
Episode 5490: Fulfilling The Vision Of America ...
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Nicole
The dangerous and insidious lie about voter fraud persists as Donald Trump lays the groundwork to challenge the integrity of this year's election results as well. Today, the New York Times has some alarming and exhaustive new reporting on Donald Trump's campaign to tip the scales, rooted in the very same debunked conspiracy theories he's been peddling for years. That includes 19 official actions TRUMP has taken to question previous results, which began with granting clemency for nearly 1600 charged insurrectionists, while brazen installing election deniers in the federal government at least 15 actions to fire, indict, or revoke security clearances for people who have worked against the election denialism movement, 21 actions to tighten voting restrictions designed to tip the scales in his favor, and 14 actions to nationalize elections, many of which have failed in court. But as the New York Times reports, quote, while many of Trump's directives have been blocked or delayed by the courts, election experts say that their potential harm remains significant and that some of the efforts have already eroded faith in the process. Do you agree that we are covering in real time an assault on our elections the upcoming months?
Tim
I'm very concerned of what's going to happen in the next election. It's a different situation now based on, you know, the people who perpetrated January 6th, they probably learned from how they did that. My personal view is I think the state attorney generals have a tremendous role to play here. They can make sure the rule of law functions in their state. And I would also say that I think a thing that all of us can do is support election workers and election officials. From my perspective, I've seen a number of cases. James Comey, Letitia, James Jerome Powell. I mean, right. There's not criminality here. I mean, seashells. I mean, so the only reasonable explanation is the president has it out for these people and he has people who are his former personal lawyers who are going to do what he says regardless of the facts or law. As a country, as a polity, we let this happen, which means that we cannot look to other people to fix it for us. We have to do the hard work
Stephen K. Bannon
of democratic mobilization, campaigning, protesting, speaking and advocating.
Tim
And on those last two counts, I'm really glad that those of us who
Stephen K. Bannon
made that choice months ago now have
Tim
Jack Smith on our side.
Nicole
What do we have to push back with now? It's stronger than it was then.
Unidentified Legal Expert
We have the courts. And I think that Tim is right that facts will continue to matter because the courts are insisting on it. The Courts are continuing to apply the facts and the law, and they are shooting down Donald Trump's efforts at every turn to interfere with the elections. He has tried to get voter roll data from, I believe, 10 different states, and courts have told him every single time. No. There are two court decisions that recently said that Donald Trump cannot order the postal Service not to deliver mail ballots to people in states who aren't complying with the demands for voter data. The courts are really working overtime to protect our elections. And at the end of the day, the Constitution gives the President 0 role in elections. The Constitution says that states have the primary authority over elections and that the federal government, through Congress, can make certain laws about elections, but those can only be legislated by Congress. The president himself does not, by executive order or any other means of interference, have any power whatsoever with respect to elections.
Nicole
What does it say, though, that he's sort of chipping around the edges everywhere where he may find an argument to seize some power away?
Unidentified Legal Expert
Well, that's a very important point that you make, Nicole, because it's not about a winning legal strategy, right? Sowing doubt. It's because Donald Trump knows that there is a real risk that he will lose. His party will lose at the midterm elections, and he wants to be ready to sow doubt about whether the elections were fair. And he has every intent of doing that. He's laying the groundwork to do that right now. He's also so still relitigating the election that happened in 2020, which is something that I think is becoming very exhausting for the American people. But it is having the effect of stowing doubt and chaos because it's coming from the most powerful elected official in the country.
Stephen K. Bannon
As director, Patel has, is surging personnel to Fulton county to reinvestigate, let's be clear, baseless claims by the President of the United States about election fraud.
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Stephen K. Bannon
be doing for 2020 and what they might be setting up for 26 and 28?
Senator or Political Commentator
Well, that's the key question. What are they setting up for this next election and 2028? You know, on its face, the pursuit of these baseless claims is fodder for Saturday Night Live and the humorous. But there's a deadly serious consequence, which is the waste of FBI resources, the compromise of this great agency's integrity, and the pandering to Donald Trump. Cash Patel is proving to be really the ultimate Trump sycophant. But there is an effect on the integrity of law enforcement and also, in effect, beginning the rigging of the next elections or attempt to do so by claims, unless supported claims of some kind of corruption in these local elections, which will enable Trump potentially call out militia, call out the FBI, try to in effect take over elections. And we are working hard in the United States Senate to prepare and fight that kind of threat to election integrity.
