Steve Bannon tells Mike Lindell that the South Korean election may be “stolen” and suggests that there are “major discrepancies”

The NY Times reports that “Lee Jae-myung, the center-left candidate, is predicted to win the presidential election by a wide margin”

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The New York Times reports about the South Korean election results:

After months of political turmoil in South Korea, Lee Jae-myung, the center-left candidate, is predicted to win the presidential election by a wide margin according to the results of an exit poll conducted by the country’s three main television stations.

Mr. Lee’s campaign rode a wave of anger against former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his right-wing People Power Party after Mr. Yoon tried to seize the opposition-controlled National Assembly by military force during his short-lived imposition of martial law in December.

Just before midnight local time, as votes were still being counted, Mr. Lee said it was too soon to declare victory. But speaking outside his home, he sounded optimistic and told his supporters that he respected “the great decision by the people.”

“I will do my best to live up to their expectations,” he said.

As of midnight, nearly half of the votes cast had been counted. Mr. Lee, with 49 percent, was leading Mr. Kim, who had secured 42.6 percent, according to a tally by the National Election Commission.

From the June 3, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room 

STEVE BANNON (HOST): We're starting the show with an election with geopolitical importance for Americans today in South Korea and our crack team is talking about a stolen election there, major discrepancies, and they have an election commission that just runs the country and is not going to tolerate any people saying stop the steal or anything about election fraud. Your thoughts about that?

MIKE LINDELL (GUEST): Yeah, well, this is it everybody. 132 countries have banned the electronic voting machines and the last one being Argentina, just a couple of years ago, they freed their whole country. Everybody should want secure elections.

Steve, I was here yesterday and there was a reporter, she didn't believe me that Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota and Kamala Harris in the movie Kill Chain, they all want the machines gone. I mean, why would anybody - this isn't a one side or other thing. This is about, this is a people thing, we all want secure elections. 

So and this is a problem around the world like you — like right there you're bringing up and so once we - we have the worst election platforms in the United States of anyone in the world and we need to be, we need to go from worst to first and be an example to the world and that's what I've been fighting for.

Media Matters reported previously:

Far-right podcasters and streamers in the United States have hosted right-wing South Korean figures to share baseless claims that the country’s recent elections were overwhelmed by fraud.

The appearances have come since South Korea’s then-president briefly declared martial law in December, citing supposed election fraud as one of the justifications for the move.