
Nayib Bukele
Some years ago, like we said a decade ago or so, women rights movements were pressuring so that we enacted specific laws to avoid men abusing women. And I think those laws were great because there were a lot of men abusing women. But now some of the same people and from trying to backtrack on that and actually trying to make new laws allowing men to abuse women in sports. So actually, that doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense.
Stephen Miller
It's crazy. You know, they have weight lifting records, right? A woman gets up this way, she's incredible. A guy gets up and beats her by £100, what are you going to do? A record that hadn't been broken in 18 years. You know, they put on an ounce and an ounce quarter announced. Eight of them announced for 18 years. Now they have a guy come up peeing. The whole thing is crazy. But they continue to fight. And I don't like talking about it because I want to save it for just before the next election. I say to my people, don't even talk about it, because they'll change and we'll have. But I watched this morning, there was a congressman fighting to the death for men, women to play against women in sports. And you say to yourself, why? What are they doing? Right? What are they doing? But your country is not too big in that.
Nayib Bukele
No, of course not. We're big in protecting women.
Stephen Miller
Good. It's a very important form of protection.
Nayib Bukele
And as you can see, most of my cabinet are women, so.
Stephen Miller
That's impressive.
Nayib Bukele
Yeah, yeah.
Stephen Miller
That's why you're.
Nayib Bukele
They're not DEI hires or anything. They can be great at what they do, right?
Stephen Miller
That's right. This is very impressive. This is a first. We've had women, but we've never had three of them. Right here.
Nayib Bukele
Four and three.
Steve Bannon
Look at.
Stephen Miller
Look who we have. You guys feel a little bit mistreated. That's good. I like it. We've been advanced. I've been very advanced in that regard, too. We have Pam, who's been so fantastic. Think Christy Christie. And the most powerful woman they see.
Steve Bannon
Anyway.
Nayib Bukele
They're all afraid of Susie.
Stephen Miller
Well, she's tough. Most powerful woman in the world, according to magazines. What do I know? But I think she probably is, you know, she probably is.
Nayib Bukele
Congratulations.
Stephen Miller
And you know, Stephen, who's done such a great job. We have just.
Nayib Bukele
We have great people, very famous, too.
Stephen Miller
But we love working with. He really lets him have it. Yeah, exactly. There's no games.
Nayib Bukele
No, no, no.
Stephen Miller
He knows. Do you have any questions, please, Mr. President.
Steve Bannon
Trump.
Stephen Miller
Go ahead. Let's not start. Because they're so. They're just so.
Steve Bannon
Mr. President.
Stephen Miller
Wrong. Yeah, please. Yeah. Thank you.
Christina Pushaw
Mr. President, you repeatedly mentioned last night.
Stephen Miller
That Russia's attack on Ukraine was a mistake.
Christina Pushaw
What is the exact mistake?
Stephen Miller
And had you given Putin a deadline.
Steve Bannon
To actually move to?
Stephen Miller
The mistake was letting the war happen. If Biden were competent and if Zelensky were competent, and I don't know that he is, we had a rough session with this guy over here. He just kept asking for more and more. That war should have never been allowed to happen. That war. I went four years and Putin wouldn't even bring it up. And as soon as the election was rigged and I wasn't here, that war started. There was no way that war should have been allowed to happen and Biden should have stopped it. And you take a look at Putin. I'm not saying anybody is an angel, but I will tell you, I went four years and it wasn't even a question. He would never. And I told him, don't do it. You're not going to do it. And it was the apple of his eye, but there was no way that he would have done it. All you had to do is lower oil prices. If you lowered oil prices, Biden kept the prices is so high because he made it impossible to get it. If you lowered oil prices, you would have never had the war, but you wouldn't have had it with me anyway. That war would have never happened. And I think it's a great abuse. So now what do you do? You get a country where 25% of its land is gone and the best locations where millions of people are killed. You know, you haven't reported accurately the death. And this was Biden war. And I'm trying to stop it. And I think we're going to do a good job. I hope we're going to do it. They lose 2,500 young people a week. Think, on average now they're Russians and they're Ukrainians, but it's 2000. We don't care. It's like, whatever it is, they're not from your country, they're not from mine, but I want to stop it. 2,500. It's a killing field. It's like the Civil war.
Steve Bannon
You.
Stephen Miller
You take a look. I look at the satellite pictures. This should not be happening in our time. Of course, our time can be pretty violent, as we know, but that's a war that should have never been allowed to start. And Biden could have stopped it, and Zelensky could have stopped it, and Putin should have never started it. Everybody is to blame.
Christina Pushaw
Have you spoken to President Zelensky's his offer to purchase more Patriot missiles?