State Attorney General or Legal Analyst
The state attorney generals and they have to be the nucleus of this effort that we must have in this country to pursue the large spread criminality of the Trump administration, because Trump's going to pardon everybody. And it's going to be up to the state attorney generals to go after Kristi Noem, to go after Stephen Miller. These are people that need to be on trial, not just the workers themselves. And look there. Anybody who believes that there's election fraud, who was on the ballot, they should obviously resign because they were legally elected. It doesn't work like part of the ballot is illegal, but the other part is. And I don't, I don't get this. And they don't believe that they were legally elected. They're lying and they know that we have legal elections in America. The problem we have is we can't get people to vote in America when it's legal. People aren't waking up in the morning saying, I'm going to go commit a felony and vote. So look, it's very serious and we should consider it an absolute threat to democracy.
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Stephen K. Bannon
Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not getting a free shot.
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All these networks lying about the people.
Stephen K. Bannon
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.
Senator or Political Commentator
And where do people like that go
Stephen K. Bannon
to share the big lie? MAGA media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Eric Adams
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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War Room.
Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. It's Friday the 3rd of July in the year of Allure 2026. We're kicking off our weekend coverage. It's going to be intense. We've got so much going on. We'll break it all down for you momentarily. Want to thank everybody. Make sure you keep your tuned right here to our Real America voice for the next two days. What we're going to do first, if the cold open doesn't make your head blow up. We're going to go to New York City. The mayor, the Marxist jihadist. As the screaming headline in the Daily Mail says today about my interview with Politico, everybody's taken umbrage with me calling him a Marxist jihadist. So let me. Let me just make sure. The Ugandan Marxist jihadist is giving address as what they call a prebuttal to President Trump's address to the nation about the 250th commemoration of the birth of this nation. Let's go and listen. Start today off. Start this weekend off with Mandami.
Eric Adams
Good morning, my fellow Americans. Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. Long before the name New York had ever been spoken, Lenape dugouts crossed these currents. It was on these waters that tall masts crested the horizon, captained by explorers like Verrazano and Hudson, after whom we've named our bridges and rivers. And ever since, ships full of travelers weary from long journeys have passed through the Narrows, the winds of the Atlantic at their backs. When those passengers lifted their heads to glimpse what lies just beyond the waves, what did they see? They saw land lush and teeming with life. They saw men waiting at the docks to take them into bondage. They saw tenements rife with squalor. They saw industry rumbling with activity, steam and smoke rising. A city on the move. They saw a towering monument to freedom, her torch glowing worldwide welcome. They saw New York City. They saw America. Tomorrow, Our nation marks 250 years since we declared our independence. 250 years of a grand experiment in self governance. An experiment so audacious that some in 1776 doubted it would last more than a few years, let alone a quarter of a millennium. From Lexington to Los Angeles, Selma to Seneca Falls, Morrisania to Midwood, Americans will come together for a day, just as we do each year. Families will gather around the grill. Fireworks will fill the night sky. This will be no ordinary day of celebration. 250 years presents a rare opportunity for more than 340 million people to turn together both towards one another and towards ourselves, to take measure of who we are as a nation. When we look at America, what do we see here at City Hall? As I sit behind George Washington's desk alongside new Americans who came to this country, I cannot see all of America. But like so many who came before, I can see New York City. The city I see today looks very different than the one that greeted George Washington in July of 1776. Our city simmered under the yoke of oppression. The British had imposed a colonial rule so repressive that 250 years ago, 80 miles south, a small group of newspaper editors, farmers and soldiers signed their names on a document declaring truths that feel self evident now but were revolutionary then, establishing the ideals our nation still strives to fulfill. The British did not take it well. War broke out, and that August, as the largest battle of the Revolutionary War unfolded in Brooklyn, batteries on Governor's island took aim at British ships anchored just offshore. We were outgunned, we were outmanned, and we were soundly defeated. After only a few months, it appeared our fledgling attempt at democracy was on the precipice of collapse. But that night, with the moon overhead, thousands of our soldiers silently climbed into ferries and flat bottomed boats and escaped to Manhattan. The Continental army survived to fight another day. Independence may have been declared in Philadelphia, but it was rescued in New York City. George Washington was the last to leave Brooklyn. As he waited at the river's edge, the sun beginning its rise, he would have looked out over New York City's waters and seen what so many have seen in the 250 years since. An opportunity to. To begin anew. Those opportunities, like everything in New York City, are not given. They are won. In 1838, 11 years after New York outlawed slavery, a recently emancipated black man by the name of James Weeks sought to begin anew as well and to help hundreds of others do the same. He bought property in Brooklyn, won himself the right to vote, and sold lots to others newly freed. When they landed in New York harbor, they knew they had something waiting for them that they had never had before. A home. Weeksville still stands today. A living, breathing testament to what we know America to be. A place each of us has the power to make. The harbor was busy those years as ships poured in from around the world. Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomachs aching from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty. Tiny sailors settled in what is today Chinatown. Millions more traveled under the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island. Jewish people escaping pogroms, Italians fleeing poverty, Syrians seeking economic opportunity. Each of these new arrivals peered through portholes onto a city that was changing as fast as the nation. They saw merchants peddling their wares on the docks, streets being laid out on a grid, buildings rising into the clouds. They could not yet see the nativism they would face, the jobs they would be refused, the landlords who would not rent to them, and the abject labor and living conditions they would withstand. But no matter how much smog hung over the harbor, they still saw an opportunity to begin anew. Over the years that followed, despite laws enacted by the federal government to bar their entry, despite sweatshop fires that killed hundreds of women, despite riots aimed at their very existence, immigrants made homes here in New York City. And they helped to make New York City. That legacy of every generation of Americans insisting that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness extends to them too, is no relic of the past. It carried millions of black Americans north during the Great Migration. It drew hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to New York City after the Second World War. It invited countless others from the West Indies and South Asia and West Africa and across the world. And it is what brought my family to the city when I was seven years old. My family did not arrive by boat, although we saw the Statue of Liberty. From the window of the plane, even from the air, we could make out the promise of America, the promise of the beautiful, patriotic work of rendering America, year after year, a little more faithful to its founding ideals. There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it. American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the west, is why children in faraway lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here. And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional. For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshiping the wrong gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from slums and shtetls who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had. We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else. The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that work endures. And it belongs to us all. It belongs, too, to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized nearly a decade ago. I, too, felt what you feel the Joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too. You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means. The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress. As Thomas Paine once wrote, this new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. Hither have they fled. And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum. As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see mass agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused dirt streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few. Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick. But that is not all we see when we look for America. We see it, too, in the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on her way home to check on an ailing neighbor. Yes, we see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model. We see it, too, in the father who tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, who wakes before dawn to go to work and still believes his country can do better by his family. Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts when we sell our elections to the highest bidder. Yet we see it just as clearly in every American who still believes this country belongs to we the people. We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here or what papers they have as ice invades our neighborhoods, we see America each time those young and old stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast their ballots, we see America each time working people demand more, not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans. There are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple love it or leave it, they say. But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous descent. It is every march led under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation that we will not leave it. After all, who loves America more than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free? Today, I think not only of the 4th of July, I think 2 of the 9th of July. Five days after the Declaration of Independence was signed, it arrived here in our New York City. Redcoats had disembarked on Staten island. More than 100 British ships loomed just offshore. Across this city, the Continental army prepared for an invasion. George Washington commanded his brigades to assemble just a few feet from this building. It was known then as the Commons. Today we call it City Hall Park. There, within range of British guns, Washington ordered his generals to read the Declaration aloud. And with the world's mightiest empire poised to attack, Washington told the people of New York City what we will celebrate tomorrow. That we had declared our independence. That freedom was within reach. That evening, danger loomed. Conflict was not a question of, but a certainty. And yet, when those early New Yorkers marched toward the statue of King George III that stood in the Bowling Green, a statue they would melt down into bullets for their young army. They walked in unison, grounded not in the pursuit of plunder, but in ideals that for the first time had a name. America. Those ideals upon which our nation was built, they are strong enough to endure any authoritarian regiment, but only if we reach for them. Ours is a nation working each day towards the perfection in which it was conceived. A nation striving each day to better itself. Therein lies the work of America, the striving, the bettering, the reaching towards perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before. What power each of us holds to bring America ever closer to the greatness so many have seen when they looked upon these shores. The greatness that for 250 years has been America. Thank you. God bless America. God bless New York city and happy 4th of July,
