Steve Bannon delivered a monologue on his “War Room” podcast, warning about the threat of Islamist terrorism and argued for stricter vetting and deportation policies.

Monday, 15 December, the year of our Lord 2025. What is this, Hanukkah and Merry Christmas? I mean, absolutely a crazed weekend. One of the things I’m concerned about, I don’t think the prime minister of Australia said ever crossed his lips that it was radical Islamic Jihad that did this. That this this radical, this interpretation of Islam. And right there you have what they fired for 20 some minutes before taking down. We’re going to get into all that. Also, somebody’s going to help me out here. I’m not sure the administration has come out and said they’ve said it’s been an attack. I haven’t heard that these are terrorist attacks, that this is radical Islam and these are terrorist attacks. Also, I got a question. Why do we have two thousand troops in Syria? The and why is the Ira National Guard not in Minneapolis today rounding up those people that are in the face. We played and we could have played it in here and cut it if we had more time about the the arrogance of what’s happening in Minneapolis with turning telling ICE officers and law enforcement you can’t arrest. You can’t arrest you can’t arrest illegal alien invaders. I got footage. There’s footage over a weekend. I think a seminar looks like a thousand people there very specifically how to confront how to confront ISIS. Now, we had a chance. Stephen Miller has sent us some information. There was a false report that Kristi Noem said they’re only going to go after bad hombres and there’s no more mass deportations. The administration said that is not accurate. They’re going to continue a mass deportations. But I would strongly recommend it’s going to be some focus here and particularly the comment there about the Syrian troops are fighting side by side with Americans in the first week of President Trump’s first term. The first week we had the travel ban the first week. Remember that Friday we came in Friday and the on late Thursday night early Friday morning we announced the travel ban on I think seven or eight Muslim countries that didn’t have the systems in place to make sure that only people that quite frankly needed to be here or wanted to be here and were safe got properly vetted. We shut it down. There was never a terrorist attack in President Trump’s first term. I don’t think I don’t think it was a terrorist attack the entire first term because President Trump came out. Remember the three things he won on his number one sealed the border and stopped mass illegal immigration. It wasn’t even anywhere near what Biden did after the invasion. Number two is confront China and bring back manufacturing jobs. United States are American confront the elites in our country, the globalist. Right. Number three was to stop this, uh, the importation of radical Islam to the United States because under Obama had gotten out of control. You were having attacks all the time. People didn’t feel safe. Well, that was in Glendale, you know, California or Glendale, Arizona, or in Texas, everybody had this, it had radical Islam was out of control and they thought Obama wasn’t tough enough because they never wanted to talk about it, but we talked about in the first week of the administration. We put a band and Mattis came in and remember the president Trump said from the beginning, this is constitutional Supreme Court backed me up. Remember the firestorm on that first weekend, the absolute firestorm. President Trump said, this is constitutional and they’ll back me up. We took off and President Trump again, again, says, I don’t want to do this. But if the military commanders, cause remember back at that time, you had a physical caliphate of ISIS in Syria, in Iraq, that was actually a more functioning nation than Syria or Iraq had oil revenue. They’re recruiting thousands of people a month from Europe. Mattis was put in charge. The reason that Mattis was secretary of defense, he was going to lead that effort to destroy ISIS. And it did, I think it took six months. Obama said it would be generational. This is the physical caliphate. I’m like the physical caliphate. President Trump was as tough and as focused as any leader in the world. Forget that all of them added up. Or in world history in putting down a threat to the American people. Mattis came in and said, well, the boys in Iraq are fighting shoulder shoulder, said, yo, this is not that they’re fighting for their country. What has that got to do with, you know, it’s about the systems they have in place. We backed off that in the, in the shoes of Iraqi boys are fighting shoulder to shoulder with American boys. I think the comment was, well, why are we fighting over there anyway? We’ve got a very short term focus on ISIS and then out 2000 troops. And now the, the one, the, the, the, uh, the soldiers that were killed from the Iowa national guard, why is the Iowa national guard in Syria? Where’s the Palmyra? And it might add when we did the relieve the watch on that 20th of January and that weekend, I made a note at the time at that time, I think it was the free Syrian army or whatever, one of these other CIA contract groups. We’re on one side with more than 2000 troops in Hezbollah and the Persians are a thousand yards away. And I go, gosh, isn’t that interesting? It’s in Palmyra. Uh, I don’t know, 2000 years ago, 2,500 years ago, the Roman Legion in the Persians Palmyra, I don’t know, maybe a thousand miles away. It hadn’t changed in 2,500 years, folks. You read, what is it? Uh, Xenophons, the March up country, the March back home, the mercenary army of Greeks that basically, I think it was Xerxes paid them, then all of a sudden they abandoned them. Not that you can’t depend on a Persians word. Not that you can’t depend on an Iranians word in the middle of it. Those brothers were Greeks and they cut them loose. They had to fight their way home. One of the great works in Western literature, the March back home or the March up country, same place around the same place in, in January 20th, that weekend around Palmyra where these young men died eight years later. Why is the Iowa national guard not in Minneapolis kicking down doors and rolling up some Somalians that should be thrown out of this country today? Anybody that blocks a officer in ice or a police officer fulfilling the role of mass deportations and getting these bums out of the country ought to be immediately rolled up and sent out to roll them up. We’re either at war, we’re not at war. I want, I want my crack staff. I got it here today. These are radical, these attacks. I’m, I don’t know if it’s coordinated or not. Maybe it’s around Hanukkah. But I’ll tell you one thing, they’re coming and they’re coming hard. They’re coming and they’re coming hard. And you either sit back and be passive and take it, or you can step up and say, okay, is this the way it’s going to be? This is the way it’s going to be. Maybe it’ll be something different.

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