‘This is just not rhetoric. We’re absolutely dead serious,” said Steve Bannon.
Kash Patel, a former national security prosecutor who served under President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that a new Trump administration elected in 2024 would prosecute members of the U.S. media who acted as “conspirators” and “lied about American citizens.”
“We will go out and find the conspirators—not just in government but in the media. Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” Mr. Patel told Steve Bannon on an episode of Mr. Bannon’s “War Room” podcast on Tuesday.
Mr. Patel’s remarks were made during a broader conversation on the Democrats’ 2024 strategy and his new book, titled “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.”
The Deep State, which Mr. Bannon described as an unconstitutional “fourth branch of government,” is going to be dismantled “brick by brick,” he said, noting that this process will include criminal and civil prosecutions.
In framing his questions about the timeline for potential prosecutions against members of the media, Mr. Bannon said he wanted…
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