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I decided to transcript, Steve Bannon’s pre-election day forecast of Trump’s plan for election night: to simply “declare himself the winner” — no matter where the election counting actually stood at the time.
Seems kind of important. Seems like it kind of goes to establishing those criminal elements of intent and premeditation, of their unconstitutional plan to defraud the American people, to short-circuit due process — of their intentional plan to overturn the election of 2020.
[Thanks to Mother Jones for breaking the story.]
[Steve Bannon]: “What Trump’s gonna do is just declare victory. Right? He’s gonna declare victory. But that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner.”
Leaked Audio [Oct 31, 2020]:
Before Election Day 2020, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory.
[Excerpt 1, Steve Bannon]: “The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count — their vote is in the mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage, and Trump’s going to take advantage of it — that’s our strategy. Trump’s gonna declare himself a winner.“
“So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm. You’re going to have antifa, crazy. The media, crazy. The courts are crazy. and Trump’s gonna be sitting there mocking, tweeting shit out, ‘You lose. I’m the winner. I’m the king.’” [Audience laughter.]
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“Then it doesn’t matter. Here’s the thing: After then, Trump never has to go to a voter again.”
“He’s going to fire Wray, the FBI director, fire [garbled]. He's gonna say 'Fuck you. How about that?'
“Because he's never going to — he's done his last election. Oh, he's going to be off the chain — he's gonna be crazy.” [Audience laughter.]
[Excerpt 2, Steve Bannon]: "Also if Trump is losing by 10 or 11 o’clock, it's going to be even crazier.” [cross-talk] “No, because he's gonna sit right there and say 'They stole it. I'm directing the Attorney General, to shut down all ballot places in all 50 states.'"
“It's going to be no, he's not going out easy. If Biden's winning, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.”
LEAKED AUDIO: Trump planned to falsely claim victory, according to Bannon
— Mother Jones, July 12, 2020
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Here’s a key bit from the article:
Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory
“That’s our strategy. He’s gonna declare himself a winner.”
by Dan Friedman, Mother Jones — July 12, 2020
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Trump’s plan to falsely declare victory while tens of millions of votes were still being counted was public knowledge even before the election. Axios reported on the scheme at the time. Bannon himself discussed the idea on November 3 — Election Day — on his War Room podcast. Weeks earlier, Bannon had interviewed a former Trump administration official who outlined how Trump would use allegations of fraud to dispute an electoral defeat and would seek to have Congress declare him the winner. Last month, the congressional committee investigating January 6 detailed how Rudy Giuliani convinced Trump to go ahead with a victory declaration after 2 a.m. on November 4, over the objections of campaign staff. “Frankly, we did win this election,” Trump insisted in that infamous news conference.
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Should make for some interesting water cooler chatter, as Steven Bannon has to face Contempt of Congress charges next week, you know, in an actual court of law. Not the kangaroo ‘courtrooms’ he is used to, acting as a former jester/advisor to the ‘King of Trumpworld.’
Hope ‘this confession’ makes it into the DOJ news-feed. Then onto their To Do List, after that.
Our Democracy kind of depends on it.
The threat is real. The threat is chilling. Their threats are on tape.
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For a few more Bannon transcriptions, showing premeditation and foreknowledge of Trump’s planned crimes — to illegally hold onto power (apparently For Life) — please check out my prior posts:
Perhaps Steve Bannon was a bit more than a court jester/advisor, eh?
He was the Host of <i>The War-Room</i> Podcast, afterall.
