
WarRoom Battleground EP 847: Next Man Up ...
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Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going.
Jack Posobiec
Medieval on these people.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Reasons I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people.
Steve 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.
Jake Tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA Media I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Steve Bannon
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Steve Bannon (Host)
War Room.
Jack Posobiec
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Okay, welcome. Thursday, the 11th of September, the Overlord 2025. It is 9 11, the 24th anniversary we've had, so there's a lot going on. The Hearst, I think, has arrived. According to the wire services, Daily Mail and others at an army base. It's going to be meeting Air Force Two. It's going to go to Phoenix. There has not been announcements, I don't think Jack, of any other of the arrangements. I know a lot of things are up in the air. They're trying to figure out what they're going to, what folks are going to do, but Charlie's remains are going to be taken by Air Force Two back to Phoenix. Don Jr. We'll get this up a little. Don Jr. Has been on Megyn Kelly today and just threw down hard on the transgender, transgender ideology and the violence the transgender movement is bringing to America. Netanyahu is on saying that Islamists have done this. So, Jack, I want to step back for a second. Not only did you write the book on humans, which is a New York Times bestseller, a war room book that we were very proud to do and quite controversial, but you make a very logical case. You go throughout history, right, and connect the dots here to the unhumans and the barbarity and how savage they are. You've also, I think, done more than any individual to really put forward to us.
Steve Bannon
Butler, which our audience is, prides itself.
Steve Bannon (Host)
The war on Posse, prides itself of being on top of every major issue and having the details and being able to get links and podcasts and tweets. We try to inundate and flood the zone with information for people. I think most people would say, I really don't understand Butler. I don't have enough information has been put out. It seems to me there's so many striking similarities with Butler Here, at least initially. I mean it's pretty eerie. Was Butler uses a prototype. I mean we've never gotten really. The FBI's, we don't know, we don't know deep state involvement, we don't know administrative state involvement. The FBI has really been forthcoming. The, the CIA hasn't been forthcoming. The parents, you know, in buying the kid the weapon and the ammunition. The parents have never been, I don't think even interviewed to the degree under oath to be accessories to the crime or co conspirators. So walk me through. Doesn't it kind of shock you how similar this looks to Butler, sir?
Jack Posobiec
Well, Steve, honestly I wish I could say it was shocking, but it's not shocking because it follows a pattern and it follows a trend. We are now seeing a trend play out in front of our eyes and what you see is a profile. Highly intelligent, well planned, well trained, well practiced assassins. Young in age, Gen Z. I could think three right off the top of my head. Thomas Matthew Crooks. Luigi Maggione. Now this individual. So who they describe as college age, what was Thomas Matthew Crooks? He was highly intelligent. He was proficient in use of a drone, proficient in use of technology that he learned while in School. Scored 1500 on his SATs, although he did not matriculate to anything other than a community college. Allegheny County Community College. He was involved in robotics. He was able to build bombs, although the FBI had said at the time that they were not activated. Those bombs awaited in a car that he had that completely always gets lost whenever anyone talks about this. And of course he was able to do what he did, getting on top of that prone position at the Butler county fairgrounds and then be able to take those shots at President Trump and then the rest of the crowd. Now what you're seeing, Steve, is a pattern of copycats. So Luigi Maggione becomes a copycat of Butler and now the Charlie Kirk shooter becomes a copycat of both. So this is a Magione copycat. It is a Butler copycat. And what you're seeing is escalation. These, these individuals, they look at it and they say I can be smarter than that guy. I can get away with it. I can make the shot, I can make the kill and then I can escape and I can look at their plan and that's what they do. They obsess over these plans, these shooters. The school shooter up in the trans school, shooter at the Catholic school, Annunciation Catholic school. Again, completely obsessed with various other shootings, obsessed with planning. There is a sense of godlike ability that they believe they have in order to be able to control life itself, to get in, get out through this planning process and will make very specific, calculated decisions to take the lives of the innocent.
Steve Bannon (Host)
What do you think is going to be the key that picks the lock here? They've got a weapon, they've got some shells. They're saying now senior law enforcement is not refuting, but saying people don't have the whole story about the shells themselves and whether the stock of the rifle or there's transgender ideology and antifa on it. They supposedly got handprint, they got shoe print, they got some video. Cash is not coming out here for his health. There must be something going on to bring the director of the FBI. And I think you actually said Dan Bongino may be with him. I mean, what is your sense of where this stand? Because we have to get this assassin and we have to get him alive.
Jack Posobiec
Where it stands is this is going to happen again until these types of groups and these type, this type of ideology is actually addressed directly at the national federal level.