Stephen K. Bannon
Friday, the 3rd of July, in the year of our Lord 2026. I think you just saw the. Why did we play that live? Why did we ruin. Because I know many people's heads are blowing up. You have to. As you know, I have been the most adamant to say that we must focus on the task and the work at hand every day. And that is to work, because 26 don't even speak about 28. 28. And the race in 28 should not be in anybody's lexicon or any serious thinker. And all these people that run around, what about 20? It's just a typical immature horse race. We have so much work ahead of us to fulfill the vision of Maga. But right there, the starting pistol went off in 2028. No, Mandami cannot be president United States. He's born in Uganda. However, he is leading a movement with very powerful dark money in back of him. And I want you to be very specific. Hopefully, if not today, then Monday. I'll break it all down in detail. We'll get Navarro up here in a second. Let me give an analogy. And this is quite imperfect in warfare. Today's the anniversary of also the charge at Gettysburg where the Cushing brothers, or the Alonzo Cushing and the Union soldiers that stood in that gap and stopped Pickett's charge essentially saved the Union. The key, the Confederates, when they were coming up and going over the wall, was to take the guns, take the artillery that eventually killed them, to turn the guns around. This is a very concentrated force to turn the guns around, turn their cannons around, turn their guns around on the people in defense, turn the guns around. Mandami just gave you a lesson in rhetoric. And the reason I played that live. This is quite serious. If you dismiss this guy and dismiss the people around him and dismiss the money in back of him, you are missing something that's more powerful than Obama. And it's not just this guy. It's the team around him. Of course, you saw what he had in the backdrop. He also took, I mean, the part about New York City and the part about Washington, the part that Patrick K. Or Donald Ardos will do tomorrow on the fourth of July. And then I told you on the Starting on the 6th, every day we'll talk about it. You could have lifted the military part and the glories of the revolution. Yes, you could have lifted that right from war room. And I'm sure they've done some of this. They took the. And this is what Marxists do. They want to take the rhetorical flourishes or take the symbology to make you feel and particularly to make lower information voters lower information people. It's what I said about what he offers. They offer free rent, they offer cheap food, they offer this. When you're sitting there and you're going through these economic times and you read every day about guys taking companies public and becoming trillionaires, or you see that 400 millionaires have been. Yes, I understand that. I would say that's late stage capitalism. But when you have a capitalist system that has very few capitalists in it, when you have very few people that are actually hardwired into the system for the creation of wealth so that all boats rise, obviously given your efforts in at least some sort of meritocracy and trying to be some sort of meritocracy, but you have a system with very few capitalists in it. What you just heard is very appealing. And what he does is play on the symbols of America to say, hey, we're actually more America. We represent the true narrative. This is what you're going to have to combat. This is why this is a nationwide movement. This is why it's been many years in the planning and they have very sophisticated people on back of it and
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Stephen K. Bannon
And you just saw the start coming from a guy says, don't worry about 2028. That was the starting pistol on 2028. And no, he can't run. He's not going to run. Doesn't mean that he's not the kingmaker on the Democratic side. And you don't have anybody in the Democratic Party to stand up for that. Now, why did they do it from City hall in New York on the day before the 4th of July to get in front of the president kind of say, hey, here's my throwdown, here's what I got. Show me what you got. Show me what you got. The people that dismiss this and think we're just going to haul up the social ills of. So the folks, the consultants that are stealing as we speak, the grift and the corruption in the Republican Party and the consulting class and all the different deals, they got kickbacks, they've got. They think they're just going to take a copy of Milton Friedman, right? And Throw it at him and he's going to go away. That's not going to happen. I hope you saw right there. And this is why it was important for the war room to start today with this guy. And make sure you hear it. You hear it, because this has to be a collective effort to defeat this. You're going to have to use your agency or we're going to. In the 250th year. That's what's going to take over this republic. And people go, oh, Steve, you're okay. You're right. Okay. We called this back in February, March of 2025, and it's been 100% right. And those are looking the other way because he's now going to be lauded. That speech all day is going to be lauded. They're going to play it non stop. And the very people who know better, the New York Times and people like this, educated people know exactly what's going on, are going to laud this guy and demonize this, the president. Everything with Trump is demonization. And I hope you've looked at the coverage lately. It is the worst coverage of President Trump ever. They're ginning up other potential assassination attempts, no doubt, and he's the foil. So in the year of our Lord 2026 and the two on the eve of the 250th commemoration of the birth of this great nation, most powerful nation on earth, what would the revolutionary generation tell us? You better get to work is what they would tell us. You better roll your sleeves up and get to work. Like they got to work small at first. Look, it took 15 years for them to get to this date. 15 years. At least. 15 years of danger and fortitude and courage. And today they essentially signed. Or tomorrow they signed their death warrant. Yeah, their death warrant. The Declaration of Independence. That's why Hancock put it so big. We got our work cut out for us. They would know that and you know that. We're going to take a short commercial break. We're going to go to the White House. Dr. Peter Navarro next.
