Steve Bannon Twitter account permanently banned for inciting violence against Fauci and Wray
Steve Bannon, former chief executive officer of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and largely considered to be one of the masterminds behind Trump’s successful election in 2016, had his Twitter account permanently banned yesterday after inciting violence and calling for the beheadings of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
CBS News quoted a Twitter spokesperson as confirming that “The @WarRoomPandemic account has been permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules, specifically our policy on the glorification of violence.”
A Twitter source added, “We have policies in place that address clear threats of violence, abuse and harassment, and hateful conduct. If we identify any accounts or content that violate these rules, we’ll take enforcement action.”
Several of Bannon’s posts and videos on his Facebook page were also removed by Facebook admins for violating policies regarding the inciting of violence.
Since Election Day 2020, Donald Trump has been on TV and Twitter claiming that he had already won the election, that all voting should stop, and that mail-in ballots provided a corrupt means of rigging the election in favor of opponent Joe Biden. You can check out Trump’s most recent press conference below where he claimed that many of the ballots being counted were fraudulent and illegal and that there have been a “lot of shenanigans” going on with the counting of ballots.
Bannon’s incendiary comments were delivered on Thursday during the “War Room Pandemic” podcast which he co-hosts. Even though Trump fired Bannon and bad-mouthed his former aide early in his term, Bannon falsely claimed that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and that during Trump’s second term, he would be going after Fauci and Wray.
“Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci,” Bannon responded, in comments which were reported on Thursday by Media Matters.
“I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone — time to stop playing games. Blow it all up, put [Trump aide] Ric Grenell today as the interim head of the FBI, that’ll light them up, right.”
Bannon later backtracked and said that his comments were just metaphors. In addition to being banned from Twitter, his inflammatory podcast was also removed from additional social media outlets like Facebook and YouTube.
Not to be outdone, Donald Trump Jr. has also been on the airwaves inciting violence in the wake of his father claiming that the 2020 election has been rigged in favor of Joe Biden.
CNN shared that, in a tweet Thursday, Trump Junior called for his father “to go to total war over this election. It’s time to clean up this mess & stop looking like a banana republic!” he added.
Trump Jr. also repeated multiple baseless claims undermining the integrity of the election in the tweet, which was labeled by Twitter as “disputed and might be misleading.”
During the campaign, he had touted baseless rigged-election claims to recruit an “army” for his dad.
For more on Bannon’s unbelievable podcast and his permanent Twitter suspension, see the video accompanying this article.
~ Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today / Connect with Richard on Facebook and Twitter