Steve Bannon (Host)
If you can pull up and read Thom Tillis specifically came after you and I today. And remember, Thom Tillis is the guy, the historic more of President Trump's efforts in the Senate. And he's another one who's just horrible wrong on every topic. And we ran him out of the Senate so he knew that he couldn't even run for reelection. A quite bitter guy. And can you read what he said earlier today?
Jack Posobiec
Steve, let me pull this up. So he was responding to comments that you and I made on the show yesterday, and I think a misreporting of those comments. But here's Thom Tillis. What I was really disgusted by yesterday is a couple of talking heads that sees this as an opportunity to say we're at war so that they could get some of our conservative followers lathered up over this. It seems like a cheap, disgusting, awful way to pretend like you're a leader of a conservative movement. And there were two in particular that that I found particularly disgusting.
Steve Bannon (Host)
What does what is Tillis tell us has just a the typical guy that comes out up here and just trying to punch a clock and was got in the way of President Trump's programs on multiple occasions. He was told in those uncertain terms, you're not going to get an endorsement for Trump. You don't have endorsement. You're going to get beat in a North Carolina primary. So he stepped down. What, what is he missing here? What is he missing? What are people missing when they say Jack Bosovic wrote on humans. What are they missing about the very moment we're in?
Jack Posobiec
Well, Steve, what they're missing is that the bullets are going in one direction. The bullets are hitting Charlie Kirk, they're hitting Donald Trump, they're hitting CEOs on the streets of New York City. That's Mangioni. So, yes, when we say a war has been declared, what other word would you like us to use? That is the situation. They have stopped attempting to engage in politics as the art of discussion and debate. That's what Charlie stood for. And look what they did to him. They couldn't out debate him, so they did this. So when we say that's a weapon of warfare, you're absolutely right. Because that is what warfare is. That is when one side stops talking and begins diplomacy by other means. As they say in international politics.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Look, they've debunked people, they deplatformed them, they've sent them to prison, they tried to bankrupt them, they with President Trump, 700 years. Tillis and these guys just stood by, by the way. I am not a conservative. I say that all the time. I'm not a conservative. You know why? Because people like Tillis are conservatives. And those wimps are the reason the country's in the shape it's in, right? They get votes, they get elected, they raise a ton of money and they come to D.C. and all they do is just go along to get along. You know, get in business with the lobbyists, get in business with all, you know, big pharma, Wall street, all of it. You don't really have a career, you're just a sponge up here. No, we're at war. Not a war that we wanted. This award's been declared on a populist nationalist movement, on the President Trump movement. And you can see in every lawfare, bankruptcy and actual, as I said, it's going to go to assassinations. I went to that Semaphore conference in, it was in the spring and at Semafor I said, look, unless there's some changes here, you're going to have this left. They're so radicalized and they're so violent and no one will do anything about it that they're going to kill and kill again. And now they've assassinated Charlie Kirk. Let's play do we have the Jake Tapper before. I know you got to bounce. Okay, so Jack is going to be on Laura Ingraham tonight. Want to make sure everybody tunes in to Laura. But can we play the. Do we have the Jake Tapper okay, let's go and play it.
Jake Tapper
A bit of what we heard from prominent voices in conservative media reacting to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Dave Brat
The most important voices that we've had in my lifetime on the right. We're going to pick up that bloodstained microphone where Charlie left it.
Steve Bannon (Host)
But we have to have steely resolve, right? Charlie Kirk's a casualty of war in this country. We are.
Jake Tapper
You just heard Steve Bannon say that Charlie Kirk was a, quote, casualty of war. On today's New York Times podcast, the Daily, you said, quote, kirk was, in a sense, killed in the line of duty, unquote. How do you see his death influencing the conservative movement? Because, boy, there are a lot of people in the conservative movement not only hurt, not only upset, but really angry. And I'm not saying they shouldn't be, but, like, really, you really just see it tangibly. They're very mad.
Unnamed Conservative Commentator
I think you're right, Jake. And I don't think there's any reason. There's nothing that would indicate to us that the conservative movement will cool its passions as a result of this assassination. I don't think that this is going to stir a kind of unifying theme. To the extent that there's any unity, it will be unity against the left. And we have seen, you know, from the. Really, from the moment his assassination was confirmed, people using third person plural.
Steve Bannon (Host)
They.
Unnamed Conservative Commentator
They did this to Charlie Kirk in the way that we heard frequently after the assassination attempt on Trump and Butler. So they are viewing this, the conservatives are, as a nuts versus them moment.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Jack Bosobic, your thoughts. Draper's one of the smartest writers they've got over the New York Times. Your thoughts and observations, sir?