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Do it and do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. That's why this fight for to make sure that we've got these elections worked out has to be very, you know, very precise. You had Natalie on here yesterday. We'll get the substack but I want to go back to what you just heard, I don't believe you didn't hear any whining. Right? You didn't hear the. The Marxists understand history. They understand the power of history. They understand how they have to take history and warp it. Right. This is the way they get control. Remember, there was never more than 15%. I think of the. During Russia, during the revolution, more than 15% were Bolsheviks. Same in the French Revolution with the really hardcore. Eventually they become between terror and control. Obviously they take control and obviously they get more people on their side. But it starts out small. But they understand history. They understand how to weave it into the culture. Right there you saw the use of history to turn things on its head. But when you have children, you have these generations, not children, I shouldn't say children you have under 40s or under that are. Have been raised on Howard Zinn and have not just the public school system. Public school system. There's a poll out. Can you pull that on Drudge? Go to the MacDaddy. On Drudge. On Drudge they get a poll. You know, like half the country don't even know what we're celebrating. This is about when you. New York City has eight and a half million people. Three and a half million are foreign born. It's not like they're sitting there going, yeah, they can talk to you about the committees on correspondence. They weren't trained on the McGuffey Reader. You've had generation after generation when, remember the cultural Marxists understood this is why they went to the education system. They realize in a couple generations they can turn it all around. This is Reagan's great warning, which people never took seriously. In one generation you can lose it, because you can. And now you're dealing with. This is why you just can't take a copy of Milton Friedman and roll it up and throw it at him and say, of course it's freedom and capital. You have to learn. Here's Ayn Rand, here's Atlas Shrug. You, you have to be an uber mensch. We gotta get you read some Nietzsche, right? You're gonna be an ubermensch. You're gonna be a superman. And the supermen are going to get us out of this. It's not the way the system works. Obviously that's never worked.
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The.
Stephen K. Bannon
But we're up against it. You just saw 2028 laid out right there on top of free stuff. You just saw it right there. That's. That's the sounding. That's the shot they're taking. That's their Program on tons of free stuff, on tons of rent. And here, when you don't have anyone in that crowd, that is in the capitalist system, what I mean by that, they have a little grub steak of something. They had a story about a farmer in Loudoun County. They've been here for 250 years. I think they counted nine generations. Nine generations. Think of your own family. Think of your own family. Think of families in your community. By the way, the Sound of Freedom is going right over the, the Breitbart Embassy in the war room even as we speak. It sounds pretty good. They're coming in low on their practice runs for tomorrow. People have been here 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 generations, 9 generations, and you're one paycheck away from oblivion. Is that because it's a character flaw? Is you didn't work hard enough when you volunteered for the military and served in Korea, Vietnam or Desert Storm or in the war on terror. Are you one of the families that supported that? If you knocked on doors and gave money and you know, fought for the conservative cause. How did we get to this spot? How did we get to this spot? Tell me how. You tell me. I'm not going to. You tell me. I want you to think this is the way we're going to. The way we're going to get through this and reverse it. We're going to turn the guns on them, but it has to come from you. This is what populism is. Remember the greatest quote of populism, the greatest quote came from Lao tzu, I think 400 BC around the time of, of Socrates and Plato. Same was in China. And they said the best. And he said, he looked around and said the best leaders are when objectives are reached and missions are accomplished, the people turn to themselves and say, look what we have done. Look what we have done. President Trump saved the nation. Full stop. Save this country. If you didn't have Donald Trump, you would have had Receina Day, would have been the following to the Clintons and she would have changed everything. The courts, all of it. Because those globalists are riding at a tiger they can't control. Because they're starting off them right now. They're not prepared for what comes after them. Remember the great quote by Louis xiv, the Sun King? After me, the deluge. He knew, he looked around. He's a smart guy. He saw what was happening. He didn't know if he could stop it. He know what, he made a decision. He wasn't going to stop it. That was going to be that was going to be his kids and grandkids problem after me, the deluge. Well we're not prepared to do that. It's not after us to deluge. We're going to confront this now and we're going to confront this in a sophisticated manner. But you have to address the lies and you have to give alternatives, meaningful alternatives. For somebody that's sitting there, the rent's too damn high and, and they're offering them free rent now in, in the, the tax cut crowd, you got your supply side tax cut. Scott Bessant even said that's the, that's the lowest tax cut you can get. I heard in the reconciliation and thinking of another tax cut. I'm not kidding you. Maybe they're not looking at the books, maybe they're not looking at the 39 trillion. 