
Episode 4566: Chinese Plots On Fake Ballots...
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Steve Bannon
Blue collar wage growth.
Josh Hawley
Blue collar wage growth. The only other time it's been this high, wait for it was during President Trump's first term. So we've seen real wages for hourly workers, non supervisory workers rise almost 2% in the first five months.
Steve Bannon
Why is that?
Josh Hawley
No president has done that before.
Steve Bannon
And why is that?
Josh Hawley
It's the president's emphasis on manufacturing. I think there's also likely a component of whether it's 12 or 20 million illegal aliens coming out of the workforce. And Joe Biden opened the border and it was flooded. And that for working Americans, that's a disaster because it's pressure on their wages.
Ana Cabrera
What exactly is different about the bill now, Ryan?
Ryan
Well, keep in mind, Ana, that the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, has warned his Senate colleagues not to change this bill too much because it was such a hard fought victory for him in the House of Representatives, that any significant changes could mean that when it comes back to the House it might not make it through. And I would say that these changes are not overwhelming, but they are significant. And you pointed out a couple of the big differences. The first being the difference between the state and local tax deduction on the House side versus the Senate side. It was a hard fought victory for those blue state members of the House to get that floor $40,000 limit. Republicans in the Senate don't have that same concern. There aren't any blue state Republicans in the Senate. So they were fine with reducing that to $10,000. That could be real problem when the bill comes back to the House. On the Medicaid side, the House plan to freeze provider taxes at the current level. On the Senate side, they're going to cap them at 3.5% by 2031 and also create some new eligibility rules. And then this is the other part of this that could be contentious, the green energy tax credits. They wanted to eliminate many of these credits on the House side as early as this year. And while on the other side and the Senate side, some of those tax credits are actually working in some of these red states where businesses are taking advantage of them. So they plan to phase them out a bit longer. So this is still going to be a fight here on it. And some tweaks can be made here. But they hope to have this passed by 4th of July.
Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Britain'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. It's going to happen.
Stephen K. Bannon
And where do people like that go to share the big line MAGA Media I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Unknown
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Steve Bannon
If that answer is to save my.
Unknown
Country, this country will be saved.
Stephen K. Bannon
War Room here's your host, Stephen k. Ban.
Steve Bannon
It's Tuesday. 17 year overlord 2025. Thank you for being here for the second hour of the morning show. We're honored to have Senator Josh Hawley, a fire breathing populist in the United States Senate from Missouri. Senator Ho, first off, observations, I know this is the first time you've seen it, observations on Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessant, what he's talking about, the impact of President Trump's immigration policies, economic policy, seeing growth in blue collar wages, which I understand and know is a top priority for you, sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah. This is what President Trump has been saying for years. If you get the illegals out of the workforce, the people who've been coming in here, taking our jobs, putting, pushing down wages, what's going to happen? Blue collar wages are going to go up. And that's exactly what is happening. Steve, the secretary is exactly right. The President's focus on manufacturing, I mean think about this. The President's doing all of this just by executive order. Think what would happen if the United States Congress actually got its butt into gear and passed some laws that reinforce what the President was doing. That's what needs to happen now. Congress needs to get with it and join the program here, help the President enact this agenda, get blue collar people back to work, number one, higher wages, number two, get the illegals out, number three, I mean the President is, he's well on the way. He needs Congress now to do its job.
Steve Bannon
You're the prism that kind of helps us think through what's happening in the Senate on this bill. Can you give us the finance committees coming out? You get Medicaid, you got taxes. We're hearing at least some analysis. I'm seeing that all of the populist tax cuts are not through here intact, what the President wanted. And Medicaid still a little iffy. Can you walk us through your perspective of where we stand, sir?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah. I'm concerned by what the Senate leadership is proposing to do. It's a big departure from what President Trump called for. It's a big departure from What President Trump worked on with the House, to be honest with you, I mean, last night they announced Senate leadership that is that they want to roll back some of these Trump tax cuts, the populist tax cuts. No taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime. Those are really reduced in the Senate proposal. That makes any. No sense to me at all. Why would we do that? Here's another thing, Steve. They want to extend the Green New Deal subsidies. I mean, I have to tell you, that ought to be a big red line for everybody. Why in the world would we pay to extend Joe Biden's giveaways to China, his giveaways to Wall street, his giveaways to private equity doesn't do anything for middle America. It doesn't do anything for the working class in this country. President Trump ran against it. He was clear he wants the Green New scam gone. And yet the Senate bill is proposing to extend the Green New Scam in a whole bunch of ways and get this, pay for it by defunding rural hospitals. There's a lot of problems here. I mean, I just look at this and I'm like, why are they throwing the President under the bus? I mean, I look at what the Senate wants to do, and to me, it looks like they're just departing from everything the President has said is his priorities. Here's my message. Just stick with the president. Cut the taxes for working people that the president wants. Cut protect Medicaid like the president said. Get rid of the Green New scam like the president has been doing in his executive orders. It's time for Congress to get into line here and to get on the job. And I tell you, I look at what some of these senators are proposing to do, and I just don't recognize it. I mean, this needs work is all I can say. We got to get this thing fixed so we can get it to the president's desk.