Stephen Miller
Oh, I don't know. He's always looking to purchase missiles. You know, he's. He's against. Listen, when you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war, right? You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles. If we didn't give them what we gave, remember I gave them Javelins. That's how they won their first big battle with the tanks that got stuck in the mud and they took them out with javelins. They have an expression that Obama, at the time, Obama gave them sheets and Trump gave them javelins. But just something that should have never happened. It's a really shame. The towns are destroyed. Towns and cities are, you know, largely destroyed. They have the spires, you know, the beautiful spires that go up. They say they were the most beautiful in the world in Ukraine, for whatever reason, but the most beautiful in the world. They're mostly laying on their side, shattered and broken. And most importantly, you have millions of people dead. Millions of people dead because of three people. I would say three people. Let's say Putin number one, but let's say Biden, who had no idea what the hell he was doing number two and Zelensky. And all I can do is try and stop it. That's all I want to do. I want to stop the killing. And I think we're doing well in that regard. I think you'll have some very good proposals very soon.
Christina Pushaw
Last question, sir.
Steve Bannon
Have you attributed a motive through the.
Christina Pushaw
FBI investigation behind the attack on Governor Josh Shapiro over the weekend?
Stephen Miller
No, I haven't. But the attacker was not a fan of Trump. I understand. Just from what I read and from what I've been told, the attacker basically wasn't a fan of anybody. It was probably just a whack job. And certainly a thing like that cannot be allowed to happen with President Bukele.
Nayib Bukele
The best guarantee that this time you.
Stephen Miller
Won'T terminate the temporary protected status relationship with this man. I have the best relationship with him. We've known each other. I've known him since he was a very young man. As I said, very, very young. And I was impressed. I said, look here this guy is. In fact, he sort of looked like a teenager. He looked like a teenager. I said, what kind of a country he grew up? Well, in the last five years.
Nayib Bukele
Do you support extension for nationals of.
Stephen Miller
El Salvador under temporary protective status? Let's hear the question from this very low rated anchor at cb.
Caroline Wren
Do you plan to ask President Bukele to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported? The man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador?
Stephen Miller
Well, let me ask Pam, would you answer that question?
Steve Bannon
Sure. President first, first and foremost, he was illegally in our country.
Caroline Wren
He had been illegally in our country. And in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court ruled.
Steve Bannon
That he was a member of MS.13.
Caroline Wren
And he was illegally in our country. Right now. It was a paperwork. It was additional paperwork had needed to be done. That's up to El Salvador. If they want to return him, that's.
Steve Bannon
Not up to us.
Caroline Wren
The Supreme Court ruled, President, that if as El Salvador wants to return, and this is international matters, foreign affairs, if they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.
Stephen Miller
So will you return him? And you are doing a great job. Thank you. Wait a minute. Can you just also respond to that question because you know it's asked by CNN and they always ask it with a slant because they're totally slanted because they don't know what's happening. That's why nobody's watching them. But would you answer that question also?
Christina Pushaw
Yes, gladly. So as Pam mentioned, there's an illegal alien from El Salvador. So with respect to you, he's a citizen of El Salvador. So it's very arrogant even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens. Citizens as a starting point, as two immigration courts found that he was a member of Ms. 13. When President Trump declared Ms. 13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law, which I'm sure you know, you're very familiar with the ina, that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States. So he had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that under our law, he's not even, even allowed to be present in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation. This issue was then by a district court judge, completely inverted. And a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here. That issue was raised to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 90 unanimously stating clearly that neither Secretary of State nor the President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador, who again is a member of Ms. 13, which, as I'm sure you understand, rapes little girls, murders women, murders children, is engaged in the most barbaric activities in the world. And I can promise you, if he was your neighbor, you wouldn't move right away. So you don't plan, but the Supreme Court's asking to.
Stephen Miller
In the Supreme Court. Steve, was it nine to nothing?
Christina Pushaw
Yes, it was a nine zero in our favor. In our favor against the district court ruling saying that no district court has the power to compel the foreign policy function of the United States. As Pam said, the ruling solely stated that if this individual, at El Salvador's sole discretion, was sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second time. No version of this legally ends up with him ever living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador, that is the President of El Salvador. Your questions about it, per the court, can only be directed to him.
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Bannon’s War Room Episode 4411: Criminality Of Zuckerberg And META; Trump Meets With Bukele Release Date: April 14, 2025
Overview In Episode 4411 of Bannon’s War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into pressing issues surrounding global trade, U.S. economic strategies, and international relations. The episode prominently features discussions on the criminal activities of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta, President Trump's strategic meeting with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, and explosive allegations against President Joe Biden concerning his administration's actions in Ukraine and Russia. The conversation includes insights from key figures such as Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Jason Greer, Christina Pushaw, and Caroline Wren.