39 trillion is at the tip of the iceberg. It's ongoing deficit you have to finance. Guess what? Because all the cuts we talk about haven't been made yet. You're still funding every social program that creates the Mamdanis of the world but you haven't come up with alternatives to make people part of the capitalist system. Now anthropic, excuse me. OpenAI and Elon have both approached the way, both approached the president with how about 5% of the company for the government? How about 5%? What are they responding to? They're responding to this show and others. I mean Bernie I think is mentioned a couple times although he does it a very different way. But us saying very bluntly 50% of that equity should be allocated to American citizens, not to the government. In fact we should take the intel piece, send it out to American citizens right now. You get a Trump account, the kids get 1,000 bucks and you can add to that at a time but you get a Trump account too. And guess what? It's going to have a taste. People say, well Steve is so, you know when he, I said not if you just get a basket, throw some things in that you can't sell, just toss it in. It'll amount to something. If you believe in the numbers and the growth in the economy in this, it'll amount to something. Why not a little something for the effort? Oh, that's Marxist socialism. No, that's expanding the system of capitalists. Give me some better ideas. I'm open for better ideas. What do you got? Oh, Milton Friedman. I'm not so sure. The system, the system's completely rigged. Did you not sit to 2008? Where is Milton Friedman in 2008? You know where Milton Friedman was in 2008? Louie Gohmert, you remember Gohmert? Stood in the well of the house and he gave you capitalism 101. What's Friedman's book? Freedom and Capital. He gave it to you right there on the bailouts. He said, let them fall. Let it all go down. And in the burning crash, we'll rebuild it along capitalist lines. Let's do it. Shouldn't bail any of these guys out. They all got bailed out with your money. I hope you understand this. I want to give you the ultimate sucker's play. You paid for it. The zero negative interest rates that you couldn't. You couldn't accumulate any capital, even off that tiny little checkbook you got in your savings account and all your. All the tax. They said, well, gosh, they had these deals. They took the money. They had warrants.
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You got a taste. You're training Goldman Sachs to go in and wipe out the equity holders. The people that got you in a situation, they get wiped out and fired, turfed out, and they should go to prison for taking down the system. Man, I love that. We got treetop level. We got treetop level jets coming in today, the practice run. Hope it's not a bombing run. You have to combat this with meaningful opportunities for people. And Caroline Levitt. I love Caroline. We were the first ones that put her on years ago when she was running in that primary. She's spectacular and does amazing job. Her turn on Jesse bought it, I don't think was the best. I don't think these kids are dumb and lazing. I think our kids in our youngest generation. Yeah. And we've lost a lot of them. But if you go back, you lost them because you allowed this education system to teach pure cultural Marxism. Many people hate the country, hate America. Howard Zinn's book's nothing but a bilge, a sewage, a sewer pipe of absolutely uncontested hate. In those years of formation, this is why they had the seminaries, young men would go. The formation of character, that really important time between, I don't know, 11 or 12 and 17 and 18, those critical years. This is why these people, you know, they have this website, this kind of anonymous website, talks about the prep schools in New York and what they're taught and who's teaching them. Remember, they're all radicals from Brown and all these Ivy League schools that are there teaching, forming. These people that hate the country and hate the system and hate you as American citizens and want to invite the world here and invite more of the world here. Mandami, when he gets past the high rhetoric, he runs a sanctuary city. He just said the other day, they're not going to enforce anything, that the Supreme Court backed on temporary protective status because the Haitians built New York. Of course the Haitians built New York. I remember the age of Haitians in New York building New York, building the skyscrapers, building the bridges, digging the tunnels to the subways. Of course these iron men and women, of course they built it. Now, some of them went to Springfield, Ohio and barbecued dogs. But no, they built it in New York City. And he just said, I'm nullifying. What is the difference? In Mandami and Calhoun, there's no difference. Maybe a difference in degree, but not difference in kind. It's complete nullification of federal law. This is what Newsom's done. They control the great cities and you hear the rhetoric. They do. Who wouldn't rub up on that speech? They're all going to say, oh, the Marxist jihadists say, hey, we love George Washington. We love the revolutionary generation. You know, these aren't just dead white guys, slaveholders. Oh, these guys are fantastic. We're going to, we're going to have every American flag out there. See what you see. We got a big old fight on our hands, folks, and it's against a very, very, very sophisticated enemy. So anybody's going to dismiss it and we're just going to have to run around and say, oh, they're dumb and lazy and they want free stuff. We're going to ship them back to Cuba. I'm not. I think that's going to play as well. And I think this is going to get as much traction as when they say free rent. We're going to say, well, Milton Friedman says that's not correct because the system's not not structured on Milton Friedman, and everybody knows that it's corrupt from top to bottom. The fix is in and the fix is in against you to kick off this weekend. Unfortunately, you're kind of the same suckers, the best people in the country. The revolutionary generation handed down unbroken chain generation to generation. It all rests upon your shoulders. You support this entire, entire apparatus. You. Can I get a show of hands? Yeah, you. Short commercial break Back in a moment. War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Okay, Natalie, yesterday, by the way, Natalie