Jack Posobiec
Well, it's. It's incredible, Steve. All these people want to do is talk about the conservative movement. The conservative movement, the conservative movement. Where's any talk about the shooter? Where's any talk about the person pulling the trigger or the person who pulled the trigger in New York City on the street, an innocent man, or the person who pulled the trigger in Butler, Pennsylvania, or the person who was attempting to pull the trigger down in West Palm beach, who, by the way, is still going on trial right now. No discussion, no discussion about the political assassinations and assassination attempts that have taken place. It's the conservative rhetoric. Oh, gosh, the rhetoric. Look, we can have a country where we have debate or we can have a country where we have this. And unfortunately, what do I see are people, people who know a lot better, and people like Jake Tapper by The way who have encouraged political violence in the past. I haven't forgotten, Jake, are sitting there acting like it's not happening.
Steve Bannon (Host)
You've had, in Nashville, you had the transgender radical that wrote. She wrote a manifesto. We still, you know, Michael Patrick Leahy, what, two years later, we still don't have the whole thing. You've had the situation in Minneapolis with a young guy, you know, actually went into do the stained glass windows in the. Aiming at the church pews, take out as many kids as possible as quickly as possible with, I think, 115 rounds. Those kind of, you know, those have already been forgotten about. The left, the right and the decent people in this country are now target practice for these radicals. And it's not stopping. And it's not going to stop until you.
Steve Bannon
Until you. Until you stop it.
Steve Bannon (Host)
You can tell that this boldness. Charlie Kirk at noon at the lunch hour at Utah Valley University with, I don't know, four or five thousand kids just piling in there to see him doing what Charlie Kirk does at least like once a week, one of these universities and put out there, you know, weeks in advance so people know about it. That's how you get the 5,000 kids and doing what he's doing. If you watch the whole video, he's tossing the hats, he's going around shaking hands, he's signing ball caps, he's taking selfies, and he's doing what Charlie Kirk does every workday of his life. And then he goes and does prove me wrong where he's. And he lets the people disagree with him, come up to the front of the line. He's with an upbeat, you know, Charlie always had that kind of glint in his eye, right? And that smile on his face, doing what he does best. And he's gunned down in cold blood, assassinated in front of the entire world. And then they mock it and they ridicule it on social media and they say how great it is and how Charlie deserved it. Right?
Steve Bannon
Any.
Jack Posobiec
Any talk of that right now, they're coming. How come I never hear the word assassination once? They treat it like it was an accident. They treated it like it was, you know, like you got into a car accident or something like it. Like, oh, it's so sad. But, you know, these things happen. It wasn't an accident. It was deliberate. This was the deliberate killing, assassination, murder of our friend Steve. The deliberate assassination. And that needs to be discussed because assassinations have assassins, and assassins, a lot of the time do not work alone. And all of this needs to be discussed. But cnn, who, by the way, used to be a fantastic breaking news network. They don't want to do that. They want to talk about the conservative rhetoric. All right, you want to talk about rhetoric? Let's go talk about the rhetoric that I see on Blue sky right now. The people celebrating this. Let's go look at all the tiktoks of the people celebrating this. The people in government, the people in positions of power, the people in business who are celebrating this. Let's go talk about that. Because you're not seeing it, by the way, Steve, I'm seeing this video right now that just passed on on my inbox that it looks like Phenix sky harbor, the executive terminal. A crew of. So a hearse was just seen going in and then a crew of looked like security, heavily armed presence. And right behind all of them was a team of bagpipers. A team of bagpipers walking in to the Phoenix executive terminal at the Sky Harbor. As everybody knows, Charlie Kirk always started every show with the bagpipes of a Scotsman.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Charlie Kirk as a Kirk. I remember on the bagpipes, every time we go to break, I'd say, man, I love that opening. Yours. I love those bagpipes. Very touching, very classy. Hopefully get some footage of that. This has been kind of under wraps. Jack Bassobic, I know you gotta go get ready for your FOX interview tonight with Laura Ingram. Where can people get you? I know you're not putting up a lot today, but your Twitter feed is the Associated Press of the MAGA movement. People stay on there because they want to know what's going on, where can people go? And I take it you're going to do also Charlie Kirk show tomorrow, the noon show.
Jack Posobiec
Tomorrow. We're going to. I'm going to be heading out to Arizona to meet with the team to be with everybody. And the goal, the hope, the hope at least tomorrow is that we can, we can all come together, all of us, the four guys who did the shows with them every day. You know, Thursday was usually the day that we would get together for a big group show. And so we're doing that now tomorrow on Friday. Sam's won, so we'll do that tomorrow.
Steve Bannon (Host)
By the way, those, those streams either on election, election nights or special events will go all hours. And you guys were just.
Jack Posobiec
But I do want to say one thing, Steve. I do want to say one thing, that we are going to leave one seat empty tomorrow. And everybody knows who seat that is.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Perfect. Jack Posobuk, we'll see you tomorrow. Thank you, sir. Go get ready for your FOX interview.
Jack Posobiec
Thanks, Steve.
