“Article III Project” founder Mike Davis and “War Room” host Steve Bannon comment on the role the Federalist Society and its chairman Leonard Leo played in the first Trump administration and how this term will be different.

STEVE BANNON: But this is something different. Why is Leonard Leo taking money from that billionaire, the billion dollars he’s sitting on, and actually going and setting up these phony groups and attacking President Trump’s policies? You gotta go pretty far in the woods on something like this to hit President Trump’s tripwire, but they hit it, brother, because he put a shotgun blast out there. What is that about? What implications, particularly what implications, is it gonna have, because we got to get this thing resolved by the 30th of June on the Article II powers, Brother Davis? MIKE DAVIS: Yeah, when you have Leonard Leo taking over a billion dollars-I think it was like $ 1.6 billion-from a billionaire who gave him his fortune, Barre Seid, and then Leonard sat on the sidelines with all that money for three years of lawfare and didn’t support groups that were helping President Trump with the lawfare. He actually had guys out there like Ed Whelan, who Leonard funds, undermining President Trump during this lawfare. Ed Whelan continues to undermine President Trump with Emil Bove and other judicial nominees. I don’t know what Leonard’s doing. He funded the anti-RFK campaign for HHS secretary. He’s fighting against President Trump on tariffs. I think Leonard Leo needs to remember that he was a nobody before President Trump named him as his judge picker in 2016. Then Leonard Leo got very wealthy after that. You go from making a couple hundred thousand a year at the Federalist Society to flying around in private jets and having $ 8 million homes in Maine. He got very wealthy from this. You would think that after you’ve gotten very wealthy off of President Trump, you could at least give President Trump the loyalty of keeping your mouth shut.

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