Winters did. Has done an amazing job on her substack when he heard the cold open this morning before he got to Mandami's, his redefining American history and who are Americans. And by the way, if you're in the Washington, D.C. area, you can hear it right now. These fighter jets are coming in right at treetop level over the Capitol, but then heading down and going on the Mall. It's amazing. I've just been informed that's going to take place all day as the kickoff to the events tomorrow morning. We're going to start at 7am here in the War room on Real America's Voice. We're going to be live all day to, I don't know, midnight or one o' clock in the morning whenever the fireworks stop. And we're going to do the Naval Review and also we're going to go to Liberty Freedom plaza down in D.C. which we're going to talk about. We're going to lay this all out. We're going to have a whole great group of special guests and contributors we've had. We're going to do the Naval Review early in the morning, then the tall ships, then Liberty flight. We're going to do it all. Then we're going to shift coverage at about 1 or 2 o', clock, I think to the, to the main stage. We've got, we've got anchors down really on the Mall. We're going to toss them and then I will be back at 5 to pick up the coverage. We're going to take it to 7 o' clock and then 7 o' clock in the main stage. They're going to have this amazing extravaganza of American history and then the President will come and address the nation, I think 9ish. And then the greatest fires work display ever. Now that's all kind of, you know, these are all moving. These are all movable feast since so much is happening. But we'll be back here at 7am tomorrow morning. Natalie did an amazing if you haven't read her substack and over the weekend, if you get a chance to to spend time doing anything, do that. Also, we get up to speed on Birch Gold. Everybody's got specials right now and I want to make sure you get access to these specials. All family pharmacy go to allfamilypharmacy.com today and you get buy one get one free. A special. I think it goes through July 7th. Make sure you get to it today. Talk to the team over there. AllFamilyPharmacy.com promo code Bannon get buy one get one free. Of course, Natalie on depending Dominguez and the team at hometitle lock hometitlelock.com, promo code Steve. 25. You get 25% off the $1 million triple lock protection for two year deal. So it's pennies a day. You get a two year deal, 25% off. Talk to them. Of course take your phone out because you want to get to Birch Gold. They've got this free 1oz silver round ain't a coin, it's a round. And you go to take your phone. Easiest is Bannon B A N N o N at 989-898. Talk to Philip Packter and the team. Get all the information from Birch Gold. Obviously it's free and no commitments. None whatsoever. The next hour, here's what we're going to do. We're going to actually tee up this Freedom Plaza with these. And Freedom Plaza, if you remember, right across from where the great World War I monument was built. And this is right across the street from the treasury, right outside the. The historic Willard Hotel, which as you guys remember we've broadcast from many, many times historical moments like the 2024 victory and in 2022 overlooking where J6 took place. So it's right there in that plaza where World War I is right across the street in Freedom Plaza I think is the most impressive thing I've seen in this entire run up to the celebration of the 250th and that is the statues. They've done these amazing statues of the Revolutionary War and heroes of American history. Matthew Taylor, who has been my director of photography and editor on so many films that we've done that I've done as direct writer and director also Matthew. I've produced a couple of films Matthew actually made. He was the director of the Cash Patel and we took Government Gangsters and made a film of it. He was the director. He's actually the brain in charge of all this, has pulled this all together. He'll be next hour to tee up. What we're going to see tomorrow, they're going to give us kind of an exclusive tour of all of this. And it's something that coming back, you've got to see. It's going to stay for a while, at least through the summer, fall I hope. Hopefully it stays forever, but we'll get to that. Also, Eric Metaxas is going to join us and as we always do on July 3rd. Remember it is the third day at Gettysburg and also the day that Vicks. So the massive turning point in the Civil War is today that we always commemorate. And we'll get to that in the second hour. Update on. And I think Steve Gruber is going to jump in quickly with an update on the song. The song is. I think song is still number two. Taylor Swift, she's not Runaway Bride. I don't think we forced her to run away from the marriage to panic and go back on tour immediately. But what Gruber and these guys have done with One Nation in such a moving and such an incredible song. Can we go out? We got it teed up. Are we ready to go out with it? I want to play that particularly on today, the 3rd of July, in the year of our Lord 2026. I think you saw how we got our work cut out for us. The whole first part of it was about a complete meltdown. And remember when they said we don't really have anything to combat what the right's doing? That's what Natalie Winters substack and her hit yesterday in the show when she goes down the amount of money they're putting in to kind of make sure that this election is secured by them. Because as we say, and you can tell this by the illegal immigrants and the foreign voting they've got and the foreign money, because remember, Mandami is backed by dark money sources that are not American sources. The whole dark money. And I pray to God that Scott Besant and Todd Blanch, these guys are on top of things. And the FBI get all over this. If Ken Delaney and say that Cash has spent time on the ballots, God bless him. But Pulte and Cash, these guys got to be looking at this money because the puppet masters are not American. Money's coming from all over to back this. Okay, we're going to go out with one nation. We're going to be back in the war room in just a moment.