Steve Bannon
This is what I'm going to get to the taxes in a second. But this is going to get. So many of the senators in the Senate represent states that have big rural populations. Right. Where are they coming out on this? Because the rural hospitals are absolutely essential. We lose those because the care is not great right now. But at least you got something right. If you extend the Green New Scam, which is really underwriting the wealthy, let's be blunt about it, in the hedge funds. And the guys are, quite frankly, have made bad investments and they need essentially what this is, a government bailout. Right. Why are these other senators that represent rural populations not as infuriated as you are, sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it's donor money. I don't know if it's just who they go back and listen to when they go home, go to the country club. But I can tell you, extending the Green New Deal and given shoveling hundreds of billions of dollars because that's what we're talking about here now, Steve. And this new Senate proposal, I emphasize new. This is not what the House passed. This is not what the President has negotiated. This is a new thing. Now in the new proposal, they're saying, yeah, let's spend hundreds of billions on Green New Deal subsidies that go to rich people, that go to China. We're talking about China's solar farms here, Chinese solar panels. And to pay for it, let's defund rural hospitals in the states that voted for Trump, like Missouri. I mean, that's insane. That's the nicest way I can say it. That is absolutely insane. We need a priority check here. We need to get back to basics, get back to listening to the President, which is we should protect those rural hospitals, cut the Green New Deal to shreds and cut taxes for working people. It's not that hard.
Steve Bannon
Let's go to the populist. Tax cuts. No tax on, on overtime, no tax on tips and no tax on Social Security. How did those, how do those fare right now and what the Senate has.
Stephen K. Bannon
Sir, the Senate's weakened them. The Senate is rolling them back. You know, the Senate is reducing the scope, which again, I just have to say, why? In order to pay for more solar energy subsidies. I mean, come on. But I'm concerned about it, Steve. If you look at the text, it just came out last night. This is the Senate proposal. Now, again, not what the House passed, not what the President negotiated. This is a new proposal on the Senate side and what it does is for those key tax cuts you just mentioned, it weakens them, it reduces them so there's less. And I'm just asking myself, why would we give our hard working people those blue collar workers we were just talking about, why would they get less so that China wind farms and China solar panel makers can get more? Why would blue collar workers get less so that the hedge funds and private equity can get more? I don't get it. I mean, it doesn't help Missouri. It doesn't help any red state. Most importantly, it doesn't help anybody in the working class who voted for Donald Trump anywhere in this country. And that's why I say we need an attitude adjustment here. We need a priority adjustment in the United States Senate. Let's get back to the president's agenda that won this election, which is tax cuts for working people, protect health care for working people and end the giveaways to the rich to China and to Wall Street.
Steve Bannon
Walk us through. Process. Our audiences, you know, they love the receipts and know where things are going. What is the process now? Just in the Senate they're talking about a July. You think this thing gets voted on by the Senate by July 4th so it can be sent to the House? I mean, what's the process right now as you see it?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, the process now will be the Senate will fiddle with this bill. This is why there's time to change this bill. It needs to be changed. The Senate version has got to be fixed. I mean, it's a mess right now. It has got to be fixed. We will vote on it maybe as early as next week, Steve. And then after that, what I have heard the Senate leadership say and sounds like maybe they've agreed with House leadership is this will then go to the House one last time and that's it. So it's not going to keep ping ponging back and forth. The Senate will vote on it and then it will have to go back to the House because the Senate's making changes. And then if the House passes it, that is it into the ball game. It goes to the president's desk. And listen, the goal ought to be to get something to the president's desk as quickly as possible. But of course it's got to be good. It's got to be what the president actually wants, what he ran on, what our people voted for. And you know, I think the House turned in a pretty strong product. We got to get the Senate now to do its part here and we got to get them on the same page as the President. My message is stick with the president, enact the president's priorities. And I'm alarmed, I tell you. I mean, I do not like what I see out of the Senate. What they proposed last night, what they just dropped last night, all of a sudden, boom, surprise was really, it's a mess. And we got to get this thing fixed and get it to the president's desk.
Steve Bannon
Are you going to have basically a fact sheet that people can go to before, you know, before the posse goes to the ramparts? We like to make sure they're fully armed with all the information so they can go through with it and think it through as they send emails, text messages, make phone calls and or collar their representatives. Do you have, do you have a fact sheet? Is there a place on your social media or on your website in the Senate that people can go to and actually hear you're going to put one up today at some time during the day?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, yes, we will. We will do that today. We will put it up today, Steve. And folks can go to my website. Holly Moe is my Twitter handle, my X handle, same handle for all the social media. Just Google me. You'll find my website in the Senate and we will put that out there so folks can see it. We'll put the full text of the Senate proposal out there too so that nobody taking my word for it and don't certainly don't take the, the liberal media is word for any of this. Go look yourself, go read these provisions and then absolutely call your senator and say, listen, stick with Trump. I mean I think that's the message here. Stick with Trump. Do what he wants to do, what he ran on, what we voted for him to do. You know, let's get the Senate in line here and get this thing done.
Steve Bannon
Last thing we've got about a minute. By the way, if your staff lets us know, we'll send everybody there at a certain time of the day to make sure they get there and get all the information because Warren loves the text and they love the details around it. Senator Johnson and these cuts about the deficit, is that going to be addressed this week, you think? Would that be there? He's making a big deal about that just as far as process goes because you just outlined a pretty quick process. When do you think that gets addressed or does it get addressed?