Steve Bannon (Host)
When everybody watch that night, Jack Bosovic, Jack Besought will be long. Laura Ingram, the guys did such a spectacular job today, starting on the war room at 10 o' clock in the morning, Eastern Daylight Time, of course, a lot earlier out here. We're going to actually remain in Utah tomorrow. I think there may be a couple, three things happening with this, with the assassin. I think it's very important to get this put to bed. Cash Patel and I believe Dan Bongino is on the way here. We just heard it's on his feet. And if we can play that after we get back from break. Looks like Air Force Two may have landed in Phoenix sky harbor at the FBI over there, the fbo, the executive, the executive part of the airport. And looks like Charlie Kirk's remains are being transferred now. And so we're going to probably go to, we'll probably go to Arizona tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow night, etc. Well, it looks like we're going to do the Saturday show from Arizona and we'll figure out exactly where that is if everything takes place and if it's, if the, if this investigation gets put to bed, like I said, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino on the way out. Let me go to Dave Brat. Dave, I want to bring you in to respond to, I don't know if you heard Thom Tillis, his comments about how adamant we've been and not backing down here with the left taking target practice essentially from President Trump to Charlie Kirk. I mean, think about it. It's still tough to comprehend that we're preparing for, you know, the mortal remains of Charlie Kirk for a, for a service and a funeral and a burial. Just that's happened in the last 24 hours because of, you know, this increasing violence from the, from the left. Don Jr. We'll play that in a second. Don Jr. Went off on it and Meghan Kennedy, of course, they're in total meltdown. Your thoughts about this, sir?
Dave Brat
Yeah. Well, what triggered me in your last conversation when you brought up the issue of are we at war? And you know, earlier today, you know, we had a good discussion on THE EARLY show. And you know, there is a war against God that's continual every day within every person. But it's broader than that. When you see the left on the streaming, right, all the streaming stuff out there, they're rejoicing over the death of Charlie Kirk. They're jumping up and down with joy. And there's just, there's just A demonic look on the faces. And that's what strikes me to say that there's a war. That's an understatement. That's just obvious right now and the points I raised this morning. The problem is with the Christian majority in this country and other people of goodwill who are allowing our kids to be educated in the K12 system and university system with no ethics, no morality. And you're paying for it, right? We're supposed to have a right to freedom and liberty. There's no right when they take 40% of your income out of your pocket and force you to buy what the left wants. That is not liberty. And I didn't want to get into technical details, but I'm just going to bring it up because it's important. Go back and read your old Johnny Locke Johnson, John Locke, way back, you know, 1600s, there's this thing called tacit consent. He had to do some juggling, right? Some logical constitutional, pre constitutional juggling for, you know, all Americans really aren't voting for these things called taxes. We're not really voting for the military. Your individual vote, you don't have a say in it. So how did Johnny Locke overcome it? He came up with this thing called tacit consent. And that means, you know, in a Republican government, you know, the fact that you've kind of gone along with a majority government, a Republican government, you're kind of going along with it. But that was just for the basic rights of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Today, the left is overwhelming us with a swamp, right? We're running wars all over the place. We got 450,000 missing girls and boys that are being prostituted, raped, trafficked, and the majority is running roughshod over our rights. So to ask the question, is there a war going on? I mean, oh, my word, that's an understatement. Of course we're at war. Anything that violates God's will, right? God's will is very simple. In the New Testament, Jesus, love God with all your heart, mind and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. Everything I just said is the antithesis of that. That's a war against God, against Christ, against the two great commands against your neighbor, the hate and the vitriol of this country. And if conservatives ever rejoice in the death of anyone on the left, I'll call them out as well. Right? That's sick. But I have not seen that. This is asymmetric warfare from the left. It's very clear. They don't want the Constitution. They don't have a morality they can name. Seriously, Right? Name one philosopher of the left, right? And there are a bunch of sickos, right? Foucault, Rorty. These sickos, these deconstructionists who are ruining everything we believe, right?
Steve Bannon
R.R.
Dave Brat
Reno has the great book Return of the Strong Gods. Everyone ought to read that thing. They're taking away everything we hold dear. All of our strong loves, all of our strong desires, the love of God, the love of country, the love of church, the love of family. All of it's been destroyed. And to say we're not at war, I mean, you got to be kidding me. That doesn't mean we hate, but we're at war.
Steve Bannon
Dave, hang on.
Steve Bannon (Host)
You're going to hold with me. Breaking news the Naval academy is on lockdown. There's reports from the south Anne Arundel county news that three people have been shot. We'll get details of the break with the the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on lockdown with an active shooter. Reported to be three people, three individuals already shot. We're gonna take a short commercial break. Once again want to thank our sponsors my patriot supply. Birch Gold make sure you take your phone out. Birch Gold Gold. Every day is hitting an all time high or close to an all time high. Text Bannon B A N N o N at 989-898 to get the ultimate guide which happens to be free for investing in gold and precious metals in the age of Trump. Very specific to this time and place. And Dave, Brad just talked pattern recognition. These guys are the best at pattern recognition. Johnny Khan is going to take us out with American heart. Short commercial break. Back in a moment.
