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Steve Bannon Doubles Down On His 'Shock Troops' Government Takeover Threat
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon on Monday dug in on this threat that Donald Trump-loyal “shock troops” will move to “deconstruct” the federal government the minute a Republican takes over the Oval Office again.
“We need to get ready now,” he said on his “War Room” podcast. “We control the country. We’ve got to start acting like it. And one way we’re going to act like it, we’re not going to have 4,000 [shock troops] ready to go, we’re going to have 20,000 ready to go.”
Bannon referred to 4,000 “shock troops” in an interview with NBC News on Saturday after the network reported that he had met earlier in the week with the party faithful to exhort them to prepare to “reconfigure the government” once a Republican is in the White House.
“If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,” Bannon told NBC. “I gave ’em fire and brimstone.”
Bannon was one of four close Trump associates subpoenaed earlier last week to appear before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Investigators said Bannon urged Trump to focus efforts to return to the White House on the Jan. 6 action.
Bannon admitted last week on his podcast that he told Trump before the insurrection: “You need to kill this [Biden] administration in its crib.”