Stephen K. Bannon
I think any changes will have to be made in the next about weeks, Steve. I mean I think that's the timeline we're working on here. The president wants a bill by July 4th on his desk. He wants it to go through both Senate and House by that point. You know that's, that's quick couple weeks. So we got a lot of work to do.
Steve Bannon
Senator Holly one more time, social media. Where do people go to get you, sir?
Stephen K. Bannon
Holly Moe. Holly Moe on X, Holly Mo on all social media and we'll get those facts out there for you.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, Senator. Appreciate you.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Senator Josh Hawley walking through the tax cuts. Gotta make sure we focus on those tax cuts and then also situation with Medicaid, rural hospitals. I know Senator Johnson, I think we're gonna get him on next couple of days. They're very focused on deficit reduction or enough cuts been made he's got a plan. I think there's other plans out there. This is a quick you know Josh Harley just broke some good news here for the rumors about it. But President Hay once they sign it by July 4th, that means a lot of action between now and then because essentially the Senate bill would go back and the House would would vote on that. It wouldn't be like do a whole new negotiation on this and come up with some compromise and go to conference. They're saying they're not going to ping pong this thing back and forth. That is a big, big news break. Driving to a 4 July, a 4th of July signing by the President. That means got to get through both, both the House and the Senate. I noticed that they haven't, they haven't put carried interest in as ordinary income. Didn't change that for Wall Street. I'm shocked. Short commercial break Bannon B A N N O N 989-898 Birch Gold the complete Guide to Investing in Gold and Precious Metals in the Age of Trump It's a time of turbulence. Understand what a hedge is to take the turbulence away.
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Steve Bannon
Today is your host Stephen K. Ban. Okay, a lot going on in the IC community. Ezra Cohen just pub put something up quite Controversial Tulsi Gabbard is over with. Is over with. I think Senate intel today, a lot of moving pieces here. Remember, President Trump adamant, hey, not going to, not going to allow the mullahs to get a nuclear weapon. He'd been pretty adamant about that for a while, had a negotiation going on. He gave him 60 days and the 61st day he Israelis attacked. Right now kind of up in the air about what's going on with Steve Witkoff and his team. But it was put out there last night that President Trump wanted him to get together asap. I don't think he's going to go through a long negotiation. He's not going to. It doesn't sound like he's going to go through a long negotiation on the bill either. Ron Johnson and guys are talking about deficit reduction. We'll have to see what they come up with. Obviously, this should not be a surprise to anybody that to anyone that the Senate did not, did not back the 100% populist tax cuts of President Trump. That should not be a shocker. Work all of that out if we can put this up. John Solomon joins us now. John, two things I get to number one, any intelligence you've got. Latest update as kind of the it hangs in the balance. President Trump has said he wants a deal, he wants it signed. He doesn't want no negotiations with the mullahs. And obviously they're putting out things that he's always wanted. You know, he's been adamant and never backed off. They can't have nuclear weapons. There's obviously coming from Fox and others, tons of pressures, other pressures too, for President Trump to get engaged or provide the air assets and maybe even directly participate in the kinetic part of taking out Fedor and others. Any insights you can give us, sir?
John Solomon
A couple. First, I think late last week, US Intelligence got similar information as Israel that the Iranians had moved closer to having enough material for bomb. That doesn't mean they had the bomb. That takes time. Right. Even after you have enough material, then you have to take it from a gas vapor to a metallic thing and then create a delivery system. So they weren't days away from having a bomb, but they were days away from having enough material to make the bomb. And I think that that accelerated a lot of the action that we have seen over the last five to 10, 10 days. My impression from all the reporting I've done right now is that America will continue to stay on the sidelines, not providing offensive support to Israel, but letting Israel do it. And there's really no need for American support right now. Israel has command of the skies. They have aerial domination. They could bomb at will. And now that they've achieved that air superiority, they'll go in and make multiple passes of dropping moabs, mother of all bombs, these bunker buster bombs, onto the primary nuclear sites until they are imploded or crushed and their materials are destroyed. That if America was doing it, 1B2 with one big Moab could probably take it on one run. Israel doesn't have the capacity to take the largest of our moabs. They have to use smaller ones. So Israel will need more runs to. To implode these. But now that they have air superiority, making multiple runs isn't a big issue. And I suspect that Israel will finish its own job, which is to crush the Iranian nuclear program, and then there'll be some sort of a deal to be made now that Ayatollah will have nothing but rubble. But I don't think the US Is looking for a fight. It's not looking to go offensive. The only thing that could potentially happen is if an American troop were attacked or a terror attack somewhere in the world against American assets. I think then Trump would get engaged with.
Steve Bannon
Let's assume your scenario Part A is that if they continue on, and by the way, I think people are very impressed. They've got air superior, I'd say air supremacy right now with all the talk that the Persians had and Israel has over the last 90 days really done a job there on their air defense with the incoming that Israel's taking the ballistic missile program that they have without nuclear warheads. Do you think much still exists to kind of terrorize the people in Tel Aviv? And because now we're hearing talk about, oh, well, this is really going off the nuclear program, really to have regime change. Do you think that that's what they're looking for? And can actually the regime. Could the Ayatollah or whoever's still alive there actually sign something to President Trump that wouldn't lead to their immediate collapse in Tehran?
