Steve Bannon runs to Alex Jones' Infowars to whine about his fraud indictment
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On September 9, Steve Bannon appeared with Alex Jones on Infowars to complain about being indicted in New York state on “two felony counts of money laundering, two felony counts of conspiracy, and one felony count of a scheme to defraud.”
Citation From the September 9, 2022, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show
STEVE BANNON (GUEST): You did the best analysis of, I think, anybody on the demonic speech of Joe Biden in Philadelphia. Remember, he had a couple days in Bethesda and Scranton to lead up to that then he totally demonized our movement and declared war on us. And this is part of that war. These things are all been in the works and so they declared war then they immediately go, they obviously can't get to President Trump so they going to get to Alex Jones, they're going to Steve Bannon, they're going to get to everybody that's got a platform. They're trying to shut our platforms down. And they're trying to stop our voices. And why? They understand it's not about Alex Jones or Donald Trump or Steve Bannon or Tucker Carlson. It's about the people that come to their sides and then become activists.
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BANNON: There's a war going on, we understand that. And we're winning because we actually have more of the people on our side. But that's why, Alex, as you know, either forcing you into bankruptcy, putting Steve Bannon in jail, you know, prosecuting President Trump, it's all part of the same cloth.
ALEX JONES (HOST): It certainly is.
In the next segment, Bannon said his indictment signals we are in the “third world war.”
Citation From the September 9, 2022, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Nobody is going to come to save you. Nobody is going to come to save us. We have to do it ourselves. Just like our forefathers had to do. This is the American story. This is the lineage of American patriotism, right, going all the way back, as you know well, Alex, to the Revolutionary generation. We have to do it ourselves.
That's why, you know, Infowars, right, has been so big and so powerful and so meaningful. That's the reason War Room is starting to do it. Tucker Carlson. These are platforms.
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You have to understand, we're at, as the subtitle of your book says, Alex, it's a war for the world. It's a war for the entire world. This is really the third world war. OK? This is not going to be fought with bullets, tanks, and guns, at least not now. The kinetic part of this, may get to be later, right? As the forces of oppression come against us because we're winning right now. That's what I tell everybody.
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For those that are patriots, those that sit there and go hey, if this is the Revolutionary War, I would have been at Saratoga, if this is the Revolutionary War, I would have been at Trenton, if this is the Revolutionary War, I would have been at Valley Forge. Well, this is your Revolutionary War, right here and right now.