Transcripts from Bannon’s War Room on Rumble:
Cold Open
Eric Cortellesa-Time Magazine Staff Writer
That Donald Trump wants to expand presidential power in a second term. You know, he doesn’t really speak about legislative initiatives. He talks about things that he wants to do with his own executive authority. You know, I specifically asked Donald Trump about his plan to embark on a massive deportation operation throughout the United States to remove as many or more than 11,000,000 undocumented migrants. Donald Trump told me that he would rely on the National Guard to haul away these migrants and that he would be willing to use the military inland if necessary. He also said that he would try to induce local and state police departments to participate by tying federal funds to their involvement. So, I think there are some issues that are trumping fixations that he has ideas about that he’s going to use executive power to pursue in a second.
Jeff Daniels-Actor
It’s not going to be the greatest country in the world unless we elect great leaders and we’re not there yet. But I hope in the fall, I think that’s when the voters and it’s the middle of the electorate that’s going to decide the election says, You know what, I’m going to vote for decency even if he’s old, because you know what, old is also wise. It’s also wisdom. It’s also experience and that will get us to 2028 when we’ll get the new America.
Interviewer and Robert DeNiro
Sense not of joy, but of relief at least that he’s potentially facing some consequences because as you’ve said before, this guy’s a con artist and he’s gotten away with it for years.
Robert DeNiro
No, he’s more than that. That to me, he’s really he’s sick. He’s really, genuinely a sick person that somehow has been allowed into our system and I’m not calling, I’m tired of calling him names. He just can’t be anywhere near the office of the presidency.
Interviewer
You’ve played a lot of bad guys. Yes. Would you ever play?
Robert DeNiro
Donald Trump never. There’s nothing about him. There’s not one redeeming thing in him that I can see, ever, ever. And it’s funny I was just thinking that he actually became president. He could have done good things. Instead, he just had to do it all wrong. He just he’s so as we all know so narcissistic and self-centered.
Interviewer
What do you say to those who say? I don’t like the guy, but. I’m going to vote for him. What’s your message to that party?
Robert DeNiro
I don’t understand it. I don’t, I don’t think they understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes president. I don’t think they really understand and historically from what I see, even in in Nazi Germany they had it with Hitler. They don’t take him seriously, he looks like a clown, acts like a clown, Mussolini, same thing. These guys. I don’t know why they look like clowns. They somehow people, that element of society identifies in some ways with them, but it would be chaos beyond our imagination. There’s no mystery about him. He he’s right out front and what he says it is, what it will be if he becomes President.
Interviewer
Do you think our democracy is at risk in this election.?
Robert DeNiro
I think that it is. I always keep saying democracy is is is great of course, but democracy people take for granted. It’s a word that some people don’t even understand. They take it for granted. It’s about right and wrong, period. The guys a monster is beyond wrong. It’s almost like he wants to do the most horrible things that he can think of in order to get a rise out of us. I don’t know what it is, but he’s been doing it and doing it and it’s %$^& scary.
Cold Open Continued
Chris Hayes-MSNBC Interview
Timothy, I agree with you that he doesn’t have a clue of what his own agenda is, but it also seems to me that this is one of those places where he does have, like, fixations, his grudges, right. Like he wants more power for himself. He wants to use a part of justice to prosecute political enemies. He’s very clear about that, and also where personnel becomes everything. I mean, it really just matters. A tremendous amount who is advising on immigration right, like he may not have well-formed views, but if you give Stephen Miller the immigration portfolio, he says, let’s go, we’re doing it, then you’ve got I think a mass deportation campaign.
Timothy Noah
Yes, I mean, I think there are a few things where he has said he’s going to do specific things. It’s a broadly speaking a xenophobia, agenda. He’s going to do a round up mass roundup of undocumented immigrants, and he’s going to slap tariffs on every conceivable foreign import. Although even there, he told Eric I noticed that, you know, he had he had said 10% but in the interview, he said well maybe it’s 10% maybe it’s more than that, maybe it’s less than that you know.
Chris Hayes
You’re going to like it either way. It’ll all workout.
Timothy Noah
That’s right. He’s the something terrific candidate. Remember when in 2016, when he said he’s going to replace Obamacare with something terrific this time out, he’s pretty much saying that everything he does is going to be terrific, but he doesn’t tell you what it’s going to be. He doesn’t propose any legislation that he wants to put before Congress. He clearly would like to abuse power to the maximum, and it’s frightening. But he’s kind of an improvisational authoritarian. He’s not going to go in there with a strict plan. And I think that we should call him on it. We should call him on the fact that he has no clear idea what he would do as president of the United States.
Interview with Robert DeNiro
You have no upside in having this conversation and in speaking out against Donald Trump, you are making yourself a target. The interview will air and he will immediately find a reason to talk bad about you in public. But you’re choosing to use your platform to do so, what do you say to other celebrities who don’t want to alienate part of their fan base don’t want to step in harm’s way, but they have similar megaphones that you do.
Robert DeNiro
You know the idea to be bullied at my age by someone like this is not happening.
Interviewer
I’m pretty sure you were never bullied.
Robert DeNiro
No as a kid sometime this that. But the point is not. And for the country? No. And I think that other people are going to have to stand up and just. Because it’s either that or you’re going to find yourself in a situation that’s so terrifying. We always hear about people from Eastern Europe, the Jews from other parts of Eastern Europe, from Western Europe coming over. Look what happened, France and with the Nazis and so on. And they come over and you hear these and they and when I was a kid, they’d say you don’t really appreciate this country, you know, you know, really the people we what we know from experience. Imagine what those people went through. I’m just starting to see it. You know, as a kid, I said Hitler. It’s a nightmare that never would happen. But now I see that it’s possible. And but those people sometimes I run into some people who are close to my age, who are from Eastern Europe, European countries or even Nazi Germany, and you know, they you understand it.
Interviewer
Did you ever care this much about politics?
Ribert DeNiro
No, I don’t. I mean, I’m not. I’m sort of not indifferent, but not it’s not my, but I’m so angry about what’s going on. I don’t see how it can be avoided,
END of Cold Open
Steve Bannon
It’s Saturday for April in the year of our Lord 2024. It’s 184 days and a wake up until the election. It is 6 months tomorrow to Election Day. Although I’m going to make sure everybody got a heads up, I think it’s North Carolina, maybe the first. I think the ballots dropped sometime in early September. So, we’re four months away and early voting is going to be obviously intense this year. And of course, mail in ballots is going to be how they going to try to steal it again. So, a bunch of stuff going in Nevada, etcetera, about mailing ballots, lawsuits all over the place. We’ll get more clarity that on Monday to walk through all the different assortments.
Right there one to play so you had over your hot big pot of war path coffee. Could hear the hate and vitriol. Think, see what you see. Look at exactly what’s going on here in America and throughout the world, but in America, you’re beginning the kinetic part of the Third World War, and you see it on college campuses, is going to spill over from college campuses. You have this merger of Neo Marxist and Sharia supremacist. And of course, you got Robert De Niro and Jeff Daniels always got their whining. If you curate MSNBC and CNN, New York Times washer Post, this is how they are non-stop. That Trump is not even a human. He’s some demon. He’s some devil. He’s worse than Hitler. Just look at Robert De Niro spouting that over and over and to say with no self-awareness. Oh, what happened in Nazi Germany 30s. Look what’s happening the United States of which Biden and his regime have exacerbated. Dave Brat.
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