John Solomon
Sir, that's a great question. Right. We knew going into this aerial assault that Israel launched last week that the Iranian mullahs were in their weakest position with their own people in ages. You saw these trucker protests a couple of weeks ago. We've had almost four years of women rights protests on the ground. There is enormous economic strife. The people of Iran are frustrated and sick of the mullahs and all of the suffering they've had to do because of this theocracy. So that sets the stage that if you are much more successful than I think people anticipated Israel to be, this is really a precision textbook case of excellent military operations by Israel. Maybe now you move the agenda. I think the agenda when Israel started, from all the reporting I've done, that it was really to completely disable and crush the Iranian nuclear program. But now with complete air superiority and just a wimpish Iranian air defenses, you might want to say, hey, let's go finish the job. And I think that's what Netanyahu was signaling last night on ABC News with Jonathan Karl, which is maybe we should just get it done. There's not going to be peace until the Ayatollah is gone. So I think the priorities have shifted, but I don't think they started that way. I think Israel itself is remarkably surprised at how much dominance it currently has over Iran.
Steve Bannon
Pivot, by the way, we'll obviously keep you in touch. Keep in touch. And once you on the show, because you're reporting on this, pretty, pretty special. I think a lot of people in this audience are breathing a sigh of relief because what John Solomon just said, John, it's hard to make my jaw drop anymore. But your story last night, the cash, what cash put out. Because as you know, you war room, you know John Solomon, Justin News, John Solomon report, war room, Posobic, Charlie Kirk, even Lindell. But so many of us hammered this day in and day out, particularly those of us that are very focused on the Chinese Communist Party. To have tell the audience what cash delivered last night and what the reality is here because this is about as draw, draw, jaw dropping as you can get, sir.
John Solomon
Yeah. Let's set the stage. Let's remind everybody that In December of 2020, 60 Minutes aired a piece with the head of the Homeland Security Cybersecurity division saying there were no foreign intrusions in the 2020 election. It was a perfectly clean election, he said. I think it was Chris Krebs was his name. We now know that to have been a false proclamation. First, we know a year later in 21, a bunch of Iranians were indicted in Manhattan on charges that they interfered in the election and hacked into a state database to obtain voter IDs and use them in a mal influence operation against the American election. Now we know there was a second country that was more deeply involved in meddling into the election. The FBI in August 2020. So three and a half months before the votes were cast that put Joe Biden in the presidency, that FBI believed that China had begun a mass operation to produce fake driver's license them, move them to the United States and have Chinese citizens here on our soil, both legally and illegally go out and get fake mail in ballots and vote to try to elect Joe Biden. By the way, the FBI intelligence says this Chinese operation from a Chinese intelligence source that the FBI was handling was designed to help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump. It's very important. That was the intention. The intelligence was strong enough to send out to all of the intelligence agencies. And then a few days later it was called back on the auspices that they wanted to re interview the source. Now the source was reinterviewed a second time, stuck to his story. In the meantime, the Customs and Border Patrol Border protection agency intercepted 20,000 of these fake driver's IDs, essentially corroborating the intelligence. But the Biden administration, the Chris Wray FBI, they simply covered this up. And for five years we were kept in the dark. Until this intelligence document was sent last night to Chuck Grassley from Cash Patel.
Steve Bannon
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We weren't kept in the dark, brother. You went after this. We were. It was a bald faced lie, was it not? They lied about this and covered it up.
John Solomon
They were lying right now you're right.
Steve Bannon
I just want to make sure I get there. Because you went after this every people, because we were called nutcases, kooks, conspiracy theorists. You know, under every bed we got a Chinese Communist party member, all of that, right. And it turns out we were 100% accurate about directionally. We knew something was up there. Is that essentially what the story is this morning?
John Solomon
Yeah. There's another very important thing to keep in mind with this. This intelligence shows that China saw mail in ballots as an enormous vulnerability during, during the COVID 19 pandemic. Because, and I, you know, our enemies look for weaknesses, not for strengths. They don't look for the hardest thing to do. They look for the easiest thing to do. To us, that is a warning sign. Now, lots has happened since 2020 and with all of the voter ID and other things, we've tightened up laws in several states and where we've tightened up the laws in the states, people vote more because they have greater confidence in the system. But China saw this as an exploitable operation. And I think that should concern all of us. And it any state that doesn't have their mail in voting to the proximal best security measures, there's a foreign enemy looking to exploit it right now. That's what these documents show.
Steve Bannon
That's why he kept saying we're not machine guys, we're mail in balance guys. It's not that the machines don't have tremendous vulnerabilities. John Solomon, you more than anybody have shown those. It's that the mail in ballots were just sitting. You could see that was teed up by what happened in 2020 and clearly trucks supported. John, where do people go to get all your breaking news? Particularly, John, people are going to be quite interested in your take on the hang on. Of America's involvement in offensive combat operations, particularly air sorties. So where do people go, sir?
John Solomon
Yeah, Just the News.com is the website for all of our news reporting and Jay Solomon reports on all social media and we'll keep you up to date on all we're hearing. Today will be a big day. I think by the end of the night we'll know what President Trump was in interested.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, sir. Thank you.
John Solomon
John Solomon, Good to be with you. Thanks for having me on.
