Steve Bannon praises Trump post calling on AG Bondi to prosecute his enemies

Bannon: “It has to happen now, now, now”

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From the September 22, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Trump, finally — he must have read your book. The President. Because finally on Friday he'd had enough of it. Or was it Saturday? He put out: Hey, Pam, love you, baby, but nothing happening on this stuff. And he made a — I think it was Halligan. He made a decision, got rid of the guy in Eastern — or they got rid of the guy in eastern district and put Mary Halligan in there.

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Peter Navarro was the senior adviser to President Trump and one of the central reasons his philosophy, and his understanding of China. He's one of the reasons President Trump won in 16. He then was in the government, and he fought every day for the American worker.

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What is his reward for that? In Reagan National Airport, so many prominent people going around. They drag him and his girlfriend, or his fiance now, they drag him off a plane about to board, right? Knowing they could have done anything. Gone to his lawyer. Anything. Drag him off on the causeway, shackled him like a murderer. By the way, something they didn't do to the kid in Utah. He was never shackled coming in. And then put him in leg irons on the causeway to humiliate him. And to show you what's in store for you, big guy, and all the people around you, if you're going to defy us. The guy who did that should be in prison now.

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I'm for much more than accountability. We have to take this thing apart brick by brick and we have to do it now. And finally, President Trump, God bless him, had a bellyful of it. All the excuses, all the tapping along. Which I've been saying, you're getting tapped along. And boom — dropped the hammer and said: Hey look, I love you but hey these guys are still walking the face of the Earth. Why? And I'm going to start putting some people in there if you don't. So get on the program, and get on the program now.

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It has to happen now, now, now.

Politico reported on President Trump's post:

President Donald Trump publicly vented at Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday, saying the lack of criminal charges against top adversaries was “killing our reputation and credibility.”

“We can’t delay any longer,” Trump posted on Truth Social in a message directed to “Pam.” “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” He specifically lamented the lack of criminal charges against Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, three of his most prominent political antagonists.

Trump spent much of the post venting about Erik Siebert, the former U.S. attorney from the Eastern District of Virginia, who he forced out Friday amid reports that Siebert did not believe there was enough evidence to charge James with mortgage fraud.

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It was a remarkable public message to the nation’s top law enforcement officer, linking his personal grievances over his own criminal prosecutions and congressional impeachments to a potential decision by federal prosecutors to level criminal charges against his adversaries. Trump’s frustration stemmed in part, he said, from “30 statements and posts” from allies that complained “nothing is being done” to punish his longtime rivals.

Trump amplified his post in a brief gaggle with reporters on Saturday night, saying the post was not meant as a criticism of Bondi but that “we have to act fast.”