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There's a lot of people you. You know, when I, when I knew you were coming on today to talk about the War Powers Resolution, I actually thought, sadly there is no more appropriate a Democratic guest than to talk about Charlie Koch, the new. Because you were also on the kill list that this guy allegedly had this summer who was obviously killed, the former speaker of the Minnesota House and her husband and injured two others. And I just think to myself, how cynical is it for big name figures on the right, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, many others. Nancy Mace yesterday saying this is a Democratic Party problem, as if people like you are not getting death threats all the time, credible ones.
Ilhan Omar
I mean it's actually disgusting and you know, it reminds you that although these people pretend to be adults that they are sometimes, you know, they think a lot less than even children do when it comes to compassion, when it comes to thoughtfulness, when it comes to being a leader. You know, I did expect the President's address to the nation would have been a lot more compassionate filled. It would have been less partisan. He doesn't even know who the assassin is. For him to say left wing lunatic, I think it kind of denigrated his status and the status of the office he holds. But what I do know for sure is that, you know, Charlie was someone who once said, you know, guns save lives after a school shooting. Charlie was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd in the hands of Minneapolis police.
Interviewer or Host
I think he called him a scumbag.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Right.
Ilhan Omar
Have no regard downplay slavery and what black people have gone through in this country by saying Juneteenth should never exist.
Steve Bannon (Host)
I can only take Somalians lecturing American citizens so much. I don't know. This is another thing about playing patty cake. I don't know why she's not out of the country, but her brother who was her husband, I don't know, man. It's too perverse by half. But it's got to be dealt with. So at Lost at Sea about why she is even in this country, much less in Congress. But that's the way people roll. You got to enforce the laws. So let's. If we're not adjudicating that and investigating that, I don't know what we're doing. This lockdown at the Naval Academy, there's early reporting that it might be a midshipman who was. Who was basically rolled out of the academy, got angry, came back with a gun and was pretending to be a military policeman. Went door to door. I don't know, had that magnificent. Has some of the magnificent halls there, particularly where the main barracks is, is absolutely stunning. One of the most beautiful places in the country. We're going to. There's a headline right there. As soon as we get some news clips. I want to play this act of shooter at the United States Naval Academy. Supposedly a preformer or a midshipman who just got rolled out. Coming back, Dave Brat right there with Omar. I mean you got the whole left right. Here's Charlie Kirk's assassinated in cold blood and they are gleefully, gleefully dancing on his grave. And I thought the president's comments the other night were very, very, very appropriate. And remember the twisted left.
Steve Bannon
This had to be the lead story.
Steve Bannon (Host)
In the Daily Mail early in the day, the twisted left made this huge deal that was artificial intelligence that Trump didn't actually address the nation because of some glitch in the. I don't know if it was 8k or 5k or whatever. Some glitch in the video. They were making the case that this was. That Trump couldn't actually sit through and do a four or five minute speech to the nation. He had to have artificial intelligence do it. But I thought his response was Absolutely dead, spot on.
Steve Bannon
Perfect.
Steve Bannon (Host)
He said he's got to get the perpetrators and everybody associated with it, bring him to justice quickly. And then talked about where we are as a country, which is we're very divided. And the left only talks about unity when they're losing. As soon as they start losing, either losing the narrative or losing politically, all of a sudden they want to unite, they want to bring the country together, they want everybody to come together only when they're losing. Did you see him looking for any unity after they stole the 2020 election? Do you remember the unity talk? Where's the unity talk? When they went after they said the J6 guys were the worst. The biggest investigation, FBI history, when they said all the, all these white nationalists all over the place are the number one terrorist threat in the country. When they were throwing people out because of their social media, out of the military, when they threw people out of businesses, out of schools, everything for the mass mandates that we know were bald faced lies. Bald faced lies. Not even close. Did you remember any unity? Did they say let's bring the country together, we want the Trump story, we want to unify, let us come reason together. Do you remember that? No. The reason you don't remember it didn't happen. They had their jack boot on your neck and guess what? We dusted ourselves off because we're anti fragile movement. As Charlie Kirk so brilliantly said at a few minutes to High noon on 1 July 2024, when I was carted off to a federal prison. Okay.
Steve Bannon
Which they hoped that I would get.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Killed in that prison. These people are demonic. Do you remember, Dave?
Steve Bannon
Brad was the unity talk there? Were you being unified?
Steve Bannon (Host)
Were they saying let's reason together? No.
