Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon says he ‘wants Fauci and FBI boss Wray “BEHEADED”’ in disgusting attack
FORMER White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on his War Room Pandemic podcast Thursday said that President Donald Trump should start his second term by beheading FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr Anthony Fauci.
A video of Bannon’s outrageous comments—which assume is the victor of the —was later taken down by YouTube, and Twitter suspended his @WarRoomPandemic account.
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Bannon started off by saying that Trump’s “second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci.”
“Now I actually want to go a step farther but the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I want to go back to the old times of Tudor England,” the former Trump aide said.
“I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I would put them on the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats—you either get with the program or you’re gone. Time to stop playing games.”
Bannon continued that it was time to “blow it all up” and replace Wray with Trump ally Ric Grenell as the interim head of the .
“That’ll light them up, right,” he said.
Bannon’s co-host Jack Maxey went along with the narrative, saying that the prior day was the anniversary of the hanging of two Tories, or Quaker businessmen, who had “cohabitated with the British” while occupying Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
“These people were hung, this is what we used to do to traitors,” Maxey said.
Bannon then said that the American Revolution was won in that manner and that is something “no one wants to talk about.”
“The revolution wasn’t some sort of garden party, right. No, it was a civil war, it was a civil war,” Bannon said.
A pointed out that YouTube prohibits “inciting others to commit violent acts against individuals.”
By Thursday evening, YouTube had taken down Bannon’s video, stating, “We’ve removed this video for violating policy against inciting violence. Continue to be vigilant as we enforce our policies in the post-election period.”
Around the same time, Twitter suspended @WarRoomPandemic.
“Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules,” the page stated, referring to its policy on glorifying violence.
after Election Day over frustration that the FBI director did not indicate that Democratic presidential nominee and his son Hunter are under investigation.
The president has also clashed with , the nation’s top infectious disease expert, over coronavirus policies and handling.
Before being removed, Bannon’s video remained live for hours as to keep check on radical content and conspiracy theories on vote rigging from Trump’s camp.
Twitter placed warnings and labels on at least eight tweets or retweets by Trump or his campaign.
“Our teams continue to monitor tweets that attempt to spread misleading information about voting, accounts engaged in spammy behavior, and tweets that make premature or inaccurate claims about election results,” Twitter spokesman Brandon Borrman said in a statement to the .