Bannon Says He’s ‘Hearing From Good Sources’ the ‘Party is On’ Between Trump and Iran

Steve Bannon, the former Trump aide turned MAGA podcaster, told his WarRoom audience on Saturday that he’s “hearing from pretty good sources” that “the party is on” – referring to President Donald Trump bombing Iranian nuclear sites.

“I’m just reporting what I’m hearing from pretty good sources. The party is on. So another big weekend in this unfolding aspect of the Third World War, and no, anyone that’s telling you that the Third World War is not here, is absolutely, does not understand the development and evolution of kinetic energy,” Bannon lamented to his audience.

Bannon met with Trump for a private lunch on Thursday and, according to ABC News sources, tried to dissuade the president from getting involved in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.

“Bannon, who had already spoken with the president by phone ahead of their lunch, thought all of it was a bad idea, according to several people close to him,” reported ABC in a Saturday piece about Bannon’s growing influence in the Trump White House.

“Sources say he arrived at the White House for his previously scheduled lunch with Trump armed with specific talking points: Israeli intelligence can’t be trusted, he planned to say, and the bunker-buster bomb might not work as planned. The precise risk to the U.S. troops in the Middle East, particularly the 2,500 in Iraq, also wasn’t clear if Iran retaliated, he would add,” added the report, laying out Bannon’s arguments against U.S. intervention.

Bannon later made clear exactly what he meant by the phrase “the party is on.”

“I will tell you, remember in “A Bridge Too Far,” in the movie about Market Garden and the last bridge at Arnhem. The phrase there was, ‘The party is on,’” Bannon said, referring to the classic World War II film.

“And so that is our analysis this morning. Is the party on? Is this thing, are we inexorably drawn into this, and maybe today’s the day of action? You know, just the one swoop of a jet that Kayleigh McEnany wants, just one swoop of a jet, just going across,” Bannon concluded, name-checking the former Trump press secretary turned Fox News host. Bannon, a leading voice pushing the more isolationist position in the GOP, has attacked more hawkish voices, like McEnany, in recent days as the party splits over whether or not Trump should bomb Iranian targets.

On Friday, Trump made clear he doesn’t believe Israel can end Iran’s nuclear program on its own.

“They really have a very limited capacity. They could break through a little section, but they can’t go down very deep. They don’t have that capacity. And we’ll have to see what happens. Maybe it won’t be necessary. Maybe it will be necessary,” replied Trump to a reporter asking about Israel’s ability to destroy key nuclear sites deep underground.

Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment facility is buried deep inside a mountain, and many military experts believe that a U.S. “bunker-buster” missile would be needed to destroy or disable the facility, a capability Israel does not appear to have. Speculation as to whether or not Trump will enter the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran focuses largely on Trump’s desire to help Israel disable the facility.

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