Steve Bannon Tears Into PBS Producer During Heated Interview: ‘Bunch of Lying, F*cking Scumbags!’
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon tore into PBS during an interview with Frontline, branding the network “a bunch of fucking lying scumbags.”
Asked about President Donald Trump’s attack against federal judge James E. Boasberg in March, and whether his words were “the type of thing the president should say,” Bannon responded:
Was there any complaint from PBS or was there any complaint by the Democrats on the rhetoric used against the judges when the Roe v. Wade decision came out and they had to have police protection at their houses? I don’t remember anything about the rhetoric being too high. You guys are so fucking phony on the face of it. This is why we’re defeating the left. The American people, as they see this, they go, “These guys are a bunch of fucking lying scumbags,” which you are a bunch of fucking lying scumbags. You terrorize – you tried to terrorize Supreme Court justices over a decision that didn’t go your way.
As PBS interviewer Mike Wiser remained silent, Bannon continued:
If you take power and exert it, this system’s not so tough. You know why? They’re all gutless cowards. They’ve all hid behind the system for decades and decades and decades. So the university administrations? They’re not that tough. The big law firms? They’re not that tough. The media? Look who’s cratered. How many times– look at the settlement with Trump. They’re not tough. We’re resilient, we’re anti-fragile, and we’re tough. You can put us in fucking prison, you can take Trump up there and put him on trial every day, the people around Trump are battle-hardened, okay? You’re not gonna scare us and we’re not gonna stop, and what we know is you guys are a bunch of pussies. You will crater. PBS is gonna crater. You know why? You’re not tough.
He concluded, “You don’t believe actually at your core in what you’re trying to do and you’ll fold, like the law firms, like the universities, like the media, like all of these institutions. You will fold because we’re relentless and we’re not gonna stop.”
Watch above via PBS.