Steve Bannon
That they are dictators, authoritarians. They're dictators. It's the Marxists.
Steve Bannon (Host)
And right there you see that with Omar in the host. It's the Marxists. It's the neo Marxists and the radical jihadist, sir.
Dave Brat
You know, that's absolutely correct. And her critique falls on its face within a sentence. I mean she's critiquing the president for calling a murderer and a butcher some name. And she says that's not dignified. Are you kidding me? That's being polite. And so you know, Congresswoman Omar, I mean, I want to know what is your ethics? What ethical system do you believe in? Do you believe in Islam? Do you believe in Sharia law? I mean everybody needs to know this kind of thing. And our Jewish friends. I got some rabbis commenting on the side today in a very Positive way. But I'm not hearing the public figures coming out right on the left. You got leftist front groups in the Jewish community, but we need to hear the Orthodox and the conservative Jewish friends come out and make some bold statements in public about this murder and that this is asymmetric, right? This is asymmetric warfare. Right. The conservatives, you know, you said you're, you don't want to be identified as conservative. I beat Cantor and all that, so, you know, I certainly share that sentiment. But I'm a Christian first and foremost, so there's that element of conservatude. And the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson had a Memo today on 9, 11, whatever. And it's kind of like, well, you know, we're going to grow through this pain or whatever. The American people are sick of growing through this pain. And the same thing holds for the leader on the Senate side. Thune. No, you guys need to act like conservatives. Conservatives believe in God Almighty, right? The God Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Jesus Christ. And if you believe in that God, you believe in the God of justice, right? God disciplined his own chosen people. Israel, for hundreds threw him in the desert for 400 years. He's throwing us in the desert right now. We're in the desert. Where do you think we are? Are you kidding me? And so Mike Thune, get on the ball, right? The people are dying for leadership. They will follow. That's what Charlie Kirk did. He just yelled out to the young men and they listened and they responded. And if you cry out to God, right, Which is what we're supposed to be doing. Israel has not been crying out to God enough either. Right? And we haven't either. And so I'm an equal opportunity theologian. We are not getting it right. The education in this country, no one even knows what it is, Right? And so we need to get back to our first principles, back to the founders. And Charlie Kirk was just the exemplar, tying the crown Christian tradition together with a founding, with our liberties. Our liberties are being annihilated right now. Liberty is probably the key, you know, civic, secular virtue in our society, right? It should be God, right? The Catholics and the Protestants believe the reason we're on the earth is to glorify God. Right? But in the secular realm, the political realm, the chief virtue is liberty. And yeah, for a Congresswoman Omar to lecture us about liberty, can you name one country associated with your beliefs that has free people? I mean, it's like the Chinese lecturing to us about liberty. It's absurd on its face. And our scholars, our universities. President Trump is doing yeoman's work, going after the universities. I'm taking heat from some people. Oh, my word. The research funding and all this, hey, you know, research is great, I love it. But the first and foremost job of the university is to pursue truth. We had a few people that did that, right. Socrates trained in Plato, Plato trained in Aristotle, and the rest is all a footnote until you get to Jesus. Plato taught us about the ascent of the soul. And that ascent, he couldn't finish the story. And Jesus Christ finished the story, right? The ascent to God. When God comes back because he loves us, you will not find that in any other tradition. God loves us. He shared his own son. What a story. Omar, please join us.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Yeah, Dave, hang on a second.
Steve Bannon
I want to play, I want to.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Replay what we started the show with and get your comments on this. This was Charlie Kirk at, I think, his very best. It was right before I went to prison. And Charlie Kirk lays out the entire philosophy, but particularly talks about assassination and next man up. So can we go ahead and play that?
Jack Posobiec
Yeah.
Steve Bannon (Host)
You have to translate to action.
Steve Bannon
Listen, they think they have this theory that if they take out Trump and they get Tucker Carlson fired and they liquidate Alex Jones and they keep MTG off committees for a first term in Congress, unheard of.
Steve Bannon (Host)
If they take away the law license.
Steve Bannon
Of Rudy Giuliani and bankrupt when the.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Greatest man in this country, if they, if they bankrupt the Hoffs over a.
Steve Bannon
Gateway pundit and John Eastman. I can go down and down and down and get parents to go on the school boards intimidated. If they can go take the little Catholic churches, the Latin Mass Catholic churches and intimidate them. If they, they, if, if we just sit there and say, oh, woe is me, then we lose. We're winning, we're ascended. This movement's getting bigger every day. Look at why did Joe Biden roll the dice in one of debate. President Trump on Thursday, five months before the, before the campaign, simply because he's so far down, he's so far behind because African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, every people under 29 years old, everybody is coming to Maga, 2/3 of the country to Maga. And they're coming because they understand that this is about taking their country back and stopping this invasion, stopping the forever war, stopping the madness on Capitol Hill, our movements ascended. They think if they can decapitate that and do it with, you know, 50 negative pieces on Charlie Kirk and turning points terrible. And trust me, Charlie Kirk's going to get An IRS investigation. They're already, you know, I'm sure going after Charlie Kirk in every different aspect. If we act like we're intimidated, they're going to win. Here's why I'm so. Look, would I rather not spend the next four months there? Of course not. But it is what it is. And here's what I know. My team and our audience will step up to the plate. That's why next man up. Because this is a 20 year project.
