My Bannon Birthday Gift
Sometimes the Almighty winks at you. And so it is with the Bannon sentencing, coming as it did on the day before my 34th birthday, which fell this past Saturday. Bannon once threatened to “shit down my throat” for daring to reach out to Rebekah Mercer. Well, don’t drop the soap, Sloppy Steve. Steve is on his way to jail and the Mercers just paid the highest tax bill in American history. Not bad, not bad. He once called “wack” but he’s going to the slammer.
And yes, I helped to send Bannon to prison. No, I don’t think the four months he was sentenced to are the end of the story. This is the beginning of the counterintelligence operation to remove the Chinese from our political system. Such an effort will require all of us working together in a systematic, nonpartisan manner.
I’ve long believed that Bannon was a sort of front man for Chinese interests in the United States, a view that has only been strengthened with the passage of time and upon reading the masterly War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers (2020).
Bannon leaked all throughout his time in the White House to anyone and everyone. He was backed by the Chisraeli-Russian friendly Mercers until he was backed by Chinese billionaire spy Guo Wangui.
Author’s note: You must read the Evan Osnos New Yorker piece “How a Tycoon Linked to Chinese Intelligence Became a Darling of Trump Republicans” about Guo, whom I once met through the anti-China critic Kyle Bass. I also recommend Osnos’s book on Joe Biden, titled weirdly enough, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now. Osnos, born in London to a father who was born in India is not at all American deep state royalty, dontchaknow.
The reality is that Bannon was always working for the Chinese and was likely turned when he worked in the Navy. The desire to arrest Bannon aboard Guo’s yacht was clearly symbolic: here was a man of the people — Steve Bannon! — living the high life with a Chinese spy whilst he fleeced unsuspecting donors. He would have assuredy been prosecuted but for a last minute intervention by President Trump. The Zionist Organization of America, backed as it is by Chisraeli billionaires, begged Trump to pardon Bannon and Trump duly did.
The truth is that Bannon was always working for the enemy. His War Room podcast, funded by Guo, was and is a means of riling people up.
The January 6th Committee played audio of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon speaking to associates from China before the election about the plan for Trump to claim the election was stolen.
LOFGREN: “Just a few days before the election, Steve Bannon, a former Trump Chief White House strategist and outside advisor to President Trump, spoke to a group of his associates from China and said this:
BANNON: ““And what Trump is going to do is just declare victory, right? He's gonna declare victory, but that doesn't mean he's the winner, he’s just going to say he’s the winner. The Democrats, more of our people vote early that count, they vote in mail and so they're going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump's going to take advantage of, that's our strategies in terms of one or so when you wake up Wednesday morning, it's going to be a firestone. Also, also, if Trump, if Trump is losing By 10:00, 11:00 at night, it's going to be even crazier. Because he’s going to sit right there and say they stole it. Yeah, I'm directing the Attorney General to shut down all ballot places in all 50 states. It's gonna be no, he's not going out easy. If Biden's winning, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.’”
Gee, what was Bannon trying to say there?
Do you think Bannon was trying to tell the Chinese something?
Whatever could it have been?