Prayer or Closing Voice
These United States, keep her in your holy protection. Our first president. Pray cultivate the hearts of the people to unite in the faith and form a bond of brotherly love to what no man could ever pray. Lord, bless the the fallen soldiers who have given up their lives to the blood spilled in the battles and the family left behind. We honor the fallen soldiers who have fought and given all 250 years we're still standing tall. One nation under God May we always be the home of the brave and the land of the free. For every battle blood was lost. Darkness of America.
Date: July 3, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Podcast: Bannon’s War Room on WarRoom.org
This episode, aired on the eve of America’s 250th Independence Day, centers on the ongoing battle over the nation’s identity, threats to the electoral process, and the meaning of patriotism in a divided country. The program opens with discussion of recent actions by former President Trump to challenge election integrity and includes a live broadcast of a major speech by New York City’s mayor (presumably Mandami, as referenced by Bannon) reflecting on America’s past, present, and future for its 250th year. Bannon and guests respond fiercely with concerns of Marxist influence, the rigged economic system, and the need for populist mobilization to counter what they see as a coordinated progressive movement. The show is threaded with warnings about a “dangerous moment” for American democracy, critiques of “dark money,” and a call for action heading into the July 4th celebrations.
Opening Discussion ([00:00-04:30])
Legal Perspective ([02:33-04:17])
Investigations and Political Weaponization ([04:30-05:46])
Role of State Attorneys & Political Consequences
| Time | Segment/Quote | |--------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00 | Nicole details Trump’s election interventions and NYT reporting | | 01:10 | Tim urges citizens to support election workers, attorney generals’ role | | 02:13 | Bannon and Tim on the importance of democratic participation | | 02:33 | Legal expert explains the President’s limited constitutional role in elections | | 03:42 | Discussion of Trump “sowing doubt” and the risks to democracy | | 04:36 | Senator/political commentator: “What are they setting up for this next election and 2028?” | | 05:46 | State attorney general/analyst: state-level accountability, threat to democracy | | 08:37 | NYC Mayor begins 250th speech; history of immigration, struggle, and American ideals | | 19:48 | Adams: “Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent… we will not leave it.” | | 22:21 | Bannon responds: “We must focus on the task and the work at hand… to fulfill the vision of MAGA.” | | 24:30 | Bannon: “This is what Marxists do. They take… symbology to make you feel…” | | 26:45 | Bannon: “That was the starting pistol on 2028…” | | 33:04 | Bannon: “You have to address the lies and you have to give alternatives, meaningful alternatives…” | | 38:53 | Bannon criticizes the economic system and calls for innovative populist ideas | | 43:01 | “You have to combat this with meaningful opportunities for people.” | | 44:55 | Bannon denounces “cultural Marxism” in education | | 47:19 | Preview of July 4th coverage; patriotic events, statues, and the war over American history narrative |
The language throughout is urgent, confrontational, and highly rhetorical. Bannon’s style is pugnacious, often apocalyptic, and emphasizes populist, anti-elite themes. The mayor’s speech is soaring, inclusive, and frames patriotism through historical struggle and progress. Exchanges alternate between legal analysis, political strategy, and evocative storytelling referencing American history and contemporary social issues.
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