Far-right Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon laid into tech billionaires who are donating money to Trump's inaugural fund on his "War Room" podcast Friday — accusing them of being fair-weather friends who are only trying to suck up to Trump because they weren't able to defeat him in the election.
Bannon's rant came at the tail end of fantasizing that following the most recent election, "the Democratic Party can go away. We can actually end it. We can drive a stake in the heart of the beast. You can do it." And the way Republicans can do it, he argued, is "Populist policies, nationalist policies, economic, to bring jobs back."
He then turned around to slam wealthy businessmen, saying they don't represent what America should be.
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"Who's the full faith and credit?" he said. "You think the full faith and credit of this country is Larry Fink and Steve Schwarzman? And Oracle, Omaha, Warren Buffett? That's not the full faith and credit, it's not the SEC, it's not the FTC, it's not the FCC. It's not the Federal Reserve. It's not Congress, it's not those gutless cowards up there. The full faith and credit of this country would be you. The American citizen."
"You're called on everything, to pay your taxes and have your little bit of pension or whatever used as private equity, or adventure capitalists, and these guys can lord it over you, hate on you, try to defeat Trump, and then show up down at Mar-a-Lago with a million-dollar check?" he continued.
"Take your million-dollar check and shove it up your a--. Don't want billionaires coming down there with a million-dollar check. Think you're going to buy into this, with everything you tried to do to destroy him? Everything you tried to do to destroy this audience? Shove it — fold it up tight and shove it up your a--."
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