Steve Bannon (Host)
To take our country back.
Steve Bannon
A lot of us are not going to be around in a couple of years. President Trump is 78 years old and had the burden of the world put on him, including being not just a company strip. But in a couple of weeks he's going to have be, he's going to be sentenced to prison. Donald Trump, who gave us three and a half, four years of peace and prosperity as president. This is how out of control it is.
Jim Rickards
Oh, what she's doing is she's trying to get out the visual and the idea of assassinating Donald Trump. This is where this is headed. I hope everyone understands, whether it be Julius Caesar. Yeah, Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. Bobby Kennedy. Assassinations of major political leaders are nothing new. And yet we've kind of been immune to that for a couple of decades. We have been warning about this for months now. The very interesting question is will they try to kill Joe Biden or Donald Trump? That's the interesting question. Which one right now is a bigger threat to them? And that I'll let the audience kind of ruminate on that question. But we've been warning about this for quite some months. This is why the Next man up philosophy is so important and why we wanted to do the show. We with you, Steve, as a show of force is that you take one out, 100 more appear. You take one out, a thousand more appear. You take one out', 10,000 more appear, you take one out, we give more money. You take one out, we register more voters, you take one out. Is that it only actually makes us stronger. You see, there are three different ways to analyze political movements or to categorize them. There are the. There are the fragile, the durable and the antifragile. This is from Nassim Taleb, which is a phenomenal book. The fragile. The fragile is the Mitt Romney Republican Party. That is the Paul Ryan Republican Party. You say one bad word about them, they collapse, they bend a knee, they surrender and they're relentlessly apologizing and they're spineless. Then there is the durable. The durable is the best of the conservative movement prior to Donald Trump. That would be the conservative movement that always held on and they put up a good point fight, had some fortitude but didn't quite have enough to be able to endure the grind or the slog of the activist regime media. And then there is the antifragile. I include, I encourage everyone to read the book Antifragile. In the book Antifragile, Nassim Taleb argues that there are very, there are unique people, organizations, movements, restaurants, companies that actually get stronger the more pressure and opposition that is applied upon them. And when you find an anti fragile movement that their life force is, is actually what ends up being opposition, that is Donald Trump. Has anyone noticed that Donald Trump looks younger, stronger, more full of life and vitality after the indictments than before the indictments? It gives him purpose, reason of being. It gives him a telos, as the Greekers would say, or a teleological purpose for existence. This movement that we are part of right now, that historians will write about for the next one 1000 years. Let me say that again, this movement that you are part of will be written about for the next millennia. People do not remember the many movements from four or five hundred years ago. Maybe a little bit here, English Revolution or whatever. This movement will be written about for 1000 years and when the history books are written, it will befuddle historians 600, 700, 800 years from now. Why is it that the people that had so much to lose, the Steve Bannons, the Peter Navarros, the, the Donald Trump's, they kept on doubling and tripling down because full of fortitude and that resolute spirit, we have the chance to influence the arc of history. As the left winger Hegelians would always say, the arc of history always bends towards justice. How about this? The arc of history will bend back towards citizen led government. Not subjects, not slaves. And we will use this dark moment as they cart you off tomorrow, Steve, and put you in handcuffs and. And we say goodbye for 123 days. For 123 days I will work harder than I ever have my entire life. This is repulsive. This is disgusting. It is outrageous and it is a call to action for every citizen watching right now to do more. You are not doing enough. I am not doing enough because one of our on field commanders is getting taken off for 123 days. What are we going to do about it?
Steve Bannon (Host)
That was incredible. Right off the top of his head. Dave Brat I mean it doesn't get better than that. He goes through all of it. And to think of the irony that here we are after Charlie and his organization was so elemental in the victory in 2024 that nine months into this victory with this whole future ahead of him cut down by an assassin's bullet in in Utah. And by the way Daily Mail and others, the wire services are saying they're closing in on the killer. They have a name, Cash Patel, I think. Dan Bergino heading out here. We got about two minutes. Dave closing thoughts on Charlie Kirk's really prescient comments.
