Steve Bannon on partner in alleged fraudulent scheme: Brian Kolfage “is an American hero”
He also pushed a debunked conspiracy theory about the origins of the coronavirus
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Citation From the August 21, 2020, edition of War Room: Pandemic
STEVE BANNON: I'm not going to back down. This is a political hit job. Everybody knows I love a fight. I was called honey badger for many years, you know, honey badger doesn't give -- so, I'm in this for the long haul, I'm in this for for the fight. I'm going to continue to fight. This was to stop and intimidate people that want to talk about the wall. This was to stop and intimidate people that have President Trump's back on building the wall. One thing I can tell you from the heroic effort we did and really Brian Kolfage, who is an American hero. Brian Kolfage is I think the most wounded airman in the history of the Air Force to survive.
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I take the pandemic, I think, much more seriously, I shouldn't say seriously, but with a different take on it than a lot of my colleagues on the right. And one of the reasons is I'm absolutely convinced that somehow this came out of the Wuhan lab and that this is not a total natural phenomenon.