On Steve Bannon's War Room, TPUSA conference attendees blast the Trump administration's Epstein memo: “What is more deep state than covering up for pedophiles?”
Audience member: “In 2016, we trusted the plan with Trump, but now Trump has become the deep state”
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From the July 11, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room live from Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Who are these gentlemen right over here, Jayne?
JAYNE ZIRKLE (CO-HOST): The left's worst nightmare, young right-wing men. Guys, tell me your names and where you're from.
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ZIRKLE: And what brought you guys to SAS?
AUDIENCE MEMBER ONE: Well, we wanna put America first. Like we're here for the Republican movement, right, but we aren't really seeing it with this administration. I mean, when are we gonna get what we voted for?
AUDIENCE MEMBER TWO: Yeah, we're getting lied to. The pedophiles aren't being rounded up. The people aren't getting deported. We're not getting what we what we asked for, so why don't we get it now and then -—
ZIRKLE: What's your recommendation? What's your recommendation on what should happen?
AUDIENCE MEMBER TWO: The recommendation is have ICE go into every house, kick them out, release the files that we know exist. Maybe that guy with the computer implants turned them off, I don't know, but you know.
BANNON: Did you guys know each other before and you came? OK, you know each other. So, we actually have an active conspiracy. I got it. For the FBI that's watching.
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BANNON: You're killing me. What if you have — right there, if you had to, if you were in the Oval this morning with the president before he left for Kerrville, Texas, give me your top three things that you would tell the President of the United States that coming from a young person in the base and a dedicated worker and follower of his that you feel he needs to do right now.
AUDIENCE MEMBER THREE: We need to, we need to enforce the laws of this country and you know, like you said, Steve, there's no better question than who rules America. It's not the people. So we need to obviously have the declassification of the Epstein files —
BANNON: You don't think Donald Trump as president — you would tell Donald Trump in the Oval Office that you think there's an open question, with him as Commander-in-Chief and doing all he's doing, you would actually tell Trump you don't know, you question who rules this country?
AUDIENCE MEMBER THREE: I definitely would because it's a blackmail ring and anybody who wouldn't is not paying attention. Simply put, Epstein himself said that he was best friends, on the stand with, Donald Trump. So anybody who thought that these files were going to get just declassified because we pressured him enough or you voted harder enough is just lying to yourself frankly.
BANNON: Do you agree with the special prosecutor has to be — an independent special prosecutor has to take over. Do you believe that DOJ and FBI right now with the guys who we're all close to — Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, do you think they have any credibility left to pursue this?
AUDIENCE MEMBER THREE: No, and I'll tell you exactly why, Steve, because in 2016, we trusted the plan with Trump, but now Trump has become the deep state. The exact thing he we voted him in -
BANNON: Why do you say he's become the deep state?
AUDIENCE MEMBER THREE: What is more deep state than covering up for pedophiles? Why would you go to that island? Why? Tell me why would you go to that island? Why would you go on the plane? Why his top donors — why are his top donors neighbors with Epstein?
BANNON: Anybody agree with that? Are we gonna lose part of the base if we don't — Burgquam, are we gonna lose part of the base if we don't pursue this?