Dave Brat
Well, you're not going to improve on that yet. What he just said though in my Calvinist strain we got this thing called predestination. But my Catholic wife just sent me a text which is timely and shows the full providence of God as you always say. DNI Tulsi Gabbard releases powerful statement following Charlie Kirk's assassination. Dash calls it the very definition of terrorism. So there is a former Democrat, a very good person. This assassination is the very definition of terrorism. It's meant to inflict psychological pain and fear into the American people. That's what's going on. So when you open the show about a war and when Charlie's going off on we're at a war, it couldn't be any more apparent and we're just warming up, right? We're not even getting into the CIA, FBI, color revolution. 70 coup d' etats over the last 60 years. We could go on and on and on. The evidence is going to come out on this thing. It's not a pretty world. Christians know better but we want to ignore. We want to ignore that hard message that life ain't pretty and the church needs to wake up and start fighting a fight and dig in and follow the example of the great Charlie Kirk. Just a good man of virtue and faith and that will make all the difference. Take the road less traveled.
Steve Bannon
A good.
Steve Bannon (Host)
And decent man cut down in the even before the primal life Just incredible. Everything accomplished. Dave will see you tomorrow. Dave Bratt Yep. All comments and opinions are his own. Dave. Brad, thank you. Thank you for co anchoring today. Want to thank Jack but the entire team, Andrew and Tyler over at the turning point. Those folks are under tremendous pressure as you can imagine. Imagine right one change. I don't think Charlie's remains have arrived at Sky Harbor. I think they're preparing for it. That's what the getting organized and having the bagpipe. So we'll throughout the night we'll keep you updated.
Steve Bannon
We're gonna see you back here tomorrow.
Steve Bannon (Host)
Morning at 10am you'll be in the war room. Unreal. America's voice. After that, the Charlie Kirk show and then Jack Posobic's Human Events Daily. See you tomorrow morning, 10am we're gonna leave you with the right stuff. Charlie Kirk had it in spades, trust me.
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Date: September 11, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon (WarRoom.org)
Key Guests: Jack Posobiec, Dave Brat
Theme: The assassination of Charlie Kirk, its aftermath, and the escalation of political violence in America.
This episode of WarRoom Battleground is dedicated to the fallout from the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Host Steve Bannon, joined by Jack Posobiec and Dave Brat, analyzes the killing’s causes, its copycat context, implications for American political discourse, and the broader war on conservative voices. Discussion turns to trend patterns in political violence, failures of institutions, ideology, and the “next man up” ethos in the conservative movement.
“This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going.” (00:15, Bannon)
“We're now seeing a trend...highly intelligent, well planned, well trained, well practiced assassins. Young in age, Gen Z... and now the Charlie Kirk shooter becomes a copycat of both.” (03:40, Posobiec)
“The FBI has really been forthcoming. The CIA hasn't been forthcoming...The parents...never interviewed to the degree under oath to be accessories...” (02:31, Bannon)
“It seems like a cheap, disgusting, awful way to pretend like you’re a leader of a conservative movement...” (07:46, quoting Tillis)
“I am not a conservative...because people like Tillis are conservatives. And those wimps are the reason the country's in the shape it's in...” (09:51, Bannon)
“Where's any talk about the shooter? ...No discussion about political assassinations...It's always the conservative rhetoric. Oh, gosh, the rhetoric.” (13:07, Posobiec)
“If you watch the whole video, [Charlie Kirk is] doing what he does best. And he's gunned down...then they mock it and ridicule it on social media and say how great it is and how he deserved it.” (15:07, Bannon)
“They think if they can decapitate [the MAGA movement]…if we just sit there and say, 'Oh, woe is me,' then we lose. We’re winning, we're ascended. This movement's getting bigger every day.” (43:05, Bannon & Kirk clip)
"...There are unique people, organizations, movements...that actually get stronger the more pressure and opposition that is applied upon them. And when you find an anti-fragile movement...that is Donald Trump..." (45:21, Kirk via Bannon)
“There is a war against God that’s continual every day within every person. But it's broader than that...they're rejoicing over the death of Charlie Kirk. Jumping up and down with joy. There’s a demonic look on the faces...” (21:34, Brat)
“We need to get back to our first principles, back to the founders.” (41:15, Brat)
“I can only take Somalians lecturing American citizens so much...It's got to be dealt with...You got to enforce the laws.” (34:20, Bannon)
This was one of WarRoom’s most emotionally charged and ideologically focused episodes. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is positioned not just as an isolated crime, but as the next escalation in what Bannon, Posobiec, and Brat frame as a war on conservative populism and Christian America. The episode calls for increased resolve, a doubling-down on anti-fragility, and a refusal to be intimidated by violence or institutional obstacles. The “next man up” theme recurs—underscoring both loss and determination to continue the movement.
This summary preserves the original tone: embattled, combative, and urgently calling its audience to action in the face of what it portrays as existential threats to the conservative movement and nation.