Proud racist, Alt-Right muckraker and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon found himself banned from Twitter this week for comments made during his weekly podcast, The War Room. Bannon suggested the beheading of infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci for his disloyalty to Donald Trump.
Trump himself has attacked Dr. Fauci and threatened to fire him (he can’t) for refuting the administration’s attempt to play down COVID-19 pandemic as an election strategy. Fauci has called out Trump multiple times, respectfully pointing out what any idiot knows: Trump Campaign’s decisions to hold large campaign rallies without requiring attendees to wear masks and social distance might not be the best idea in the world. A study published by Forbes has linked at least 700 COVID-19 deaths to Trump rallies.
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For Bannon, Fauci’s criticism of Trump amounts to treason. “Second term kicks off with firing [FBI Director Christopher] Wray, firing Fauci,” Banon advocated. “No, I actually want to go a step farther, but the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats, you either get with the program or you’re gone.”
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Steve Bannon calls for beheading Dr. Fauci and FBI Director Wray: pic.twitter.com/EU1P4X5Z4U @FBI #Bannon
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) November 5, 2020
Bannon also suggested Wray and Fauci should be hanged.
Twitter immediately banned the Bannon podcast Twitter account, The Hill reports, as Banon’s remarks violated the site’s “policy on the glorification of violence.” YouTube also banned video of the podcast, though the account for the podcast remains active.
Bannon’s remarks come as Democrat Joe Biden has taken a commanding electoral vote count and has overtaken Trump in leading votes in the key states of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, making the likelihood of Trump’s defeat seem all but certain.
Bannon’s suggestion of beheading also comes on the heels of comic Kathy Griffin posting a now-infamous picture of her holding a Trump mask made to look like Trump’s severed head. When Griffin posted the image in 2017, she was pilloried by the media and investigated by the FBI.
Bannon, on bail facing charges of wire fraud and money laundering over an alleged scam to use donations to build a border wall with Mexico for personal gain, is the one more likely to face a Tudor-style punishment: prison.
trsxyz
A truly vile individual.
Cam
Will be nice when all of these folks are in jail.
Creamsicle
“On the heels?” Kathy Griffin did that photo shoot in the first quarter of 2017! Honestly, her only misstep was doing that shoot too soon. He proved himself to be an awful human being, incapable of leadership that summer after his remarks about the Charlottesville, Unite the Right, nazi rally.
bachy
Bad timing is everything!
LMG
Steve Bannon is a grungy pseudo-intellectual with a foul mouth. To say what he did about Dr. Fauci is reprehensible and only serves to invite some crazy person to do what he suggested. He’s a total skank.
AxelDC
It’s a felony to threaten Federal officials.
AxelDC
Publicly threatening Federal officials is a felony.
nathan
First this slime ball for prison then the slimiest of them all – Trump Sr Trumps Jn Trump Madame Trump/Kushner Mrs and finally Kushner. The rest we can catch up with in the next few months They will regret their infamous slogan ‘lock them up’.
bachy
If we can only hold the course for a few more weeks, we’ll see a light at the end of the Orange Tunnel. This cabal of despots, crooks and madmen will begin to disperse as our national nightmare comes to an end. Who could have imagined that the biggest threat to freedom and world peace would come from the White House?
Mister P
That’s a horrible thing to say about anyone. Hopefully, banana will be held accountable.
Joshooeerr
Yes, it’s a horrible thing to say – period. But let’s not lose sight of the fact it’s said about someone who has done nothing but attempt to introduce science and sanity to a regime that is more interested in playing politics with people lives. Bannon is attacking the guy who tried to prevent the massive death toll that the US has suffered. It’s beyond vile; it’s evil.
JRamonMc
He should be indicted for inciting domestic terrorism!
missvamp
Losing his Twitter page is nothing. He should be under arrest.
Invader7
All of the Trumps and their sycopants NEED to be in PRISON for life! They’re all criminals and sleazy scum !
Patrick
He should be arrested for inciting violence against federal officials!
Kangol2
Bannon is a garbage person to the nth degree. His court trial and imprisonment can’t come soon enough.
mozzer
SLOPPY RACIST PIG!
barryaksarben
The right was so angry at Kathy Griffin and demanded she be arrested for threatening beheading so Im sure all that happened to her will happen to him as the secret service is a honest and FAIR org. lol. They are so full of nazi and white power individuals that they are just brownshirts for the right. After decades of affirmative action why is it the secret service the FBI and the CIA are still 90% white males or close to it? You can not tell me they dont get qualified people of color both men and women or gay for that matter. Bannon is a pig. He is a con man who stole money form that pathetic wall building scam. I do hope he is found guilty AFTER trump can no longer pardon him. All those crooks are losing their get out of jail free card. Too bad that felon with the nixon tattoo got pardoned although he is still a convicted FELON. BUT to threaten a scientist is so medieval.
Kevan1
Subhuman, hypocritical white trash. There is a special place in Hell for him and his ilk.