"Donald Trump
is destroying the creditability of the office of president 140 characters at a
time!"
Senator Dick Durbin of
Illinois
President Steve
Bannon
please step backwards!
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The Fifth Column
Steve Bannon once
praised
Joe McCarthy’s war on ‘traitors’
who had
‘infested’
US government
Joe Mccarthy Steve
Bannon
Steve Bannon at
Bloggers Briefing in October 19, 2010
(Don Irvine/Flickr)
RAW STORY
Over the weekend,
President Donald Trump
accused his
predecessor,
former President
Barack Obama,
of engaging in
“McCarthyism”
for purportedly
ordering an
“illegal”
wiretap of Trump
Tower.
Even though
Trump
offered no evidence
to back up his wild claims,
it turns out that
Steve Bannon,
the president’s top political strategist,
actually thinks
McCarthyism was a good thing.
CNN
has snagged a
2013 audio recording
of
Bannon interviewing
conservative author Diane West,
in which Bannon asks her to comment on what he
believes is the unfair reputation
that
Sen. Joe McCarthy
has gotten for his efforts
to purge purported communists
from the federal
government.
“Today in modern pop
culture,
you know they call
Ted Cruz the Joe McCarthy —
if you want to think
of who devils are
it’s Ronald Reagan
and
those who name-names at
the House Un-American Activities,
the Hollywood Ten are heroes right?”
Bannon asked.
“Alger Hiss is a
hero, right?
Richard Nixon’s a
villain?
Joe McCarthy is a
villain.
Your book makes very
plain that these guys were right.
The place was
infested with either traitors that were on the direct payroll
of
Soviet military
intelligence
or
fellow-travelers
who were kind of
compliant in helping these guys get along.
I mean,
there’s absolutely
no question of it.”
Bannon went on to
say that he believed the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations
were conducting similar campaigns in the United States
that similarly aimed
to subvert key pieces of the American government.
During his talk with
West,
Bannon also derided
former President
George W. Bush
for calling Islam a
“religion of peace”
and
discussed whether
the entire country was at risk of being
“conquered by
Islam.”
Listen to the whole
interview below.