Steve Bannon
Thank you. Always. Wow. Hangs in the balance right now, folks. Many things. This is why I said the 10th anniversary is the preamble for the next couple hundred days, both the war at home and in the streets of LA and in Chicago and New York, what's happening on Capitol Hill with the with the taxes and the spending, the bill and the third World war, all of it, you're seeing a convergence of the crises. We'll work our way through here. Short commercial break hopefully going to talk a little high finance next. Only in the world.
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Steve Bannon
Of the founding of America is just a year away. The battle for independence began right here in Massachusetts. And this weekend marks 250 years since the Battle of Bunker Hill. And we're going to introduce you to the reenactors set to bring the battle to life in present day.
Ana Cabrera
We're in the 250th obviously, of the American Revolution right now. And it all started right here on Israel Putnam and I will be commanding the provincial forces here in the colony. They called him Old putt. He was 57 at the time. Israel Putnam was an experienced soldier. He was born up on the north shore, moved to Connecticut, but he had served during the French and Indian War, So he was an experienced officer when the revolution happened. Now at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he technically was in charge at the actual battle.
Steve Bannon
Company will advance.
Ana Cabrera
My name. My name is Eric Chetwynd. I've been a reenactor for about 49 years. My father actually started during the bicentennial when all the towns around here had militia groups and were celebrating, obviously the 200 and so he made it a family thing.
Steve Bannon
Fire.
Ana Cabrera
If you think of Boston in 1775, it's under occupation by the British Army. So there's actually a siege. Right. We've had Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world, and the militia. Russia from all the surrounding colonies have come together and formed a siege line around Boston, trapping the British in the city.
Steve Bannon
Shoulder your firelux.
Ana Cabrera
Artemas Ward, overall provincial commander, ordered Israel Putnam and several groups, including William Prescott's regiment, to go to Bunker Hill, build a redoubt, fortify the place so that the British could not just come and easily take it. The British don't realize those there yet. In the morning, as the sun rises, the harbor is filled with British ships and the lively HMS Lively is one of them. Suddenly see the fort and start opening fire on the fort. From there, a general cannonade starts to form on the British side where they're now firing at the fort. So that's sort of the opening of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Israel survived and he went on to do more things in the American Revolution. Shortly after Bunker Hill, George Washington arrives. The Continental Congress has decided that we don't need a New England army, We need a Continental or US equivalent army. Washington takes charge of that, which leads to the kind of the birth of the modern American army. We're here to tell their story. If you can walk away with a little bit of the story and you go, oh, I, I didn't know that about that. That's our goal. We're representing those stories.
Steve Bannon
250 today in the afternoon showroom. I'm gonna spend a little more time on this. We got too much breaking news this morning. But to make sure we commemorate it, one thing just remember from your heritage, let's leave even the French and Indian War aside, but between Lexington and Concord and then Bunker Hill and Breeds Hill, what happened today, 250 years ago, right, A quarter of a millennium ago, Americans could fight the British army and particularly the expeditionary force over here was. This is an army that's tough as boot leather, right? It's not the Royal Navy. The world Navy is one of the greatest institutions ever created by man. In fact, the American Navy's taken so much from it and learned so much from it. But the Royal Navy is a world historical institution. The British army ain't too shabby. Not too shabby and tough. The grenadiers, you know, you said the song, the British grenadier, Grenadiers were tough. They knew early on. And this is why the fights in commons later, because the American Revolution was to a large extent, almost like they're Vietnam. The intense debates in commons, how personal it got, how heated it got. Don't think there was a monolith in the United Kingdom in England about this war is very, very contentious. But the one thing they knew at an operational level is that the Americans could fight between Lexington and Concord, where particularly not just the stand at Lexington Common and at Concord Bridge, but really on the retreat, their tactical, I guess, retreat of their movement back to Cambridge and to Boston. They were hit and hit hard by tactics that really had been perfected a lot in the French and Indian wars, but at Bunker Hill, different. That was a stand up slugfest. And the Continental army gave as good as it got. And that's when they realized, hey, we got a fight on our hands. And particularly given, given the kind of disastrous. I shouldn't say disastrous, actually smart, but was not particularly well executed. A lot of these right after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, as we tell you. This army that was in New England really, I think, went to Nova Scotia and then came down. It landed the same day the Declaration of Independence was promulgated. So essentially the expeditionary force, which was massive, the largest expeditionary force ever I think at that time, assembled, I think larger than the Persians, larger than anything up to that time. This expeditionary force, you know, ran the tables on Washington, but he held the army together and then struck back on Christmas night at Trenton when they crossed the Delaware. But they found out that the American army at Saratoga and other places could give as good as they got. That's your heritage. Your heritage is about people that took action in that moment, right. And, and delivered. This is one of the decisions for President Trump today. And if you can pray for President Trump and as MTG says, pray for our troops, think today is a good day to do that. I think pray for President Trump for guidance so he gets good guidance and he thinks this through with his heart and that God touches him today. And thinking this through, the pressure around President Trump is absolutely relentless. I mean, if you, if you have watched Fox because we kind of monitor Fox now because of the situation, it just non stop, all they're doing and they're talking about, you know, the negotiations are nothing, they said the push, just like in Iraq. And remember how, what percentage of this audience being good American citizens and conservatives and probably a lot of you Republicans at the time, just go back in time, particularly the older members of the audience, and think back to 2003. What were you told on the lead up to that? Don't, don't take it from me. Go