Peter Navarro initiates the conversation by addressing the pervasive issue of global trade manipulation:
“They cheat us with the so-called non-tariff barriers. It's the VAT taxes, the dumping, the currency manipulation, the technical barriers that keep our autos out of Japan, the agricultural barriers that keep our pork out of Australia or Europe.”
(00:00)
Navarro emphasizes the substantial economic loss due to these barriers, stating:
“They're doing that to the tune of $1.2 trillion of wealth a year that we transfer now abroad and $18 trillion of wealth since we started running deficits.”
(00:15)
Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller express concern over the broader economic implications, beyond a mere recession:
"We have something that's much more profound. We have a breaking down of the monetary order."
(01:36)
Navarro shares optimistic news about inflation:
“The consumer price index had the lowest print since fall of 2023. Really good news and nobody expected that.”
(02:00)
He attributes this success to Trump’s policies, including lowering oil prices and the implementation of a debt-neutral tax cut:
“It means that we're going to have the biggest, broadest tax cut in American history before August.”
(02:30)
Navarro contrasts these measures with previous administrations’ approaches:
“It's unlike the Biden fiscal measures which were just pure debt driven.”
(02:45)
Jason Greer and Stephen Miller discuss the introduction of tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals aimed at bolstering domestic manufacturing:
“We're going to have our drugs made in the United States so that in case of war, we're not relying on China and various other countries to supply us with drugs.”
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This policy is positioned as a strategic move to reduce dependency on foreign entities, particularly China.
Christina Pushaw highlights Trump’s aggressive stance against China’s trade practices:
“China has distorted the entire global trading system through decades of intellectual property theft... These are state-led policies from China that require redress.”
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Navarro critiques the current tariff approach, warning of significant economic repercussions:
“President Trump is taking his sledgehammer. Not only that he's pounding our allies with this, but he's pounding the US Economy with this sledgehammer.”
(07:01)
Steve Bannon warns of escalating tensions, framing the situation as a near World War 3 scenario:
“This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.”
(08:32)
A significant portion of the episode covers President Trump’s meeting with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, focusing on crime reduction and immigration:
Stephen Miller sets the stage for the meeting:
“We're straightening it out, we're getting them out... The policemen are joining forces now that we really were having a hard time with policemen because we weren't protecting our police.”
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Nayib Bukele lauds Trump’s border policies, citing a dramatic reduction in illegal crossings:
“It's incredible, what a great leader can do. Clear direction. Our laws matter.”
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Bukele emphasizes the success of deporting criminals, asserting:
“We have billions and billions of dollars we made two weeks ago... $3 billion a day.”
(46:54)
Christina Pushaw commends the partnership:
“It's been a powerful message of consequences. Mr. President, you wanted people to know that there was consequences if you break our laws.”
(48:27)
The dialogue underscores the administration’s focus on stringent immigration control and crime prevention.
Towards the latter part of the episode, explosive claims are made regarding President Biden’s actions in Ukraine:
Jason Greer alleges that Biden secretly facilitated Russian oil and gas flows into Ukraine despite public opposition:
“Joe Biden, while publicly in 2014 vowing to punish Russia for its first invasion of Ukraine, actually secretly worked behind the scenes to open a backdoor so that Moscow's oil and gas could go into Ukraine after the invasion.”
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He further connects this to Hunter Biden’s involvement with Burisma:
“...the company Burisma, the one that Hunter Biden worked for, did not have enough gas supply to heat the country... it was beneficial to his son in Burisma.”
(38:38)
Steve Bannon inquires about the origins and suppression of these documents:
“Where were these stored? How come we haven't seen these before? Why were they suppressed?”
(38:51)
Jason Greer explains the process of obtaining these documents through lawsuits and the House Oversight Committee:
“We sued to get these. We're getting them at about 500 a month... the House Oversight Committee was able to get us a less redacted version.”
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The discussion pivots to potential repercussions, suggesting a need for declassification and further investigation:
“The most important thing that Donald Trump could do right now is to declassify the information...”
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Steve Bannon wraps up by reiterating the administration’s battle against entrenched global trade practices and internal economic challenges:
“This is a hard throwdown. And what Ray Dalio says is that, hey, this could upset the entire monetary order if you continue on at the same time and trying to redo the global.”
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The episode concludes with a reaffirmation of the administration’s commitment to economic sovereignty, national security, and fighting political adversaries both domestically and internationally.
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This episode of Bannon’s War Room presents a robust defense of President Trump’s policies, a critique of global and domestic adversaries, and a call to action against perceived political corruption, all while highlighting significant geopolitical maneuvers and internal U.S. strategies.