back and think of the lead up to that. What were you told at the time? What did people come to the White House podium tell you, looking at the straight face, many people are on TV today, right? Many people who are not even associated with Fox News or the conservative movement, the Republican Party, but over to MSNBC and other places. What were you told time and time again to prep, kind of prep the information war battlefield? What were you told? And then this is why in the first day of it, why did we end that with shock and awe in the movement up to Baghdad? Because particularly these things always start with a big bang. But remember that big bang on the 19th of March of 2003 didn't end for what, 10, 15, almost 20 years? Afghanistan over 20 years. In fact, we're still in Iraq today. That's the troops, they say, that are basically exposed to Iran. Why are they in Iraq today? Because after that genius move by the Bush administration and many others that supported it, Iran, the Persians control a big part of Iraq because of the Shiite religion, particularly down to the South. Right. And just think of what, how you were not. This was not being misled. This is not a, this was not. We miscalculated 20% on, on intelligence or we made a bad judgment intelligence. This, you were lied to, bald faced lies. President Trump's breakout moment in the 2016 primaries was not about confronting China and bringing jobs back here to the United States. Wasn't even about immigration or building the wall. A lot of people created that. It's when in these, in the South Carolina primary, the South Carolina primary, which the Republican Party there had such a, had a strong grip of the Bush apparatus and they played kind of hardball down in South Carolina in Republican politics. And given also the patriotic nature of South Carolina, South Carolina is one of those states like many others, particularly in the south, and I'm honored to come from the commonwealth, Virginia, that supply a lot of young men and women to the armed forces and are very patriotic. That when he brought up about the Iraq war and just called Jeb Bush out to his face and his whole family to his face, there was a shock moment you almost hear in the audience in every pundit, as yesterday, except for, except for Tucker. Every pundit said it was the end of Trump. It was not. You know, you couldn't go forward because you couldn't really go to that core of Republican orthodoxy. And guess what? He went in a blowout and then started to spread the field on this very issue of the forever wars. So as supporters of President Trump, I think today we don't need to inundate President Trump with calls to the White House or anything like that. I don't think today what you need to do is pray for President Trump, pray for our troops and pray for President Trump in his heart, in his mind, seeks the guidance he needs. I'll leave it at that because I think that's what we need today. Today could be a very important day. John Solomon, I think reiterated what I'm hearing for, you know, many people that we talk to is that, hey, President Trump's a deal maker. He offered these guys a deal. They kind of didn't take it seriously or thought they could just tap him along. He can't be tapped along. And now I think he's very focused on is there anybody there that actually can make a deal that can stick? But he's sticking by his beliefs that they cannot have they cannot have a nuclear weapon and would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. So that's where we stand. Other news you heard today from Josh Hawley. So three things. One, that's the Third World War, of course, things going in Russia. The Russians hit Kyiv last night with another pretty big attack. The Third World War kind of continues to metastasize. It's now not just in Gaza, in the Middle east or the Red Sea or with the Houthis and southern, you know, the southern portion of Saudi Arabia. It's now in Persia, in the heart of it. Right. An ancient civilization. So that cauldron continues to boil and are we getting sucked in over there away from to me, the essential besides the United States and the fights in the streets here that we have to win the mass deportations that have to continue on. You're taking a carrier battle group out of the South China Sea. Just like as a young man back in 79 after the hostages were taken. We were there for our second deployment to patrol the South China Sea, to patrol around Taiwan and to make sure we had a good handle on Russian submarines and Chinese submarines and everything that was going on in the East China Sea, the South China Sea, Straits of Taiwan, everything around where the 7th Fleet traditionally patrolled. We were taken with many other assets, formed into a battle group eventually. But to go the same as the nemesis, going through the Straits of Malacca to the Indian Ocean and to the North Arabian Sea and there to be on point. Back in those days they had what was called Gonzo Station and Camel Station. Those are the two kind of geographic navigational nautical pinpoints where we kind of position ourselves, although we moved around and particularly the run up. And that's what they're doing now. Those carrier battle groups, and they're going to be three are doing 24 day hour a day exercises. What are those exercises? They're doing exercises on potential, if they need to combat, combat, you know, combat sorties. In fact, I would say just like the Chinese Communist Party is doing in the east and South China Sea now, it's probably not exercises. It's probably more of rehearsals. Now the main event could always be waved off, but they're going to be very much focused on a combat operation. If so, you know, if so called on that they will be ready. You be ready to as you said with Josh Hawley, we're going to need you at the ramparts home title lock, the $1 million triple lock protection. Remember, the only thing that says you own that home, that real asset is the piece of paper called a title triple lock, 24 hour coverage. If anything happens, you're alerted immediately and if all else fails, a one million dollar protection program to make sure you get it back. Rest restoration is what they call it. Go check it out today. 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Go to donewithdebT.com and do it today. Your host Stephen K. Bass. We got today that Josh Hawley gave us the news of President Trump wants a bill on his desk that means passed by the Senate in the house by July 4th into sign two days later is in Rio. The Rio reset. This bill will have a lot to do I think particularly the deficits and how they're financed over time. Gonna have a lot to do with what the BRICS nations. The BRICS nations are not our friends. The Global south has kind of aligned itself around the Chinese Communist Party. It's had a big influence. Not that we can't break that. Right. One of the ways we break that is make sure that the that the dollar as the world's reserve currency is stable and strong. And the way you do that is make sure you don't run a trillion dollar multi trillion dollar deficits every year. Make sure you go to birchgold.com We've worked on this for four years. We were right on this four years ago when, I don't know, the price of gold was 1100, 1200 something. And I said, I just don't want people to focus like these gold sellers on just oh, this is gold. This is gold. Let's teach people something that sticks with them forever and maybe they can pass on. That's the end of the Dollar Empire. Four years. Seven, seven free installment, the Rio Reset. But get them all and read them. Even you don't fully understand it, you'll start to get the. No, like any process of learning, you'll start to get the nomenclature. The more you hear, the more you get to own mental map. That's what we're trying to do, a mental map. Birchgold.com promo code Bannon. The end of the dollar empire. The seventh free installment, the Rio Reset, which will take place on the 6th of July. When they meet down there, of course, Philip Patrick, his team will be there live. If we get Eric Bolling the country, maybe Eric goes Brazil, Brazil, Brazil. Don't love the Brazilian government. Don't love the war room right now for obvious reasons, we're huge supporters of Bolsonaro, so make sure you go check it out today. Somebody else we're a huge supporter of is Glenn Story and Patriot Mobile, the team down there. I want to bifurcate this real quickly because I want to talk about the company for a second, but just folks cannot get their head around what's going on in Texas. I understand you guys have been kind of the backbone of it. We are going to go down working out with Glenn now to actually do some of the shows down from his incredible studio down there in the headquarters. But just give me a minute. People are saying, hey, Texas is MAGA. Texas may be the railhead of MAGA. Trump won by 14 points. This is after $400 million from George Soros, by the way, the sun knowing something's up. That guy called the heir that married Uma Abedon over the weekend. He's committed another at least a couple hundred million dollars to getting back in there. Turn it blue. Give me a minute on that before we talk about Patriot Mobile. What's going on in Texas.
Glenn Story
You know what? Everybody thinks it's as red as the American flag. It's not. We're under duress. I mean, they're under attack left and right primarily from Soros and the libs that they know if they take Texas, they take the rest of the country. And you know I love Arizona and love all these other states, but we have to do everything we can to save Texas and support our House of Representatives that pass the laws. We got to support our senators, our state senators, and really get this thing taken care of.
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Talk to me about, by the way. So we're going to be. We're going to be pounding in there nonstop. You've introduced us some great people and there's a lot to do in Texas. And we have to keep Texas, not just Red, but maga, Red. Talk to me about the company. Why now? Patriot Mobile? You guys have proven beyond any shadow of a doubt you've had support of the MAGA movement. You've been here as a sponsor of so many different companies. You know, you and Mike Lindell have been the two kind of folks have stood up for making sure you don't give your money to companies that hate you. But talk to me, why now? Why Patriot Mobile now in this time, sir?
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Well, you know what? Look, the most important part is we put God first. He is at the helm of our business. And I will say this, he blesses everything we do. And we are not just a cell phone service provider. Yeah. We have these cell phones. We sell the service under it. But what we do with it is what's important. We support causes and candidates that glorify God's name. Right. Most importantly, we put him first. We live by biblical principles and we support those causes that align with freedom every day. And that's really the most important part. And you know what? We've been here for 12 years. Right. We've been through when we started the business, Obama was at the helm of the country. We went through that and then Trump and then back through Biden and now through Trump, Trump. And you know what? The business has grown beyond my imagination. And it is his blessings. And you know, we use the dollars that come in to then turn around and support those causes like First Amendment, Second Amendment, military and first responders and sanctity of life.
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Why, I got about a minute here just on the, you know, I keep saying, hey, this service is second to none, particularly you stop giving your money to people who hate you. These phone companies. Right. These service providers. But with you, you're giving your money to somebody that supports your causes. And the service is actually better since you can pick and choose and layer on top of all three services. Give me a minute on that of why people should make the switch today.
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Yeah, it's simple to do. It really is. If you have phone service today, you'll have Service. With Patriot we have the opportunity to buy from all the different carriers and we package it in a way that when you call in you talk to somebody here in Texas or out in California that is a redneck or you know we get to put in different, different networks. But here's one of the best things you can ever do is we can put multiple networks on one phone so you never are without coverage. We call that Patriot Mobile One. Very, very simple to do and it's a small fee and it's a backup line. It's incredible. And not only that, Steve, we have great business to business opportunities. We have businesses up to a thousand accounts and you know they love what we do because they have the best support that they've ever had. You know we put people in their offices or that we have always a live person ready to chat with you during the day.
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You've been in the trenches. You support people. You're. You're a relentless fighter. Honored to have you on here today, sir. Thank you.
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That's my blessing. Thank you.
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The fight down in Texas, folks. I'm telling you something not right down there. Not right.
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Bannon’s War Room Episode 4566: Chinese Plots On Fake Ballots Release Date: June 17, 2025
In Episode 4566 of Bannon’s War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into pressing national and international issues, focusing primarily on the integrity of the U.S. electoral system, economic policies affecting blue-collar workers, and escalating geopolitical tensions involving China and Iran. The episode features a compelling conversation with Senator Josh Hawley, insightful commentary from journalist John Solomon, and a segment commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
The episode opens with a discussion between Steve Bannon and Senator Josh Hawley about the recent surge in blue-collar wage growth.
Josh Hawley highlights that wage growth for hourly, non-supervisory workers has risen by nearly 2% in the first five months of the current term, a figure only previously seen during President Trump's first term. He attributes this growth to the administration's focus on manufacturing and stringent immigration policies.
Josh Hawley [00:02]: "The only other time it's been this high was during President Trump's first term. So we've seen real wages for hourly workers, non-supervisory workers rise almost 2% in the first five months."
Hawley further emphasizes that eliminating illegal immigration has reduced labor supply pressures, thereby benefiting American workers.
Josh Hawley [00:24]: "Joe Biden opened the border and it was flooded. And that for working Americans, that's a disaster because it's pressure on their wages."
Senator Hawley provides a detailed analysis of the current legislative bill under consideration, contrasting the House and Senate versions.
Ryan, the analyst, explains the complexities and potential conflicts arising from differences in state and local tax deductions, Medicaid provisions, and green energy tax credits between the House and Senate.
Ryan [00:56]: "The first being the difference between the state and local tax deduction on the House side versus the Senate side... Republicans in the Senate don't have that same concern."
Hawley critiques the Senate's approach, particularly their willingness to reduce tax cuts intended for blue-collar workers and extend subsidies that primarily benefit wealthy entities and foreign interests.
Stephen K. Bannon [04:52]: "They want to extend the Green New Deal subsidies. I have to tell you, that ought to be a big red line for everybody."
In an in-depth conversation, Senator Hawley underscores the discrepancies between the Senate's bill and President Trump's original agenda. He advocates for adherence to Trump's priorities, emphasizing tax cuts for working Americans, protection of Medicaid, and the elimination of subsidies favoring the wealthy and foreign entities.
Senator Hawley [07:16]: "We need to protect those rural hospitals, cut the Green New Deal to shreds, and cut taxes for working people. It's not that hard."
He expresses concern over the Senate's weakened tax provisions, which undermine the benefits intended for blue-collar workers, thereby favoring financial elites instead.
Senator Hawley [08:30]: "The Senate's rolling them back... Why would we give our hardworking people those blue collar workers... less so that the hedge funds and private equity can get more?"
Hawley calls for a "priority adjustment" in the Senate to align legislative actions with Trump's vision.
Senator Hawley [09:46]: "Let's stick with the president, enact the president's priorities."
Journalist John Solomon presents a groundbreaking revelation regarding foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. elections. He reveals that intelligence documents, recently disclosed to Senator Chuck Grassley, confirm that China orchestrated a campaign to produce fake driver’s licenses and mail-in ballots to influence the election in favor of Joe Biden.
John Solomon [25:32]: "The FBI believed that China had begun a mass operation to produce fake driver's licenses and have Chinese citizens here on our soil... to try to elect Joe Biden."
Solomon criticizes the Biden administration and FBI for covering up this intelligence despite evidence, highlighting a significant breach in election security.
John Solomon [26:04]: "They were lying right now, you're right."
The episode transitions to a critical analysis of the BRICS nations' initiative to challenge the U.S. dollar's dominance as the global reserve currency. This movement, dubbed the "Rio Reset," aims to diminish U.S. economic hegemony by promoting alternative currencies and reducing reliance on the dollar.
Bannon warns listeners of the impending decline in the dollar's value, urging them to diversify their savings into gold to safeguard against this financial upheaval.
Stephen K. Bannon [13:30]: "Make sure the dollar as the world's reserve currency is stable and strong... go to birchgold.com."
In an urgent segment, Bannon discusses escalating tensions in the Middle East, particularly between Israel and Iran. He references comments from John Solomon about Israel's successful military operations aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear capabilities. The discussion underscores the volatile nature of these geopolitical conflicts and the potential for broader implications.
John Solomon [21:19]: "Israel will finish its own job, which is to crush the Iranian nuclear program."
Bannon emphasizes the necessity of supporting President Trump’s firm stance against Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, reiterating the administration’s unwavering position.
Stephen K. Bannon [28:27]: "President Trump wants a bill on his desk... ensure the dollar remains stable and strong."
The episode also pays homage to American history by marking the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Through reenactments and historical commentary, Bannon connects the valor and strategic prowess of early American forces to contemporary political and social struggles.
Ana Cabrera: "If you can walk away with a little bit of the story... that's our goal."
Bannon draws parallels between the revolutionary spirit showcased at Bunker Hill and the current efforts to uphold American sovereignty and integrity.
Stephen K. Bannon [31:00]: "Your heritage is about people that took action in that moment and delivered."
Bannon’s War Room Episode 4566 presents a multifaceted exploration of critical issues facing the United States. From economic policies that bolster blue-collar wages and safeguard election integrity to confronting global financial threats and geopolitical tensions, the episode underscores the urgent need for alignment with President Trump's agenda to preserve American prosperity and security. Through expert insights and historical reflections, Stephen K. Bannon provides listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and strategies pivotal to the nation's future.
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This comprehensive summary encapsulates the key discussions, insights, and conclusions presented in Episode 4566 of Bannon’s War Room, offering a clear and engaging overview for those who have not listened to the episode.